TraviPix

About TraviPix

TraviPix is a free in-browser travelogue generator that reads EXIF (GPS + capture time) from your photos and renders the journey as time-ordered pins and great-circle arcs on a Blue Marble 3D globe. Each pin floats your photo's thumbnail right at its location, and a play button animates the camera through the trip from the very first photo. Export the result as an MP4 and you have a ready-to-share clip for year-in-review posts or family albums. HEIC (iPhone) photos are supported, and all processing — EXIF parsing, thumbnail generation, video encoding — happens locally in your browser.

How to use

1. Drag a batch of GPS-tagged photos into the drop zone. JPEG, PNG, WebP, and HEIC (iPhone) are all supported.
2. TraviPix automatically reads capture time and GPS from each file and arranges them on a 3D globe in chronological order.
3. Hit ▶ Play and the camera flies along great-circle arcs from the earliest photo to the latest. Use the scrubber to seek anywhere in the timeline.
4. Pick a continent from the viewpoint dropdown (Asia / Europe / Africa / N. America / S. America / Oceania) to zoom in — the view centers on the photo cluster within that continent.
5. During playback you can drag the globe to rotate it freely and scroll to zoom. Frame the view and playback position you like before exporting, and the video keeps that composition.
6. Use the "dwell per photo" and "highlight time" sliders to tune how long the camera lingers on each photo and how long it zooms into a pin. Keep it short for large batches, longer when you want to savor each stop.
7. Hover a pin or photo card to reveal the capture time only (raw latitude / longitude is never shown). Hit ⟲ Reset to start over, or drop a new set of photos to swap them out.
8. Click 🎞 MP4 export to render the camera fly-through as a downloadable MP4 you can share on social media.

Use cases

• Year-in-review trip recap videos

  Drop every photo you took this year and you'll get a globe-spanning travel recap MP4 in under a minute — ready for Instagram, X, or TikTok end-of-year posts.

• Family / friend photo albums

  Showing photos in chronological order on a 3D globe feels closer to actual memory recall than a flat slideshow. Export and share — the trip narrates itself without you needing to write captions.

• Visualizing business travel or relocation

  If your work or lifestyle involves frequent moves, seeing your geographic footprint as an animated globe gives you a clearer sense of scale than any spreadsheet would. Great for annual reviews or a social profile asset.

• Mapping your photographic coverage

  Photographers and travel bloggers can use it to spot which regions they over- or under-shoot. The continental imbalance shows up at a glance, which can guide the next theme.

• Documenting study abroad, working holidays, or long trips

  Multi-country backpacking, study-abroad stays, or working holidays turn into a chronological trail on the globe. Drop months or years of photos at once and the movement itself becomes a digest of your memories.

• Revisiting a hike, ride, or road trip route

  Drop the GPS-tagged photos you took along a route and the stops connect with great-circle arcs, giving you an overview of the whole trip — great for logging an activity or making a recap clip to share with the group.

Privacy and data handling

Your photos stay in your browser. TraviPix does not send images, EXIF, or any thumbnail to Toolish servers or any external API. EXIF parsing, HEIC conversion, thumbnail rendering, and MP4 encoding all run locally. Hover overlays show capture time only — we deliberately do not surface raw latitude / longitude, so you can use photos taken near home or work without worrying about leaking precise coordinates onto your screen.

Frequently asked questions

Q. What happens to photos without GPS?

A. Photos missing a GPS tag (latitude / longitude) can't be placed on the globe, so they're automatically skipped. The skipped count and the reasons (no GPS, no capture date, parse failure) are shown on screen.

Q. Does it work with iPhone HEIC photos?

A. Yes. HEIC / HEIF files are converted to JPEG internally before being shown. EXIF is read directly from the HEIC (so GPS and capture date come through intact). The HEIC conversion happens in-browser via heic2any (WASM); your photos are never uploaded.

Q. Can I change the video length or resolution?

A. The video length scales with photo count: 1 second of journey playback per photo, followed by a 3-second hold on the finished route (e.g., 10 photos → 13 second video). The output resolution matches the globe canvas — typically around 1080p on desktop. Adjustable playback speed and tail length are planned for a future update.

Q. MP4 export fails or shows an error

A. MP4 export uses the browser's WebCodecs API, which currently requires a recent Chrome / Edge or Safari 16+. Firefox doesn't support WebCodecs yet, so the export won't work there. Try Chrome or Edge.

Q. Why don't you show coordinates on hover?

A. Raw latitude / longitude pinpoints sensitive locations like your home or workplace. We rely on the thumbnail and the position on the globe to convey geographic context, and deliberately don't surface the underlying numbers on screen.

Q. Is it OK to load a lot of photos at once?

A. Parsing, thumbnail generation, and video encoding all run on your own device (in the browser), so how many photos you can load depends on your device's memory. A few dozen run smoothly on desktop, but HEIC conversion is heavy, so large batches can take a while to load. If it feels sluggish, trim the count or convert to JPEG first.

Q. Does it work on a smartphone?

A. Viewing and playback work on any mobile browser with WebGL support. MP4 export, however, uses the browser's WebCodecs API, which needs iOS 16+ Safari on iPhone or a recent Chrome on Android. For the most reliable export, desktop Chrome / Edge works best.

Q. Can I reorder the photos manually?

A. Right now photos are ordered automatically by their EXIF capture time (DateTimeOriginal); manual reordering isn't supported. Photos with no capture date can't be ordered, so they're skipped. To fix the order, edit the capture-time metadata on the photos before loading them.