TripChronos vs Driftlog
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TripChronos
This app helps you plan, capture, and relive your travels with AI-powered itinerary building, automatic photo organization, and cinematic video recaps. Explore a living world map, unlock achievements, and share your adventures with friends and family.
- AI-powered itinerary planning
- Automatic photo organization by metadata
- Cinematic travel video creation
- Interactive living world map
- Achievement system for travel milestones
- Collaborative trip sharing
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
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TripChronos — Plan, Capture, Share, and Relive Your Travels The travel journal reimagined for modern explorers. Plan the trip, keep every booking in one place, capture the moments, and relive them long after you're home. PLAN YOUR TRIP - Describe the trip you want in your own words and get a day-by-day plan - Sights first, suggested day trips, and stops worth getting out for on a long drive - Plan a single day, or let TripChronos route your days around the hotel you booked - Uses Apple Intelligence on your device, with Private Cloud Compute for longer plans IMPORT YOUR BOOKINGS - Add flights, hotels, trains, and confirmations from PDFs, screenshots, or the share sheet - Import several at once and review everything before it's added - Duplicates are caught, and each booking lands in the right trip A LIVING ITINERARY - Day-by-day timeline with a map beside your plan - Real travel times between stops and local time zones for every flight - Weather, walking times, and untimed plans for the things without a schedule - Save for Offline keeps your itinerary, travel times, and time zones with you CAPTURE YOUR JOURNEY - Photos organized automatically by date, location, and time zone - Altitude and compass direction for every shot - Add a location when one is missing — drop a pin, search, or paste coordinates - An optional evening recap reminds you to save the day's photos CREATE TRAVEL VIDEOS - Turn any trip into a beat-synced recap that picks your best photos from every place - Curated music, captions, intros, and transitions - Year in Review with a map of everywhere you went - Vertical 9:16 export ready for social EXPLORE A LIVING WORLD MAP - World → Region → Country → City, with smooth drill-down - Every photo and trip for any city or country - Lifetime travel stats built right in UNLOCK 46 ACHIEVEMENTS - Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Diamond tiers - Countries, Trips, Memories, Geography, Social, Streaks, and Discovery TRAVEL TOGETHER - Plan and add to trips with friends and family through iCloud - Friends with QR codes, friend codes, and leaderboards - Manage or revoke access any time WIDGETS, SIRI & SPOTLIGHT - Today's Plan, Trip, Countdown, Travel Dashboard, Memory of the Day, On This Day, Country Progress, Capture Streak, and Travel Counter widgets - Ask Siri about your trip, and find trips in Spotlight - Optional Live Activity for the trip you're on SHARE YOUR ADVENTURES - Trip videos, story and square images, and PDF trip reports - Web links anyone can view — no app required DESIGNED FOR TRAVELERS - Seamless iCloud sync across your devices - Side-by-side layouts on iPad and larger iPhone screens - Available in 13 languages, with themes to make it yours Whether you're a weekend explorer or a world traveler, TripChronos helps you plan, capture, and relive your story. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Driftlog
This app automatically logs your travel destinations, including countries, cities, and dates, even when closed. It organizes your journey with photos and provides visual maps and timelines of your adventures. Enjoy a private, ad-free experience with a one-time purchase.
- Automatic country and city logging
- Hands-free travel diary
- Trip photos linked automatically
- Visual map of visited locations
- Year-by-year travel timeline
- Private, on-device storage
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Driftlog fills in your travel map by itself. No account, no ads, no subscription: it is free to download, and one purchase unlocks everything. YOUR OLD TRIPS ARE ALREADY IN YOUR PHOTOS You do not have to start from today. Tap import once and Driftlog reads the location that is already saved inside your photos, then puts those trips on the map with their dates. Years of travel can appear in a minute. It reads the location tag on a photo. It never looks at the picture itself. If the location history your phone used to keep is gone, this is the thing to try. Your photos usually still remember where you were. AND IT KEEPS GOING FROM TODAY Turn on location once and leave it. Driftlog records the countries, cities and regions you pass through while it sits closed in the background. No check-ins. No writing anything down. Open it after six months and the map has been filling itself in the whole time. WHAT YOU GET - A world map that colors itself in, country by country - A passport with a landmark stamp for every country you have visited - A timeline by year, down to the cities you stayed in and the dates - Memories: where you were on this day a year ago, and the year before that - A welcome back recap when you get home - Trip and year cards you can share WHAT IT COSTS Free to download. Free forever, for everyone: the world map, the passport stamps, your country count, the timeline. Free in full at home: the first three regions you visited in your home country (prefectures, states, provinces). Every city, stay date and linked photo in them, without paying anything. Free abroad: your first foreign country, in full. That is the oldest one in your history. From the second foreign country and the fourth home region onward, the details (dates, cities, notes, photos) open with one purchase. Those places still color in your map and count toward your totals. The price is shown on this page. You pay once. No subscription, no ads, no account. WHAT LEAVES YOUR PHONE Your records stay on the device. There is no account and no server behind this app. No ads, no tracking, and the App Store privacy label says Data Not Collected. Place-name lookups do go out, and it is worth saying plainly. To turn coordinates into a name like "Lisbon, Portugal", the coordinates are sent to Apple's map service, and when you type a city name to add a trip by hand, that name is sent to find where it is. That is all that is sent. Not your history, not your photos. BEFORE YOU START Automatic recording needs Location set to Always, with Precise Location on. Nothing is recorded while your phone is off. Without a data connection (roaming off, for example), Driftlog still notes the country you arrive in, except near borders, and adds the city name once you are back online. The photo import only sees photos that carry a location. Photos taken with camera location switched off are invisible to it. You can add a location to them later in the Photos app: select them, tap the info button, then Add Location, and run the import again. The import also needs Photos access set to Full Access. On Limited Access it only looks at the ones you picked. A place counts as a trip when it has 3 or more photos on one day, or photos spanning 2 or more days and at least 6 hours apart, so a late-night landing plus a photo after midnight is not counted as an overnight stay. Shorter stops are treated as layovers and left out. Your home area is excluded by default, inside a radius you can change in settings. iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 or later. Portrait only. Made by one person. Wander. It logs the rest.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Driftlog at none against TripChronos's 3. Driftlog also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). TripChronos's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 78%). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. TripChronos sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Driftlog asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TripChronos against 5.0 for Driftlog. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of TripChronos's written reviews are positive against 78% of Driftlog's.
TripChronos ships an update every 3 weeks, Driftlog every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | TripChronos | Driftlog |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 77.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Robert Galbraith | Akira Takashima |
Customer experience
TripChronos
Driftlog
In-app purchases
TripChronos
- Monthly Premium$1.991 Month
- Yearly Premium$14.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$39.99
Driftlog
No in-app purchases









