Fig. 01 - The cover
Cover with your trip's name
Trip title, dates, who was in the car, total miles and plate count - rendered in the field-guide style with an "Est. 2026" stamp.
you can rename it before printingWith the full releasenot yet in beta
Field Guide
Your trip,
Your trip,
printed.
After the trip, Switchback lays out the whole journey - the route, the photos, the plates you caught, who won what - as a real printed book and ships it to your door.
The printed book arrives with the full release - it's not in the beta yet. Start logging trips in the TestFlight beta now, and the book follows when Switchback launches.
the drive is the adventure →
$29 softcover · $69 hardcover
Ships in ~2 weeks
TestFlight beta Summer 2026 · books ship after the first trips.
01What's in the book
~40 pages of your trip,
laid out for you.
A real, full-color, full-bleed book - auto-generated on your phone from everything Switchback already captured during the drive. No layout work for you. One fixed template for v1; choose softcover or hardcover.
Fig. 02 - The route
The route, with photos drop-pinned
The actual road you drove, rendered as a field-guide map. Photos appear where you took them. If you opted location off, it shows a states-visited map instead.
it's your drive, not a stock mapFig. 03 - Plates spotted
Plates spotted, with state shields
Every plate the kids caught, stamped onto a US map with the per-state fact you saw in the app. Unlisted finds (the "report-a-plate" wildcards) get a page too.
Mara got Hawaii at 11pm in FlagstaffFig. 04 - Kid-by-kid pages
A page each, per kid
Each child gets their own spread: their bingo card, scavenger list, plate count, and the wins they're proudest of. Photos they took show up under their name, in their voice.
no one is "and the rest"Fig. 05 - The journal
Journal entries in their own voice
Logbook entries, dated and attributed to the kid (or parent) who wrote them - paired with their photos. Handwritten captions stay handwritten on the page.
"dad missed the exit on purpose"Fig. 06 - Stats & patches
Stats and patches earned
The numbers (miles, plates caught, states visited, days on the road) plus every embroidered-style patch the crew unlocked. The back colophon carries a tiny QR home.
grandparents flip straight here02Pricing
Two ways to put it on the shelf.
When the book launches with the full release, you'll order at most one per trip - or none. Switchback never auto-bills you, never holds your photos hostage, never charges to "unlock" the book preview. Shipping will show at checkout before you pay.
Softcover
$29~40 pages · full color
The everyday keepsake
- Full-color, full-bleed photo pages
- Same content as the hardcover
- Ships in roughly two weeks
- Reprint anytime - the file is yours
The keepsake
Hardcover
$69~40 pages · full color · bound
The one that stays on the shelf
- Cloth-textured hardcover binding
- Heavier paper, premium color
- The grandparent-gift edition
- Ships in roughly two weeks
When it ships, you'll order one only if you want it - the trip's yours either way.
Shipping is paid at checkout (you'll see the total before paying). US-only at launch; international as the print partner's routing opens up. Books ship after the TestFlight beta wraps (target: late 2026). If a book arrives damaged or misprinted, we reprint at no charge.
03What it isn't
No traps. No locks.
No subscription. No ads. No tracking. The book is how Switchback stays in business - so it has to be a book worth buying. That's the whole accountability loop.
Not a subscription
One book is one purchase. There's no monthly tier, no auto-renew, no "premium book" upsell. If you don't want it, you pay nothing.
No DRM, no lock-in
The preview is the full book, generated on your device. You can export the PDF and reprint it yourself anywhere, anytime. We don't hold the file.
Your photos stay yours
Photos live on your device. They sync to the rest of your crew only end-to-end encrypted - scrambled before they leave, readable only on a family phone, never by us. At order time, the print partner gets exactly two things: the print-ready PDF and the shipping address, so they can mail the book. Nothing more.
No upsell ladder
Two products, one price each. We're not nudging you toward an annual plan or a "deluxe" edition that locks the good pages behind another paywall.
04Next stop
Take a trip first.
The book follows.
The app the book is made of is in TestFlight beta now. Get on the beta and start a trip - the book follows from the miles you drive.
No accounts. No spam. Just the app.