Travel Journal User Reviews

Name: Travel Journal: Photo Diary
Rating: 4.3 (85 reviews)

Travel Journal: Photo Diary

Journal Lab B.V.

🌟 Lifestyle

✈️ Travel

Customer Experience

Positive experience83.1% of reviews

Neutral3.9% of reviews

Negative experience13.0% of reviews

~ Based on 77 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of Travel Journal. Based on 85 reviews and a 4.3/5 average, it highlights the 12 positives and 11 negatives reviewers mention most about this Travel app.

Positive things

👍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

Negative things

🐛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

Is Travel Journal Safe?

Travel Journal: Photo Diary appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Travel Journal is 83/100.

This assessment is based on 85 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.3/5.

Safety Analysis

80.0% of ratings point to a safe experience

7.1% of ratings suggest some concerns

12.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 85 App Store ratings for Travel Journal.

Is Travel Journal Legit?

Travel Journal: Photo Diary appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Travel Journal is 73/100.

Based on 73 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

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Already five books in…!

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.

Aged traveller!

12 days ago

Response from developer

Thank you so much for the kind words! We’ve loved being part of your journey since the early days. We are thrilled that your books exceeded expectations, and we can’t wait to see your next two projects come to life. Wishing you safe and happy travels on your upcoming trips! 📚✈️

Superb

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

The original lovely mr owl

12 days ago

Response from developer

We can’t imagine you traveling without us either! 🌟 Thank you so much for the love. There’s really nothing better than holding your printed travel book in your hands and reliving those moments with a cup of tea. Happy journaling on your next adventure!

It Works - Kind Of

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.

Gposel

22 days ago

Response from developer

Thank you for your message, we apologize for the photo glitches, we're not aware of this bug and would love to learn more! We'd also love to understand what went wrong, because our app is completely ad-free, and we didn't receive your message. We value our customers and always reply within 24 hours. Please send a message to support@traveldiariesapp.com with details so we can investigate this for you. We’d really love to help you out!

Fantastic customer service!

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.

KristaOrinda

a month ago

Response from developer

Thank you for sharing your experience! We always want to make sure the journaling process is as stress-free as possible, even with ship Wi-Fi. We are so glad our team could help you out promptly and that your final printed travel books look fantastic. Safe travels on your next adventure! 🛳️🌟

Love my travel journal!

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.

CA traveler 92

a month ago

Response from developer

Hi there, we love that AI pointed you our way! 🚀 Welcome back from your trip of a lifetime. We are so happy that our layouts made it easy to combine your photos and personal journaling into such a beautiful final product. Thank you for the review and for recommending us to your family, we can’t wait to help you design your next printed travel book!

App suddenly doesn’t work on iPhone anymore

Worked fine last week. Now I am unable to log in. EVEN MORE ANNOYING is that i can’t access content via website on my phone either as it forces me to then download the non- functional app!!

MAH196754

2 months ago

Response from developer

Hi there! We have great news: our team identified a momentary bug that was causing this login issue, and it has now been fully resolved! 🛠️ Please try opening the app or logging in via the website again, everything should be running smoothly so you can get right back to your journaling. We are incredibly sorry for the temporary interruption in accessing your travel journal. If you're able to log in successfully now, we would be deeply grateful if you would consider updating your star rating. Thank you for your patience and happy writing!

Great idea

I love the concept, and have been doing pen and paper travel logs for a while now, but the way the app works is not very intuitive. It would help a lot if I could choose a layout FIRST and then write to fill the page. Currently you write everything out, choose a layout and hope your photos land where you want. Loading pics and pages of text takes forever, it freezes, and I’ve lost pages of writing on a few occasions. It took a solid day to figure out how to use it. Still wishing I could figure out a way to place pictures where I want to match the text I'm writing

vernaculus maximus

2 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you for sharing your feedback, and we are very sorry to hear about the freezes and lost pages, that is certainly not the experience we want for you! We would love to make this right. Please email us at support@traveldiariesapp.com so we can assist further and ensure your future travel journal entries are smooth and enjoyable. 🌟

So far so good

I like to keep a journal whenever I take big trips to send to family to report my daily travels. I’ve only used email and found it awkward to send pictures and then have no way to print and keep in the end. I just found this app two weeks ago before a left for Great Britain. I’m using it daily as I travel and so far it’s been easy to use on my mobile phone and send the confidential link to family. I look forward to printing the journal once I’m home.

Colorado Christine

3 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you so much for sharing your story! We are absolutely thrilled to accompany you on your amazing trip to Great Britain. 🇬🇧 Moving away from clunky emails to modern journaling is exactly why we built this app. We're so glad that using your mobile phone to update your daily travel diary and sharing the secure link with your family has been such a smooth experience for you. There is nothing quite like holding your memories in your hands, and we can't wait for you to see your final printed travel book once you're back home! Safe travels and keep enjoying your travel journal! 📸

Solid journaling app with photo limitations

After doing some research on travel journaling apps, I chose this one to start the long overdue process of digitizing my handwritten travel journals from the past four decades. Entering text is very easy, and there are numerous page layouts to choose from. However, there are limitations with regard to where and how photos can be placed in the layouts and the sizing of them. Wish the app had more flexibility to edit size and place photos exactly where you want them. I ordered my first set of printed copies of a journal from one trip and was reasonably impressed at the quality of the printed book. I signed up for the annual subscription so I can enjoy other benefits as well. Other apps I’ve used are much better with handling large numbers of photos, but I like that this one handles a lot of text very well with just a few photos thrown in for visual appeal.

MelanieHiker

6 months ago

Response from developer

Hi Melanie! Thank you so much for choosing our app to preserve four decades of incredible travel memories, we are deeply honored to be the home for your life's adventures! 🌍 We are thrilled to hear you are loving the text features and that you were impressed by the quality of your first printed travel book. Regarding the photo flexibility, we completely understand your wish for more control. The reason behind our fixed layouts is to guarantee that when your digital pages are converted into print, every photo and block of text aligns perfectly without any accidental cropping or formatting errors. That being said, we are always working to expand our design options, and your feedback about photo sizing is incredibly helpful for our product team. Thank you for your annual subscription and for growing your travel journal library with us. Happy journaling and enjoy digitalizing those beautiful stories! 📸📖

Superbe!

J’attendais une telle app depuis longtemps pour me lancer dans la rédaction d’un livre de voyage. J’avais vu des app de type journal quotidien mais j’étais à la recherche d’un app pour rédiger en numérique en retour de voyage où j’ai pris des notes à la main. Travel diaries me permet assez facilement de rédiger, mettre en forme, ajouter des cartes et des images, de manière complémentaire sur le web ou dans l’app, puis de partager ou d’imprimer (je n’ai pas encore reçu mon livre résultat pour témoigner sur ce point). Les possibilités de mise en page ne sont pas infinies mais au moins elles sont simples à effectuer. J’apprécierais quand même des améliorations comme de pouvoir justifier le texte ou de mettre des emojis, des tableaux, etc.

finalnicolas

7 months ago

Response from developer

Un grand merci pour ce retour si détaillé ! Nous sommes honorés de vous accompagner dans la création de votre livre de voyage après toutes ces années de notes manuscrites. 🌍 C'est un plaisir de lire que la flexibilité entre notre version web et l'application facilite votre rédaction. Concernant vos suggestions sur le texte justifié, les emojis et les tableaux, c'est une excellente idée ! Notre équipe produit cherche toujours à améliorer l'expérience de journaling, et nous prenons précieusement note de vos remarques pour nos futures mises à jour. Nous avons hâte que vous receviez votre printed travel book et espérons que le résultat physique sera à la hauteur de vos magnifiques souvenirs. Bon travail d'écriture sur votre travel journal!

Great idea

vernaculus maximus

8 months ago

Nearly perfect (for me!)

I have searched for an app for a long time which enabled me to keep a travel journal with photographs which could be easily printed in book format as well as published on line. I’ve now found it and completed my first one (many more to follow as I’m playing catch up.) The online version is good and I have just received the printed book which has blown me away. It looks so good. So why 4 stars and not 5? I am picky and I would like more flexibility to be able to include some wider photos. I had to crop elements out of some because I couldn’t reduce them to fit the template. (If this is my ineptitude I am happy to be taught and add in the star!) The other thing I would like to see is the option to make some of the photo boxes bigger and swap them and the text boxes around.
It isn’t a difficult app to use; my only challenges were trying to make it do something it doesn’t!
Overall though I am very happy and I am now part way through my second book.

JMN13!

9 months ago

Kindness of Travel Diaries

My husband and I recently returned from fabulous trip to Palm Cove and I compiled a journey with pics of our trip. TravelDiaries were just fantastic, I accidentally ordered two copies quickly realised my error and contacted them. They checked it out and happily refunded cost of one however they sent the second as a ‘gift’. So very grateful, fantastic service and advice. I’ve used TD previously and already I am compiling my next journal. Thank TD…Sue…Australia

Eat,Sleep,Travel

9 months ago

Response from developer

Hi Sue! Thank you so much for sharing such a heartwarming review all the way from Australia! 🐨🇦🇺 We are absolutely thrilled to hear that you and your husband had a fabulous time in Palm Cove. We are incredibly grateful for your trust in our app over the years. Knowing that you're already busy journaling and compiling your next travel diary is the biggest compliment we could receive. We hope you enjoy looking through your latest printed travel book, and we can't wait to see your next travel journal come to life! Cheers to many more adventures ahead! 📸

Great little app

I like how it works and the fact you can add 20 pictures to each chapter. Support was helpful too when I had a small issue. Was resolved quickly. I recommend this app.

gft2021

9 months ago

Practice and play with it before you start your journey

I was recommended this app by a friend who has used it multiple times. I like it, but figuring out how the features work is more complicated than it appears. Writing the journal is pretty straightforward, but adding pix is more involved. There are multiple steps that need to be done in a certain order for the pix to appear in each chapter. Also, if you want to make your journal available to friends or anyone, you need to use the Share key. You can make the entire journal public or just selected chapters.

I suggest you play with it well before you are traveling to avoid frustration. When I used the app on my desktop, the FAQ section answered a lot of questions, but I wasn’t able to find this when I was using my IPad.

Now that I’m more familiar with the app, I will use it on future trips.

Knute47

10 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you so much for this incredibly detailed and thoughtful review! We are so honored to have been recommended by your friend, and we're thrilled to know you'll be using us for your future adventures. ✨ We really appreciate your feedback regarding the photo placement process. Because our system automatically prepares your pages for high-quality printing, it does follow a specific structural order to ensure your text and layout never get messy. However, we are always working to make this process more intuitive! Thank you for being a part of our journaling community, and we wish you many more incredible trips with your travel journal! 📸

Too expensive

The subscription is $50 a year! And if you choose to print your book at the end of that you still have to pay a VERY high price to print it (way higher than any other photo book printing service). The platform itself is very nice and a great idea but definitely not worth that price.

1998Marina

10 months ago

Keine Möglichkeit Käufe wieder herzustellen

Das widerspricht den Regeln des AppStores

Plebejer

a year ago

Response from developer

Vielen Dank für dein Feedback. Wir nehmen die Richtlinien des App Stores sehr ernst und stellen sicher, dass unsere App diesen vollständig entspricht. Falls es ein konkretes Anliegen oder Missverständnis gibt, würden wir uns freuen, wenn du uns nähere Informationen über support@traveldiariesapp.com zukommen lässt. Wir schauen uns das gerne genauer an.

Amazing!

As a teacher advisor for a high school student travel trip to Canada, I used this travel journal app to document our journey — and I couldn’t be more impressed. We created a beautiful 50-page travel journal filled with student photos, quotes, and memories that truly captured the spirit of the trip.

The app was incredibly user-friendly, allowing us to organize and personalize each page with ease. Our students loved seeing their experiences brought to life in such a creative and polished format.

What really stood out, though, was the outstanding customer service. Any questions we had were answered promptly and thoughtfully, making the whole process smooth and enjoyable from start to finish.

This app exceeded our expectations and helped us preserve memories in a way the travel company simply couldn’t. I highly recommend it to any educators or group leaders looking to create something meaningful and lasting from their trips!
10 stars!

Jamie madame

a year ago

Great App!

I’ve been a subscriber since late 2022. I’ve created 10 travel journals and just regular photo journals. In the beginning, the learning curve has been steep because of limited formats but last year they launched more options and truly grateful for that. A few weeks ago, I encountered several issues with panorama pictures but the response from Paula and support team was quick and they resolved the situation immediately, exceeded my expectations. I encountered issues in the past and their support has always been the same, great response time and problems solved. Also the printed journals are of high resolution and very happy to share with a lot of people.

Woodway USA

a year ago

Response from developer

Thank you so much for being such an incredible and loyal member of our community since 2022! Creating so many travel journals and photo books is an amazing milestone, and we are deeply honored to have been the home for your memories over the last few years. 🌍 We are so glad to hear that the format updates we launched last year made your journaling experience smoother! We also passed your wonderful message along to Paula and our support team, hearing that they exceeded your expectations and quickly solved the panorama photo issue means the world to us. We always strive to provide fast, top-tier help whenever bugs pop up. There is nothing better than knowing you are proud to share the high-resolution quality of your printed journals with your loved ones. Thank you for your amazing support throughout the years. Happy writing! 📸

Fantastic App & customer Service

I recently started using Travel Diaries and had a couple of issues that were fixed very quickly. Paula provides excellent customer service and makes sure the app works effectively for you. It is exactly the app I was looking for - diary for our big trip, with photos, can be printed as a book and shared as a blog. Perfect!

jlgl01