# Polarsteps — user reviews > 2,118 indexed App Store user reviews of Polarsteps by Polarsteps B.V., rated 4.90/5 from 9,154 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/polarsteps/id947925763/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/polarsteps/id947925763.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 8,439 · 4★ 512 · 3★ 82 · 2★ 39 · 1★ 82 ## What do users think of Polarsteps? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 💻 Excellent app for travel blogging - 👍 Easy to use and share with family/friends - 🗺️ Great GPS tracking and map features - 📷 Seamless photo/video integration - 📚 Ability to create high-quality travel books - 🔍 Detailed trip statistics and analytics **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches - 🔄 Difficulty editing/rearranging photos and steps - 🔋 Can be battery-intensive - 🗺️ Inaccurate GPS tracking in some cases - 🤖 Struggles with importing past trips and photos **Commonly reported bugs** - Trouble uploading videos - Incorrect time zone and location tracking - Steps and photos randomly disappearing - Crashes and freezes during usage **Most requested features** - Ability to collaborate on trips with others - Option to customize page layouts for travel books - Improved video support and integration - More flexible map and route editing tools - Synchronization across multiple devices ## Newest reviews (18 of 2,118) ### 5/5 — Surpreende *2026-08-14* Estou achando muito bacana até agora e as minhas expectativas são as melhores para quando eu puder finalizar a viagem e imprimir o álbum. ### 5/5 — Adventuring with Thor and Moki *2026-08-14, version 10.6.1* We love Polarsteps and so do our friends and family! Love the visual map tracking our movement and the interactive bubbles on the trek linking to photos and the written posts. Looking forward to having books made of our journey, hope they’re as great as the app…!! ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-08-13, version 10.6.1* Great way to record my trip and see on a map where I am. Getting good feedback from friends and family back home. ### 4/5 — All my travels on one map, please! 🗺️💖 *2026-08-13* I absolutely love Polarsteps! It’s such a wonderful app for keeping track of my travels and memories. ❤️ I’d really love to see a feature that lets us display multiple trips together on one map. For example, I’d love to see all of my past trips to Japan, Korea, and other countries, with all the routes displayed together. It would be so much fun to see my entire travel history on one map! 🗺️✨ And if possible, I’d also love to see Japanese language support someday. 🇯🇵🥹 Thank you for creating such a wonderful app! I’m looking forward to seeing Polarsteps become even more amazing! 💕 ### 5/5 — Lovely to follow my husbands trip *2026-08-12, version 10.6.1* Great to see first hand and live what he’s doing ### 5/5 — Seems great *2026-08-12, version 10.6.1* Haven’t used the app much yet but was immediately impressive by the UI and business model. Love that it’s free for users and they make money from the books you can buy from them. Wish more apps worked like this! ### 5/5 — Great App *2026-08-12, version 10.6.1* I’m loving the journey that my friends are on I feel like I’m there with them what an awesome app. ### 5/5 — Love it! *2026-08-11, version 10.5.1* Such a fun app to save memories. Love it. ### 5/5 — Awesome app *2026-08-11, version 10.5.1* Two family members are currently using this and I look forward to viewing their trip-so easy to use!!! ### 5/5 — ❤️❤️❤️ *2026-08-10* J’adore cette application! C’est un journal de tous mes voyages au fil des ans! Facile à utiliser, à partager et un réel plaisir à regarder❤️ ### 5/5 — Best travel App! *2026-08-10* Polarsteps is an amazing app. Helps keep memories organized to enjoy later. The books are beautiful as well.!! ### 5/5 — Best travel diary *2026-08-09, version 10.5.1* I love being able to travel with friends and family virtually on their Polarsteps, and have them follow us on our adventures. Seeing exactly where someone is on a world map is fantastic. ### 5/5 — Great App for travel tracking *2026-08-09, version 10.5.1* I truly enjoy Polarsteps, the travel stats plus the ability to save a trip in a timeline order. Photos are nothing now I quickly upload stuff to Polarsteps as I’m traveling. ### 5/5 — Following our Son and his Fiancee *2026-08-09, version 10.5.1* This is a great way to share their trip ### 5/5 — Great tool for a Graphic Diary *2026-08-09, version 10.5.1* My son told me about this app. It is really great. It allows me to keep a diary of my trips that not only does it remind me of the trip but also i can share it. Thanks ### 5/5 — Fantastic adventure tracker *2026-08-09, version 10.5.1* Such a great tool to follow an adventure with real time images of where they are, photos and videos. It took the worry out of wondering where my son and his fiancée could be on their great cycling trip from France to Hungary. ### 5/5 — Great app! *2026-08-09, version 10.5.1* So nice to see your travel I a snapshot on the map. Love the app, thank you! Love having all my travel documented this way. ### 5/5 — Awesome app *2026-08-09, version 10.5.1* I love this app and it’s a great way to track your journey! Easy to use ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not for cruising *2026-08-13, version 10.6.1* Not very good when on a cruise, your ship cuts in overland and seems to default to aeroplanes. ### 1/5 — iPad or something *2026-08-10, version 10.5.1* Trying to sort through photos and access the maps on a iPhone screen is not ideal. Why not an iPad version to make it easier??? Forget about designing a book for a big trip on an iPhone screen. Keeps being the top 1 or 2 battery usage app on my iPhone 16. Not impressed. ### 1/5 — Useless *2026-08-03, version 10.5.0* I select “plan a future trip” but the only dates I can select are in the PAST. So I can’t even review more than this because at that point it’s useless. ### 1/5 — Trip with spouse app fail *2026-07-26* Not user friendly for two people trying to use one app to share our memories from two different phones. App would not allow both the contribute to the same trip album and allow each other to edit a stop or both contribute pictures. When we want to designate a location for a step of the trip, I.e Kensington Palace and Gardens….i had to just choose London. If I wanted to choose Borough Market, I had to just choose London. When I was looking for Piccadilly Circus, it selected Australia. I’m in London. Maybe I chose the wrong app for what we were hoping to accomplish. I’m in too deep and can’t figure out how to solve any of these issues. Unfortunately, it’s just not working out in a user friendly way for what we were hoping. I wish it would zoom in on where we are with all the areas of London and easily identify where we are each step of the way. I think there is potential, it just isn’t there yet. Please fix these issues ASAP. **Developer response:** Thanks for the review! It sounds like you have the app downloaded to multiple phones but are sharing the same account. You can create or edit past/current trips with Travel Buddys, this way you can all contribute to a trip and have it be displayed on your profile! Read more here: https://support.polarsteps.com/hc/en-nl/sections/23758716356498-Travel-Together Please also do reach out to our Community & Support team so we can assist with the issues with location, you can do so via support.polarsteps.com/contact. Thank you! ### 1/5 — poorly designed *2026-07-17, version 10.2.0* looks like built by someone who did not travel themselves. No clean way to add stops while you already started traveling, no way to reorder past stops, no clean way to even expressively add start point; can’t resolve Brooklyn, NY?? and no way to add, neither; dropped the app after 20 min of frustration ### 1/5 — Invasive *2026-07-16, version 10.2.0* I just installed and was walking through the set up and this application insists on looking at my contacts. What the hell? ### 1/5 — Can’t find any destinations *2026-07-16, version 10.2.0* Just downloaded this and tried it for my Iceland trip but it can’t find any of my destinations even using the address- quite frustrating ### 1/5 — Não consigo gerar triprell *2026-07-04* Sigo tudo que manda, mas sempre fala que não é possível gerar, já tentei várias e varias vezes. **Developer response:** Hi, thank you for your review, I'm sorry to hear that trip reels isn't working as expected. Would you mind contacting us via support.polarsteps.com/contact with your trip link, app version and a screen-recording of the issue? We'd love to have a closer look. Thank you! ### 1/5 — Dreadful App *2026-07-01, version 10.0.0* I typed in a 1000 word update, with multiple photos, the went to browse something on Safari. When I returned the whole Polarsteps draft was deleted. Seriously!!! ### 1/5 — Very flaky app *2026-06-13, version 9.34.0* We’re always have trouble inviting people to flow us. Some work as documented, some can’t see any photos. And the last resort appears to be having them JOIN your trip. REALLY!!! Come on! Get some HS programs to clean this app up. It’s incredibly frustrating to use. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Pratique *2026-08-27* Super pratique pour suivre des voyageurs et s’inspirer de leur trajet pour planifier mes voyages! ### 5/5 — Awesome app *2026-08-21* I have been using it while traveling through Europe. It is so easy to use and is a great way to journal your travels with some nice photos. My family and friends love to see what I’m doing and it makes it so easy for them to know where I am. I highly recommend this app to travellers. ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2026-08-18, version 10.7.0* A brilliant way to share information, photos & location on a trip. Cannot recommend it enough. ### 5/5 — Great travel diary. *2026-08-17, version 10.7.0* Absolutely brilliant to record one’s travels, share with friends and family as you travel. Having the book published at the end saves so much time as you’ve already recorded your trip. ### 5/5 — Travel journal *2026-08-17* Love this app, I can share my adventures with family and friends while also creating my own travel blog. ### 5/5 — Amazing app *2026-08-16, version 10.6.1* I’m an avid traveller and use this app to log anything from a 5-month south east Asia trip to weekends in Paris! ### 5/5 — Love this app *2026-08-16, version 10.6.1* Great app, lovely record of holidays,and I can follow friends travels as they unfold ### 5/5 — Top *2026-08-16, version 10.6.1* Première utilisation de cette appli et je trouve ça top ! ### 5/5 — Love it! *2026-08-15, version 10.6.1* We are in an RV and going around the country. There is no way I could remember all the places we stayed and keep track of all the pictures and places without this app! Highly recommend!!!! 👍👍👍 ### 5/5 — Great fun! *2026-08-14, version 10.6.1* An awesome app! Built really well with lots of features and ways to show your friends what you’re up to on your trips! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-29.*