Comparison

WayNote vs Meridian Dispatch

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

Head to head
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/

About

Meridian Dispatch

This travel journal automatically creates detailed records of your trips using your photo library and booking emails. It identifies locations, writes descriptive prose, and lays out your memories like a magazine. Plan future adventures by forwarding confirmations to a private inbox.

Highlights
  • Automatic trip detection from photos
  • Magazine-style layout for memories
  • Prose generation for journal entries
  • Interactive 3D globe map
  • Itinerary planning from email bookings
  • Private and secure by design
Features
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Plan the trip. Keep the journal. Every other travel app asks you to start logging. Meridian Dispatch opens with years of your travel already written, from the photographs you already took. Plan Forward your confirmations. The trip assembles itself into a day-by-day itenerary and reminds you what's left to book. Then discover what's worth seeing. Every suggestion comes with a verdict attached: why it earns the detour, how long it honestly takes, and the note that makes the visit incredible. GO Nothing to do. No tracking to remember or switch on, no evening spent captioning. Your photographs are the record, just take a bunch. The day after you come home, your plan has quietly become a travel journal. DISPATCHES / JOURNAL Your photographs become the journal. Every place named, every day written, laid out like a magazine rather than a camera roll. Your best frames lead, the near-duplicates never make it in, and no two pages fall the same way. Every word is yours to rewrite. Then take the trip away: a printed book, a short film cut from your own photographs, or a globe with gold arcs tracing where you've been, in the order you went. WHAT IT WILL NOT DO No followers, no feed, no profile. No badges, no streaks, no distance travelled. No star ratings, ever: a place is worth the detour or it is not, and that takes a sentence. Nothing to check in to and nobody to perform for. YOUR PHOTOS NEVER LEAVE YOUR PHONE Nothing is copied. Nothing is uploaded. Detection and ranking run on the device. Your journal syncs only between your own devices, through iCloud. FREE TO DOWNLOAD Sign in with Apple, grant photo access, and the archive starts building. Free covers the last five years and one trip in planning. Membership opens every trip you have ever taken, and as many plans as you like. Privacy Policy: https://meridiandispatch.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://meridiandispatch.com/terms

Screenshots

WayNote4 screens
Meridian Dispatch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: WayNote at 3 against Meridian Dispatch's 1. WayNote also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. WayNote sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per year and Meridian Dispatch sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WayNote ships an update fortnightly, Meridian Dispatch every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on September 21, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
WayNote versus Meridian Dispatch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWayNoteMeridian Dispatch
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—7 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB103 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperGiacomo BeiAlice Capital LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

WayNote

Subscriptions1
  • Waynote Premium$3.991 Year
1 purchases

Meridian Dispatch

Subscriptions1
  • Meridian Dispatch Member$19.991 Year

Questions

Is WayNote free?
WayNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Meridian Dispatch free?
Meridian Dispatch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do WayNote or Meridian Dispatch have ads?
Neither WayNote nor Meridian Dispatch shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WayNote or Meridian Dispatch?
WayNote ships an update fortnightly, and Meridian Dispatch every 3 weeks. Most recently, WayNote was updated on September 21, 2026 and Meridian Dispatch on September 21, 2026.

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