Most travellers already use something: an app for flights, another for points, a map for memories. Pelgrim isn't trying to replace your favourite at the thing it does best. It's built for the gap none of them fill: one place where your flights, hotels, loyalty and travel map finally live together.
The travel apps you know are each brilliant at one layer. A flight tracker tracks flights. A points app tracks points. A map app remembers where you've been. Pelgrim is the layer above all of them: it joins your trips, your hotel stays, your loyalty status and your live flights into a single picture, so the app actually understands your trip as a whole, not just one slice of it.
That's the whole idea. We'd rather be the only one that connects everything than the tenth one that does flights slightly differently.
(like LogMyFlight, LogMyStay or LogMyTrip)
You'll feel at home fast. Logging flights and hotel stays, the maps, the stats and fun facts: Pelgrim does all of that, and you can keep building the travel history you already love.
What's new: your stays connect to a real worldwide hotel catalogue, not just a text entry, with your personal map overlaid on top. Your loyalty status rides along with your trips. And Pelgrim is live, not just a diary you fill in afterwards: it can follow your flight in real time and tell you what's next.
(like Flighty)
Keep loving it for what it does. Specialist flight trackers are superb at minute-by-minute flight tracking, and if that single feature is your whole world, they're hard to beat.
Why add Pelgrim: your flights stop being throwaway notifications and become part of a permanent travel history, tied to your hotels, your loyalty status, and a map of everywhere you've been. We track your flight and remember it, and know which hotel you're heading to afterwards. One picture instead of one alert.
(like AwardWallet)
Keep it for sheer breadth. If you hold points in dozens of obscure programs, a dedicated points vault tracks more programs than we do, and we're honest about that.
Why add Pelgrim: we don't just show your balances, we reconcile them against the trips you actually took. Pelgrim can tell you when a flight's miles never posted, or how close a real stay pushed you toward your next status tier, because it knows your travel history, not just your point totals. A points auditor, not just a points wallet.
(like TripIt)
The convenience you love still works here. Pelgrim brings your bookings in too: forward a confirmation email or capture it with the browser companion, and Pelgrim reads it and files it for you. Dedicated organisers have years of polish on this, and if that's all you need, they do it beautifully.
Why add Pelgrim: an itinerary is forgotten the day the trip ends. Pelgrim turns every trip into something that lasts, a growing log, a personal world map, a loyalty record, and a shareable recap, while still giving you the live "what's happening now / what's next" view during the trip itself.
(like Polarsteps)
Keep it for the storytelling. Beautiful journals and printed photobooks are a lovely way to relive a holiday, and that's a different joy from what we do.
Why add Pelgrim: if you're a frequent or loyalty-minded traveller, Pelgrim adds the parts a leisure journal doesn't reach: live flight tracking, your hotel and airline status, and a cross-chain hotel catalogue. The memories and the machinery of frequent travel, in one place.
We only compare on the thing that actually makes Pelgrim different: bringing it all together. On any single specialty, the focused apps are excellent, and we'll happily say so.
| Flight trackers |
Points trackers |
Itinerary apps |
Travel journals |
Pelgrim | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tracks live flights | ✓ | partly | ✓ | ||
| Tracks loyalty & status | ✓ | partly | ✓ | ||
| Logs your travel history | partly | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Worldwide hotel catalogue + your map | ✓ | ||||
| Turns a trip into a lasting recap | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Connects all of the above | ✓ |
Your data is yours. You can bring your history in, and you can take it out. We've seen travel apps vanish overnight and leave people stranded; we don't ever want to be that, so portability is a feature, not an afterthought.
The core stays free. The heart of Pelgrim — your log, catalogue, map and loyalty ledger — stays free to use.
Use us alongside, not instead. You don't have to abandon the app you love. Plenty of travellers keep a specialist open for its one trick and use Pelgrim for the whole picture. That's a perfectly good way to travel.