The easiest way to record your travel route is to use an automatic travel tracker that logs your GPS location in the background and draws your route on a map as you go. Polarsteps does this for free on iPhone and Android: switch on tracking at the start of a trip, and it plots your route automatically, including when you’re offline, with no need to keep the app open. It will just use about 4% of your battery for a full day of background tracking.

How to record your route with Polarsteps 

1. Download Polarsteps (iOS or Android) and create a trip. 

2. Allow location access (“Always”) so the Travel Tracker can run in the background. 

3. Travel as normal. Your route is drawn on the map, and you can add stops, photos and notes along the way.

4. Share the trip with friends and family, keep it private, or turn it into a printed Travel Book afterwards.

Check this video tutorial to see how to turn on and off your Travel Tracker! 

For more info about how the Travel Tracker works, please check out this page.