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Your iPhone saves a location and a date inside almost every photo you take. A handful of apps read that and fill in a map of the countries you've visited, with no ticking by hand: Country Count, Flags, MileAway, Photo Map, Atlasi, Mapsake, Stamp Days and Driftlog. The real difference between them is what happens next. Some stop at your photos. Others keep recording new countries as you travel, so the map stays up to date even when you take no pictures.
Where I stand. I make Driftlog, one of the apps on this page, so weigh what follows accordingly. I have tried to say where the other apps are the better choice. Country Count and Mapsake are free with no purchases at all, and Driftlog is not.
| App | What it does with your photos | Listed price (US App Store) | US rating (ratings) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Country Count: Travel Tracker | Counts the countries in your photo library and shades a world map. Timeline by year, a page per country, manual override. Offline, no account | Free. No in-app purchases listed | 5.0 (4) |
| Flags: Countries Visited Map | Countries and continents from photo dates and places, a timeline and a shareable passport. Says it does no GPS tracking. Requires iOS 26.1 | Free · Yearly Plan $19.99 for Insights | 5.0 (1) |
| Photo Travel Map: MileAway | Countries, regions and dates from your photos, a day-by-day travel calendar, badges. Requires iOS 26 | Free · Pro from $2.99, yearly $24.99, lifetime $49.99 | No ratings yet |
| Photo Map - Travel Tracker | Finds your trips in the photo library and groups them by country, state and province, with a favourite photo per place | Free · Explorer Pack $3.99–$7.99 | 4.7 (1,886) |
| Atlasi | Turns GPS photos into trips and a passport grid of 227 countries and territories, plus a photo quiz for friends and places saved from TikTok and Instagram | Free · Weekly $4.99 · Monthly $9.99 · Annual $49.99 | 5.0 (5) |
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These are the quickest way to a number: grant access to your photos and the map is there in seconds. The catch is that they only know what you photographed. A trip with no pictures, or with Location Services off for the Camera, does not appear unless you add it yourself.
| App | Photos, then what | Listed price (US App Store) | US rating (ratings) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Driftlog: Countries Visited (mine) | Rebuilds past trips from the location in your photos, then records countries, regions and cities in the background from today, with dates. No account, no ads | Free to download. Driftlog Premium $6.99, once | 5.0 (1) |
| Stamp Days: Country Tracker | Counts every country and every day you spend there, in the background. Rebuilds past years from photo locations. Schengen 90/180 and tax-year day counts | Free · Stamp Days Plus $4.99 · Stamp Days Pro $9.99 | No ratings yet |
| Mapsake: Photo Travel Map | Countries, regions, cities and airports from your photos on a 3D globe. Imports from Polarsteps, Visited, Skratch, Flighty and others. Route recording on iPhone or Watch if you turn movement on | Free. No in-app purchases listed | 5.0 (11) |
All three read your photos once and then carry on, so a trip you never photographed still lands on the map. They need location permission to do that, which some people would rather not give. They suit different people:
What is free in Driftlog. For new users, the first three regions you visit at home and your first foreign country open in full. Every other country still fills in on the map and in the count; its dates, cities and photos open with one purchase of $6.99, permanently. It reads only the location and date saved in each photo, never the picture. Your records stay on your phone; a coordinate is sent to be turned into a place name, and anonymous usage counts can be switched off.
WhereShot: Photo Location AI identifies a place from the picture itself, so it works on photos with no location saved. It can also build a map from the coordinates in your camera roll, as part of WhereShot Premium (a subscription). It has no ratings on the US App Store yet.
Yes, several. Country Count, Flags, MileAway, Photo Map, Atlasi, Mapsake, Stamp Days and Driftlog all read the location saved in your iPhone photos and fill in a map of the countries you've visited. Country Count and Mapsake list no in-app purchases on the US App Store.
Driftlog and Stamp Days record new countries in the background as you travel, and Mapsake can record routes and stops if you turn movement on. Country Count, Flags, MileAway, Photo Map and Atlasi build the map from photos only, so a trip with no photos needs adding by hand.
Country Count and Mapsake list no in-app purchases on the US App Store. The others are free to download with paid upgrades. If you only want the number without installing anything, the free Driftlog Counter reads the location in your photos inside your browser and uploads nothing.
None of them needs to upload the pictures themselves. Country Count, Flags, MileAway, Mapsake and Stamp Days say on their store pages that photo locations are read on the iPhone. Driftlog reads only the location and date in each photo, never the picture; it does send a coordinate to turn it into a place name. WhereShot is different: it can identify a place from the picture itself.
A photo only carries a location if Location Services was on for the Camera when it was taken. Screenshots, saved images and photos from some older cameras have none. Country Count, Flags and Mapsake say on their store pages that you can add a missing country by hand.
How this page was made. I make Driftlog, one of the apps on this page. Prices and ratings were read from each app's own US App Store page on 25 October 2026, and what each app does is what its store page says. I have not tested every app here. What I say about Driftlog is checked against its source code. If something here is out of date, the store page is the one to trust.