Movement, on your terms
Choose private location history on iPhone or Watch. Review routes, meaningful stops, and travel patterns, with export and retention controls. Recording starts only when you enable it.
Features
Built for the long haul.
Everything you need to record a lifetime of travel, and nothing that gets in the way. Local-first, private, and free.
The atlas
A real satellite globe, in Apple Maps.
The home surface is a live globe: zoom out for a satellite Earth with the stars behind it, zoom in for streamed streets, terrain, and points of interest, with your countries painted on top.
- Tap any country or region to open its story; a Reset brings the globe home
- Mark countries, states and provinces, cities, and airports
- Fill or outline in your lens colors, with states colored individually
- Label with country names or flags, float waving state flags, or turn labels off
- Pin where you live, and see where your friends live too
Built around your life
More ways to keep your story.
Describe your changes
On supported devices, type or speak the places you want to add or change. Apple Intelligence works on your device, and you review the proposed changes before saving.
A toolkit for the journey
Explore world clocks, Sun & Moon, flight distance, currency conversion, tips, and country preparation. Optional online information has its own controls.
Mapsake 1.16
A little intention. A richer story.
These app features require version 1.16 or newer.
Goals with room to grow
Choose the places you want to discover and give yourself a year, a few months, or a longer chapter. Your progress follows the new places you visit.
Remember how it felt
Privately rate countries, regions, cities and airports. Remember the food, atmosphere, safety, people, and the details that made each place yours.
More ways to bring it together
Import GPX routes alongside JSON, CSV, Excel and HTML. Find Travel Games inside Memories, and see Visited, Lived and Next counts together in your inventory.
New: Maplight
Your photos light up the world.
Swipe left on Atlas to reveal a private world of permanent discoveries built from Apple Photos and Immich, with no live GPS tracking.
- Soft 5, 10, or 15 km clearings over a dim Apple Maps globe
- Estimated land area, Earth percentage, countries, continents, origins, and source totals
- Year-by-year playback, four achievements, Passport cards, and a short vertical reel
- Exact origins stay private; Friends see totals and public links use generalized illumination only
New: Constellations
Your memories, connected.
Mapsake privately studies the photos on your map and discovers connections between distant places: the doorways, coastlines, light, and seasons you keep returning to.
- Chart your sky and watch each constellation form live
- Match-cut cinema plays a connection full screen, one place dissolving into the next
- Keep or dismiss threads; your sky becomes a Passport card
- Analyzed entirely on your device, never uploaded
Color by data
Your travels, as a heatmap.
Swipe the lens picker to a second set of views and your map shades itself by your own data, with a clear legend on every view, and the same map is shareable from your Passport.
- Photos taken, recency of your last visit, or time spent
- Log or linear shading with discrete swatches
Photos on the map
Pins where you took your photos.
Zoom in and a pin appears at every spot you took a photo. Tap one to flip through those shots full-screen, then share or copy any of them.
- Each photo shows its date, camera, location, altitude, and speed
- Adjustable pin zoom level, or turn pins off
- Matched to places entirely offline, nothing leaves your device
Maplight
Light up the world from photos
See permanent photo discoveries, estimated land coverage, history, achievements, and privacy controls.
Photo Explorer
Search the whole journey
See natural-language search, private organization, collections, maps, and timelines.
Rewind
Relive a year in travel
Turn the year already in your atlas into a private, shareable recap.
Next lens
Map the places still ahead
Keep countries, regions, cities, and airports on a visual travel bucket list.
Travel journal
Start with years of history
Turn photos, dates, places, and notes into stories without beginning from an empty page.
Compare
Choose the right travel app
Compare Mapsake with focused maps, live trackers, itinerary planners, and travel journals.
Record & import
Get to a full map, fast.
Bring your history in from the tools you already use, then keep it current with optional background sync that grows your map as you travel, with notifications you control.
- Photos turned into places by a built-in offline gazetteer
- Filter by device, altitude, speed, and minimum photos per place
- Background sync for Photos, Immich, and NomadList
Plus Skratch, FlightRadar24, and the Visited app. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML, with backup and restore. Built for big libraries: even an 80,000-photo map rebuilds in seconds.
Passport
Share-ready stats, in a tap.
Colorful, swipeable cards capture your percent of the world, continents, flags, time spent, and per-lens breakdowns, each rendered to a beautiful image and recolorable to your taste.
- A spinning-globe card you can share as a looping reel video
- Body Clock cards: jet lag, time zones crossed, and your longest day
- Scan real passport stamps into collectible books and a stamp wall
- Rewind, a year-in-review reel, and filters by region or year
Achievements
More than 200 to discover.
Continents, country groups like the G7, NATO, and the EU, nature and economics themes, and travel milestones with bronze to platinum tiers. Tap any one for the full story and a map of where it spans, with the countries you're still missing glowing.
Friends
Follow each other's travels.
A feed of the new places friends add and the achievements they unlock. Add a friend with a private invite link, a QR code, or someone nearby; their map opens fully interactive. Compare head to head, see who leads each continent, and turn on home sharing for a pin where each of you lives. Maplight sharing stays off by default and sends friends totals only. You can also publish a read-only web map anyone can open in a browser, and unpublish anytime.
Everywhere
Beyond the phone.
One atlas, synced over your private iCloud across every screen.
iPhone & iPad
Apple Watch + complication
Home, Lock & StandBy widgets
Ambient Atlas on iPhone, iPad, Mac & TV
Synced across your devices
Make it yours
Yours, down to the details.
Your look
Light, Dark, and System themes, alternate app icons, and lens colors that recolor the whole app.
Your language
Thirteen languages: English, Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, and Simplified Chinese. Choose your language in system settings.
Lives where you do
Siri and Shortcuts, Spotlight search, an iMessage app, and a public web link for sharing your map.
Count it your way
Choose how countries are counted, and how transcontinental ones are handled.
Works offline
Search countries, regions, cities, and airports instantly, even with no signal.
A guided start
A friendly walkthrough introduces every tab, replayable any time from Settings.
Travel DNA
Six trait axes resolve your travels into an archetype, with the evidence behind it and a helix card to share.
Memories
On This Day resurfaces where you were, and Then & Now pairs photos of the same spot years apart.
Fast at any scale
Built and benchmarked against 80,000-photo libraries; every release is held to a measured baseline.
All of it, free.
No ads, no subscriptions, no account. Just your travels, beautifully kept.
