Pelgrim turns your travel history into smarter future trips.
Pelgrim was built because every existing travel tracker stops at "here's a list of trips you took." That's the easy part. What I wanted was the harder part: leverage. Which Marriotts have I actually stayed at in this city? Where could I have stayed but didn't? Which loyalty program should I redeem points with next? Why does my trip planner not know any of this?
So I built one that does.
A travel log: every flight, every stay, every trip. Importable from CSV, parseable from a forwarded email, extractable from a pasted Google Flights URL with the help of a small AI.
A trip planner: build multiple scenarios for an upcoming journey, compare flight + stay combinations side by side, confirm one and watch it materialise into real history.
A worldwide chain catalog: every branded hotel known to OpenStreetMap, classified into the twelve major chain families, filterable, and — uniquely — with your personal stay history overlaid on top. Pelgrim is the only product that does this.
It's not a booking engine. We don't take a cut of your reservations. We don't compete with Booking, Expedia, or your loyalty program's own app.
It's not a social network. No public feed, no followers, no algorithm — sharing is a private link you hand to people you choose, not a broadcast. Your travel is yours.
It's not free-because-we-sell-your-data. We don't run ads, we don't sell to data brokers, and we don't operate out of a jurisdiction where any of that is legal. The product is free because the core costs are low; if a premium tier ships, it adds, it doesn't subtract.
The application is built in the Netherlands and hosted in the EU, on infrastructure in Germany. Your data stays in Europe. The chain hotel data comes from OpenStreetMap, refreshed by region on demand.
Pelgrim is in alpha. The chain map and the personal stay overlay are the marquee features. The catalogue covers 180,000+ branded hotels across twelve chain families today (Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Accor, Hyatt, Radisson, Wyndham, Choice, Meliá, NH), sourced from OpenStreetMap and refreshed by region on demand.
Every trip draws onto a real satellite map — routes, hotels and photos as pins — and rolls up into a
shareable recap. Send family a private link and they follow along live while you travel (in their own
language if you like); once you're home it becomes the recap. Public profiles at /u/<name>
show a map of where you've been, in levels of detail you control — hotels and check-ins stay off it unless
you opt them in.
On the premium side: the Loyalty page breaks your history down by chain family and airline alliance with status-tier hints, and the Trip Planner lets you sketch and compare scenarios for an upcoming journey side by side.
The end-of-trip recap is becoming the heart of the product — a map of where you went, the route, the stays, your photos, told as a story you can share and, before long, export as a slideshow or photobook. Richer trip journals (a real entry per day, not just a line) come with the next trips. The trip planner and redemption optimizer keep getting sharper on the premium side.
Suggestions welcome at hello@pelgrim.app. This is alpha. Feedback shapes what gets built next.
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