Travel tracker comparison
Voyy vs Polarsteps — which travel tracker should you use?
Polarsteps follows your trip while it happens. Voyy keeps the whole map of where you have been — countries, cities, regions and flights.
Updated 2026-10-09
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Polarsteps is a free travel tracker and diary: it records your route on the road, turns steps into a journal, and prints Travel Books. Voyy is an iPhone travel log built around your lifetime map — countries, cities, 1,300+ regions in 44 countries, and a free flight log — with trips imported from your photo library and the flag calendar. Polarsteps is strongest while you are on the road; Voyy is strongest as a record of everywhere you have been, flights included.
Voyy vs Polarsteps — feature by feature
| Feature | Voyy | Polarsteps |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic location tracking during a trip | No | Yes (Wi-Fi and cell based on iOS) |
| Add past trips | Yes | Yes |
| Import past trips from your photo library | Free | Photos can be added to steps |
| Visited countries map and lifetime stats | Free | Free, countries can be added without a trip |
| City tracking | Free | Places on your trips |
| Flight log with airports, airlines and distance | Free | Flights saved to trips |
| Regions and provinces | 1,300+ in 44 countries (Premium) | US states |
| European groupings (Nordics, Balkans, Mediterranean…) | Premium | Not documented |
| Flag calendar export | Yearly and monthly | Not documented |
| Spotify song or playlist per trip | Yes | Not documented |
| Travel journal with photos, videos and stories | Photos and notes | Yes |
| Printed travel book | No | Yes |
| Followers and live trip sharing | No | Yes |
| Platforms | iPhone | iPhone, Android and web |
| Price (US) | Free · $19.99/yr · $59.99 lifetime | Free · Plus $9.99/mo or $34.99/yr |
What Polarsteps does well
Polarsteps is built for documenting a trip while you are on it. It records your route in the background (on iOS mostly from Wi-Fi and cell signals, so battery use stays low), lets friends and family follow along, and turns each stop into a step with photos, videos and a story. You can also add past trips and steps by hand, and add countries you visited before you joined to your lifetime Travel Statistics.
The core app is free, it runs on iPhone, Android and the web, and it keeps adding features: Trip Reels, trip planning, 3D maps with Plus, and printed Travel Books that turn a trip into a hardcover.
Where Voyy pulls ahead
Voyy is built around the full record: every country, city, region and flight, across all your trips. Your photo library fills it in — Voyy reads photo dates and locations and turns them into trips — so you do not have to rebuild years of travel one step at a time.
Flights are a first-class part of the log. Add a flight by number and Voyy fills in the route, then counts your airports, airlines, distance and airtime. With Premium, regional tracking covers 1,300+ regions and provinces in 44 countries, plus European groupings like the Nordics and the Balkans.
For sharing, the flag calendar turns your year into a grid of flags, and every trip can carry a Spotify song or playlist.
- Trips imported from your photo library
- Free flight log with flight-number lookup
- City tracking in the free tier
- Regions in 44 countries (Premium)
- European groupings: Nordics, Balkans, Mediterranean and more (Premium)
- Yearly and monthly flag calendar
- Spotify song or playlist on every trip
- 10 Home and Lock Screen widgets
Who Polarsteps is for
Polarsteps is for travelers who want their trip recorded automatically, followers back home, a rich journal of photos and stories, or a printed book at the end. It is also the pick on Android.
Who Voyy is for
Voyy is for iPhone travelers who want one map of everywhere they have been — countries, cities, regions and flights — filled in from their photos, without tracking running in the background.
Verdict
They solve different problems. Polarsteps documents the trip you are on. Voyy keeps the lifetime record: what you have visited, how you flew, and how your years of travel add up. Plenty of people could use both.
Frequently asked questions
Does Voyy track my location automatically?
No. Voyy does not run background tracking. You add trips yourself or import them from your photo library.
Can Polarsteps add past trips?
Yes. You can create a past trip and add steps with dates, places and photos by hand. Voyy can also build past trips from the photos already on your iPhone.
Is Voyy free?
Yes. The free version tracks countries and cities, logs flights, imports trips from your photo library, and includes trip pages, the current year's flag calendar and most widgets. Premium ($19.99/year or $59.99 lifetime in the US) adds regions and US states, detailed travel stats, the full day-by-day timeline, past calendar years, and unlimited places and photos.
Does Voyy have a social feed?
No. You share by exporting cards — the flag calendar, maps and trip postcards. If followers and live trip sharing matter to you, Polarsteps does that well.
Is Voyy on Android?
No. Voyy is iPhone-only. Polarsteps runs on iPhone, Android and the web.
Sources
Voyy is our app. Other apps' features and US prices were checked against their App Store listings and websites on 2026-10-09. Prices vary by country and can change.