Polarsteps tracks your journey and keeps it as a travel journal. Travellar turns a trip into a Reel you shape yourself: 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 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
Polarsteps is a travel journal: it tracks your route, keeps your steps and their photos, and plays them back as a Trip Reel. Travellar is made for the Reel: you build the route from your photos and choose how every stop looks.
| Feature | Travellar | Polarsteps |
|---|---|---|
| Street-level routes | Yes | Overland route |
| Route from your photos | Yes | No |
| 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 | No |
| 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 | No |
| Reorder stops | Yes | By date |
| Snap to roads | Yes | Yes |
| 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 | In the app, with Plus |
| 3D map and terrain | Terrain, and buildings with Premium | Terrain, and 3D with Plus |
| Route line customisation | Yes | Transport icons |
| Camera angles | Yes | Not mentioned |
| Video speed control | Yes | Yes |
| 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 | Yes |
| 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. Polarsteps Plus adds 3D maps and more map styles in the app. Travellar Premium removes the watermark and unlocks more. | Yes | Yes |
| Export without a watermark Travellar's free Reels carry its logo, and Premium, which starts with a free trial, removes it. Polarsteps' website doesn't say whether Trip Reels carry one. | With Premium | Not mentioned |
| No ads | Yes | Yes |
Pick Polarsteps to log a long journey as it happens, with a tracker, a journal your family can follow and a printed Travel Book at the end. 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. Polarsteps draws the whole journey on its world map, step by step, and can snap the line between steps to the likely overland route. Its Trip Reels fly over the terrain along it, and with Plus, Play mode replays the route in 3D.
Polarsteps tracks the route while you travel, and you add the photos and videos to each step, picking from the ones it suggests. 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 or a GPX or KML file. Polarsteps doesn't import GPX files.
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. Polarsteps'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: Polarsteps in each step of its journal, as many as you like. Its Trip Reel picks the best of them, and lets you choose the steps, photos, videos, soundtrack and speed. Travellar shows them in the Reel as the route reaches each stop, plays each video with its own sound, and lets you style the map, the route line and the camera.
Travellar runs in the browser, on any computer or phone, and in the iOS app. Polarsteps is an app for iPhone and Android, and you can keep your journal on its website too.
Both are free to start. Polarsteps sells printed Travel Books and Polarsteps Plus, which adds 3D maps, a replay of your route and more map styles in the app. Travellar 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 journal friends and family can follow, and a printed Travel 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 Polarsteps, 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 Polarsteps 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.
Polarsteps tracks your journey and keeps it as a travel journal, with a Trip Reel to look back on. 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, Polarsteps 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 Polarsteps 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 Polarsteps, 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. You can also add the stops by hand on the map.
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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