TripLog

How it works

Turn on tracking. The rest follows.

TripLog asks almost nothing of you while you travel — pocket the phone, talk when something happens, point the camera. Here is the whole journey, from the first mile to the file you keep forever.

Step by step

From first mile to final export

  1. Sign in and gather your crew

    Open the app and register — your account creates a private org for your trips, or joins an existing one with an 8-character invite code. Everyone who joins lands on the same shared maps and timelines, with a role that fits: owner, admin, member, or viewer.

    Self-registration is limited to approved email domains — access control the operator configures, so only the right people can join.

  2. Start a trip

    Give it a name, optional dates, and a status — planning, active, or completed. A trip is the container everything else snaps into: the trail, the places, the journal, the gallery. Create it on the web at your desk or on your phone at the trailhead.

  3. Flip on tracking and pocket the phone

    The mobile app records your position in the background — latitude, longitude, altitude, speed, and heading, each stamped with the exact moment. You choose how often it samples and how far you must move before a new point is kept, so the trail is as detailed or as battery-friendly as you want.

    Points are collected in batches and uploaded together, which keeps both battery and data use low.

  4. Capture the moments as they happen

    Tap the dictate button and talk — the live transcript becomes a journal entry stamped with the time, your coordinates, and a mood. Prefer typing? Equally first-class. Pin places with a category and a rating, and snap photos or video; uploads read EXIF data to land at the right spot and moment on their own.

  5. Let it sync itself

    No coverage, no problem. Track points, entries, and media queue on the device and upload automatically when connectivity returns — in order, all-or-nothing, with the queue depth visible so you always know where sync stands. A week off-grid arrives intact.

  6. Relive it — then keep it forever

    Back home, the trip replays as a trail on the map, a day-by-day timeline that weaves places, journal entries, photos, and daily distance together, plus stats: distance, duration, top altitude, average speed. Share it with viewer accounts, or export the whole trip as GPX, GeoJSON, or JSON with one click.

Your phone gps trail · background dictated notes photos · video syncs when online TripLog service computes trail · stats · timeline Map trail Day-by-day timeline gpx · geojson · json

Under the hood

Simple where it counts

TripLog is deliberately straightforward: nothing to install, your data kept private, and impossible to lock you in.

Nothing to install

The operator runs TripLog and makes it available online — you just sign up and open it in your browser or on your phone. There is nothing to deploy, configure, or maintain.

Phones capture, the service computes

Distance, daily summaries, the merged timeline, search, and exports are all computed by the service — so the web app, iPhone, and Android always agree, and a shared trip looks identical to everyone on it.

Open formats, always

Every trip exports to GPX 1.1, GeoJSON, and plain JSON — the formats your mapping tools, blogs, and archives already speak. Your record outlives any one piece of software, including this one.

Get started

The next trip can remember itself.

Sign in, create a trip, and flip on tracking — that's the whole setup.

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