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Your travel journal. Your travel companion.

Your trip. Your memories. Even offline.

Record where you stay and what you experience. Collect places you still want to discover. And keep maps, country info and your documents with you on the road, even without a signal.

Your trip stays on your device, not on someone else's servers. Nobody analyses it, and it doesn't train any AI. If you like, MyBuktu backs it up automatically to your own cloud. Where your data lives

In developmentFor iOS and Android
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Southern Norway
by Sabine · On the road · Day 7
Live journal
1,120 km · 5 entries
Stay · Fri 19/06 Bergen Pitch by the harbour. Rain, fish soup.
Moment · Sat 20/06 Hardangerfjord Ferry across the fjord, sun at last.
Moment · Mon 22/06 Haukelifjell Snow in June, 8 °C at the pass.
Stay · Tue 23/06 Hovden Birch forest right by the lake.
Moment · Thu 25/06 Kristiansand Ferry to Hirtshals early tomorrow.

This is how family and friends see a shared trip, in the browser and without the app. Expenses, receipts and live location never appear here.

Features

What MyBuktu can do.

Pick a feature and see an example. “Back to overview” brings you back here.

Capture on the road

Help on the road

After the trip

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Shared and private

Share what others may see. Keep what's yours.

For every stay and moment you can add text, photos and voice recordings, each shared or private. Your followers only see what's shared. What's private stays with you.

  • Shared: what family and friends should read, see and hear
  • Private: pitch number, access code, notes that only matter to you
  • Chosen individually for each text, photo and recording
Stay · Tue 23/06Hovden, lakeside pitch
Shared · your followers see this

Birch forest right by the lake. A fire on the shore in the evening, the first warm night since Bergen.

0:42
Private · only for you

Take pitch 14, not 12 (road). Toilet code 4711. Bread rolls only from 8 am.

0:18

Followers only see the top part, in the browser or in the app.

Stops detected automatically

You drive. MyBuktu remembers where you've been.

From your location history and photos, MyBuktu suggests matching stays and moments. Nothing goes into your trip without you.

  • Stays from longer stops in the evening
  • Moments from several photos at the same spot
  • Short stops stay in the background until you look at them
Southern Norway · Wed 24/063 suggestionsTo review
Stay · 19:40 to 08:15ByglandsfjordFrom location history · 12 h 35 min
KeepIgnore
Moment · 13:10Setesdal, viewpointFrom 4 photos at the same spot
KeepIgnore
Fuel stop Evje · 14 minView

Suggestions only appear in the timeline once you keep them.

Talk instead of typing

Talking is faster than typing.

Typing on a small phone screen is tedious. Just say what happened, in two ways:

  • Record a voice noteThe icon on the far left. The recording stays in the entry, to listen to and share.
  • DictateThe icon on the far right. What you say appears straight away as text in the entry. Faster and easier than typing.
Moment · Sat 20/06Hardangerfjord
🔗 Shared
1Voice note2Dictate
2Inserted as text
Ferry across the fjord, sunshine at last. The kids counted seagulls the whole crossing, apparently 214 in the end.
1Voice note, to listen to and share
0:23
Rate

What was good? The stars remember.

Give every stay and moment up to five stars. The rating colours the dot on the map, so you spot the best places at a glance.

Southern Norway · Timeline5 entries
BergenStay · Fri 19/06
HardangerfjordMoment · Sat 20/06
HaukelifjellMoment · Mon 22/06
HovdenStay · Tue 23/06
KristiansandMoment · Thu 25/06Rate
Places

A good tip deserves a place.

A campsite from a travel blog, a restaurant from friends, a viewpoint from a podcast: collect your places with photos, notes, source and link, independent of any trip. If you like, MyBuktu reminds you when you're nearby.

  • On the map or as a list, grouped by country or source, sorted by distance
  • Nearby alert with your own radius, if location and notifications are allowed
  • Navigate there with one tap or turn it into a stay
  • Your wish list stays private and is never shared

Discovered today. Saved for later. Found again on your trip.

Nearby: PreikestolenYou're near Preikestolen. now
Norway · 3Distance
PreikestolenPodcast · 4.2 km away
Lakeside pitch, HovdenTCS camping guide · 118 km
Haukeli FjellstueRecommended by Sabine · 164 km
Sweden · 1
StorforsenNewspaper article · 1,240 km
Navigation to every entry

Back to the pitch? One tap.

Start the route to any place, moment or stay in Google Maps, Apple Maps or Waze. MyBuktu remembers your choice.

Stay · Tue 23/06Hovden, lakeside pitch
Navigate with
Google MapsRoute from your location
Apple MapsRoute from your location
WazeRoute from your location
59.0563° N, 7.3740° E · 118 km away

Navigation is handled by the maps app you chose.

Country info

New country, everything important at hand.

Emergency numbers, breakdown service, speed limits, alcohol limit, dialling code and currency, plus your own country notes. Even without signal.

NorwayAvailable offline
112Police
113Ambulance
110Fire brigade
Speed in town / outside town50 / 80 km/h
Motorway110 km/h
Alcohol limit0,2 ‰
Dialling code · Currency+47 · NOK
My country noteTolls via the AutoPASS box, ferries by number plate.

Example values for Norway.

Information about your places

Know more about the places on your trip.

On request, MyBuktu looks up information about your stays and moments, via Wikipedia with no setup. For more places you can connect Groq, an AI service that uses your own account and names its sources. You read the suggestion and decide whether it goes into your trip.

  • Only the place name, rounded location and language are sent, never photos or your trip texts
  • Switched on per trip, Wi-Fi only if you prefer
  • What you accept appears in the entry and later in the photo book
Moment · Mon 22/06 Haukelifjell
Good to know To review

Haukelifjell is a high plateau between Telemark and the west coast. The E134 crosses it and is one of Norway's main east–west routes. In winter storms, cars often drive only in convoy.

Source: Wikipedia
Accept Discard

The text only appears in your entry once you accept it.

Document vault

Lost your passport? The copy is with you.

Copies of passport, ID, credit cards and insurance sit behind your device lock. MyBuktu reminds you before anything expires.

  • Opens only with Face ID, Touch ID or passcode
  • Optionally in your cloud backup
  • Emergency copy readable in your cloud storage, e.g. iCloud, Google Drive or OneDrive
DocumentsUnlocked with your device lock
PassportValid until 03/2027Expires soon
ID cardValid until 08/2031
Credit cardFront and back
Travel insurancePolicy and emergency number
Emergency copy readable in your cloud storage, e.g. iCloud, Google Drive or OneDrive

Documents are never shared.

Offline maps

No signal in the fjord? The map stays.

Load map regions in advance, on Wi-Fi at home. After that, map and recording work without internet.

No signal · Map and recording keep working
Map regions
Southern Norway412 MBDownloaded
Western Norway286 MBDownloaded
Denmark198 MB · 63 % downloaded
Central Sweden530 MBDownload
Expenses

Kroner, euros, francs. One total.

Record every expense in the currency you pay in. You see the total in your home currency, with a receipt if you like.

Southern Norway · TotalCHF 1 284.60in your home currency · 23 expenses
Ferry Hirtshals–KristiansandTransport · Thu 25/06DKK 2 150.00CHF 268.75
Pitch HovdenStay · Tue 23/06NOK 300.00CHF 24.00
Fish soup, BergenFood · Fri 19/06NOK 420.00CHF 33.60
DieselVehicle · Wed 24/06NOK 1 080.00CHF 86.40

Expenses and receipts are never visible to others.

For motorhomes and campers

The good pitch, found again next time.

Note what a pitch offers and what it costs. Later you'll know where you want to go back to.

Stay · Tue 23/06Hovden, lakeside pitchNOK 300per night
WateryesPoweryesWaste disposalnoShoweryesWi-Fiunknown
Saved as a place · find it again next time
My World

All your trips on one map.

Every trip with its route, together on one map. Plus country statistics: days, kilometres and expenses per country, for all years or single ones.

Map with seven trip routes across Europe, from Rome to Bergen
35 stays17 moments
Country statisticsAll years · 2019 to 2026
Countries9
Country days129
Kilometres15 850
Trips7
DaysKilometresExpenses
Countries
France46 days
4 920 km
Italy31 days
3 140 km
Norway19 days
2 260 km
Sweden12 days
1 690 km

Example: 7 trips from Zurich, 2019 to 2026.

↑ Back to overviewNext: Take your data with you ↓Example 14 of 15
After the trip

Your trip becomes a photo book.

MyBuktu knows your route, stays, moments and photos. From them it builds a first draft, page by page. You just refine it.

01Choose a trip. Ongoing, past or imported from Polarsteps.
02Pick the content. Shared content is preselected; private content only goes in if you select it.
03Create the draft. Cover, maps, days and “Good to know” are laid out automatically.
04Refine on a big screen. Open the book file from the app in your browser, swap photos, trim texts, check as PDF.
No expenses or receipts The book doesn't change your trip Original photos in full resolution

Available as a PDF for review today. Ordering prints comes later.

France Paris · Seine Paris, France

Three nights in Paris. Strolling through town in the morning, coffee by the Seine, the Latin Quarter at night.

Paris lies on the Seine and is the capital of France.

1–4 Oct 202617 °C sunny Day 1
Pages from a demo trip
↑ Back to overviewExample 15 of 15
Take your data with you

Your trips belong to you. Even when you switch.

Bring your trips over from Polarsteps, export routes as GPX and back up everything in one file you can restore on any device.

Import and export
Polarsteps import3 trips found, 1 already importedPrivate
GPX exportSouthern-Norway.gpx · 1 120 kmShare
Full backupmybuktu-2026-10-31.zip · 2.4 GBBack up
Restorable on any device
Why MyBuktu?

Because a trip is more than its journal.

Capturing memories is part of travelling. Finding that tip for the next outing, heading to a campsite or opening a booking confirmation is just as much a part of it. MyBuktu brings travel journal and practical companion together, with your data under your control.

Already travelling with Polarsteps? A guide walks you through the export. The import brings over route, texts and photos, recognises trips you already have and keeps everything private at first.

The travel journal
  • Route on the map
  • Photos and texts for every stop
  • Share the trip with others
  • Photo book after the trip
Plus the travel companion
  • Stays and moments kept separate
  • Stops are detected automatically
  • Collect places, get reminded nearby
  • Navigation to every entry
  • Country info with emergency numbers
  • Document copies in a protected vault
  • Offline maps, no signal needed
  • Backed up automatically to your own cloud
Your data

Where your trip lives and who sees it.

On your device

The whole trip with all photos, texts, expenses and receipts. Deleted items stay in the trash for 30 days. No account needed.

Always

In your cloud

Automatic backup to your iCloud Drive, Google Drive or OneDrive if you want it, with optional extra encryption. On a new phone you get everything back. MyBuktu stores nothing itself.

Optional

With others

Only what you share. A link shows shared content only. Private memories are seen only by people you choose.

Never: expenses, receipts, documents, live location

You only need internet for downloads, cloud backup, sharing and online research. Navigation is handled by your chosen maps app.

Get involved

What's missing? Tell us.

MyBuktu is being built right now. Every message is read and handled privately.

Give feedback

Report a bug, suggest an idea or just write. No account; an email address is optional.

BugIdeaGeneral
Open the form

View ideas and vote

See what others have suggested and vote for what would help you most on the road.

Open ideas

Only what you write is sent. Never trip content, photos or location. Feedback service privacy

In the app under More → Feedback. Without a signal your message is kept as a draft; the app version is only included if you tick it.

Try it now, before launch.

MyBuktu is in development for iOS and Android. Tell us which device you use. We'll get back to you personally with the next steps.

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