Comparison

Driftlog vs たびあと

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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Track the countries you've visited automatically: from the photos already on your iPhone, then in the background from today. No account, no ads, no subscription. Driftlog fills in your travel map by itself, from countries down to states and cities. 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 and in its own encrypted backup, which you can switch off in Settings. There is no account, and your trips are never sent to us. No ads, no tracking. The only thing the app sends us is anonymous usage counts, such as how often the purchase screen opens, and you can turn that off in the app's settings. 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. Nothing else about your trips leaves your phone. 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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たびあと

Features
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あの旅、どこに行ったか思い出せますか。 たびあとは、撮影場所の情報がついたiPhoneの写真から、旅のアルバムと地図を自動で作るアプリです。 日付も場所も、打ち込むものはありません。 写真を撮っていれば、旅はもう記録されています。 ■ 開くと、旅が並んでいる いちばん最近の旅が、表紙のように大きく出ます。 「3年前の今日」「去年の今頃」の旅が、ふと顔を出す日もあります。 開くたびに、忘れていた旅と再会します。 ■ 旅が、勝手にアルバムになる 泊まりの旅行も、日帰りのおでかけも、写真からまとまります。 いい写真が表紙になり、場面ごとに写真が並びます。 タイトルや表紙は、あとから自分で決められます。 立ち寄った場所の名前も、写真から拾います。 ■ 一日の動きを、たどる 撮った順に、立ち寄った場所ごとに写真が並びます。 朝はここ、昼はあそこ。あの日の流れが見えてきます。 場所に名前を付けて、自分の言葉で残せます。 ■ 行った県が、塗られていく 写真を撮った県に色がつきます。 47のうち、いまいくつか。次はどこへ行こうか。 海外の写真は国ごとに、世界地図にも残ります。 ■ 写真がなくても、残せる 写真が残っていない昔の旅は、県を選んで記録できます。 写真へのアクセスを許可する前でも、地図は作れます。 ■ 一年を、ふりかえる その年の旅を、一枚にまとめます。 旅の回数、日数、動いた距離。初めて行った県。いちばん遠くまで行った旅。 年ごとの軌跡を地図に重ねて、画像にして残せます。 ■ 帰ってきたら、お知らせ 旅から戻ると「新しい旅が見つかりました」と届きます。 表紙とタイトルを決めるところから、その旅の記録がはじまります。 ■ ホーム画面にも 制覇マップや思い出の一枚を、ウィジェットで置いておけます。 □ こんな方に ・旅行の写真を撮るけれど、見返すことがない ・記録アプリは、続いたためしがない ・行った都道府県を、いつか全部塗りたい ・年末に「今年どこ行ったっけ」となる できるだけ、何もさせないように作りました。 記録するアプリではなく、記録されていたことに気づくアプリです。 ■ 写真は、どこにも送りません 写真の解析と旅の整理は、iPhoneの中で行います。 地図と地名の表示には、撮影場所の情報を使ってAppleのサービスを利用します。 自動で地図や旅を作るには、写真へのアクセスと、写真に残った撮影場所の情報が必要です。 アプリの改善のために、どの画面まで進んだかを匿名で記録します。設定でオフにできます。

Screenshots

Driftlog4 screens
たびあと4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: たびあと at none against Driftlog's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Driftlog sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. たびあと asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Driftlog ships an update every 4 days, たびあと every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Driftlog versus たびあと: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDriftlogたびあと
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews77.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAkira TakashimaTakaharu Hagiwara

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Driftlog

One-time1
  • Driftlog Premium$6.99
None

たびあと

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Driftlog free?
Driftlog is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is たびあと free?
たびあと is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Driftlog or たびあと have ads?
Neither Driftlog nor たびあと shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Driftlog or たびあと?
Driftlog ships an update every 4 days, and たびあと every 3 days. Most recently, Driftlog was updated on November 10, 2026 and たびあと on October 31, 2026.

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