Your round the world trip on one map
Make one journey for the whole trip and start a new chapter when you move on to a new country or a long sea crossing. Pebbls draws the route as you go and pins your photos where you took them. The people at home follow from one link.
Weeks without signal are fine
The route is saved on your phone first. With no signal it carries on recording and sends it all when you're back in range, so an ocean crossing or a week in the mountains still shows on the map. Set uploads to wait for wifi and they stay off your roaming data.
It sleeps when you stop
Turn on Battery saver and tracking pauses while you're stopped, say for a long lunch or a night in a hostel, and picks up again when you set off. It never pauses on a train, bus, boat or plane. If you fly partway through a chapter, the map shows the flight as a dashed line.
Family follow from one link
Send the link before you go. Anyone can open it in a browser and see where you've got to, with your photos and notes, without an app or an account. If they make a free account they get a note when you post, which saves you writing the same update to everyone.
A short film for each chapter
A chapter with a few photos gets a flyby film over its route, with your photos along the way. Pebbls makes it for you and it's free. It's an easy thing to send home after a long sea crossing or a month on the road.
Their routes so far
None of these trips has finished yet, so the lines are still getting longer. Every line is what a phone recorded on the way.
How members track a trip this long
Over two years on one journey
David set off from Tenerife in September 2024. Since then he has crossed the Atlantic to Brazil on a yacht, been down to Antarctica, travelled up through Central America and Mexico to the United States and Canada, and crossed the Pacific from Panama to Australia. This autumn he's in Indonesia. It's all one journey, with a chapter for each big stretch.
Riding it in stages
Mark set off from Switzerland in April 2024 to cycle to Japan and raise awareness of Alzheimer's. He rides a stage of a week or two, takes a break, then carries on from where he stopped, on the same journey. On stage 17 he took a cargo ship across the Caspian Sea, then left his bike in Aktau, Kazakhstan, for the winter.
One chapter for each ocean passage
Adam and Olivia sailed out of Guernsey in July 2023. They've crossed the Atlantic and the Pacific since, and reached New Zealand in October. Their map has a chapter for each long passage, so you can open one passage on its own or see the whole thing at once.
Round the world trips on Pebbls
Adam and Olivia are sailing their own boat round the world and Mark is cycling to Japan in stages. David hitchhikes, and has crossed two oceans on other people's boats.
- Round the world, hitchhiking · David · 21 countries · 746 days · by sailing boat and campervan
- Sailing round the world · Adam · 21 countries · 1,196 days · by sailing boat and on foot
- Switzerland to Japan by bike · Mark · 20 countries · 883 days · by bike and ferry
Films made from these routes
Pebbls made each film from one chapter's route and photos. Tap one to watch it with sound.
What it costs
Tracking, photos and notes, your map and journal, flyby films and sharing are free for as long as the trip lasts, with no adverts. Explorer is £20, €20 or $20 a year if you want more: your map keeps up with you faster, journeys can be private, and you get offline maps for four areas at a time, which helps when you arrive somewhere new with no data.
Questions
Can one journey cover a year or more?
Yes. Make one journey for the trip and add a chapter for each country or long stretch. Mark's ride from Switzerland has over 150 chapters in one journey.
What happens when I fly?
If you fly partway through a chapter, the map shows the flight as a dashed line between the parts you travelled on the ground. You can also start a new chapter when you land.
Will it use my roaming data?
Set uploads to Wi-Fi only and the app waits for the next wifi to send your route and photos. Nothing is lost while it waits.
Does my family need to sign up to follow?
No. Your link opens in any browser. A free account only matters if they want a note each time you post.
Can I keep where I'm staying private?
With Explorer you can hold back your position until you've moved on, which is worth having if you travel alone. On the free plan journeys are public and you share them by link.
What about battery on long travel days?
Tracking uses GPS like any map app. Battery saver pauses it while you're stopped, and a small power bank covers the rest.
Is it free?
Yes. Tracking, photos, the map, the journal and flyby films are free with no time limit. Explorer is optional.