[whyhellothere]

I was really impressed by your app.

I have travelled a lot in the past and this would have been great for keeping people up to date (especially facebookless elderly relatives).

With this in mind, I think you should do away with the free option and up your premium price.

Edit: younger backpackers go travelling for long periods of time, their parents would think nothing of shelling out $5 /month to be kept in the loop!

[supo]

Thanks :)

Do you think that a free 1 month trial + only premium afterwards would work better in this case than a freemium model?

We figured that there could be a large segment of casual day-trip travelers who like to share a story in a more optimized interface than on facebook. Probably many of these will not pay, but could serve for spreading the word through the freemium model and make the marketing easier.

[whyhellothere]

I don't claim any specialist knowledge re:pricing (so bare that in mind while weighing up my response).

I'm not sure about the 1 month trial thing (I think your demo is strong enough that people will understand what your apps about). I get that you want people using it, then when they can't live without hit them up for some money, but you may be cutting your market in half as i'm sure there are a lot of people who travel for 2 weeks who would use your app for that period of time.

As for day-trippers, won't they just use facebook or flickr? I thought your app was better for proper journeys as you can include elements other than photos (google maps etc).

One last thought: My older relatives always used to make physical scrap books of their travels (with photos / tickets / maps etc) in them. A possible extra/alternative source of income could be to sell the physical version of their online "story" (again not necessarily for them to keep, but to give to other relatives)