Travel tracker apps, compared honestly

What the others charge

Prices as listed in the app stores in July 2026, for the paid tier that unlocks the app properly. They change, and regional pricing differs — check the store before you decide anything on this.

• Been — about $19.99 a year. The simplest of the group: countries and a percentage, done well.
• Visited — about $34.99 a year or $59.99 once. Strong on regions and territory lists.
• Polarsteps — about $34.99 a year. Live GPS tracking while you travel and beautifully printed books; nothing here matches its automatic route recording.
• Journi — about $53.99 a year. Built around photo books and a shareable travel blog.
• Pin Traveler — about $34.99 a year or $44.99 once. Detailed pins and trip logs.
• Skratch — about $9.99 once. A scratch-map feel, cheap and focused.
• Stampie — about $14.99 once. Passport stamps as the central idea.
• Voymark — free, no subscription, no account.

Where the others win

If you want your route recorded automatically while you are moving, Polarsteps is built for that and Voymark is not — it never asks for location permission, which is precisely why it cannot follow you down a road. If you want a hardbound book printed and posted to you, Polarsteps and Journi do that; Voymark makes a PDF and stops there.

There is also a real argument for a paid app: money from users is a business model that does not need your data, and a company with revenue can keep the lights on. Being free is not automatically the more ethical choice — it is only better if nothing else is being sold instead.

Where Voymark is different

No account, and no server holding your trips, so there is nothing to sign into and nothing to be locked out of. The maps ship inside the app, so the whole thing works with the network off. Photos become trips on the phone itself, with no upload step. And the counting rule is yours to set — 197, 193 or 249 — with six visit kinds deciding what a layover is worth.

It also runs on both platforms with the same feature set and the same file format, which matters more than it sounds: a backup written on an iPhone restores on an Android phone and back again.

Moving from another app

If your current app exports GPX or KML — most do, somewhere in their settings — Voymark imports the file directly. It splits the result into separate trips where the dates jump, or follows the folder names inside the file, so a five-year export does not arrive as one impossible journey.

If it exports nothing at all, that is the more useful thing this page can tell you — and a reason to check before your next renewal, whichever app you end up with.