If you use Visited and want something different, the clearest difference with Globestamp is where your list comes from. Visited is built around marking places yourself and planning from more than 150 travel lists, and its website says it doesn't read your photos' metadata; Globestamp reads where your iPhone photos were taken, privately on the phone, and finds the countries for you, with no account. If lists and itineraries are what you use Visited for, Globestamp won't replace them.
Everything below about Visited comes from its App Store listing and website as they read on 13 November 2026.
Visited and Globestamp side by side
| Visited | Globestamp | |
|---|---|---|
| Mark countries as been, lived or want to go | Yes | Yes (Been there, Lived there, Want to go) |
| Finds countries from photo locations | No: its site says it doesn't read photo metadata | Yes, on the iPhone, photos never uploaded |
| States, regions and cities | Yes, regional maps for over 20 countries | Yes, regions and states, cities |
| Travel lists to tick off | Over 150 categories | A bucket list of 48 things; landmarks, wonders, World Heritage Sites and national parks as globe layers |
| Itinerary planning | Yes | No |
| Disputed territories | A setting for sovereignty | You decide which country a disputed place counts for |
| Map style | Flat map, Mercator or Equirectangular | 3D globe |
| Printed poster | Yes, printed and shipped | A poster or book of your countries to print (Pro) |
| Account | Sign-up saves your data on its servers | No account |
| Ads | Its site lists "Removal of Ads" as a premium feature | No ads |
| Export to a file | Not stated | CSV, PDF, KML, GeoJSON |
| Android | Yes | No, iPhone only |
Two different ideas of a travel app
Visited is a planner as much as a tracker. Its listing describes lists such as African safaris, castles, wine regions, Formula One circuits and whale-watching spots, an itinerary feature that ranks countries by how many of your wished-for places they hold, travel notes by country, and "experiences" such as where you've skied or snorkeled. If your habit is to open the app to decide where to go next, that's its strength.
Globestamp is about the record. It looks back through your photo library, finds the countries you've actually stood in, and sorts them: Lived (a home was there), Stayed (photos on two days or more) or Visited (photos on one day). On top of the count it adds days in every country, how far you've flown, your top countries and cities with a photo of your own on each, a stamp for every country, and a short film of any trip. Planning is limited to the "Want to go" mark and the bucket list.
Photos: two honest positions
This is the difference worth thinking about. Visited's FAQ says it has no GPS tracking and doesn't read the metadata of your photos, which can contain location. That's a clear privacy stance: the app only knows what you type in.
Globestamp takes the opposite route but keeps the reading on the phone. It reads where each photo was taken, on the iPhone, and photos are never uploaded. Its rules decide what counts: a photo from a plane never counts, a photo more than 25 km out at sea never counts, and screenshots never count. The few places the photos weren't sure of wait on a "To check" card until you decide.
Which suits you comes down to one question: would you rather type your history in, or have it found? If you go the photo route, check first that your iPhone has been saving locations: how to make your iPhone save where each photo was taken shows the setting, and how to find every country you've been to from your iPhone photos shows what the photos can and can't tell you.
Where your list lives
Visited's FAQ says entries are saved to your account and that signing up keeps your data on its servers, so you can reach it from any of your devices. Globestamp has no account: your data stays with you, kept in your iCloud with a backup, and you can export it as CSV, PDF, KML or GeoJSON at any time. Why a travel tracker without an account is worth looking for weighs the two approaches.
Visited's App Store privacy label, as written by its developer, lists Data Linked to You: Contact Info, Identifiers, Usage Data; and Data Not Linked to You: Usage Data, Diagnostics.
Switching, or using both
You can keep both. Globestamp takes a list pasted from any tracker, so you can copy your countries over and then let the photo scan add any you'd forgotten. How to move your visited countries from one app to another covers the cleanup. If it's the lists you'd miss, how to make a travel bucket list you'll actually finish is a good place to rebuild one, and if you liked Visited's posters, see how to make a poster of the countries you've visited.
Visited is a trademark of its owner; Globestamp is not affiliated with it.