Roamnote is a memory-first travel diary for iPhone. One line about the place, would you go back, a photo if you like. No forms, no feed, no account. Your Lisbon, kept the way you'd tell a friend.
iOS 18 · iCloud sync · Free during the beta
Most travel apps ask for everything at once. Roamnote asks for the one thing you'll want later, then gets out of the way. Everything else is optional and folded away.
Nearby restaurants, cafés, hotels and sights, or drop a pin. Roamnote resolves the neighbourhood for you.
What you want to remember. What you ordered, where you sat, who to ask for.
Yes, not sure, no. That single answer is what makes the list useful two years on.
From your library or straight from the camera. Full-size stays in Photos; Roamnote keeps a thumbnail.
Start a trip, and Roamnote finds a picture of the destination. Days line up on a strip; memories sit on the day you made them. Import from your photo library and it groups the shots into places for you.
Prawns in garlic, then the steak sandwich as dessert. Yes, really.
Go before sunset. Order the negroni.
The bakery with the queue round the corner. The rooftop a friend mentioned at dinner. Save it in two taps while you're still in the trip. No memory is written; it waits under “Next time” and on your bucket list, with a photo of the shopfront so you recognise it.
The queue went round the corner.
Rooftop over the square — Marta swears by it.
Across the river. Ferry, then walk left.
Destinations you dream about, with a picture of the place, and the restaurants and sights you want when you get there. Paste a list from Notes and Roamnote turns it into places. When the trip finally happens, everything is already waiting in it.
“I don't need another map full of pins. I need to remember which of the three places by the harbour had the good grilled octopus.”The problem Roamnote is built around
Your iCloud is your login. Nothing to create, nothing to forget.
Write on the plane, in the metro, at the table. It syncs when it can.
Everything lives in your private iCloud. When you do share a trip, you decide what goes out — and by default, it's the neighbourhood, never the exact address.
A shared trip says “Alfama · Lisbon”, not a street number. Exact location is a per-place choice, and you can remove a location without losing the memory.
Live ratings and opening hours come from Google or Apple when you look, and stay there. Roamnote keeps your opinion, not theirs.
Roamnote references your library and keeps small thumbnails so lists work offline. Nothing is uploaded anywhere but your own iCloud.
We're inviting a small group of travellers to try it before the App Store launch. Write to us with one line about the last place you wish you'd written down, and we'll send a TestFlight invite.
TestFlight requires iOS 18 or later. The App Store link will appear here at launch.