People accumulate a lifetime of travel and have nowhere coherent to keep it. Scratch-map apps give you a coloured map and a count but no sense of when or how often. Photo libraries hold the memories but can't tell you how many days you spent in Japan. Planning tools expire the moment a trip ends.
Burgundy is the record rather than the plan. It gets more valuable the longer you keep it, because every trip you add makes the map fuller and the numbers bigger.
What it does
- •Countries and trips together: Every country you record belongs to a dated trip, which is what makes the rest of it possible.
- •A world map that fills in: Shaded by how long you were somewhere — with your routes and photos on it, and home marked apart.
- •A year-by-year timeline: Trips grouped by year, with a heatmap showing when you were away.
- •Stats you never enter: Countries, days travelled, trips, continents, first and last visit — all derived from your trips.
- •A daily journal: Notes for one day, a stretch of days, or a whole trip. Plus cities, companions, photos and tags.
- •A head start on your history: Import your Google Timeline instead of typing years of travel by hand.
- •Regions, not just countries: Switch the map to states and provinces, and see how much of a country you have actually seen.
- •Records as you travel: The phone can draw the trip itself while you are away, and stays quiet while you are home.
- •Offline on your phone: Add a trip with no signal; it syncs when you are back.
What it isn't
Being clear about this now is easier than finding out later. Burgundy is not:
- •a trip planner — you can date a trip in the future, but the product is built for looking back
- •a social network — no feed, no followers, no sharing
- •a photo library — a trip can carry a few photographs, but your camera roll stays where it is
Where it runs
The web app is open today, in any browser. The iOS and Android apps are on their way — built for the phone first, working with no connection and syncing when they find one, on the same account as the web.
Getting started
Create an account and start with your last trip, or import your location history and start with all of them.