Embarking on a road trip around Australia is an exciting adventure, filled with stunning landscapes and unforgettable experiences. To enhance your journey and keep track of your route, distance travelled, and memorable moments, several apps can turn your smartphone into a powerful tracking tool. If you are as forgetful as me, you will find an app will be a great solution to remembering exactly where you have been. Here are the best apps for tracking your road trip around Australia:

1. Polarsteps

Polarsteps is a popular app among travellers for tracking their trips worldwide. It automatically follows your route using GPS and creates a beautiful visual map of your journey. The app also captures and displays the distances travelled, the countries visited, and the time spent in each location. You can add photos, notes, and stories, and share your progress with friends and family in real-time.

2. Google Maps

Google Maps is a versatile app that can serve as a tracking tool during your road trip. While primarily known for navigation, it also allows you to track and save your location history. By enabling the location tracking feature, Google Maps records your movements and creates a timeline of your trip. This feature is especially useful for documenting your route and revisiting the places you’ve visited.

3. TrackMyTour

TrackMyTour is an app designed specifically for tracking road trips and sharing your journey with others. It allows you to create a travel journal by marking locations, adding photos, and sharing updates in real time. You can invite friends and family to follow your trip, and they can leave comments and interact with your posts. TrackMyTour provides a social element to your tracking, making it a fun way to engage with your loved ones while on the road.

4. Find Penguins

Find Penguins is a travel app that allows users to create a digital travel diary, share their adventures, connect with fellow travellers, and explore destinations through an interactive map, making it easy to document and reminisce about past travels while discovering new places and connecting with like-minded explorers.

5. TravelBoast: My Journey Routes

What a fun app this one is! This app is a cartoon travel-style app where you can create videos about your journeys for Instagram. The videos show your route on an animated map.

6. ExplorOz Tracker

ExplorOz Tracker is a free app and it will track your journey by tracking your device. You are able to track and view your journey as the account holder and if you would like friends and family to see in real-time where you are, you can share the viewer-only access with them.

Are you looking for a big lap planning app too? Check out our article on ‘The Four Best Apps for Planning a Road Trip in Australia’

Let us know which one you use in the comments below!