FindPenguins tracks your journey, keeps it as a travel blog and flies over it in 3D. Travellar zooms into the trip itself: the streets you walked, the stops you made and the photos you took at each one.
How it works
In your browser or in the iOS app, from the photos or the route you already have. No tracking needed.
You can import Photos 📷 and Videos 🎥, routes from Google Maps 🗺️ and more, or simply pick Places 📍 on the map. Or use AI Trip Finder 🔎 (iPhone only)
Your places in order on an Animated map 🗺️ with your Photos 📷 Videos 🎥 and the highlights of your Trip 🎒
Pick a Map style 🗺️, colours and Music 🎵, then download the Reel 🎬 as a video.
Street level
A city walk or a day out covers a few kilometres. Travellar's map zooms in to that scale and names every stop as the route reaches it.
The map zooms in to fit your route, flat or with 3D buildings, so a walk between a few streets reads as clearly as a drive between cities.
Labels name each stop as the route gets there, so your followers always know where you are.
Your photos and videos pop up as the route reaches each place, and every stop gets its name on the map.
Side by side
FindPenguins is a travel blog: it tracks your route, keeps your footprints and their photos, and turns them into a 3D flyover video. Travellar is made for the Reel: you build the route from your photos and choose how every stop looks.
| Feature | Travellar | FindPenguins |
|---|---|---|
| Street-level routes | Yes | Your tracked route |
| Route from your photos | Yes | A footprint's place |
| Route from your videos In the iOS app, Travellar reads where each video was recorded and makes it a stop. Browsers don't keep that information. | Yes | Not mentioned |
| AI Trip Finder Spots the trips in your camera roll from when and where you took your photos, and proposes a Reel for each. | On iPhone, with Premium | Not mentioned |
| Google Maps import | Yes | Not mentioned |
| GPX file import Upload the GPX track from a watch or a hiking app and the route is drawn for you. Travellar reads KML files too. | Yes | Yes |
| Reorder stops | Yes | By date |
| Snap to roads | Yes | Auto route |
| AI-written title and description Travellar drafts a title and a description from the places and the photos. Edit them, or write your own. | Yes | Not mentioned |
| Photos per stop Your own photos show up along the route. In Travellar they pop up as the route reaches each stop. | Multiple | Multiple |
| Videos per stop | Multiple | Multiple |
| Videos play with their sound Each video plays in the Reel with its own sound, and the music drops under it. Mute the ones you'd rather not hear. | Yes | Not mentioned |
| Place names Labels name each stop as the route gets there, so your followers always know where you are. | Yes | Yes |
| Map styles Standard, vintage, neon, blueprint, hiking, 8-bit and satellite maps, with 3D terrain and buildings, at dawn, by day, at dusk or at night, in the fog or without labels. | Yes | Satellite and road |
| 3D map and terrain | Terrain, and buildings with Premium | 3D flyover |
| Route line customisation | Yes | Transport icons |
| Camera angles | Yes | Not mentioned |
| Video speed control | Yes | Not mentioned |
| Travel time per segment | Yes | Not mentioned |
| Built-in music Pick one of the included tracks, or none, and hear it in the preview before you export. | Yes | Not mentioned |
| Vertical, square and horizontal A Reel for Instagram or TikTok, a square post or a wide video for YouTube, from the same trip. | Yes | Not mentioned |
| A recommendation to share Besides the Reel, Travellar turns the trip into a recommendation with every stop and its details, ready to share. | Yes | Yes |
| Embed on a blog or website Paste a snippet and the trip shows up on your page, with its map and stops. | Yes | Yes |
| Saved trips to edit later | Yes | Yes |
| Works in the browser | Yes | The journal |
| Mobile apps | iOS | iOS and Android |
| Free plan Both are free to download and to make videos with. FindPenguins has no paid plan. Travellar Premium removes the watermark and unlocks more. | Yes | Yes |
| Export without a watermark FindPenguins lets you hide its logo for free and asks you to credit it. Travellar's free Reels carry its logo, and Premium, which starts with a free trial, removes it. | With Premium | Free, with a credit |
| No ads | Yes | Not mentioned |
Pick FindPenguins to log a long journey as it happens, with a tracker, a travel blog your followers can read and a printed photo book at the end, all free. Pick Travellar to make a Reel of a walk, a day out or a short road trip, where you choose the map style, the route, the place names and the photos at every stop, in the browser or the iOS app. Both are free to start, and they work well together.
Travellar zooms the map to fit the trip, whether it covers a few streets or a few countries, follows the roads and paths between the stops and names each one as the route reaches it. FindPenguins flies over your tracked route in 3D on a satellite map, the last stretch for a footprint or the whole journey for a trip, with a transport icon on each leg.
FindPenguins tracks the route while you travel and suggests footprints where you stayed. You add each footprint's photos and videos, and a photo's location can set the footprint's place. Both import a GPX file. Travellar starts after the trip, from the photos and videos in your camera roll: it reads where and when each one was taken and turns them into stops, in order. It also imports a Google Maps route.
On the iPhone app, AI Trip Finder spots the trips in your camera roll from when and where you took your photos. It picks the best photos of each and proposes a Reel for every trip. FindPenguins's website doesn't mention anything like it: there, you add the photos to each point yourself.
Both keep several photos and videos at each stop under the place's name: FindPenguins in each footprint of its journal. Its flyover video shows the photos along your route. Travellar shows them in the Reel as the route reaches each stop, plays each video with its own sound, and lets you choose the music, the map style, the route line and the camera.
Travellar runs in the browser, on any computer or phone, and in the iOS app. FindPenguins is an app for iPhone and Android, and you can keep your travel blog on its website too.
FindPenguins is free, with no subscription, and sells printed photo books of your trips. Travellar is free to start, and Premium removes the watermark and the end animation, unlocks every map style, smoother motion, higher resolutions on desktop and AI Trip Finder on iPhone, and starts with a free trial.
Both turn the trip into a page you can share by link or embed on a website. Travellar's is also a recommendation: every stop with its photos and details, for travellers to find and save to their lists.
A walk, a day out or a short road trip, where the streets and the stops are the story. Start from your photos, or let AI Trip Finder spot the trips in your camera roll on the iPhone app and propose a Reel for each. Show several photos at each stop under the place's name, add music, and share the trip as a recommendation too.
A long journey you want to log as it happens: the route tracked for you, a travel blog your followers can read along, and a photo book when you're home. Travellar doesn't track you while you travel.
A long trip with days in each place. Track the journey and keep the journal in FindPenguins, and make a Travellar Reel of each walk or day out from the same photos.
Travellar publishes this page, so it reflects our view. What we say about FindPenguins comes from its website, public comparisons and using the app, checked in October 2026. Apps change, so try the same trip in both before you choose.
FAQ
Travellar, if you want a Reel of a walk, a day out or a short road trip. It animates the route at street level, with your photos and place names at each stop, and you choose how the map looks.
FindPenguins tracks your journey, keeps it as a travel blog and flies over the route in 3D. Travellar is made for the Reel: the route inside each trip, stop by stop, with your photos at each place and the map styled your way.
It depends on what you want. To log a long journey as it happens, FindPenguins is built for it. For a Reel of a walk, a day out or a short road trip, Travellar shows more: the streets, each stop's name and several photos at every one, on the map style you choose.
No. Travellar doesn't follow you while you travel. It builds the route afterwards, from where your photos and videos were taken, a Google Maps route, a GPX or KML file, or places you pick on the map. To log the journey as it happens, keep FindPenguins running too.
Yes. The map zooms to fit the route, from a few streets to a few countries, and follows the roads in between. What it won't do is move a vehicle along it.
Yes. Keep logging the journey in FindPenguins, and make a Travellar Reel from the photos of each walk or day out. Share the Reel, and the journal stays where your followers already read it.
Yes. Pick the trip's photos and videos from your camera roll and Travellar places each one where it was taken, or let AI Trip Finder spot the trip on the iPhone app. A GPX file of the route works too.
Yes. Travellar works in any browser, on your phone or computer, and there is an iOS app.
Yes. You can create and download Reels for free, with a Travellar watermark. Premium removes the watermark and the end animation, unlocks every map style, smoother motion and higher resolutions on desktop, and starts with a free trial.
Import the photos and see every stop on the map.
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