Pastport
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 at launch, 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.