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How Atlas works

Plan it. Live it.
Tell it. Keep it.

We take more photos than any generation in history, and we lose the stories behind them. Atlas starts where a story is easiest to catch, which is a trip: you build it on the globe, the photos land where they happened, everyone who was there adds theirs, and you tell it in your own words. Then it keeps going for years.

The Atlas globe with photos pinned across Europe, Africa, and beyond
Plan it

A trip is a row of pins on a globe.

Search a city, drop a stop, set the nights, then move the stops until the route reads right. Atlas draws it on the same globe your photos will land on, so the plan and the story it turns into are one thing from the start.

A trip route plotted stop by stop across the Atlas globe
Live it

Photos land where they happened.

Take the photo. That is all. Your photo already knows where and when it was taken, and Atlas reads that and puts it on the right day, the right stop, the right city on the globe. No folders, no sorting when you get home. The map fills in as a by-product of living, not as homework afterward.

The Atlas timeline placing photos by month and by place, with journal entries alongside
Live it, together

Two cameras. One trip.

Invite the people who were there by name: your partner, your friends, your parents. Everyone adds what they took to the same trip, with the role you choose for each of them, and it all sorts itself by place and day. No more four camera rolls of the same week. A reaction from your sister and a note from your dad sit on the exact photo, kept for the next time anyone opens it.

One Atlas trip holding the photos two people took across a summer in Europe
Tell it

Your memories. Your words.

Captions and journals are written by you. Each month gets its own page, told the way you would tell it at dinner. Ask Atlas to refine a paragraph and it keeps your voice, and the page says on its face when the words were polished. It doesn't invent where you've been. It doesn't pretend its words are yours.

Atlas journal entries written in the traveler's own words, month by month
Keep it

One trip becomes a life.

A week in Italy with friends. The annual family vacation. The town where your mother grew up. One globe holds all of it, this morning's photos beside a decade ago, filling in year by year. And each year has its own Wrapped: top places, the busiest month, a player that flies the globe through the year, with a fresh one for every year you keep.

The Atlas Wrapped player highlighting the country you spent the most time in that year
Keep it, on paper

Some stories should outlive the app.

Send a trip with one link and whoever you send it to opens it like a letter, with no app and no account to make. Then, when you want something you can hold, Atlas lays the trip out as a Trip Book: cover, route, your photos, your words, as a print-ready PDF on Atlas Family. Take it to any printer and have it bound. One for your shelf, one for your parents. Ordering a bound copy from Atlas, shipped to your door, is what we are building next.

The Atlas Trip Book builder with a trip's photos arranged for print

Keep the story, not just the photos.

Start with a trip, then keep adding to it for a lifetime. Free to start. No card.