Everywhere you've been is already in your pocket.
Your photos have been recording where you stood for years. far reads them on the phone, in the app, and hands you back the globe.
Three things happen. You do one of them.
There is no setup, no import, no signing in. You point far at the library you already have.
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You let far look at your photos.
One permission prompt, and that's your part done. far scans the library on the phone. Files are never copied and never sent — it only reads the date and the location tag.
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It works out where you were, and when.
Every photo carrying GPS becomes a country and a date. Borders come from Natural Earth, so Hong Kong, Macao, Liechtenstein, Vatican City and San Marino all count as their own.
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Then you start collecting.
The globe fills in. Cities and landmarks appear inside each country waiting to be ticked off, badges unlock, and far starts suggesting what is next door that you have never been to.
All of it is built. All of it runs on the phone.
These are screens from the app as it stands, not drawings of one.
Your world, as an object.
The globe is the home screen. Countries you have been to fill in solid; the rest stay pale. A counter rides above each continent. Spin it, pinch it, tap any country and go in.
One button flattens the whole thing into a world map, with a dot for every city and landmark you have picked up along the way.
Every country is a page worth reading.
Open one and far tells you what it knows: how much of it you have collected, the months actually worth going, the weather there right now, the local time and how far off yours it is, and the cities inside it still waiting.
Best time to visit — May, June, July.Computed from two years of measured temperature and rainfall. Not an opinion.
The list behind it is the collecting mechanic: 241 countries and territories, each with its own cities and landmarks and its own percentage still to fill.
And the parts that keep you going.
A title, a level, a number
Countries, cities, places, journeys, days on the road, and the exact percentage of the world you have covered.
Nine illustrated badges
First Steps through to Ultimate Traveler. The locked ones stay grey behind a padlock until you have actually been.
One button, four ways on
Add a country by hand, plan the next trip, rescan the photo library, or cut a clip — all from the same place.
Something worth posting
A card of your world and a 9:16 clip, both rendered on the phone, sized for stories without cropping.
Visas for your passport
Set your nationality once. Every country page then says whether you can walk in or need a visa, and links to the official government source. The dataset updates itself.
Live travel advisories
Straight from the U.S. State Department, with the level and the date it was issued — not a number someone typed in last year.
Trip planner
Name where you are going and far shows you which neighbouring countries you have never collected, so one trip can become two.
Your travel history never leaves the phone.
This is not a policy written to be survivable in court. It is how the app is built. There is no account, no server holding your data, and nothing to leak.
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No upload
far reads the date and GPS tag attached to your photos, on the device, and works out the countries from that. Photo files are never copied or transmitted — far only ever shows them back to you out of your own library.
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No account
There is nothing to sign up for and no email to hand over. Your countries, trips, cities, badges, wishlist, nationality and profile picture sit in one file inside the app on your phone.
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No server
We hold no copy of any of it. We have no way to see it, sell it, lose it, or be compelled to produce it.
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Real deletion
Settings → Delete all my data erases every trace from the device immediately. Deleting the app does the same. There is nothing left for you to ask us to remove.
What does leave the phone, honestly: anonymous requests for public information — landmark photos and descriptions from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, advisories from the U.S. State Department, climate from Open-Meteo, exchange rates from Frankfurter. Each request carries the name of the place being looked up. Never your identity, never your location history, never your photos.
Processing follows the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection and, where it applies, the GDPR. The full text is on the privacy page, and the same words are inside the app so you can read them offline.
There is no catch to explain.
far costs nothing to download and nothing to keep. No trial that runs out, no tier behind a wall, no advertising, and nothing about you sold on — there is nothing about you to sell.
It can be free because there is almost nothing to run. No server, no storage, no accounts to look after. Your map lives on your phone, and that is the whole architecture.
Put the map back in your pocket.
Everything on this page is built and running. Point far at the photos you already have and the last ten years of your life turn into a globe.
Free · iPhone only · nothing leaves your phone.
- Free No tier behind a wall, no trial that expires, no advertising.
- iPhone Built for iOS and nothing else, using the photo library you already have.
- On device No account, no server, nothing uploaded. Your map never leaves the phone.
farapp.app — collect the world.