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 ten 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. There are no likes, no follows, no public feed. 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 on Hetzner in Germany. It runs on PHP 8 and MySQL 8 in a Docker container managed by Coolify. 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 44,000+ branded hotels across ten chain families today (Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Accor, Hyatt, Radisson, Wyndham, Choice, Meliá, NH), sourced from OpenStreetMap and refreshed by region on demand.
The Loyalty page (premium) breaks your history down by chain family and airline alliance, with status-tier
hints based on this year's nights. The Trip Planner lets you sketch multiple scenarios for an upcoming
journey side by side. Public profiles at /u/<name> let you share a beautiful map of
where you've been with whoever you want, in four levels of detail you control.
Sign in with Apple lands as soon as our developer review clears. Loyalty Tier 2 (planner preferences) is the next premium build — the trip planner will weight scenarios by your preferred chain family and airline alliance. Photos and richer property data from Wikidata keep improving in the background.
Suggestions welcome at hello@pelgrim.app. This is alpha. Feedback shapes what gets built next.