Pastport
Every country you've been, stamped on a globe
Pastport reads the GPS already saved in your photos and lights up each country you've set foot in. Spin it. Your whole travel history becomes one object you can hold.
Travel memory · iPhone
Your photos already remember every trip. Pastport puts them on a map.
Pastport quietly reads the GPS-tagged photos already in your camera roll and turns them into a living globe of everywhere you've been. Trips are detected automatically, day by day, right on your iPhone.
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Free · iOS 17+
Private by design
Photos never uploaded
No account, no tracking
Your world, remembered
See it in action
Watch a camera roll become a travel memory.
These are real screens from the app, built from the photos already on an iPhone.
Trips appear. You didn't log a thing
Weekend escapes, long hauls, even the layover you forgot about. Pastport groups your photos into trips automatically, each with its dates, places, and photos.
Relive it day by day
Open a trip and walk it again, stop by stop: the cities and neighborhoods you moved through, in order, with the photos you took in each one.
Down to the exact places
Every stop opens into the actual spots: the cafe, the museum, the rooftop bar. Pastport labels the places inside each stop, so "what did we even do in Lisbon?" finally has an answer.
End with a card worth sending
Turn any trip, or your whole year, into a beautiful recap card and share it anywhere. Saving that card is the only time Pastport ever writes to your library.
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See your own globe
Everything above runs on the photos you already have. No account, no uploads, no logging.
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The one thing to know
Your photos are never uploaded off your phone.
There is no Pastport server, no login, and no analytics. Trip detection and keyword search run on your device; city and country labels use Apple's own reverse-geocoding, never a Pastport server. The privacy isn't a setting you turn on. It's the way the app is built.
Pastport
- Photos are read on your iPhone, and never uploaded
- No account to create, no cloud to sign into
- Saved trips work offline (maps and new place labels use Apple)
- Zero analytics or tracking SDKs
Typical cloud photo services
- May process your library on their servers
- Often require an account to use
- Often use a connection for some processing
- May include analytics, depending on the provider
How it works
Three steps. Then it just remembers.
No importing, no manual logging, no timeline to keep up to date. Pastport does the work from the photos you already have.
Step 1
Grant photo access
Give Pastport permission to read your camera roll. It only looks at photo dates and the GPS coordinates already embedded in them, never uploading a single image.
Step 2
Trips appear on your globe
Pastport groups your photos into trips automatically and drops each one onto a warm, spinnable globe: every country you've set foot in, stamped in orange.
Step 3
Relive and share
Open any trip for a day-by-day timeline with the places you visited, search across everywhere you've been, and share a beautiful recap card of your travel year.
Questions
Good to know
Is Pastport really private?
Yes. Pastport reads your photos entirely on your iPhone. There is no Pastport server, no account, and no analytics or tracking SDKs in version 1. Your photos and your saved trips are never uploaded to Pastport, and no one here can see them, because there's nothing to see. The only requests the app makes go to Apple's own services, to label places and draw maps.
Why is one of my trips missing?
Pastport builds trips from the location data saved inside your photos. If a trip's photos don't have GPS coordinates (for example, if location services were off for the camera, or the photos were sent to you rather than taken by you), Pastport can't place the trip on the map, so it may not appear automatically or may be incomplete.
Do my photos need to have location turned on?
To detect trips automatically, yes: Pastport relies on the GPS coordinates stored in each photo. Most iPhone photos already include this if you allowed the Camera to use your location. Keeping Camera location access on helps future photos include GPS data, which Pastport needs to detect trips automatically.
What if I only give Pastport limited photo access?
Pastport works with whatever you're comfortable sharing. If you choose "Select Photos" instead of full library access, Pastport builds trips from just the photos you pick, and you can add more anytime. Full access simply lets it find your trips for you, automatically.
Does Pastport work offline?
Mostly, yes. Detecting trips and browsing your saved globe work without a connection. The things that need the internet are Apple's map tiles, turning photo coordinates into city and country names the first time, and loading iCloud Photos originals if a trip's photos live in iCloud. The place labels get cached as you go.
How do I search my trips?
Pastport includes a fast keyword search across your trips: type a city, country, or place and jump straight to those memories. All of it runs on-device.
How much does Pastport cost?
Pastport is free, with no ads and no in-app purchases. If paid features are ever added later, you'll be asked to opt in. You'll never be charged automatically.
What do I need to run it?
An iPhone running iOS 17 or later. Pastport is an iPhone app: there's no account, no companion website, and nothing to set up beyond granting photo access.
Does Pastport ever change or delete my photos?
Never. Pastport only reads your photos to understand where and when they were taken. It doesn't move, edit, or delete anything in your library. The one exception is entirely up to you: if you tap to save a shareable trip card, that image is added to your Photos.
In development
What we're building next.
Pastport is actively developed. Here's what's being worked on right now, so you know where it's going.
Next
Dark mode
The whole app, and your trip cards, in a warm dark palette. Built so a card looks just as good at night as it does in daylight.
Next
Home screen widgets
Your country count and your filled-in world map, right on your home screen. Plus a photo from a trip you took on this day, years ago.
Next
Sharper places
Better at naming the exact restaurant, bar, or viewpoint a photo was taken at, not just the neighborhood. The single thing we're putting the most work into.
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Every trip you've taken, already waiting on your globe.
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Free · iOS 17+