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Tap where you’ve been.
Pick the cities and countries you remember. Exact dates can wait.
Turn your iPhone photos into a personal travel journal. Check trip candidates, add the places and moments you remember, and create a record worth keeping.
Free photo-based trip candidates cover the last 90 days. You can add older places from memory.
Real app · development build · fictional sample traveler
Start with one trip you remember. Use your photos as a starting point, then make the record yours.
Choose an eligible recent date range in the app. Manual entry is always another way in.
Photo dates and locations help identify trip candidates. Check each one before creating a trip.
Correct places and dates, save the trip, then open Edit to add an optional note in your own words.
Open the saved record again in your journal and atlas.
Preview an overview image and choose what to include before exporting.
The steps describe the app flow. The screen below shows fictional sample data; it is not a recording of a photo scan.
Read the photo-to-journal guideDates, places and the route, kept on one page. This is the app itself, filled with a sample trip.
Choose from 56 featured cities across 41 countries and territories to explore a sample of your travel atlas. No installation required. Your selection is a browser demo; it does not transfer into the iPhone app.
Create your sample atlas
Big trips and weekend getaways both count. Add your places in whichever way is easiest.
Pick the cities and countries you remember. Exact dates can wait.
Mapliva suggests trips from the dates and places in your recent photos. Check each one before saving. Photo files aren’t uploaded to do this.
Walk through a photo-to-trip example →
Every place you add lands on your map, from towns close to home to countries far away.
Real app screens · development build · sample data
Tap a country to see your days there, the cities you visited and your longest stay.
See whether you’re an Explorer, a Returner or Balanced, and why.
A weekend away.
A town you keep returning to.
A place that feels like you.
Your atlas starts here.
You don’t need a long list of countries to have a story worth keeping. Cities and towns you’ve visited in your own country belong on your map, too.
Choose cards from a trip, your atlas, a country, or your milestones. Share images or an animated card video under a minute, sized for a post or story. Select your photos and personal details, then preview the result before sharing.
Real app screens · development build · fictional sample traveler.
App screenshots show a fictional sample traveler. In-app maps © Mapbox © OpenStreetMap. · Website maps: Natural Earth. · City photo credits
Free beta · via TestFlight
TestFlight purchases use Apple’s sandbox and do not charge real money. These editions and US prices describe the planned commercial offer; access restrictions may vary during beta testing. Saved trips stay editable. Pricing summary.
Mapliva started in seat 1A of an SFO redeye in 2023, scrolling through five years of camera roll and realising that everywhere I had ever been was already in there — just buried, unsorted, slowly forgetting itself.
It's still a team of one. I write the code, design the stamps, answer the email, and ship the app when it's ready instead of when a roadmap says so. Travel deserves software that remembers the way you do: slowly, in fragments, with the smell of the place still in it.
No investors, no growth team, no dark patterns — just a long, quiet bet that good craft still finds its audience. If any of that resonates, I'd love to hear where you've been lately.
Mapliva is open for iPhone beta testers. Install it from TestFlight and tell us what you want your travel journal to remember.