How TripPhoto works

Upload photos – EXIF/GPS automatically become a map, route and daily stages.

1. Open “Trips” and create a new trip with a title and description.
2. Upload up to 5 photos at a time (15 with Pro) – HEIC from the iPhone is converted in the browser.
3. Capture time and GPS automatically build day stages and map points.
4. A red frame flags photos without a date – fix it in the edit area.
5. If a point is off, just drag it to the right place on the map – the route recomputes.
6. TripPhoto names untitled trips itself after a short while, based on the places visited.

Car journeys follow real roads, train journeys the rails; ship and flight appear as an arc. The transport mode can be chosen per leg or is detected.

1. Pick the transport mode on upload, or “Detect automatically”.
2. “Automatic” derives walk, bike, car or flight per leg from distance and time.
3. Set train or ship per photo when needed; the route recomputes instantly.
4. Correct recorded legs right on the map: tap the line and choose the transport mode – or move the change to the right spot with “up to here” or “from here”.

The iPhone app records your path in the background – even where you take no photos.

1. Tap “Record” in the app: continue the trip or start a new one – one tap is enough, the title comes after the drive.
2. Presets per transport mode (walk, bike, car, train, flight) set interval and accuracy accordingly.
3. “Pause automatically when still” halts recording when you stand still for a while and resumes as soon as you move on – saving battery and avoiding point clouds.
4. Pro detects the transport mode itself and records changes automatically.
5. Car and bike journeys are snapped to real roads, walks stay exactly as you walked them – together with photos and waypoints they form the route.

Bring tracks from other devices and apps: GPX, KML, KMZ, GeoJSON and CSV.

1. On the trip page choose the file under “Import a recording”.
2. Optionally set one transport mode for all imported points.
3. The points feed route, elevation profile and statistics – just like your own recordings.
4. Named placemarks from the file become labelled waypoints.
5. Very long recordings are thinned evenly; start and end are kept.

A smoothed chart across the whole trip – linked to the map timeline.

1. The profile appears automatically as soon as a trip has track points or photos with altitude data.
2. Move across the chart – the map jumps to the matching spot, and vice versa.
3. Without a recording, altitude is read from the photos’ EXIF data.
4. The axis shows either distance or time. With “Time” you see how long a leg really took – otherwise a short walk is barely visible next to a long drive.

Everyone sees distance and duration. Pro adds elevation gain, breaks, speed and the trip’s records.

1. The figures are shown on the trip page in the “Analysis” tab – computed without any action from you. The tab appears with the “Analysis & records” module under “Customise view”.
2. Pro also shows the highest point, northernmost/southernmost point, longest day, most photographed day and warmest day.
3. Automatic day stages summarise every day – including pure travel days without photos.

Add points without a photo – via GPS on your phone – e.g. a car → train change.

1. On the trip page open “Your waypoints” → “Add waypoint”.
2. On mobile tap “Current location (GPS)”, otherwise tap the map or enter coordinates.
3. Choose the transport mode and add a name/note; “Private” hides it from the public story.
4. Waypoints can be edited any time – ideal for recording transport changes later.

Start, destination, days – the planner calculates the route, places sights along it and learns from other travellers’ plans. Try it without an account, save it with one, edit it with Pro.

1. Under “Plan a trip” in three steps, no sign-in needed: “Where to?” (start and destination or round trip, places on the way, transport), “When and how?” (date, days, pace), “Done?” (way and fine-tuning).
2. The planner suggests the trip’s name; “Create plan” computes the suggestions.
3. The route comes first – along signposted long-distance and cycle routes where they exist – and the sights come after. From the route the planner suggests how many kilometres per day fit.
4. You get three routes to choose from: shortest drive, best photo spots, most variety – with drive time per day.
5. Tick places under “I want to see this” that must be included – the routes recalculate right away, without reloading the page.
6. What-if: one day more or less, not before 7 am, less driving, more wildlife – in one click.
7. Saving needs an account – trying does not. A plan you built without signing in is not lost when you sign in.
8. To save a route you sign in – you then continue right where you left off.
9. A saved plan opens in view mode. “Edit” turns on the tools: anyone can remove stops and regenerate; adding and moving stops, dragging the route, times and “What if” are part of Pro.
10. “Add stop” is one sheet with three tabs: Search (a sight or place), Suggestions (what lies near your route, sorted by shortest detour) and Map. Your own points such as a hotel or restaurant work the same way.
11. “Regenerate” rebuilds the suggested stops – yours stay. The plan is backed up first: “Restore previous plan” brings the previous state back.
12. Start and end can be changed later – the stops stay, the route is recalculated. An airport as the start puts the beginning at the car rental centre.
13. “Other travellers also have …”: the plan shows places that people with similar stops often include – added to the right day in one click. Counted only from three people on, no one can be identified.
14. What many keep or add themselves, the planner suggests more readily in future; what is often removed, less so.
15. “Print” opens a plain print version with an overview map and a table per day – also as a PDF from the print dialog. “Download Excel” gives all stops with times, kilometres, stay and coordinates.
16. Saved plan: the day plan with times on the left, the map on the right. Drag stops by the handle – drive time, day length, sunrise, sunset and golden hour are recalculated; photo spots wait for their light.
17. Map controls: a single click does nothing, double-click and right-click zoom in. The mouse wheel scrolls the page; Ctrl + wheel or the trackpad zooms the map.
18. Tap “Stop”, “Start” or “Destination” above the map, then pick the spot – no key combination needed. The stop lands where it lengthens the route least.
19. The flags for start and destination can be dragged on the map; “Undo” brings back the previous state.
20. “Enlarge map” opens the map full size; “Show the whole trip” and “Back to the trip on the ground” switch between the journey there and the core of the trip.
21. Base maps: Standard, Terrain, Cycling map and – where we have built it – TripPhoto’s own map. Plus overlays for hiking trails, cycle routes, railways and sea marks.
22. Set the start time for the whole plan or for single days – otherwise a sunrise spot in the morning sets the start itself.
23. “What if” in a saved plan: +1 day, −1 day, less driving or “Best order” – with a report of what changed and “Undo”. If another order would barely save any distance, the planner says so instead of reordering.
24. Compare two plans side by side.
25. Want the whole route around the light? With the “Photographer tools” module (account → “Customise view”) the assistant asks about subjects and golden hour – otherwise it comes as a daily tip.

For every stop a wanted arrival time, your own note and your own name – the length of stay follows from them.

1. In the plan tap “Edit”. Every stop shows its kind, length of stay, “by you” and “Parking nearby”; “Why here?” opens the reasoning.
2. Arrival time (Pro): tap “Arrival time” at a stop and enter a time, say 14:00 for a tour. The starting point has none – set the day’s start time there.
3. If you would arrive earlier, the plan waits until then. If you cannot make it, the stop shows how many minutes later you arrive – the time is never invented.
4. The arrival time at the next stop decides how long you stay: the length of stay before it adjusts (“until the arrival at 15:30”) and cannot be set there.
5. If the first stop after the start has an arrival time, you do not wait at the start but leave later – the day’s start then shows the departure, say 09:27 instead of 09:00.
6. Length of stay (Pro): set in minutes, also under 15 – say “just buy vouchers”. The starting point has no length of stay.
7. Note: for every stop except start and destination you can write a short hint, say “watch the cruise ships”. For the whole day there is the day note.
8. Rename: the pencil at the name changes it, also for start and destination (“Hotel Hampton Inn” instead of the address). On a round trip the name applies to both; the route stays.
9. If days and kilometres do not reach the destination, the plan warns “Destination not reached” and says how far is left. “Edit” becomes “Done” while the tools are on.
10. Under account → “Customise view” “Compact list” shows every stop in one line; an arrow opens the details – good on a phone.

Car parks near a stop or the destination, the walk from there – and for single stretches ferry, flight or on foot instead of by car.

1. Under every stop and at the destination “Parking nearby” shows car parks with distance, walking minutes, fee and, for RVs, the height. By bike it says “Bike parking nearby”; on foot there is no button.
2. In edit mode (Pro) you take a car park: within 50 m the stop moves there, otherwise the car park becomes its own stop before it – without a stay. The same applies at the destination.
3. The way from the car park to the stop is calculated on foot. Under a car park the button reads “More parking”.
4. “Get here by” between two stops (Pro): car, ferry, flight or on foot. Ferry and flight use their own line and extra time for port or airport, walks the walking profile.
5. If you remove the car park again, the plan resets too long “walks” (over 3 km) to the plan’s mode of transport.

What lies next to your route – spread all the way to the destination, sorted by the shortest detour, one click into the right day.

1. In the plan under “Add stop” → “Suggestions” open “Sights along the way”. You can pick the radius; the detour there and back is what counts.
2. The list shows sights, theme places, shopping, filming locations and stars – across the whole route up to the destination, with the time for the detour and the nearest town.
3. With “To day …” the place goes into the plan, at the spot where it lengthens the route least.
4. Places already in the plan are left out of the list.

Fuel stations, chargers, rest areas, shops, fast food and cafés up to 5 km off the route – filterable, with place and suggested stay.

1. Under “Add stop” → “Suggestions” open “Fuel, charge & rest”. It shows real points from OpenStreetMap, at most 5 km off the route.
2. Chargers come from official data (Bundesnetzagentur, US Department of Energy) where available – with power, plugs and number of charge points.
3. First come the three nearest of each kind. A chip picks a kind and shows them all (fuel, chargers, rest areas, Walmart & co., supermarkets, fast food, cafés …); “within 1 / 2 / 5 km” narrows the distance.
4. Each line gives street, postcode and town – where OpenStreetMap knows them, otherwise the nearest town – and the distance to the route.
5. Fast food and cafés are big chains (such as McDonald’s, Burger King, Starbucks, Tim Hortons); Walmart, Target, Costco, Sam’s Club and Kmart have their own filter.
6. With + the point enters the plan as a stop with a fitting stay: fuel 10, café 15, fast food 25, charging 25 to 90 minutes by power. Points already planned are marked and can be removed.

The best-known sights on the map – with a picture, a short description and visit length, ready to add to a plan. Plus photo spots from real community shots.

1. Under “Discover” → “Sights”, move the map or choose a region: the list shows the best-known places in view.
2. Filter by type, several at once if you like – nature, coast, history, city & buildings, museums & art, leisure & family – or search by name. The selection is in the address and can be shared.
3. Under “More places” you add airports, outlets, stadiums, universities, filming locations, celebrities, as well as lighthouses, waterfalls, national parks and other themes.
4. The collection also includes notable churches, mountain passes, volcanoes, glaciers, geysers, scenic byways, wineries, Christmas markets and old towns – only the well-known ones, not every parish church.
5. Every place shows a picture, a short text and a fame index. The heart saves it to your wishlist.
6. Where TripPhoto travellers have been, you also see the usual time spent, stars and the most popular photo time – only from three people on, never identifiable.
7. “Add to plan” puts the place on a day of your plan; “Start a new plan with it” opens the planner with the place as a must-see.
8. Under “Spots”: places where at least three people have taken photos – there are no paid listings.

Places that genuinely help when planning – airports, outlets, stadiums, universities, filming locations, celebrities, lighthouses to national parks – on the same map as the sights, with a picture.

1. “Discover places” (footer and menu) shows every kind of place in three groups – nature & landscape, history & culture, leisure & everyday – with the number of places in the area. A tile opens “Sights” with exactly that kind.
2. There you can mix kinds, say national parks with airports, and search by name. Airports show the IATA code and passengers and, under “More”, the car rental stations; stadiums their teams and capacity.
3. Only the area of the domain you are on is shown: texas-urlaub.de names airports in Texas, not those in Canada.
4. The heart on each place puts it on your wishlist, “Add to plan” adds it to a planned route. The planner knows airports too: as start or destination the code is enough, e.g. IAH.

Save places without having to plan them right away – and later turn them into a route in one go.

1. The heart appears on every sight, every travel place and every card. One tap saves the place, a second removes it.
2. It works without an account: what you save stays in the browser until you sign in – then it moves into your account.
3. Under “Wishlist” all saved places sit together; from there “Plan a route” starts with them as required stops.

A filter shows only places whose accessibility is known – from OpenStreetMap, not guessed.

1. Under “Discover” → “Sights”, tick “Accessible”.
2. Shown are places recorded in OpenStreetMap as accessible or partly accessible. “Partly” is included: it may be enough for you, and hiding it would be the worse answer.
3. Places without an entry drop out – the filter promises accessibility, and unknown is no promise. About a quarter of places carry an entry.

What the rental terms and the authorities actually say – documented, with a check date, no booking and no recommendation.

1. “Rental car”: minimum age and additional drivers, the low statutory liability minimums of the states, CDW/LDW as a waiver (not insurance), one-way rentals and cashless tolls.
2. “Renting an RV”: minimum age 21, kilometres you buy, deposits from $1,500 to CAD 7,500, mandatory fees and the long list of banned roads and areas.
3. Every statement names its source: an authority, a statute, a toll operator or the published terms of the named company. Where no reliable source existed, that is what it says, instead of estimating a figure.
4. Plus the older guide “Travelling the USA and Canada by RV” with vehicle types, campgrounds and dispersed camping.

Ready-made routes to follow – such as Route 66 or Texas in ten days. View without an account, take one over as your own plan in one click.

1. Open a route under “Sample routes” (footer): map, day by day with drive times and description.
2. “Take over this route” puts a copy into your plans – freely editable afterwards.
3. Sample routes can be printed or downloaded as Excel too.

Climate charts for cities in the north, south, east and west: highs, lows, rain and the most pleasant months at a glance.

1. Choose a city under “When to go” (footer) – measured monthly averages for 2015–2024.
2. The line above the chart names the months that are warm and fairly dry, and warns of heat from 35 °C.
3. “All values as a table” adds rain days and sunshine hours. Data: Open-Meteo.

A trip knows its plan: planned next to actual – stops, kilometres, days. As a record, not a rating.

1. Choose “Start this trip” in the plan – or assign a plan on the trip page. Sample routes work too.
2. When you start a recording in the app, it asks whether the trip belongs to your plan; the plan is then on your iPhone even without a connection, and the cockpit shows “following plan …”.
3. After the trip: which stops were visited, only passed or skipped, where you stopped additionally and how kilometres and days compare with the plan. Only you see this.

Every trip has one page with tabs – overview, photos, edit and, depending on the modules you switch on, plan, timeline, analysis and film – and shows what matters right now first.

1. Without data a trip is in preparation, while recording it is on the road, afterwards it is a memory – “My trips” groups them that way: planned, on the road, memory.
2. A saved plan appears there as a planned trip; starting it in the app makes it “on the road”.
3. Everything for changing things – editing photos, transport modes, waypoints, import – sits in the “Edit” tab. The forms load only when you open them.
4. Checklist per trip: a template for every trip, for the USA and for RVs, plus your own items. Template items can be hidden.
5. Timeline: photos group into moments by place, time and light – “Beach · 18:31–19:14 · golden hour”. A day in the timeline shows on the map; if you like, the map follows as you read.
6. “Trip in numbers”: longest and shortest leg, busiest photo day, most-photographed place, distance per mode of transport, sunrises and sunsets, stops and nights.
7. For every photo TripPhoto stores the light phase, sun position, trip day and weather at the time it was taken.

The website shows only the essentials at first. You switch on analysis, map tools, film, photographer tools and more one by one – and off again any time.

1. Under account → “Customise view” you find the modules: analysis & records, road & costs, map tools, plan and reality, checklist, timeline, film & 3D, photographer tools, export & data and my world.
2. Each module brings its own tabs, menu entries or questions – such as the “Analysis” tab on the trip page, atlas and recap in the “Trips” menu, or the questions about subjects and light in the planner.
3. Off only means hidden: no data is lost, and the pages’ addresses stay reachable.
4. Standard and Pro are separate from this: modules organise the view, Pro unlocks features.

For planned photo stops: when the light is at its best and what the weather will be. At sights: when and where others like to take photos most.

1. Photo stops in golden or blue hour get a forecast in the plan with a verdict and the reason – such as “a few clouds: better” or “overcast: fair”.
2. Weather is added in the last ten days before the date (Apple Weather); before that the forecast shows the light.
3. At sights: most popular photo time and photo spot – only from three people on and never the position of a single photo.

ESTA, passports for children, national park fees, driving licence, customs: a timeline to tick off and the rules with official sources and a check date.

1. Tick off the timeline under “USA trip checklist” (footer) – from “3 months before” to the travel day. Your browser remembers the ticks.
2. Every topic names its official sources (German Foreign Office, US authorities, customs) – if in doubt, what they currently say applies.

Every trip becomes a cinematic story with map, timeline and gallery – shareable by link.

1. Open “View as story” on the trip page; set the cover and visibility on the trip page.
2. “Unlisted” creates a link (/s/…): only people with the link can see the story. “Public” also lists it under “Discover”.
3. Private photos, hidden locations and private waypoints stay invisible in the shared story.
4. If you set a trip back to “Private”, its image addresses stop working – even for someone who copied them.
5. Sharing by link is free for everyone; public listing comes with Pro.

A cinematic flight along the route – the map flies your trip, photo by photo.

1. Tap the flight button above the map on the trip or story page.
2. The view switches to a cinema format and follows the route; a card shows place, time and photo.
3. Leave any time with Escape or the close button.

The same route over a real elevation model – only there do you see what a mountain pass really was.

1. On the trip page, tap the mountain icon above the timeline.
2. The map tilts, the terrain rises, and the route lies on top of it.
3. The slider at the top right sets the exaggeration – it makes flatter country readable.
4. Drag to rotate, two fingers to tilt. Escape or the cross closes it again.
5. The map library for this loads only when you tap – if you never look in 3D, you never wait for it.

Every story becomes a travel book at the push of a button: title page, one day per page, map and photos.

1. Tap “Print / PDF” in the story and choose “Save as PDF” in the print dialog.
2. Controls, timeline and comments are hidden; every day starts on a new page.
3. Enable “Background graphics” in the print dialog so cover and colours come along.
4. Trip plans have their own print version: tap “Print” in the plan – overview map and a table per day, black on white. For your own plans, print and Excel appear with the “Export & data” module; for sample routes always.

Rate photos, trips and plans with stars. Photo stars feed the explained photo score.

1. Tap the stars under any photo (tap again to reset).
2. The photo score combines light, weather, place notability – and your stars (25%).

Mark favorites; set the cover image in the edit area of a photo.

1. Tap the heart on a photo to add it to favorites.
2. To set the cover, edit the photo and tap “Choose as cover”.

Hide a photo from all lists/galleries – it stays only as a map point and shapes the route.

1. Edit the photo → enable “Map point only (hide from the list)”.
2. The image leaves the list, story, country page and search; the map point remains.

On iPhones with Apple Intelligence the app writes short day texts and suggests trip titles – right on the device.

1. After you stop a recording, title suggestions appear – tap to use one, or “Keep title”.
2. On the trip page in the app: “Suggest titles” and “Write day texts”.
3. The texts then appear in the story. You can edit them there; texts changed by hand are not rewritten.
4. The basis is only your trip’s distance, time, transport, places and photo counts. Numbers that are not in there are discarded and the day is written again.
5. Your trip does not go to any AI service: the language model runs on the iPhone, and it costs nothing.
6. Requires iPhone 15 Pro or later with Apple Intelligence turned on.

Wrong mode of transport or a wrong turn? Tap the line and set it right – the recording itself stays unchanged.

1. On the trip page, tap the recorded line.
2. Mode of transport: pick the right one – for the whole stage or with “Up to here” / “From here” from the tapped spot.
3. Wrong turn: “Correct the line here”, drag the point onto the road you took, “Apply” – the route is recalculated through it.
4. Drive the same stretch in the same direction again later and the line is drawn correctly by itself – provided your recording follows the corrected road there.
5. Learning uses only your own trips, and only for them.
6. Everything can be undone: “Automatic again” or “Undo line corrections”.

The weather of every travel day, sun position, blue & golden hour and moon phase – for every place and minute.

1. Every travel day gets a weather line: changes, temperatures, rain and wind – from the recording or, without one, from the place and time of your photos.
2. The app recognises on the iPhone what the sky in your photos shows (blue sky, fog, snow …) – no photo leaves the device for it.
3. In the planner: a forecast for every travel day once it is within the next two weeks.
4. Open a photo on the map – light and weather for the time it was taken load on demand. Weather data: Open-Meteo.

Signed-in users can comment below shared trips.

1. Write and submit your comment at the bottom of the trip page.
2. The author, trip owner and admin can delete comments.

TripPhoto is free, Pro included. After 5 active invitees (≥1 trip, ≥20 photos) you become Pro automatically – with no end date.

1. Open “Invite” in the account menu and enter email addresses.
2. The progress bar shows how many invitations already qualify.
3. Standard allows 7 trips and 100 photos, Pro 50 trips and unlimited photos.
4. There is nothing to buy – neither in the app nor on the website.
5. The comparison table on the features page shows what Standard, Pro and the app can each do.

Photos from a camera without GPS get their place from your own recording.

1. Record the trip with the app and upload the camera photos as usual.
2. Below the photos, “Locate photos without GPS” appears with the number of pending images.
3. One click is enough: for each capture time we look up where you were.
4. The time shift between camera and recording is measured, not guessed – even a wrongly set camera clock shows up. It is stated afterwards.
5. Calculated places can be removed again with a second button; ones you set by hand stay untouched.

The route draws itself across the map – or you drive it again in real street-level images. A portrait video for stories and reels.

1. On the trip page, below the photos, pick the type: trip film (map and photos), street film (street-level images along the route) or mix – then “Create video”.
2. The street film uses open street-level images from Mapillary (CC BY-SA); where there are none, the camera carries on over the map.
3. Every film leaves out the area around your home point – exactly the radius you set in your settings.
4. It takes about fifteen seconds and runs in your browser – nothing is uploaded.
5. At the end: preview, save and – on a phone – share directly.
6. The line colours match the map, and the distance counts up as it draws.

All recordings on top of each other: which routes do you keep taking?

1. Open “Trips” → “Heat map” – it combines all trips. The entry appears with the “My world” module under “Customise view”.
2. The more often you were somewhere, the stronger the colour.
3. Trips are counted, not measuring points: half an hour in a car park does not make a hotspot.
4. The years at the top let you look at a single year.

Your corners of the Earth, the countries you visited as a map, and your share of the land.

1. Open “Trips” → “Atlas” (“My world” module under “Customise view”). At the top, visited countries are filled in.
2. The share is based on land area, not the number of countries – three tiny states are not half the world.
3. Below: your northernmost, southernmost, easternmost and westernmost points, plus equator, tropics, polar circles and the prime meridian – including how far you still are.
4. And a list of world cities you have already been to.

A year in numbers – and as a finished image to share.

1. Open “Trips” → “Recap” (“My world” module) and pick a year top right, or “All” for everything.
2. Photos, trips, countries, places and the share taken in the golden hour are shown as figures.
3. Plus the most visited places, the best month, the busiest day and your most used camera.
4. “Share as image” turns it into a portrait card – for stories or to save.

All photos from all trips on one map – filter by trip, camera, lens and period.

1. Open “Trips” → “Map & spots” (“My world” module under “Customise view”).
2. Photos close together are grouped; zooming in breaks the groups apart.
3. The filters at the top answer questions like “Where did I shoot with this lens?”.

Keep track of cameras, lenses and accessories; look up all the places from your trips.

1. “Equipment” in the account menu (“Photographer tools” module under “Customise view”): this is where you add what you shoot with.
2. “Places” under “Discover” is the reference: all the places from your trips, sorted by category, with Wikipedia info.
3. The search at the top finds trips, places and photos in one go – even with typos or spelled by ear (“Noishwanstine” finds Neuschwanstein).

Report an inappropriate comment with one tap, and block anyone who bothers you – no email to the operator needed.

1. Under every comment that is not yours there is “Report”. You pick a reason, nothing more – we take a look.
2. “Block” makes a person invisible to you: their comments disappear, and they can no longer write under your trips.
3. The blocked person is not told.
4. Settings list everyone you blocked – with a button to undo it.
5. You moderate your own trips anyway: you can delete any comment under them.

The iPhone app records your path – in the background, with the screen off, and if you like even after the iPhone has closed it.

1. Start right from the trip list (“▶︎ Record”) or on the trip page.
2. On first start choose “Always allow” for location – without it recording stops as soon as you leave the app.
3. While recording, “Record” shows just the cockpit: duration, distance, mode of transport and four large buttons – take photo, change mode, upload, stop.
4. If you are driving, start before you set off and do not operate the app on the way – let a passenger or Siri do it.
5. With “Pause automatically when still”, recording halts when you stand still for a while and resumes as soon as you move.
6. If the app gets swiped away, the iPhone brings it back at the next change of place – switch on “Resume by itself after the app ends”. The minutes in between are missing.
7. Without a connection the points stay buffered and go out later on their own, even without opening the app.
8. On the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island you see distance and time, plus the buttons photo, change, upload and stop. The medium widget has the same buttons.
9. Reminders in case you forget to stop: after three and after six hours of recording – and when no new point has arrived for an hour. Both can be switched off separately.

When you stop, the app asks whether the pictures from exactly that period belong to the trip.

1. Stop the recording – below it, the photos from that period appear as a selection.
2. All are preselected; tap to deselect individual ones. “Later” is an equally valid answer.
3. Place and capture time come from your photo library, not from the file – so the place is missing less often than via the file dialog.
4. Photos you already added are recognised and not duplicated.
5. With many photos, “Pick the best” takes the best picture of every burst and leaves out blurry, too dark images and screenshots. The iPhone rates them itself; no image leaves the device.

Start, stop and save a place from your wrist. While hiking or cycling the watch also measures your heart rate.

1. The watch app comes along with the iPhone app – a paired watch is enough.
2. It shows the trip, distance and time. Without a recording: “Continue” the current trip or “New”; while recording: “I am here” and “Stop” – with a confirmation, so no accidental tap on the wrist ends the trip.
3. Recording still happens on the iPhone – its positioning is more accurate, and there is only ONE track instead of two.
4. Sport mode for hiking or cycling is a separate button. It measures your heart rate, saves the workout to Apple Health and sets the transport mode of the running recording: hiking → on foot, cycling → bike.
5. Your heart rate stays on your device: TripPhoto does not store it and does not transmit it anywhere.

Start recording by voice, the Action button or Control Center.

1. “Start the recording in TripPhoto” – Siri knows the phrase after installation.
2. The same commands are in the Shortcuts app and can be assigned to the Action button.
3. The commands: start, pause and stop recording, “Record a new trip”, “Continue the trip”, change transport mode and “I am here”.
4. Siri knows your trips too: “Open <trip> in TripPhoto” or “Record <trip> with TripPhoto”.
5. The command opens the app and lets it act – so everything you configured still applies.

Six widgets that show what the app knows – instead of a button that only says “start”.

1. Small: the line you drove today with distance and duration, or the year ring – twelve segments, one per month.
2. Medium: the day band from midnight to midnight with legs by mode, or the trip with track, distance, duration, ascent and speed.
3. Large: the travel diary to look at, or the cockpit to operate – waypoint, pause, mode and stop, without opening the app.
4. Lock screen: round, the detected mode with the time since the last change; wide, either duration and distance, the elevation profile or the next planned stop; above the clock a line showing whatever matters right now.
5. When nothing is recording the widgets do not go empty: they show the last track in grey and the yearly total.
6. In Control Center (iOS 18 and later) there are also the “Recording” and “I am here” controls.

Load a route built in the planner onto the device before you set off – the next stop then appears on your lock screen.

1. Before starting, pick the planned route under “Record”. Its stops move onto the device.
2. On the road the widget shows the name, distance and rough arrival time of the next stop – without a connection, because the stops are stored locally.
3. The app ticks off stops you reach, including skipped ones you come near later. Drive past one and it stays – no order is enforced.
4. Distances are as the crow flies: routing would need a connection again, and for “12 km to go” a straight line is honest enough.

What is around you – sights and your saved places. And after a stop, say how it was with one tap.

1. Tap “Nearby” in the cockpit: sights and places from your plan around you, with distance; one tap starts navigation in Apple Maps.
2. In CarPlay only your saved places nearby appear – Apple’s driving rules allow no place search there.
3. After a stop at a sight the app asks for stars. From three ratings on, others see the average – never who rated how.

Continue a trip from your iPhone on your Mac, find trips in iPhone search and see the running recording on your watch and in CarPlay.

1. Handoff: with a trip open in the app, a Mac or iPad on the same Apple ID offers it in the Dock or app switcher – one click opens it on tripphoto.app.
2. Spotlight: your trips appear in iPhone search. Only title and photo count are added, and the index stays on your device.
3. Control Center (iOS 18 and later): “Recording” and “I am here” controls – also for the lock screen and Action button.
4. CarPlay: the car screen has the tabs Drive, Route and Places – distance and time, the next planned stop and your saved places nearby. Without a recording: “Continue: <trip>” or “New trip”.
5. A few large buttons are enough: “Save place”, “To stop” or “Transport mode” and “Stop …” with pause, transport mode and end.
6. When the phone connects to CarPlay, the app takes that as “in the car” and – if you switch it on – starts recording by itself. A Bluetooth stereo counts as a car only after you confirm it once.
7. There are widgets for the home and lock screen as well – see “Widgets”.
8. The app requires iOS 17 or later.
9. The app speaks your iPhone’s language: German on German devices, English everywhere else – including notifications, widget, watch and Siri.

Password, passkey or two-factor – in the app and on the website.

1. Create an account on the website or in the app; confirmation is by email.
2. Forgot your password? The link arrives by email and is valid for one hour.
3. A passkey replaces both password and code: sign in with Face ID or Touch ID, and the key stays on your device.
4. Alternatively two-factor with an authenticator app, plus backup codes for emergencies.
5. “Stay signed in” keeps you signed in on this device for 30 days; without the tick the session ends after eight hours without activity. Leave the tick off on public or shared devices.
6. Under “Sign-in & security” you see your last sign-in with an approximate location – the IP address itself is not stored. If someone signs in from another country, you get an email.
7. Emails from TripPhoto arrive in the language of your account, German or English.

Take everything with you or delete everything – both free, any time, no questions asked.

1. In settings under “Your data” you download an archive: one page per trip with a route sketch, days and photos, plus GPX and all data as JSON. It opens without TripPhoto.
2. Single trips are available on their own too – as an archive or as GPX with real timestamps.
3. “Data & sources” of a trip shows every point with its origin (iPhone, CarPlay, hands-free, website, import) – also as CSV.
4. Error log: only switched on occasionally, without IP or content, deleted after 14 days – and switched off for you for good with one tick under “Your data”.
5. “Delete account” removes your account, trips, photos, recordings and sign-in data immediately and permanently. You get a confirmation by email.

Optional watermark (brand/name/initials) and fine-grained per-photo privacy.

1. Choose the watermark in settings – applies to new uploads.
2. Per photo: private, hide location publicly, or hide camera data publicly.
3. Images from private trips and private photos are protected: their addresses are valid only briefly and only for people allowed to see them.