TL;DR — I built Logiday, a free, private, open-source travel journal for iOS and the web. You log a moment in about 20 seconds, and years later you can still find it.
The Problem
Every trip follows the same pattern: while it’s happening, you’re sure you’ll remember everything. The café with the ridiculous view, the street stall you swore you’d return to, how much that boat trip actually cost. A year later, it’s all one blurry slideshow.
I tried the usual fixes. Notes apps turn into unstructured dumps you never open again. Photo libraries tell you where you were but not what it cost or whether it was worth it. Full-blown travel blogs demand an evening of writing after a day of walking — which is exactly when you won’t do it.
What I wanted was much smaller: a structured log of trip outcomes. What did we do, what did we eat, what did we spend, what would we do again?
Logiday
So I built it. Logiday is a travel journal and holiday tracker built around one constraint: logging a moment must take about 20 seconds. If it takes longer, you’ll stop doing it by day three of the trip.
The flow is deliberately boring:
- Start a holiday — name, destination, dates. Everything else is optional.
- Log moments as they happen — pick a type, write a title, optionally add a note, an amount, a photo, or a location. Save.
- Review what you lived — a day-grouped timeline, a map of everywhere you went, a spend breakdown, and starred highlights.
There are seven entry types — meals, places, activities, spending, photos, notes, and ratings — each with its own fields, so the app can surface the right data later: a food diary of every trip, an expense tracker in any currency with daily averages and budget pace, a 1–5 rating log so you remember which hotel was actually worth it.
Offline First, Because Travel Is Offline
The moments worth keeping tend to happen where the signal is worst — a plane, a mountain hut, a basement wine bar. Logiday saves every entry to your device first and syncs automatically when you’re back online. No spinner, no lost note.
Private by Design
This one matters to me. A travel journal is personal data — where you were, when, with whom, what you spent. So:
- No ads, no trackers, and nothing you log is sold or analyzed.
- No account required to start. Sign in with email, Google, or Apple only when you want sync.
- Export your data any time.
- The whole thing is free and open source.
You can also share a trip as a read-only link — useful for couples and groups logging the same holiday — without giving anyone an account or an app install.
Where to Get It
Logiday is available as an iOS app on the App Store and as a web app you can use directly or install as a PWA. There’s a public roadmap if you’re curious what’s coming next.
If you try it on your next trip, I’d genuinely love to hear what worked and what didn’t — reach out on X or by email.