Comparison

Trip Atlas vs WayNote

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Trip Atlas

Effortlessly transform your photos into a detailed travel journal. Automatically organize your adventures by date and location, create interactive maps, and use an AI assistant to recall past trips or plan new ones. Share memories with friends and family, and print your journeys.

Highlights
  • Automatic photo organization into trips
  • Interactive maps and timelines
  • AI travel assistant for trip recall and planning
  • Collections for grouping trips
  • Collaborative trip building
  • Privacy controls per trip
Features
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You already took the photos. Trip Atlas turns them into the trip. Import a camera roll — from last week or from 2019 — and Trip Atlas recognizes the restaurants, viewpoints, trailheads and museums you actually visited, groups them into trips, and lays them out as a mapped timeline. No tagging. No folders. No weekend spent sorting through it. Most travel apps ask you to log a trip while you're on it. Trip Atlas works backwards, from photos taken by someone who wasn't tracking anything at the time. That's why it works on the trips you already have. ORGANIZE WITHOUT THE WORK • Photos grouped into suggested trips by when and where you were • Every stop named and pinned — correct or edit anything you want • Merge multiple trips into one journey, and merge places across trips • Works even when GPS data is missing YOUR TRAVEL, COUNTED • Countries, cities and US national parks, tallied automatically • Museums, state parks and UNESCO sites on a living stats page • Every trip you've taken, pinned on one interactive world map ASK THE TRAVEL AGENT • "Where did we eat in Rome?" — answered from your own trip history • Plan a new trip day by day, built around places you already love • Save trips, places and postcards inside the app and plan from them later • Pro includes 300 Travel Agent queries per month RELIVE IT • An AI podcast where two hosts talk through any trip, start to finish • Trip-ready reels, stories and posts made from your photos — share them in a tap • Invite the people you travelled with to co-own a trip and add their photos PRINT IT. MAIL IT. • Order a hardcover photo book from any trip — books from $39.99 • Send a real postcard from a real place to a real mailbox, anywhere • The layout is already done, because the trip is already organized PLAN THE NEXT ONE • Build a day-by-day itinerary from your saved places and past travel • Forward flight and hotel confirmations to your trip's address and Trip Atlas parses them in (a Pro feature) • Plan together with the people coming with you PRIVACY, HONESTLY Photos you import are stored on our servers — that's how your trips sync across devices and how we build the map. We don't sell your personal data, we don't use it for advertising or tracking, and our partners can't use it to train on or track you. Place names and dates are sent to a third-party AI provider to power the AI features, and you can turn that off in Settings. You can delete everything permanently from Settings → Delete Account. Set any trip to private, followers-only or public. Owner, collaborator and viewer permissions on every trip. Block anyone, any time. FREE AND PRO Trip Atlas is free to download and use, with 10 GB of photo and video storage. Pro is $49.99 per year or $9.99 per month, and adds 100 GB of storage, 300 Travel Agent queries a month, email-to-trip forwarding, and a custom link field on your postcards. A BUSINESS WITH A SOUL Trip Atlas is a member of 1% for the Planet, committed to giving at least 1% of annual sales to vetted environmental nonprofits. The environmental partner we support is the National Park Foundation. Questions? support@tripatlas.travel SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Trip Atlas Pro is offered as an auto-renewable subscription with Monthly and Yearly options. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed and auto-renewal turned off in your Account Settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tripatlas.travel/privacy

About

WayNote

Features
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WayNote is the digital travel diary that turns every adventure into a memory you can relive, share and compare. CREATE YOUR TRIPS Document every journey with stops, photos and notes. The guided wizard takes you through 5 steps from destination to complete memory, with dates, airports and visited cities. TRIP FROM PHOTOS Upload your photos and WayNote automatically creates your trip. The app detects the GPS location and date of each shot, reconstructs the route you traveled, groups photos by stop and generates the complete itinerary with every city visited. You can also add points of interest for each stop. SATELLITE MAP View your stops on a high-definition satellite map. See the full trip route with route lines and markers, and automatically generate a video for a fly-to animation of each city. PERSONAL STATISTICS Track the countries visited, kilometers traveled, flight hours and completed trips. Every adventure becomes numbers that tell your story. LEADERBOARD Compare yourself with other travelers. Climb the global leaderboard or measure your progress against friends in the categories: countries visited, distance traveled, flight hours and total trips. COMMUNITY Follow other travelers, discover their itineraries and get inspired. The feed shows trips from the people you follow to keep you always updated. AUTOMATIC VIDEOS WayNote automatically generates a video of your trip with photos, stops and an animated route — ready to share. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://nonectarine.github.io/WayNote-legal/

Screenshots

Trip Atlas4 screens
WayNote4 screens

Verdict

The call

Trip Atlas and WayNote are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Trip Atlas sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and WayNote sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Trip Atlas ships an update weekly, WayNote fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Trip Atlas versus WayNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrip AtlasWayNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (13 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings13 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB74 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGavin BlasczykGiacomo Bei

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Trip Atlas

Subscriptions2
  • Trip Atlas Pro (Monthly)$9.991 Month
  • Trip Atlas Pro (Yearly)$49.991 Year
1 purchases

WayNote

Subscriptions1
  • Waynote Premium$3.991 Year

Questions

Is Trip Atlas free?
Trip Atlas is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WayNote free?
WayNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Trip Atlas or WayNote have ads?
Neither Trip Atlas nor WayNote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Trip Atlas or WayNote?
Trip Atlas ships an update weekly, and WayNote fortnightly. Most recently, Trip Atlas was updated on October 9, 2026 and WayNote on October 8, 2026.

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