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Press Add trip at the top of the app. Pick where you set off from, add the places you went in the order you visited them, and give it a date. Add to my map saves it, and the map draws it straight away.

Under the date, switch from Exact dates to Month or Year. “Summer 2001” is a perfectly good memory.

Open the trip and look under Start and end. Tap the place to pick another. A trip can end back where it started, stay at its last stop (for a move abroad), or end somewhere else. Make default fills that place in for every new trip.

Yes, from Trips → Import: a Polarsteps export, a spreadsheet (there’s a CSV template), flights from Flighty, myFlightradar24 or OpenFlights, or trains from Träwelling. The file is read on your device. Only cities, dates and nights are saved, never GPS tracks, photos or journal text.

Find it on the Trips page and open it. Change what you need and save, or delete it at the bottom of the page.

A country turns green once one of your trips has a stop in it. The place a trip sets off from doesn’t count by itself.

Car, bus, train, bike and walking legs follow the roads, and boats follow real ferry lines. Flights are drawn as arcs. A brand-new route can show as an arc for a day before its road is filled in.

Yes, in the atlas’s filters. Choose a first and last year, or turn transport modes off. Play grows your map one year at a time.

Use Export on the atlas. It records a video of your travels, either the globe on its own or your whole life story, ready to post or send.

As a straight line from place to place, the same way for every trip. A road trip can come out a little shorter than the car’s odometer.

It comes from four things your trips show: whether you mostly go abroad or stay in the country, whether your trips last more or less than a week, whether you go alone or with company, and whether you tag them outdoors or city. Adding who came along and what you did sharpens it. See all sixteen types.

Your trips told as stories: every year, every decade and your whole life so far. You can watch them, post them as a video, or print every trip on one poster (PNG or PDF).

Countries you want to go to, with when, how much you want it, a budget and places to see. Once you’ve been to a country, it moves to Done by itself.

Yes: Plan a trip under a country. When you’ve made the trip, Make it a trip puts it on your map with its places already filled in.

Only you. Nothing is public unless you post an export yourself.

Both are on your Account page.

On your Account page, under Delete your account. Your trips, homes, photos and shared links go with it, for good.

Everyone trying Trafays shares the demo account, so it stays as it is. Make your own account to keep your trips to yourself.