Visited Countries

Your countries, painted from your photos.

Visited Countries turns the dates and places in your photo library into a private map of every country you've visited. Open the app and your map is already filled in, with no typing and no sign-in.

iPhone and iPad, iOS and iPadOS 26.1 or later

Features

You ask: Hey Siri, what was my favourite country in 2024?

The app answers: According to your photos, it was Thailand.

A map that fills itself in
Visited Countries reads the dates and places your photos store and paints every country you've been to on one world map.
Countries and continents, counted
See how many countries and continents you've reached, and what's still waiting.
Your travel timeline
Your history, year by year and month by month. Add any trip your photos missed by hand.
A passport worth sharing
The Digital Passport sums up your stats on one card. Share it as an image, never as your data.
Insights with Flags Premium
See the places your photos say you love most, your real counts and streaks, the year everything changed, and your pace toward the next country.

Questions

Does Visited Countries track my location?

No. It reads the location saved in your photos and matches it to a country with maps built into the app, on your device. It doesn't track where you are, doesn't run in the background, and never uploads a photo.

Do I need an account?

No. There's no account and no sign-up. If you're signed in to iCloud, your map syncs privately to your other devices through your own iCloud account.

A country is missing. What do I do?

Add it by hand. A trip you didn't photograph, or photos without a location, leave a gap that a manual add fills.

What does Flags Premium add?

Insights: the places your photos say you love most, real counts and streaks, the year everything changed, and your pace toward the next country and the next milestone.

How do I delete my data?

Delete the app to remove the data on your device. To remove the synced copy, open Settings, tap your name, tap iCloud, tap Manage Account Storage, choose the app, and delete its data.

Guides

How can I make a map of countries I have visited?
The three ways to make a countries-visited map — manual, live-tracking and photo-based — what a good countries-visited app should do, and how to keep the record private.
What makes a travel map app private?
A checklist for evaluating whether a travel map app relies on GPS, a cloud account, a social feed or a private on-device record.
What makes a good travel map app?
How to choose a travel map app when you want a useful record without treating every trip as social content.
Can I keep a travel record without GPS tracking?
A private alternative to continuous location tracking for people who want to reconstruct a travel history from evidence they choose.
How many countries have I visited?
A practical, personal way to count countries visited without pretending that one travel definition is universal.
Is a digital scratch map app worth using?
What a digital scratch map adds beyond a paper map, and the privacy questions worth asking before you build one.
What is a countries-visited counter app?
A useful countries-visited counter should let you keep a personal total, make corrections and stay clear about what the number means.
A Polarsteps alternative that doesn't track you
Polarsteps positions itself as an automatic trip tracker with an account. If you want the map without the live tracking and the cloud, here is a private alternative built from your photos.

All guides

Tools

Countries visited counter
Tick the countries you've been to and see your total, your share of the world, and a count for each continent. Count the 193 UN member states, or add the observer states and well-known territories.