Pond Hopping · by eend
Your trips are already recorded. Just not anywhere you can read them.
Pond Hopping turns the photographs, flights and activities you already have into something you can actually look back on.
What it does
A trip leaves traces long before anybody sits down to write about it: photographs with times and places in them, a booking confirmation in your inbox, a run you logged, a note you made on the third evening. All of it is real, all of it is scattered, and none of it is a record of where you went.
Pond Hopping gathers those traces and reconstructs the trip from them — the days, the route, the cities, what each day actually was. You get a written record without having kept one, a map of everywhere you have been, and a globe that fills in as you go.
Three ways in
From your photographs
Pick them off your phone, or bring them straight in from Google Photos without downloading them first. The dates and places already inside them do the work.
From your inbox
Forward a booking confirmation, or connect Gmail and let it find them. Flights, hotels and trains become a trip.
From nothing at all
Say where you are going and roughly when. It finds the flights, the nights and the things worth doing, and leaves you the arguing.
Why Google Photos
A trip taken months ago lives in the cloud, not on the handset. Getting it into an app usually means downloading every photograph to your phone and uploading it again — two full transfers of something that begins and ends in a data centre. Pond Hopping asks Google's own picker instead: you choose, and the photographs travel from Google to our server directly. Your phone sends a list and nothing else.
We only ever see the photographs you pick. The permission we ask for cannot list your library.
About your data, plainly. Pond Hopping holds what you put into it and shows it to you. There is no advertising, nothing is sold, and you are not tracked across other apps. Three things we say out loud because people would rightly mind: the app records which screens get used so we can tell what is broken, and sends that — with your email address once you are signed in — to an analytics service; describing your photographs means sending them to an AI service, which is how that feature works and which you can simply not use; and the app is shown things you have written before, so that what it writes back sounds like you. All three are set out in full on the privacy page.
The full privacy policy · Terms · How to delete your account
Where it runs
In any browser, and as an app on Android and iOS. It is free while it is being built.
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