TripRoute turns a trip you have already taken into the video you wish you had filmed. Type in the places you went, say how you got between them, and watch a camera fly the whole route across a 3D globe - the line drawn as it is travelled, each stop named as you arrive.
No account, no upload, no editing timeline to learn. Your trip stays on your own computer, and what comes out is an ordinary MP4 you can post anywhere.
Highlights
- Built from your stops, not from footage - search for any place in the world, add it, and the route draws itself. Nothing to film, nothing to import.
- Every leg travels the way you did - plane, train, car, boat or on foot. Each one gets its own marker moving along the line, and its own share of the pacing.
- Drives and walks follow the real roads - the line bends where the road bends, through the towns you actually passed, and the distance shown is the distance driven. Flights and boat legs stay on the long curve they really take.
- A camera that stays out of the way - it holds one height that takes in the whole trip while the globe turns to follow the route, so the shape of the journey is what you watch. Want the closer, more cinematic pass? Switch the zoom on and it pulls out along each leg and eases in as you arrive. Either way it never lurches on arrival: getting somewhere is told by the name fading up and the marker turning to face the next leg.
- Shaped for where it is going - 9:16 for Reels and Stories, 1:1 or 4:5 for a feed, 16:9 for anywhere else, plus seven more shapes. Pick one and the preview changes with it.
- Three looks, one click apart - Paper, Dusk and Night, each with your own accent colour, place labels on or off, and the road ahead shown or hidden.
- You set the pace - seconds per leg, how long to pause at each stop, how smooth the motion is, and whether a long flight earns more screen time than a short hop.
- What you see is what gets saved - the preview is the video frame exactly. The export is not a screen recording, so it comes out smooth at up to 60 frames a second even if your own machine cannot play the preview back that smoothly.
- Your trips are files you own - save a route wherever you keep things, reopen it months later, adjust one stop and export again. There is no library holding them hostage.
How it works
Start a new route and search for the first place you went. Add the next one, and TripRoute connects them; choose how you travelled that leg. Keep going until the trip is there - a weekend of two stops or a year of twenty.
Then pick the shape and the palette, drag the playhead to watch it back, and press Export. There is nothing to set up first: the app puts the piece it needs in place on its own, and on the rare occasion that fails it says plainly what went wrong and offers you the one line that fixes it. TripRoute renders the whole thing and saves an MP4 wherever you point it.
Reopen the route any time to change a stop or the timing and export a fresh version.
Perfect for
- Travellers with a camera roll and no video - the opening clip that shows where all those photos were taken.
- Anyone posting a trip - a route animation is the part of a travel post people actually watch to the end.
- Presentations and talks - show a tour, an expedition or a supply route moving, instead of a map with arrows drawn on it.
- Families and reunions - where everyone came from, on one globe, in twenty seconds.
