Every stop on one map
Moments with a location get a pin. The line joining them runs between the places you took photos, and the app labels it as an approximate path.
Travel memories for iPhone
Remember where life happened.
Pick the photos from a trip. Kindling sorts them by time and place, pins them on a map, and leaves room for what the photos missed: the song in the bar, the name of that café, who made you laugh.
- Free on the App Store
- No sign-up
- Sees only the photos you pick
Two years after Lisbon, you still remember the tram. Everything else is somewhere in your camera roll, between a parking receipt and forty screenshots.
How it works
Photos become a memory trail.
You start from photos you already took. Kindling does the sorting, and you decide what stays.
- 01
Choose the photos
Use the iPhone photo picker to choose a trip's photos and videos. Kindling receives those and nothing else from your library.
- 02
Check what Kindling found
Photos taken close together become a moment. Rename the trip, pick a cover, fix a wrong date, or merge two moments that belong together.
- 03
Add a detail if one comes to mind
Kindling asks one small question at a time, like what surprised you or what the street sounded like. Answer it, record a voice memo, or skip ahead.
The sample trip
Four moments from a weekend in Lisbon.
This trip comes with the app, so you can look around before choosing any photos of your own. Each moment keeps its time, its pin on the map, and the note written for it.
A Weekend in Lisbon16–18 May 2025 · Lisbon, Portugal
4 moments
The yellow tram
The bell echoed through the narrow street.
Pastéis while they were warm
Flaky, cinnamon-dusted, and gone too quickly.
Sunset over Alfama
We stayed after the music started below us.
One last tiled doorway
A small detail I would have forgotten without the photo.
Months later
Easy to find when it matters.
You'll open a trail again when a friend is heading to Lisbon and asks where you had those tarts. It should take seconds to find.
Search what you remember
Type a place, a word from a note, a tag, or a trip name. Search runs on your iPhone.
Record how it sounded
Keep up to two minutes of audio with any moment. Tag who you were with, and mark whether you'd go back.
Postcards From Your Past
Turn these on and Kindling sends an old moment back to you at a time you pick. The lock screen only says a postcard is ready, so the details wait until you open the app. Moments marked sensitive are skipped.
Privacy
It all stays on your iPhone.
- There's no account to create and nothing to sign in to.
- Kindling keeps its own copies of the photos you pick, so your trails open offline.
- Usage stats count things like finished imports. Your photos, places, notes, recordings, and searches are kept out of them.
- Deleting a moment in Kindling leaves the original in your Photos library.
Kindling Pro
Keep your whole atlas.
Kindling is free, and your first two trips get everything: the trail, the map, Sparks, voice memories, search, and standard postcards. Pro is for the third trip onward.
- Unlimited memory trails
- Premium postcard and map styles
- Branding and resurfacing controls
Pay monthly, yearly, or once for Lifetime. Apple shows the price for your country before you buy. If a subscription ends, every trip you saved stays in the app. Read the terms.
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Who it's for
For anyone who meant to keep a journal.
You came home with 600 photos
The album hasn't been opened since. Pick the forty that matter and see the whole trip in order.
You can picture the café but can't name it
Search the note you left on that moment, or find its pin on the map.
Your last travel journal stopped on day two
Kindling asks one question at a time. Skip as many as you like. The trip is complete either way.
Someone back home wants to see it
Send them a postcard with only the details you chose to include.
Which trip would you open first?
Free on iPhone with iOS 17 or later