Polarsteps CEO and co-founder, Koen Droste: "Since we launched Polarsteps four years ago, we’ve seen that telling travel stories calls for a unique approach. A trip is so much more than just travel photos: from tracking your route to your photos and stories to your travel stats - like the number of countries you’ve visited and how warm it was the day you took that hike. It’s amazing that travelers share this desire for travel storytelling, as we can see by the fast growth this year. Over 2 million people worldwide are using our app and this year alone over a million trips have already been tracked with Polarsteps.”

About the new video feature, Droste says, “With video, we provide travelers with a completely new experience. Our expectations are high since this is the most requested feature of the year. We’ve gone the extra mile to share this feature with our travelers before the end of the year and are curious to see what adventures they will share with video. Whether it’s a spectacular bungee jump, a peek in the underwater world, an epic fail on your skis or that first-time grasshopper eating experience.” Travelers can add videos from 3 to 60 seconds each. With the built-in video trimmer, users can easily edit their videos in the app.

Besides tracking and remembering trips, it’s Polarsteps’ ambition to reinvent the experience around travel planning in 2020. Recently, Polarsteps took its first step by launching the Itinerary Planner. A tool that helps travelers plan when and how many days they will visit each destination of their trip. Moreover, friends and family can now share in the joy of anticipation of an upcoming trip. Droste, “This is our first step towards our ambition to make travel planning so easy and inspiring, that it’s almost as exciting as the trip itself. Next year, we’ll continue expanding this tool with new features. This is how Polarsteps is becoming the place to be for planning, tracking and remembering all of your trips.” 

Video feature in action on road trip from Amsterdam to Athens in the Polarsteps Jeep

Polarsteps co-founder Niek Bokkers drove the Polarsteps Jeep from Amsterdam to Athens and recorded his adventures along the way. Relive his road trip on Polarsteps.