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Travel documenting apps - which is your favorite?

On another thread “Carol now retired” mentioned the Polarsteps app that can document your travel and then print a hard copy book at the conclusion. Duh! I didn’t know such a thing existed. Thank you, Carol!

Now I see there are similar apps, so which do you like best? I really want the printed book at the end. I used to scrapbook trips, but I am several trips behind and haven’t even printed the photos. I still appreciate hard copy photos rather than looking at them digitally. I think it is time to start using a travel documenting app.

Do the apps allow you to upload only those photos you want to save? Delete photos? Do they allow comments and annotations on the photos? Can the app be accessed from only the phone or can you work on the final document from a computer. Newby to this travel app world here. Thanks for any and all suggestions.

(And I just realized I should have searched for the topic before posting and now don’t want to lose my post. I can delete it if this topic has been done to death and I am just late to the party.)

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.