About Our Time Away
Every trip deserves to be remembered — not in a camera roll you never open, but in a story you can hold in your hands.
The Problem
You come home from an incredible vacation with thousands of photos, a few scattered memories, and the best of intentions. You'll organize the photos later. You'll write about it. Maybe you'll even make a photo book.
But you don't. Life gets busy. The photos sit in your camera roll. The memories fade. Six months later, you can barely remember what you ate on that incredible night in Tokyo.
The Solution
Your booking emails become a beautiful itinerary. Our Time Away captures your trip while you're living it. Two minutes of journaling each evening — guided by thoughtful prompts about your actual day. Your photos organize themselves by day and location.
After your trip, your journal entries are used to craft a real narrative — not a summary, a story. Combined with your best photos, it becomes a printed memory book delivered to your door. Something you'll flip through for years.
The Founders
Our Time Away was founded by Ben & Michelle in Austin, Texas. After years of trips where the best moments lived only in fading memory, they built the app they wished existed — one that makes remembering your vacation effortless.
“We built this for the trips that matter — the ones where you want to remember not just where you went, but how it felt.”
— Ben & Michelle, Co-Founders
Our Promise
The app is 100% free. We make money when you love your trip so much you want to hold it in your hands — memory books, mugs, prints. The journaling, the itinerary, the group coordination, the narrative — those are the core of what makes your trip memorable, and they're free.
We don't build trip planning tools. That's what travel advisors and itinerary builders do, and they do it well. Our Time Away picks up where they leave off — during and after the trip.
Photography-forward
Your photos are the star. We build beautiful frames, not loud distractions.
Group-first
Every trip is a group trip. Solo travelers, families, friends — one experience for everyone.
Effortless
Two minutes a night. Forward an email. The rest happens automatically.