Pond Hopping: Travel Journal

Pond Hopping is a travel journal app for people who want the trip written down without sitting down to write it. Made on a real gap year: 34 flights · 49 days · 6 countries. “We built Pond Hopping for our own gap year: 34 flights, 49 days. Now it’s yours.” — David, founder You travel. You take photos, forward a booking, catch a flight. We read what you already made and turn it into days, places and a story you can read back years from now. FROM YOUR PHOTOS TO A TRIP • Add photos from a trip and we lay out the days. Dates become days, places become a route, in the order they happened. • One photo will do to start. Add the rest whenever you like and we put each one on the right day. • Forward a booking confirmation to your own address and we file the flight, the stay and the times on the right day. • No forms and no tagging at the end of a long day. EACH DAY, WRITTEN • We write each day from what you did: where you went, what you photographed, how far you walked. • It reads as an account of the day, not a list of data, and it is labeled as written by us. • Change any of it, add your own words, or keep a private note only you can read. • When we are not sure what happened, we ask rather than guess. YOUR FLIGHTS, LIVE • From check-in: gate, terminal, aircraft type and registration, and the times as the airline changes them. • One notification when the gate moves, the aircraft changes or the flight is delayed, not a stream of them. • A departures-board card for every flight, with the aircraft's tail. • Every flight you have flown on one globe, with the distance, the airlines and the aircraft counted. THE TRIP, FLOWN BACK • Watch the whole trip as a short film: the camera follows the duck from stop to stop over satellite maps, with each day's photos and lines along the way. • A map for each day, lit for the hour it happened. • A globe of everywhere you have been, filling in as you go. WITH THE PEOPLE YOU TRAVEL WITH • Share a trip with the people who were on it. They add their photos to the same days. • One trip for everyone, not four camera rolls. • Set who plans with you, who adds photos and who just reads. • Follow other Pond Hoppers and see who is away now. BEFORE YOU GO • Plan a trip in a chat, or paste a booking, and we put the trip in order. • We count the nights and tell you which ones have nowhere to sleep. • Weather for the days ahead, and when to leave for the airport. WHO SEES WHAT • You decide who sees each trip: the people on it, the followers you accept, anyone with a link, or only you. • Photos you take out of a trip stay out of what others see. • Delete your account and everything in it from inside the app. WHO WE MADE THIS FOR • People who travel often and lose the detail: the restaurant, which day the train was, what that building was called. • People who mean to keep a travel diary and never do, because the writing is the part that does not happen. • People with a long flying history who want it counted and drawn. • Couples, friends and families who want one record of a trip. WHY A TRAVEL JOURNAL APP THAT STARTS FROM YOUR PHOTOS Most travel diaries ask you to write every evening. That lasts about two days. We start from what you were making anyway, the photos, the boarding pass, the confirmation email, so the record is there whether or not you felt like writing that night. Open Pond Hopping five years from now and find the trip, the day and the photo, with a line that reminds you why it mattered.