A private alternative to the "Been There" app

"Been" (often searched as "Been There") is a well-known travel tracker: you tap the countries you have visited and it shades them on a map, then shows what share of the world you have covered. It is a tidy idea, which is why many people go looking for it by name.

Two things tend to send people hunting for an alternative.

• The selection is manual. You choose every country by hand, from memory, which is slow and easy to get wrong.
• Some trackers ask for an account or an email before you have seen much. If you would rather keep your travel history to yourself, that is friction.

A more private way to build the same map

You do not have to remember and tap every country. Your photo library already carries a date on every shot you took while travelling. A private map can read those dates, and the places your photos store, on your phone and lay your trips out in order, so the map fills in from real evidence rather than from memory, and you correct anything that does not fit.

• No account and no analytics; the map lives on your phone, and optional sync goes through your own private iCloud.
• No location permission; it reads the dates and places already stored in your photos, never where you are now.
• A country and continent counter, so you can see how much of the world you have covered.
• Sharing means sending a stats card as an image, never the underlying data.

What you give up, honestly

There is no live "where am I now" trail and no social feed, by design. If real-time shared journeys are the point, a live tracker such as Polarsteps is built for that. If the goal is a private map of everywhere you have been, the photo approach gets you there without the account or the tracking.

How Visited Countries helps

Visited Countries uses photo-library dates and manual additions to build a private map, and describes a country and continent counter alongside it. Manual additions cover trips your photos never captured. For the same tap-each-country experience as "Been" but in a browser, the free countries-visited counter counts your total and your share of the world with no account. See how many countries have I visited and how your map is built.