Better Vacationsby LifeScape
You took the trip.Now tell the story.
Your trip, your people, your footage, all told your way. Not another camera roll nobody scrolls through: a story the whole family can watch together, for years.
A Better Vacation
The Bennetts Take Italy
See what you'll make
Twelve days. Three generations. One promise kept.
Grandma Jo waited twenty-five years to see the Amalfi Coast. Her family finally took her. Watch how their photos and videos became a story they'll play at every holiday from now on.
Watch the sampleA made-up family, filmed with stock footage. Under 90 seconds.
What's a Momentary? A highlight story under 90 seconds. All the meaning, none of the filler. Nobody wants to sit through the two-hour version; everyone rewatches the moments that matter. Tell one, or tell many.
Free · 3 story arcs for Better Vacations
A moment isn't always a story. An arc makes it one.
From our Journal: Storytelling Is an Art: Why Having an Arc Matters · How to film it on your phone
What makes it different
A camera roll shows where you went. A Better Vacation shows why it mattered.
Hundreds of photos across five phones. Videos nobody's watched since. Better Vacations brings them together into a story with a beginning, a middle and an end.
Why you went
The anniversary, the promise, the bucket list, the reunion. Every trip starts with a reason.
Getting there
Packing night, the airport, the long drive, the first look out the window.
We made it
The first view, the first meal, the moment it finally felt real.
The best of it
Favorite days, food and fun, and the unplanned moments nobody saw coming.
Coming home
The last night, what it meant, and what everyone will remember.
The best shot of the trip is on somebody else's phone.
Invite everyone who went. They upload their favorites, add a line about what was happening, and you shape it into scenes. The person behind the camera finally gets to be in the story too.
How it works
1
Start your Vacation
Name the trip, add where and when, and who went. You become the StoryKeeper.
2
Invite the travelers
Everyone on the trip adds the photos and videos from their phones, so no one is missing from the story.
3
Shape the story
Review everything, keep the best, and put it in scenes: getting there, the best days, coming home.
4
Watch it together
Press play and relive the whole trip like a short film, with music, captions and title cards.
Your trip stays with the people who were there.
Private by default
Only the people you approve can watch it, unless you choose to share it with everyone.
You approve every viewer
People ask to follow your trip, and you decide. Remove anyone at any time.
You review every upload
Fellow travelers can add photos and videos, but nothing appears until the StoryKeeper says yes.
Everyone's camera roll, one story
No more fifty group texts. Every traveler's best moments end up in one place.
Questions travelers ask
How is this different from a photo album?
An album shows what you saw. A Better Vacation tells the story: why you went, who was there, what happened along the way, and what it meant. It plays like a short film.
Can everyone on the trip add their photos and videos?
Yes. Invite the travelers and they upload from their phones. You review everything before it appears.
Who can see it?
Only the people you approve. You can make it public if you want, and change that any time.
Do I have to do it during the trip?
No. Most people build it in the week after they get home, while the memories are fresh. You can also add as you go.
Some trips deserve more than a camera roll.
Gather everyone's footage this week, while the memories are still warm.