Your journey deserves more than a camera roll
Remember every place, every moment, effortlessly.
Retrace turns your photos into a living travel diary — GPS-tagged, AI-organized, and beautiful enough to print.
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Positano, Amalfi Coast
40.6281° N, 14.4848° E
Sound familiar?
You took 5,000 photos.
You remember maybe 50.
That restaurant in Lisbon with the incredible octopus? Gone. The street art in Bangkok you swore you would find again? Buried in a camera roll you will never scroll through.
Travel memories fade faster than you think. And no amount of Google Photos albums or Instagram highlights can piece together what it actually felt like to be there.
Retrace fixes this. Not by asking you to journal every day, but by using the data your photos already have — GPS, timestamps, landmarks — to rebuild your story automatically.
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Alfama District, Lisbon
March 14 at 2:30 PM
Time Out Market
March 14 at 7:15 PM
Belem Tower
March 15 at 10:00 AM
See it in action
See Retrace in Action
Watch how Retrace turns a year of photos into a complete travel diary — organized, searchable, and ready to print.
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How it works
How Retrace Works
Your Trip Builds Itself
Import your photos and Retrace reads their GPS data and timestamps to reconstruct your entire journey — day by day, place by place. Even trips from years ago.
Trip Detective reconstructs trips from old photos automatically.
AI Knows That Castle’s Name
Point your camera at a landmark, and Retrace identifies it. Search "that blue church in Santorini" and actually find it. AI auto-tags every photo so nothing gets lost.
Powered by Claude — the most capable AI for understanding your travels.
More Than Photos
Museum tickets, restaurant cards, voice notes, journal entries. Everything about a place, in one place. Tag it, search it, relive it.
Memorabilia uploads, voice diary, and smart tags keep every detail.
And so much more
Everything a travel diary should be
GPS Auto-Tracking
Background tracking logs your route without draining battery. Every path you walk becomes part of your story.
Collaborative Trips
Travel with a partner? Both of your photos merge into one shared timeline, synced in real-time.
Base Camp Mode
Staying in one city for a while? Base Camp organizes daily explorations from your home base.
Voice Diary
Record how it felt to be there. Voice notes are transcribed and searchable alongside your photos.
Smart Search
Search in natural language — "rooftop bar in Lisbon with sunset views" — and Retrace finds it.
Travel Stats
Countries visited, distance traveled, photos taken. Your year in numbers, beautifully visualized.
Turn your journey into a book
The best souvenir is not on a shelf. It is every place you have been, beautifully printed. Retrace auto-generates layouts from your trips — maps, photos, journal entries, and AI-written chapter intros.
Choose your format, customize the cover, and have it shipped anywhere in the world. Pro and Pro+ members save up to 25%.
Auto-generated from your trip data
Maps, photos, journal entries, and AI chapter intros
Softcover
$29.99Perfect for weekend getaways and short trips
Hardcover
$59.99Your journey, cover to cover. Durable and elegant.
Premium Layflat
$99.99+Coffee table worthy. Full-bleed pages that lay perfectly flat.
Pro and Pro+ members save up to 25%
Your Year in Travel
Spotify Wrapped, but for everywhere you've been. A beautiful, shareable recap of your year's adventures.
14
Countries
127
Places visited
5,247
Photos taken
203
Days on the road
Heatmaps, most-visited cities, longest trip, total distance, and more — all generated from your Retrace data.
Available to all Pro and Pro+ members
For every kind of traveler
Your journey, your way
Slow Travelers
You've been on the road for months. Retrace keeps every chapter organized — from that first hostel in Bangkok to the apartment in Lisbon you called home.
Vacation Travelers
Two weeks in Italy. 800 photos. Retrace remembers which trattoria was the one, which piazza had the gelato, and exactly where you parked.
Digital Nomads
Lisbon, Bali, Mexico City. Your heatmap tells the story your Instagram can't. Track every co-working cafe and rooftop sunset.
Couples
Travel together, remember together. The Duo plan links two accounts with shared trips, synced entries, and a combined travel diary.
Simple pricing, generous free tier
Start for free. Upgrade when your journey outgrows the basics.
Pro
Billed annually — save 33%
- Unlimited trips
- Unlimited photos
- 50GB storage
- World Map + heatmap
- AI auto-tagging
- PDF export
- Advanced search
- 15% off travel books
Lifetime Pass — $149.99 one-time
Pro+ features forever. For travelers who have committed to the lifestyle.
Frequently asked questions
Built by travelers, for travelers who actually want to remember.
I spent 14 months on the road and had 12,000 photos with no organization. Retrace rebuilt every trip automatically. The AI knew the name of a tiny church in Porto I had completely forgotten.
Sarah Chen
Digital Nomad, 14 months traveling
We did three weeks in Japan and took over 2,000 photos. Retrace knew which ramen shop was in Kyoto vs Osaka. We printed a hardcover book and it sits on our coffee table now.
Marco & Julia
Vacation Travelers, Duo Plan members
Living in Barcelona means every weekend is a new adventure. Base Camp mode keeps my daily explorations organized without creating a new trip each time. It just works.
David Okafor
Expat, 2 years in Barcelona
Brandon & Katana · Somewhere in Europe, 2025
Why we built Retrace
We left everything to see the world.
Then we started forgetting it.
On April 1st, 2025, we walked away from everything familiar. We said goodbye to our two kids in Colorado — our 19-year-old and our 23-year-old — hugged them harder than we probably should have, and boarded a one-way flight to Italy.
No return date. No permanent address. Just a plan to slow travel the world until we found the place — or places — where we wanted to spend the rest of our days.
We started in Puglia, the sun-drenched boot heel of southern Italy. A month in Nardò. A month in Lecce. We chased the coastline north to Matera — a city carved into cliffs that made us both go quiet the moment we saw it. Then Valencia. Edinburgh in the rain. A château vineyard outside Bordeaux where we woke up to fog rolling through the vines. Paris, twice, because once wasn’t enough. The medieval streets of Sarlat. Beynac perched above the Dordogne. Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, Milan. The Cotswolds. The mountains of Wales. High-speed trains between cities we couldn’t pronounce.
Six countries. Thousands of kilometers. Over 5,000 photos.
And somewhere around month four, we realized we couldn’t remember the name of that restaurant in Lecce. The one on the corner, with the incredible burrata. We scrolled through hundreds of photos trying to find it. We couldn’t.
That’s when Retrace started — not as a business idea, but as a problem we needed to solve for ourselves. A way to hold onto the places that mattered before they blurred into the next thousand photos.
Our kids are still in Colorado, finishing college and building their own lives. The distance is hard. But they wanted this for us — and honestly, we think they want it for themselves someday too. When they’re ready, we’ll help bring them along. Until then, we’re building something that makes sure no one forgets the journey they’re on.
That’s Retrace. Born on the road. Built from experience. Made for travelers who actually want to remember.
Brandon & Katana · Founders, Vaulti LLC · Currently somewhere in Europe
Your photos already tell the story.
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