What the journal costs, where your photographs go, and what the app will never do. Anything not answered here, ask through the support page.
Free to download, and free covers the last five years of your trips plus one trip in planning. Membership opens every trip you have ever taken and as many plans as you like.
Membership is $19.99 a year. It opens every trip you have ever taken and as many plans as you like; without it, the free app still covers your last five years of trips and one trip in planning.
Nowhere. No one has access to your photos but you: they are never copied or uploaded to any server. Trip detection runs on your iPhone, and the journal syncs only through your private iCloud.
Never. The app cannot see your location at all: it never asks for location access, and nothing runs in the background while you travel. Trips are found from the geotags already on your photographs.
No. There are no profiles, followers or feeds, and nothing is ever posted anywhere. The journal lives on your iPhone and in your private iCloud, and the only way anyone sees a trip is if you export it and hand it to them.
Every word. Edit any line by hand, or regenerate a passage you want written fresh. Your best photographs lead each day, and the near-duplicates never make it in.
iPhone, on iOS 18 or later. Sign in with Apple, grant photo access, and the archive starts building on the spot.
No. Meridian Dispatch is built for iPhone, on iOS 18 or later, and the journal syncs through your private iCloud. There is no Android or web version.
Yes, where it counts. Trip detection runs entirely on your iPhone, and every trip's map is downloaded in advance, so maps keep working abroad without a signal. Only extras like fresh suggestions wait for a connection.
Yes. A trip underway appears as its day-by-day plan, and each time you open the app, your newest photos land on the right days. The morning after it ends, the trip becomes a finished journal.
Every trip exports as a print-ready PDF journal, laid out like a magazine, or as a short video cut from your own photographs, made entirely on your phone. Share either anywhere; the app itself posts nothing.
Polarsteps records your route live and is built for sharing with followers. Meridian Dispatch is the opposite: it has no access to your location and no audience, and it writes the journal itself from your camera roll, in real prose, laid out like a magazine, with nothing to log along the way.
Download the app, grant photo access, and the last five years of your travel are already written.
Download on the App Store For iPhone, iOS 18 or later · Private by default