What it's for
- PlacesCollect a stamp for every place you've been, and pin the places you want to go.
- PlansPlan trips with friends, day by day or along a route.
- MemoriesKeep postcards and reviews with your stamps, and look back on your year.
- PeopleShare with friends, start groups, and meet up at public places.
Stamps
Every place you've been becomes a stamp
Parks, trails, waterfalls, museums and landmarks: about 30,000 places, with the Pacific Northwest in depth, every US state and Canadian province (all 63 US national parks) and every other country. Each one has its own stamp.
Tap Want to go to build your bucket list, and see your year in stamps. Places you went before you joined go in too, as Before Waypals stamps.
Plans
Plan trips and meetups with friends
Plan a trip day by day, or pick a start and a destination and get well-known places along the route. Planning trips needs Plus. Friends join free.
Set up a meetup with friends at a public place, with everyone's answers in one spot. Free for everyone.
Memories
Keep the memories, share the good ones
Add a postcard to any stamp, with your own photo and a few words for friends. Turn a stamp, your passport or your year into an image for posts and stories, or play your year back as a road trip.
Friends only
Shared with friends, never where you live
- Only public places can be pinned. Never homes or addresses.
- Friends see the month and year, and the exact day only if you choose.
- Your Home Safe Zone keeps stamps near home off what friends see. It's on from the start.
- New stamps can wait before friends see them, and any stamp can be hidden.
- No strangers: only the friends you add see your passport.
Verified stamps
Prove you were really there
At a place, tap Verify I'm here for a one-time location check. We never store where you are, only the mark on your stamp.
You can also find places you've been in your Google Timeline, photos or Strava, and choose which to collect.
Collections
Finish a collection
Themed sets of places, like Waterfalls of the Columbia Gorge or Seattle icons. Watch your progress fill up and earn the badge when you've been to them all.
The quiz
What kind of traveler are you?
Answer 12 quick questions and meet your Sasquatch: one of 16 travel types, from the Trail Wildcard to the Café Flâneur.
Trail Wildcard
Museum Wanderer
Campfire Host
Café Flâneur
Road Tripper
Late-Night Legend
Waypals Plus
Free to use, Plus if you like
Waypals is free. Plus is an optional membership that adds trip planning, your own lists and a few extras, and helps keep Waypals going. Yearly starts with 14 days free, and you can give a year of Plus as a gift.
- Monthly$4.99a month
- YearlySave 58%$24.99a year
- Founding memberLifetime Plus, for the first 500 people only$59once
- More lists. Keep up to 50 lists of places instead of 3, like a weekend away, and share them with friends, or by link with anyone on Waypals.
- Trip planning with friends. Plan trips day by day, see them on a map, and invite friends to plan with you. Friends join free.
- Plus badge. On your profile and passport cover. Founding members get their own badge.
- Passport cover colors. Four extra covers for your passport.
- Stamp ink colors. Stamp your passport in one ink of your choice.
- Sasquatch style. More faces, hairstyles, outfits, pets, rides and backdrops for your Sasquatch. Most are free for everyone.
- Printable year poster. Your year of stamps, or every stamp so far, as an 18 by 24 inch poster to print.
- Deeper stats. Your stamps by kind, month and region, streaks, and how much of each state you've collected.
- Coming soon: Pen Pal. Write to travelers anywhere, with an 18+ check. Once you've joined Waypals, you can add your name to the founding pen pal list.
Questions
Is Waypals free?
Yes. Pinning places, your passport, collections, friends, messages, groups, meetups, postcards and share images are all free. Waypals Plus is an optional extra that adds trip planning and your own lists. Friends join trips free.
Do I need to install an app?
No. Waypals works in your phone's browser. You can add it to your home screen so it opens like any other app.
Which places are in it?
About 30,000 public places: the Pacific Northwest in depth (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, British Columbia and Northern California), every US state and Canadian province, including all 63 US national parks, and every other country, including UNESCO World Heritage Sites. You can suggest a place that's missing.
What do early members get?
Everyone who joins before 2027 gets the Founding Explorer stamp and a passport number in the order people joined. Stamps collected before 2027 get founding ink. Invite friends with your link: every 3 who join and collect 3 stamps give you a free month of Plus, up to 12 a year.
Can my friends see where I live?
No. Only public places can be pinned, and your Home Safe Zone can keep stamps near home off what friends see.
Who can see my stamps?
Only the friends you add. You can keep any stamp to yourself, hide it, or set a sharing delay.
Is my location tracked?
No. We only check your location when you tap a button (like Verify I'm here), and we never store it, apart from a map pin you choose to add to a place suggestion.
Who can join?
Anyone 18 or over. Your birthday stays private, even from friends.
Can I leave?
Yes. Settings has Download my data and Delete my account, which deletes your profile, pins, photos, friends and messages straight away. A few records stay without your name, such as feedback you sent, reports, and Stripe's record of past payments. What's deleted and what's kept
