# Travel Journal: Photo Diary — Digital Scrapbook & Trip Blog

> Digital travel journal for documenting adventures with photos, maps, and blogs. (iPhone/iPad app by Journal Lab B.V..)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/travel-journal-photo-diary/id1530384529 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Journal Lab B.V.](https://appshunter.io/developer/1521896722)
- Category: Travel, Lifestyle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.20/5 from 90 App Store ratings · 82 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 276 MB
- Languages: American English, Dutch, European Spanish
- Released: 2020-11-12
- Data updated: 2026-09-04
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/travel-journal-photo-diary/id1530384529/reviews.md

## What is Travel Journal?

Embark on a transformative journey with the Travel Diaries App, your passport to turning every adventure into an unforgettable story. Blog travel experiences and pin places visited on travel maps with the Travel Diaries travel journal, book creator, travel tracker and map maker app!

Join thousands of travel writers who:

- Create a travel log book with itineraries, travel photos, traveling maps, & keepsakes from countries visited
- Pin their places to travel and countries been with the travel pin feature
- Reflect on unforgettable locals & travelers book like a travel journalist
- Unleash their inner Rick Steves to make a travel guide
- Create a travel book with the book creator feature

Craft your travel chronicle: Immerse yourself in the world of adventure with our versatile travel journal platform. From an interactive travel map that pins your global adventures to customizable layouts for a visually stunning travel photo journal to vivid travel pictures and weave compelling travel stories that will linger in your memory like cherished travel memories.

Effortless travel blogging: Capture each moment with precision, turning your musings into a mesmerizing travel journal. Share your adventures on a stylish webpage, connecting with a vibrant community of passionate travel enthusiasts.

Plan your next expedition: Transform your thoughts into a virtual travel notebook, an endless source of inspiration for planning your next odyssey. Map out countries, cities, and must-visit places, jotting down bucket list ideas. Craft a well-organized plan, ensuring your ideas are beautifully presented for your travel diary.

Pin your globetrotting adventures: Elevate your experiences by transforming your journey into a vibrant tapestry of memories with the travel pin feature. Effortlessly map out the countries been you've visited, creating a visual masterpiece that's not just a record but a work of art, perfect for any passionate travel tracker.

Capture moments, tell extraordinary stories: Turn your musings into a stunning photo travel journal, create a personalized travel diary with various fonts and layouts to document your adventures.Enhance your diary with photos, maps, and other features to make it visually appealing.Easily share selected chapters of your diary as an online travel blog with friends and family.

Compose with effortless grace: Our online text editor is your literary companion, making journaling a breeze. Choose from a myriad of fonts, blog post layouts, and digital scrapbook sticky boxes. It's designed to capture the charm of a real travel diary, ensuring your words are as visually appealing as the destinations you explore.

Seamless mobile & web experience: Switch between the mobile and web app seamlessly, ensuring you can log your travel adventures whether you're on the go or relaxing in your hotel room. Your world travel journal is accessible wherever your journey takes you.

Publish and preserve your memories: Choose what to share publicly and let the world follow your travel adventures. From a secret travel diary to a beautifully printed travel log book, our app ensures your travel memories are not just captured but shared and preserved for a lifetime.

Customizable travel journal: Tailor your travel diary with diverse fonts and layouts. Add travel photos, maps, and more to create a visually stunning record of your journeys. Each entry is a testament to your unique travel story, presented beautifully for a customizable and memorable experience.

Start your travel diaries adventure today and unlock the power to turn every travel moment into a timeless tale!

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Contact us: https://www.traveldiariesapp.com/en/contact
Terms of use: https://www.traveldiariesapp.com/en/about/terms

Create, share, and relive your travel stories with Travel Diaries.

## Key features

- Create travel log books with itineraries
- Pin visited places on interactive maps
- Blog travel experiences with photos
- Design visually stunning travel photo journals
- Plan future expeditions and bucket lists
- Share selected diary chapters online

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Basic | $13.99 | per year |
| Online | $39.90 | per year |
| Print | $59.00 | per year |
| Print | $59.00 | per year |
| Basic | $11.99 | per year |
| Online | $39.90 | per year |
| Online monthly | $5.99 | per month |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Preorder Printed Book | $69.00 | one-time |


## Chart rankings

- #173 in Top Grossing · Travel (US App Store)

## What do users think of Travel Journal?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Easy to use interface
- ✨ Great for creating keepsake journals
- 📸 Ability to add photos
- 📚 High quality printed books
- 🌐 Web and mobile app access
- 💬 Excellent customer service
- 🎨 Numerous page layout options
- 💡 Good for digitizing handwritten journals
- 🚀 Fast processing and delivery
- 💰 Good value for money
- 🗺️ Map pinning feature
- 🔒 Privacy options for sharing

**Cons**

- 🐛 Buggy with occasional data loss
- 🖼️ Photo placement and sizing limitations
- 💸 Expensive subscription and printing costs
- 🤔 Not very intuitive at times
- ⏳ Slow image uploads
- 📱 App not working on iPhone
- 🖥️ Preview screen too small
- 🔌 Requires WiFi, not cell data
- 🤔 Steep learning curve initially
- ⚠️ Personal questions asked
- 🚫 No way to restore purchases

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App suddenly doesn't work on iPhone
- Unable to log in
- Forces app download instead of website access
- Lost pages of writing
- App freezes
- Deleted entire pages
- Photo layouts not available or editable
- Cannot edit at all
- Issues with panorama pictures
- Preview screen in very small print
- Cannot correct spelling while in layout mode
- Issues with uploading and/or organizing books
- Photos not uploading consistently
- Cannot add photos at all anymore
- Slow to load
- Does not always save
- Issue adding pictures (comes up black, error on done)
- App won't open
- Reset password issues, forced Facebook password to sign in

**Most requested features**

- More flexibility in photo editing (size, placement)
- Ability to justify text
- Add emojis
- Add tables
- Choose layout first, then write
- Option to make photo boxes bigger and swap with text boxes
- Zoom in on text in layout mode
- Rearrange images in a layout after upload
- Assign templates to specific days
- Cloud storage integration
- Additional multimedia support (videos, voice recordings)
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
- Ability to correct spelling while in layout mode

## Recent user reviews (10 of 82)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/travel-journal-photo-diary/id1530384529/reviews.md

### 1/5 — Okay if you are not a fan of elegance or beauty

*2026-08-26, version 2.3.10*

I cannot take this app seriously. I tried it out to see what features and templates were being offered for the travel book option. I have to laugh. To be fair, I usually create my own using photoshop, which allows for much more customization, like adding little visual details, screenshots of itinerary maps, PNGs, personalized fonts, drawings, overlays, scans of receipts, etc, things that make the reliving the experience more sentimental and immersive, like a legitimate scrapbook. To make them on photoshop isn’t difficult at all. 

I am honestly in utter shock that the devs are charging $59 YEARLY for this app on top of an ADDITIONAL $30-60 each book. Absolutely despicable. This app is quite literally scamming people for something can be done for free in the pages app or notes app within minutes for free. The templates and fonts are so juvenile and barren, lack customization, and are borderline tacky, I’m positive 5 year old could produce better. I cannot believe that this app has such great reviews. Even if you appreciate the simplicity or solely use the app as a travel journal $40-$60 a year for what it is a complete ripoff. Very brazen developers.

### 2/5 — Can’t get in

*2026-08-15, version 2.3.10*

!!

### 5/5 — Patricia

*2026-08-05, version 2.3.9*

Love the quality of the books and it is easy to use with lots of options for displaying your photos. Any problem has been resolved quickly.

### 5/5 — Great App

*2026-08-04, version 2.3.9*

I’ve been using this app for a few years to make detailed diaries of our camper van trips and holidays. 
Easy to use and new features added often. Customer service is also excellent. 
Always recommend this app to others.

### 5/5 — Already five books in…!

*2026-08-03, version 2.3.9*

I’ve always found the TD team extremely helpful when, in the early days (for them and me) I was trying to work out what I should be doing.  The end results surpassed my expectations, and I have two more books in the pipeline which I must finish, and another couple of trips to look forward to as well.  A great way to remember our travels, and to share experiences.

### 5/5 — Superb

*2026-08-03, version 2.3.9*

I love Travel Diaries, I can’t ever imagine travelling with out, I can instantly pen my thoughts and feelings as I travel, add pictures at the same time which adds context to my words, and also add a map and to track the journey. All of that helps during the journey and those following my trip, but helps me post journey to look back and see what I wrote and how I felt. 
I have had all my trip journals printed, and to have that book in my hand, a cup of tea and look back is immensely rewarding and satisfying. The team behind the App are amazing too and helped me, there are no glitches or errors it all works,!I contact the team when I can’t do something ( operator error). 
I end how I stated. I love travel diaries

### 2/5 — member ship

*2026-07-31, version 2.3.9*

app is free but you have to start a “free trial” or buy a membership to use anything on the app

### 3/5 — It Works - Kind Of

*2026-07-25, version 2.3.9*

For the most part this is usable software, although using pictures is buggy.  Sometimes I load up a bunch of pics for the day’s journal and one will disappear and I get a duplicate of another.  The bottom section with arrows is a mystery.  Sometimes it shows blank boxes with arrows, sometimes it shows duplicates of pictures I’ve already included elsewhere, and sometimes it’s nonexistent.  
My biggest complaint though is that in my opinion, if you pay for a subscription, all ads should be removed.  I wrote to the company via their support page asking how to remove their ads and not surprisingly did not get an answer whatsoever.  I’ve tried several journaling apps over the years when we travel - and so far have been underwhelmed by all.  They either charge more as you add content or they have blatantly distracting ads or just don’t work.  This is somewhere in between. I’ll use it for this trip and then cancel the subscription and look for something else.  Or hey … I’m a retired developer- maybe I’ll write my own.

### 5/5 — Fantastic customer service!

*2026-07-08, version 2.3.9*

Whenever I ran into issues on the spotty Wi-Fi, we had on our cruise ship, we would send a quick email to Travel Diaries and they would always respond very promptly and politely. Every time we were able to resolve the issue. The books we ordered look fantastic. Highly recommend.

### 5/5 — Love my travel journal!

*2026-07-07, version 2.3.9*

We just got back from a trip of a lifetime. I wanted a site that I could not just upload our photos, but also a space that I could add my journal from each day that not only captured the itinerary but also my emotions. I used AI to recommend sites and they suggested the Travel Diaries app. I received the book yesterday and it is so nice!!! The quality of the cover and pages along with the ease of setting it up including the variety of templates is why I rated this 5 stars. And it took less than 2 weeks to receive it. I have already recommended this site to my friends and family to use on their next travel adventure.

## Frequently asked questions about Travel Journal

### What does the Travel Journal: Photo Diary app do?

This app allows you to document your travels by creating a digital scrapbook and trip blog. You can pin visited locations on interactive maps, add photos, itineraries, and other keepsakes. It helps you turn your adventures into unforgettable stories and share them online.

### What are the key features of this travel journal app?

Key features include creating travel log books with itineraries and photos, pinning visited places on travel maps, blogging your experiences, designing visually appealing photo journals, planning future expeditions, and sharing selected diary chapters as an online blog.

### Is the Travel Journal: Photo Diary app free to use?

The app is free to download and use, but it offers in-app purchases for additional features or content. This allows users to enhance their journaling experience based on their needs.

### Can I use this app on multiple devices?

Yes, the app offers a seamless mobile and web experience. You can switch between the mobile and web app to log your travel adventures, ensuring your travel journal is accessible wherever your journey takes you.

### How can I use this app to plan my next trip?

You can transform your thoughts into a virtual travel notebook within the app. It serves as an endless source of inspiration for planning your next odyssey. You can map out countries, cities, and must-visit places, jotting down bucket list ideas for a well-organized plan.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.3.13 — 2026-08-31

Improvements and bug fixes for user sign-in and registration.

### 2.3.12 — 2026-08-27

Bug fixes and improvements

### 2.3.10 — 2026-08-05

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

### 2.3.9 — 2026-07-01

Performance improvements

### 2.3.7 — 2026-06-13

Performance improvement and bugfixes

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