If you use Been and want something that works differently, the main difference with Globestamp is how your map gets filled. Been's App Store listings describe marking countries yourself; Globestamp reads where your iPhone photos were taken and finds the countries for you, including old trips, with no account. Been has things Globestamp doesn't, including an Android version, so the right pick depends on how you like to keep your list.
First: which Been?
Several apps on the US App Store are named "been". The two compared here come from two different developers:
- been by VINCI Apps, with its website at getbeen.app.
- been: track visited countries by Prostachki Ltd, with its website at been.travel.
They look alike in search results but they're separate apps with separate features, so the table below shows both. Check the developer's name under your app's title to see which one you have. Everything here comes from each app's own listing and website as they read on 13 November 2026.
Been and Globestamp side by side
| been (VINCI Apps) | been (Prostachki) | Globestamp | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark countries by hand | Yes | Yes | Yes, hold any country |
| Finds countries from photo locations | Not stated | Not stated | Yes, on the iPhone |
| US states and regions | US states; regions in 25+ countries with Premium | Yes | Yes |
| Cities and airports | With Premium | Yes | Yes |
| Choose which list counts | Not stated | UN members, every territory or your own list | 193 UN, all 250, TCC's 330 (Pro), your own (Pro) |
| Account | Not stated | Sign in with Google or Apple to sync | No account |
| Compare with friends | Yes, with friends who have the app | Yes | Yes, by a link, no account |
| Trip video | Timeline as a video (Premium) | Not stated | A short film of any trip, cut to music |
| Widgets | Yes | Not stated | Yes |
| Export to a file | Not stated | Not stated | CSV, PDF, KML, GeoJSON |
| Android | Yes | Yes | No, iPhone only |
The real difference: who does the remembering
With a tap-to-mark map like Been, you do the remembering. You open the map, think back, and tap each country. That's fast if you've been to a dozen places and you're sure of them. It's harder when you've traveled for twenty years and the details blur: was that weekend in Bratislava or Budapest? Did the drive from Nice really cross into Monaco?
Globestamp starts from the evidence instead. It reads the location saved with each photo, privately on the iPhone, and turns it into a list of countries. Its rules are strict about what counts:
- A country counts when one of your photos was taken on its ground.
- A photo taken from a plane never counts.
- Photos only at an airport make a transit stamp in lighter ink, counted only if you count layovers.
- One or two photos right at a border ask you first.
Anything it isn't sure of waits on a "To check" card until you decide. And you can still add, take off or change any stamp by hand, so trips without photos aren't lost. If you're wondering whether a change of planes should count at all, does a layover count as visiting a country? walks through the arguments.
The catch is that photos only know what they recorded. Pictures taken with location off, scanned prints and trips before smartphones leave no trace. Why some of your iPhone photos have no location explains the gaps, and how to find every country you've been to from your iPhone photos shows how to read them yourself, with or without an app.
What Been does that Globestamp doesn't
Being fair about it:
- Android. Both Been apps link to Android versions from their websites. Globestamp is an iPhone app, so if you share a map with someone on Android, Been is the one that works for both of you.
- Travel inspiration. Prostachki's site describes browsing cities and their highlights, as seen by other travelers, to pick where to go next. Globestamp has a bucket list of 48 things, but no city guide.
- Sign-in sync. Prostachki's Been keeps your data in its cloud when you sign in, so you get it back by signing in on any new phone. Globestamp has no account; it keeps your data in your iCloud, with a backup.
- Several maps in one app. VINCI's Premium Mode adds local profiles, so one phone can hold more than one map. Globestamp offers family passports (Pro).
What the privacy labels say
From each app's App Store page, as written by the developer:
- been (VINCI Apps): Data Used to Track You: Usage Data. Data Linked to You: Identifiers. Data Not Linked to You: Usage Data, Diagnostics.
- been (Prostachki): Data Not Linked to You: User Content, Identifiers, Usage Data, Diagnostics.
Why a travel tracker without an account is worth looking for explains what those headings mean.
Moving your list over
You don't have to start from zero. Let Globestamp scan your photos first, then compare its list with your Been map. For anything missing, Globestamp takes a list pasted from any tracker, so you can type or paste your countries in one go. How to move your visited countries from one app to another covers the name traps, such as Czechia and Türkiye, that make totals disagree.
Expect the totals to differ a little even then. Been lets you decide what counts; Globestamp's rules leave out plane photos and, unless you count layovers, airport-only stops. Decide which list you count by, too: 193, 195, 250 or 330 gives four different numbers for the same trips.
The names of both been apps are trademarks of their owners; Globestamp is not affiliated with either of them.