Most trips end the same way: 600 photos on four phones, a group chat that goes quiet, and a vague plan to "make an album." A month later nobody remembers which day the waterfall was.
Wanderply ends a trip differently. The plan already knows where you went each day, so all it needs from you is photos and a few honest sentences. From those it writes the trip up as a story: a short family travel blog, in your own "we" voice, with your pictures where they belong.
1. Tap End trip
On the trip page, tap End trip. Three things happen:
- The trip moves to Past trips on your dashboard.
- The offline maps saved for it are cleared from your phone, so they don't take up space.
- Everyone on the trip is asked how it really went.
Got home and want to undo it? Not finished after all at the bottom of the story page moves it back to your upcoming trips.
2. Say how it really went
After you end the trip, the story page shows How did it really go? Everyone on the trip gets about 30 minutes to add notes: the good and the bad.
The bad is the useful part. "Day 4 hotel was $300 and very basic." "Two hours of traffic outside American Fork." "The taco truck by the trailhead was the best meal of the trip." Notes like these make the story sound like you, not like a brochure.
Each person taps I'm done adding notes, or Skip — nothing to add. The story is written as soon as everyone is done, or when the half hour runs out, whichever comes first. If you're in a hurry, the owner can tap Write the story now.
3. Add your photos
Under Photos, add pictures from this phone or pick them from Google Photos. Don't sort them first: select whole days at a time. Wanderply:
- keeps the best few photos from each day of the trip,
- leaves out blurry shots and near-duplicates,
- places each one on the day it was taken, using the photo's date and location.
If you hand-pick only a few, they all go in. Photos you attached to stops during the trip are used too.
4. Read your story
About a minute later, the story appears: a cover photo, a title, a short intro, then a chapter for each day with your photos between the paragraphs. It reads like something a family member wrote, because the facts come from your plan and the voice comes from your notes.
At the end there's a Next time list: what you'd do differently, drawn from your notes. Wanderply remembers it. The next time you plan a trip, those lessons shape the hotels and food it suggests.
Remembered more after it was written? Add the photos or notes and tap Rewrite with the latest notes & photos.
5. Share it
Under Share this story, tap Create a share link and copy it into the family chat. Anyone with the link can read the story and see its photos on their phone, with no app and no account.
What stays private:
- Your journal notes. The story is written from them, but the notes themselves never show on the shared page.
- Your email addresses. The byline uses first names only.
- Search engines. The shared page asks search engines not to list it, so only people with the link find it.
Stop sharing turns the link off for good. If you share again, you get a brand-new link and the old one stays dead.
Want people to read it inside Wanderply instead? Invite them to the trip from the Share button and they'll see the story with everything else.
New here? Start with how to create a trip. The story at the end is the part people remember.
