Turn your travels into a one-of-a-kind map

Fill every place you've been with a photo, a badge or a color. Then download it as a high-resolution file and print it anywhere, or share it with a link.

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Free to start. No card needed.

Every place properly showcased

True-to-shape maps let big places shout and small ones disappear. Hexplore gives every place the same tile, right where you'd expect to find it.

True to shape

  • Rhode Island and Delaware are too small to see, let alone hold a photo.
  • Texas gets about 170 times the room of Rhode Island, so big states drown out the rest.
  • Odd outlines, like Florida's panhandle or Michigan's two halves, crop photos badly.
  • Big empty places make the map look unfinished, and small visited ones barely register.
  • Labeling is a puzzle: small states need callout lines, and every map puts its names somewhere different.

Same shape, true place

  • Every place is the same hexagon, with the same room and the same weight.
  • Each tile sits where its place does, next to its neighbors, so the map still reads true.
  • Photos fill every tile cleanly, and you can move and zoom each one.
  • Progress is easy to read at a glance, made for tracking where you have been.
  • Every tile has room for its label in the same spot, so names are easy to add and always where you expect.

A map layout for every kind of traveler

Every layout follows the same principle: every place a hexagon, right where you’d expect it. Pick a layout when you make a map. More layouts are coming soon.

  • A layout representing all 50 US states.

  • All European countries and common nations typical to European trips.

  • National parks across the United States and its territories.

From a list of places to a map worth framing

Show it off with shareable links and high-resolution exports.

  1. person taking photo of Golden Gate Bridge, California, by Edgar Chaparro on Unsplash

    Capture the moment

    Take the photo wherever you are. Upload it later, and its date and place come with it.

  2. Assemble a map

    Drop it into its place, beside badges for how well you know each one, or colors of your own.

  3. green plants on brown wooden chair, by Liana Mikah on Unsplash

    Proudly display

    Export it in high resolution, sized for print, and hang it where people will ask about it.

Tools to give your travels proper credit

Give your trips a second life, with everything you need to show them off to friends, family and followers.

  • Badges for how well you know it

    Seven badges, from a layover at the airport to guiding others there. Give a place the single badge that fits best, or a progress badge that lights up every one it has earned.

  • Photo maps

    Put your best photo in every tile, then move and zoom it until it sits just right.

  • Colors for every place

    Color each place for where you lived, stayed or passed through, and keep your own legend.

  • Track your progress

    Every map keeps count of the places you’ve been, on screen and in every export.

  • Trips

    Keep where you went, when and why. Photos taken around the same time are suggested for each trip.

  • Your photo library

    Upload JPEG, PNG, HEIC and more. Dates, places and captions are read from your files.

  • Prints and exports

    Export in high resolution for screens, or for prints up to 40×60 inches, in either orientation and on the background of your choice.

Not just where you've been, but how well you know it

Every place can earn a badge, from a layover to destinations you show others around.

  1. AirportTouched down but never left the airport
  2. DrivePassed through by road, never stayed
  3. VisitSingle-day experience(s)
  4. SleepStayed the night
  5. TourMulti-day experience in the area
  6. LiveSeveral multi-week stays in homes
  7. GuidePlanned and guided trips for others to this place
Badges: Airport, Drive, Visit, Sleep, Tour

Several badges, one tile

Flew in, drove through, then stayed a week? The badge progress mark lights up every badge a place has earned and leaves the rest to aim for.

Free to explore. Yours to keep.

Use Hexplore for free for as long as you like. Buy a single map and own it for life, or get Lifetime for every feature on every map. Each is paid once, never a subscription.

Free

For mapping where you've been.

$0forever

  • Unlimited maps, every layout
  • Colors on every tile, with your own legend
  • Exports, with a watermark
  • Recently Deleted, for second thoughts
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Buy a map

For one map of badges to keep and print.

$20once, per map + tax

  • The seven badges, one or several per place
  • Every export size, no watermark
  • Share it with a link
  • Yours for life, whatever you choose later
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Most complete

Lifetime

For every map, every photo and every trip, paid once.

$140once + tax

  • Everything a bought map has, on every map
  • As many photos per tile as you like
  • Trips, with where, when and why
  • Your photo library, up to 5,000 photos
  • Bulk actions, filters and sorting
  • Showcase links that cycle through your photos
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Group of friends taking a selfie in a forest, by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash

Gift Hexplore

Give the gift of travel with a Hexplore map they’ll own for life, or Lifetime.

  1. Choose a gift

    A map you made and bought, a blank map, or Lifetime.

  2. Send it

    To their email address, with a note if you like. We can email them, or you tell them.

  3. They redeem it

    At hexplore.io/redeem, with a free account. It’s theirs for life, to keep adding to.

Give a gift

Questions, answered

No. Your map is a digital file you download and print yourself, at any print shop or at home.

A bought map or Lifetime exports at every size, from 4×6 up to 40×60 inches, in the common print shapes (4:5, 3:4, 11:14, 2:3 and the A sizes), at 300 DPI, or 200 above 36 inches on the long side. A free map exports one size, for screens.

No. Make as many color maps as you like for free, with your own legend. Pay only when you want badges, photos, a map without a watermark, or everything in Lifetime.

Buying a map ($20 for a badge map, $40 for a photo map) unlocks one map, for life. Lifetime ($140, paid once) unlocks every map, plus trips, your photo library and as many photos per tile as you like.

You won't pay twice. What you've paid for maps comes off Lifetime, up to $100. The maps you bought stay yours for life either way.

No. You pay once and keep every feature, on every map, for good. Nothing renews.

JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, HEIF and AVIF, straight from your phone or camera. Dates, places and captions are read from the files, so there's less to type.

Lifetime keeps up to 5,000 photos. A bought photo map keeps one photo per tile.

Only you. A map is seen by others only when you share a link to it or an export of it.

Your map is waiting

Start with the places you know best. It's free.

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