FARSTEPSA travel tracker should do one thing brilliantly: remember your journey without you working for it. In 2026 the category has three serious approaches — and one big blind spot almost all of them share.
Polarsteps — the beautiful default
Good: gorgeous automatic route tracking, 20M+ users, lovely printed travel books. It made the category.
Where it hurts (from thousands of public reviews): "mystery flights" you can't edit or delete, days that vanish after a crash, sharing locked behind Plus, no PDF export of your own data, and nothing at all about the legal side of travel — visas, day limits, tax residency.
Spreadsheets + Google Maps Timeline — the DIY stack
Good: free, fully yours.
Where it hurts: Timeline is being killed device-by-device, exports are messy, and the spreadsheet only works if you're the kind of person who updates spreadsheets on a beach. You become the app.
Visa-day counter apps — the single-purpose tools
Good: the Schengen math is genuinely done for you.
Where it hurts: you have to type every entry and exit by hand — which means the ledger is only as good as your memory. And they do nothing for the memory side: no map, no story, no film.
Farsteps — the whole trip, in one place
We built Farsteps because we believe these are one problem, not three: the route you track automatically is the ledger that keeps you legal is the story worth reliving.
- Track: your route draws itself — editable, correctable, never a mystery flight you can't fix.
- Stay legal: Schengen 90/180 and 183-day tax counting run automatically from the same route. You get warned before a limit, not fined after.
- Share free: a beautiful public page of any trip — no paywall on your own memories.
- Relive: one-tap recap films and linen-bound travel books.
Honest caveat: we're the newcomer. Polarsteps has a decade of polish and a huge community. If you just want pretty tracking and nothing else, it's a fine choice. If your travel life also has visa windows, split costs and a tax adviser asking for a day count — that's the life Farsteps was built for.