Which show should I pick?
What you type decides what Voyarc draws. Which show you run decides how it moves, and that is the only real choice on the panel: Journey and Network are always there; a flown track brings Race or Trace, and a dated logbook brings the Year in review. Five situations cover nearly everyone, so find yours and the rest of the controls follow.
Voyarc opens on the show your list implies. A list that reads as one trip, each leg starting where the last one landed, opens as a Journey. Anything else, like an airline's routes or an airport's, opens as a Network. A flown track opens the show that fits it, Race for an A-to-B flight or Trace for a round trip, and a logbook with dates in it offers the Year in review. Tap another and the choice is yours.
One route
Type the pair and stop: SYD-LHR. The map draws the great circle
between the two airports, and the legs table underneath prints the distance and
the initial heading in kilometres, miles or nautical miles. One leg is a trip, so
it opens as a Journey: one plane, one story, the camera riding behind it. Switch
the show to Network and the whole arc holds on screen while it draws. Press
Export for a still to post, or take Embed code from
the same tray when your page wants the live map with the distance figure under it.
Click an airport on the map and its card shows the code, the airport's name and the city it serves.
A trip with several legs
Type the stops in the order you flew them and Voyarc joins them up:
SYD-SIN-LHR-JFK is one route of three legs. Separate trips go one
per line, or separated by commas. Where each one carries on from the last
(SYD-SIN-LHR, LHR-JFK), Voyarc still reads the whole list as one trip.
That is the Journey show, and it opens on it: the camera follows the trip leg by
leg, dwelling at each stop and pulling back at the end for the reveal. A long
itinerary is compressed to fit the 40-second cap, so a month of flying still
plays as something people watch to the end. Send it out as an MP4.
While a show plays the panel folds into a strip with Stop and a progress line. Drag or pinch the map at any point and the camera is yours; press Follow on the strip to hand it back, and either way the show finishes on its reveal: Journey, Network and the Year in review close on the end card, Race and Trace hold on the finished drawing instead. At the end the strip offers Replay, Export and a chevron that brings the panel back; tapping the strip anywhere else does too, and Export opens the panel on the export tray. On a phone the live view is the preview: the first time a show plays on a screen 640 px or narrower, a route wider than the screen is tall asks you to turn the phone sideways, and it asks once per browser. The 9:16 export in the tray is not a picture of that screen but the film redrawn for a phone feed, with heavier lines and bigger type.
A whole logbook
Use Import CSV beside the route box. There is one rule: a from column and a to column. Most spreadsheets of flights already have them, and a Flightradar24 “My Flights” export imports as it comes. The FAQ lists the shapes. Routes you flew more than once collapse into counts, so ten Sydney to Melbourne flights become one arc marked ×10 and ten flights in the totals. When the dates span more than one year, a year picker appears and you can map one year at a time. A logbook does not read as one trip, so it opens on the Network show: every route flies at once and the camera settles on the finished map. The panel totals the routes, the legs and the distance flown. The free tier maps the first 25 unique legs of an import; Pro maps the whole logbook. On either tier, one import stops at 500 unique legs.
No logbook handy? Download the sample logbook: three years of flying for an airline that does not exist, out of airports that do. Import it and the year picker has something to pick from.
A year in review
Import a logbook with a date column and another show, Year, joins the panel's Show row. It plays one year of your flying back to you a month at a time: January's flights take off together, the camera frames them, a caption names the month, and the lines stay on the map as February arrives, so the year builds up in front of you. It closes on a card of the totals: the year, the flights, the routes, the airports, the distance, and the longest leg you flew.
Tap Year and Voyarc picks the newest year in the file and narrows the map to it; the year picker beside the import report switches to any other year in the logbook, and the show follows. Only the months that flew get a chapter, so a quiet year is a short film. Free reviews run up to 40 seconds and Pro up to 90, which is the room a busy year needs.
With Pro, the import report offers Add to my logbook: one press files every dated flight in the file into your saved logbook, counts and all. Undo sits beside the notice if that was the wrong file, and Remove beside any year under Saved, in Collections, takes that whole year of flying back out. Open on the map, beside the logbook in Collections, brings the whole of it back as routes with the Year in review ready, so the year after, the review runs without importing anything.
Nothing to import? Download the sample logbook, import it, and press Year: its most recent year flew in seven months, which comes out as a 40-second review on the free tier.
A real flight you flew
Open the flight on FlightAware and take its Export to Google Earth link, export a GPX from your own logger, or take a Flightradar24 flight CSV, the per-flight download from the flight's playback page (not the My Flights export). Import the file under Track, in the panel's Map row. It is read in your browser and never uploaded (the formats are in the FAQ). Voyarc draws the track in grape, moves the map onto it, and pulses Fly for the next press. For an A-to-B flight it finds the nearest airport to each end and replaces your route list with that one pair, drawn dashed as the great circle it flew. The legend switches on, titled with the flight's name, or the file's if it carries none, so the two lines are told apart. The Race show sends both planes off at the same airspeed, so the real one lands late by exactly the distance it went out of its way. The track card in the panel prints the flown distance, the great circle, and the extra as a figure and a percentage. Race and Trace close with no end card: a short hold on the finished drawing, then the Replay strip. A track that lands where it took off, the same airport or within a few kilometres of it, has no great circle to race, so it gets the Trace show instead: the route list empties, and one plane flies the flown path and draws it as it goes while the camera holds on the whole picture, for 12 to 30 seconds depending on its length. Close in, the Night and Day marbles go soft, so the map shows Dark or Light instead and says so. No file to hand? Take our illustrative Perth to Rome sample track.
To see how it comes out before you try it: the race on the Examples page.
The rest of the panel
Flat and Globe, on the panel's Map row, are a control rather than a setting you live with: press either at any point and the map, the show and the link follow.
Colours, under the same row, paints the routes. Auto gives each one a colour from the palette; Custom hands you a swatch per route, an All swatch that paints the whole network one colour, and a Reset back to Auto.
Legend puts a key in the corner of the map. Turn it on, give it a title of up to 60 characters, and caption each route in your own words (routes that share a colour share a caption); on a Journey it can list the legs with their distances instead. An imported track switches it on for you, titled with the flight's name, or the file's if it carries none; the title and the captions stay yours to change. It is drawn into every export and it rides in the link, so whoever opens the link reads the same key.
Rings draws range circles around an airport: a radius you type in your own units, or an ETOPS figure — 60, 120, 180 or 240 minutes — at the diversion speed beside it. Drawing them is free; Pro puts them in the file.
Copy link, on the bar at the foot of the panel, hands you the
whole map: routes, colours, legend, rings, look and show. A link over 120
characters is shortened to a voyarc.app/r/… address, which is
what an imported logbook always needs.
Under Saved, Recent keeps the last 10 route lists this browser typed, so yesterday's map is one press away. Clear empties it, and none of it leaves the device.
Exports at a glance
Every file is sized for a phone feed, whichever ratio you pick: the route lines are drawn heavier and the codes, labels and legend bigger than the live map shows them, so the map still reads at timeline size. A map carrying dozens of airport codes is the exception: its codes settle back toward the live size, so they do not crowd each other. On 9:16 the stamps are laid out clear of the top and bottom of the frame, where Reels, Shorts and TikTok put their own chrome.
- PNG. A still of the map as it stands, in 16:9, 1:1 or 9:16. On the globe the still is a globe when every route, ring and track fits on the face you can see; a set that wraps past the edge exports flat and the export tray says so.
- MP4. The show as video, up to 40 seconds, encoded in your browser. Network, Journey, Race, Trace and the Year in review all export this way, with the same ending the live show has, so a Race or Trace file carries no end card. A review runs to 90 seconds on Pro.
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Embed code. An iframe of the live map: your route link with
embed=1added. Readers can drag it and press play. Embeds stay free and carry the wordmark.
All of it is free, in every aspect ratio, with no sign-in. Free files carry the Voyarc wordmark and come out at a 1080p short edge; Pro takes the wordmark off the exports, sends them out at 4K, and puts the Day and Night imagery (NASA Blue Marble and Black Marble) and your range rings in the file. The last line of the export tray keeps the choice yours: tick it and a Pro file carries the wordmark anyway. The full comparison is on the Pricing page.