What is Pebbls?
Overview
Pebbls is a live travel log. The mobile app records your route as you travel, you drop "Pebbls" (pins with photos, videos and notes) along the way, and everything appears on your own adventure map, in a written journal and, for most chapters, as a cinematic flyby film. Share a link and friends and family can follow along as you go.
How It Works
Install the app, start a journey and tap TRACK. The app records your position in the background, even with the screen off, and saves it on the phone and sends it to Pebbls every few minutes. Your route is drawn on the map as you go. Whenever something is worth remembering, tap PEBBL to add photos, a video or a note at that spot.
Journeys, Chapters and Pebbls
A journey is your whole trip. It is made up of chapters (a day, a leg of a route, a country), and each chapter holds the route you recorded plus the Pebbls you dropped. Chapters used to be called "legs", so you may still see that word in older screenshots.
Key Features
- Background GPS tracking with automatic stop when you have not moved for a while
- Pebbls with up to 5 photos or videos, a note and a custom icon
- A public adventure map, a written journal and a feed of your latest Pebbls
- Flyby films created automatically for eligible chapters, free for everyone
- Travel badges and a map of the countries you have been to
- Sharing by link, QR code, adventure card or website embed
- Privacy controls: location masking, private and password-protected journeys
- Communities where you share journeys and talk with other adventurers
Free and Explorer
Pebbls is free to use as a "Day Tripper". An Explorer membership adds live tracking, private and password-protected journeys, tracking privacy, video uploads, GPX downloads and more offline map regions. See the Membership section for details.