Built for the trips that matter.
Every trip deserves to be remembered — not in a camera roll you never open, but in a story you can hold in your hands.
You come home with thousands of photos and the best of intentions.
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.
A companion that captures the trip while you're living it.
Your booking emails become a beautiful itinerary. Our Time Away captures your trip while you're living it. Two minutes of reflection each day — guided by a few thoughtful prompts about your actual day. Your photos organize themselves by day and location.
After your trip, your daily reflections are used to craft a real narrative — not a summary, but a keepsake you'll actually want to open again, bound into a real hardcover book.
Ben & Michelle Peterson, in Austin.
Our Time Away was founded by Ben & Michelle Peterson 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."
The app is 100% free.
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 daily prompts, 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.