Travel documenting apps - which is your favorite?

Google photos does everything you want.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.photos&hl=en_US&gl=US

Thank you, Jazz! I will check out Google.

I have been very pleased with Polarsteps.

Thank you, Carol! I am reading about Polarsteps. You have introduced me to a whole new world :]

I've used Shutterfly in the past and have a few hard copy books from our trips.

I just started using Mixbook and have done albums for 5 trips so far. Super easy to use!

Thank you, Ginger and mikliz97. I will check both of those out.

All of my Mixbook albums have arrived and I love them! The quality is very good! Now to start in on more albums;)

Nice to hear mikliz. Thanks!

From my reading of the question, it is wanting an app to document in the moment and later print or make a book. Some of the replies I am uncertain of in that regard. Such as Shutterfly. Sure you can make a book, but can you document as in Polarsteps, as you go, with pictures tied to locations and notations and stories? Same with goggle. I use google photos, by default it seems, and I do not see much about coherency on the trip itself.
I have looked at Polarsteps and it seems to offer what the OP inquires about. To a degree. I do not think it is available as a PC app so you can use your computer. Nor does it have the ability to go back in time. By this I mean being able to document a trip after that trip.
Admittedly I have not worked with it extensively, mostly due to the above fact of not being able to do anything retroactive. This leaves me with the ability to only use the app while on a trip, thus, I have to wait for a trip. Since I have a one week domestic trip in a few weeks I may try it and play around with it.
Retroactive trip making would be big. I could drop and paste photos into Polarsteps and create a timeline and diary and mapping of something. But, alas, I do not think so.
Can anyone enlighten me on that? Am I overlooking something?

You are correct, Treemoss. I was interested in documenting as I went along. Not being retroactive could be a negative. The apps like Mixbook may be useful for trips I have already taken. I got started thinking about all this when I bought my first Pastbook which recorded my pictures and posts from Facebook. I had taken two domestic trips this year and posted photos on Facebook as I went along and it was kind of nice that they were all printed in a book along with my descriptions. Thanks for your thoughts.

I just went on Polarsteps to see if it is possible to edit a trip that has already been taken and the answer was a big "YES." I do upload as I go along on a trip, but if a person wanted to add information or change pictures, etc, on a past trip it is entirely possible to do so.

With Mixbook, you can certainly create it as you go on your trip. You just keep. uploading photos each day and make the pages for those and then wait until you are ready the next day to do it again. You can also keep editing up until even a bit after you order. So if you want to go back to the first page and redo something, you can.

I've started using Polarsteps (thanks, Carol!) and really like how it works. And as Carol noted, it does work retroactively - in fact one of the first things it did was ask to access my photo library so that it could pull up prior trip photos. I will definitely be using this for my upcoming trip.

Thanks. I did find out how to retroactively put in a trip.

Thank you! I appreciate the additional information about using the apps retroactively.

I am with you, douglas, on including the itinerary. It is how my scrapbooks begin.

Douglas--the one I use allows for text which is really nice.

Check out Day One.

I just used it for a trip. I still write in a notebook but I was intrigued to see what a printed book could look like that was based on my daily entries of writing and pictures.

This FAQ from Polarsteps talks about how you add text to your pages

https://support.polarsteps.com/article/139-add-text-to-steps#:~:text=Seeing%20your%20route%20on%20a,the%20Steps%20in%20your%20trip.