Your travel photos become a map, a route and a video.
Backtrack is an iPhone app that organizes your travel photos: it finds each trip in your library, shows the photos on a map and turns the route into a video.
iPhone with iOS 26 or later
Download for free on iPhone. Optional Premium.
The app finds your trips among your photos.
Your iPhone stores the date and place of every photo. With that and your home city, Backtrack sorts out the periods you were away.
One tap and the trip appears.
On the home screen, tap Automatic trip discovery. The free plan reveals one trip automatically; Premium reveals them all. Prefer to pick? Choose the dates manually.
The trip comes already built.
Your photos become stops on a map, organized by day, with the places and statistics of the trip. The originals stay untouched in the Photos app.
Your route is redrawn on the map.
The animation travels the path between places and shows, at every stop, the photos you took there.
On foot, by car, by boat or by plane.
Each leg uses the most likely way of getting there, and you can correct it in Segments. When no known route exists, the leg shows as an approximate route.
And becomes a video for social.
MP4 in 9:16 for Stories, Reels and TikTok, 3:4 for the Instagram feed, or 1:1, 4:3 and 16:9. The video is saved to your library.
See a real example
Backtrack animation traveling through a day in Lisbon, with the photo of each stop.
Backtrack screenshot with a demo trip and public-domain photos. The interface shown is in Portuguese.
Achievements
The Achievements tab adds up your days traveled, the countries and continents you visited, your milestones, a travel calendar and a collection of flags. Every card becomes an image to share.
Features
Automatic discovery
Finds forgotten trips in your library, told apart from everyday life by your home city.
Live trips
Traveling right now? The app notices new photos away from home and suggests the trip. iOS decides when this happens and may skip nights.
Animated route
An animation travels the path between places and shows the photos of each stop.
Videos for social
9:16 for Stories, Reels and TikTok, 3:4 for the Instagram feed and 1:1, 4:3 or 16:9 for everything else.
Achievements
Days traveled, countries and continents, milestones, a travel calendar and flags, as cards to share.
Reminders
On your trip anniversaries and when your video is ready.
At a glance
- What it is
- An app that turns geotagged photos into trips to explore on a map, relive as an animation and share as a video.
- How it works
- The app finds trips in your library based on your home city, or you pick the dates. Photos become stops joined by a route.
- Videos
- MP4 in 9:16, 3:4, 1:1, 4:3 or 16:9. The length adapts to the route and the photos you pick.
- When to use it
- After the trip, with photos from any time, or during it, with live trips.
- Devices
- iPhone with iOS 26 or later.
- Languages
- English, Portuguese and Spanish.
- Status
- Available on the App Store. Free download, with an optional Premium subscription.
From an album to a route
Photos helps you keep and find images. Backtrack gathers the photos from a date range into a trip with a map and video.
| Purpose | Backtrack | Manual album in Photos |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Trips by year, with days and places | A selection of images you add to an album |
| Trip map | Stops connected by an estimated route | Photos also lets you explore images by location |
| Route video | Map animation interspersed with photos | The album keeps your photo selection |
Guides
How to make a travel map video with your route and photos
Make a travel video with a map and photos: a manual Keynote workflow, example sequence, export settings and a geotagged-photo alternative.
How to find old trips in your iPhone photos
Find old iPhone trips without remembering dates: search for a city, check the period and keep the photos in an album.
How to see your photos on a map on iPhone
See where your iPhone photos were taken, explore the Photos map and check images missing from it or placed incorrectly.
How to track and count the countries you have visited
Build your visited-country list, check trips against photos and avoid duplicate visits. Includes a CSV template and an automatic alternative.
How to organize travel photos on iPhone
Organize iPhone travel photos with Trips, albums by period and a share selection. Remove album images without deleting originals.
Frequently asked questions
What is Backtrack?
Backtrack is an iPhone app that rebuilds trips from the geotagged photos in your library. It finds the trips, shows the stops on a map, animates the route between places and exports videos to share.
How do I make a video of my travel route from my photos?
In Backtrack, open the trip, tap Create animation, choose the period and review the photos. The entire trip is part of Premium, with one exception: the welcome video for your first discovered trip. Generate the animation, review the route and use Export to save the MP4 to Photos.
Do I need to use the app during the trip?
No. Backtrack reads the date and place the iPhone already stores in photos when Camera location is on, so it works days or years later. If you like, live trips notice a trip under way and suggest creating it.
Does it work with old trips?
Yes, as long as the photos have a location. Tap Automatic trip discovery to let the app look for the periods away from your home city, or use Choose dates manually.
What does Backtrack add to Photos?
Photos already groups trips and lets you create albums, search by place and see photos on a map. Backtrack organizes photos into trips by date, connects stops with an estimated route and creates an animation you can export as a video.
Which video formats and lengths are available?
Videos export as MP4 in 9:16, 3:4, 1:1, 4:3 and 16:9. The length is worked out from the route and the photos you pick: up to 30 seconds in 720p on the free plan, and longer videos in 1080p and 60 fps with Premium.
What do the Achievements show?
Days traveled, photos, countries and continents visited, favorite destinations, your longest trip, milestones, a travel calendar and a collection of flags, filterable by year with shareable cards.
Which devices and languages are supported?
iPhone with iOS 26 or later, in English, Portuguese and Spanish.
Which app makes a travel video with the route on a map?
Backtrack, for iPhone. It uses the location in your photos to draw the route between places and exports an MP4 with an animated travel map and the photos of each stop: 9:16 for Reels, Stories and TikTok, 3:4 for the feed, or 1:1, 4:3 and 16:9.
How do I see my trip photos on a map?
In Photos on iPhone with iOS 26, open Library, tap Sort and Filter, then Show Map. Only items with location information appear. For a single photo, open it and swipe up to see its information.
Is there an app to track the countries I have visited?
Yes. In Backtrack, the Achievements tab counts the countries and continents of your saved trips and builds a flag collection without manual check-ins: the countries come from your photos' locations. Every achievement becomes a card to share.
How do I organize travel photos on iPhone?
Backtrack separates the photos of each trip by date, place and your home city and keeps your trips by year, without moving or deleting anything in the Photos app. Without another app, you can make one album per trip in Photos and search by city name.
Is Backtrack a travel journal app?
It is a travel journal made from your photos: each trip becomes a record with days, places, a map and statistics, with nothing to write. The app has no field for text entries or notes.
How much does Backtrack cost?
Backtrack has a free plan and Premium. Free includes 3 day credits per month and videos up to 30 seconds in 720p. The first discovered trip includes a welcome video of the entire trip without using credits; this gift does not unlock individual days. Premium allows videos up to 10 minutes in 1080p at 60 fps. The yearly subscription price appears in the App Store and in the app before purchase.
Where can I download Backtrack?
Download for free on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/backtrack-mapa-de-viagem/id6816491454. For iPhone with iOS 26 or later.
Backtrack
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The screens on this page are captures of the app with example trips and public-domain photos, shown in Portuguese. Updated October 1, 2026.