It counts the days.
You just travel.
Stamp Days picks up a country change in the background and keeps the running count for every country you visit. The map, the history and the stats build themselves.
Stamp Days is a travel day tracker for iPhone, free to download, that counts how many days a traveller spends in each country. It picks up a country change without being opened, by listening to the significant location change service of iOS and then asking Apple's location services which country that point falls in. Each country gets a marker on a world map, sized by the days stayed, and each trip is stored with an entry date and an exit date in a history grouped by month. Any visit can be edited, and trips from before the app was installed can be added by hand over any date range, or rebuilt from the location tags and dates of photos with Import from Photos. The dashboard also shows where the traveller was on today's date in earlier years. The Statistics screen totals countries, days and the current streak, and charts days by country and top countries. A home screen widget shows the current country and its day count. History can be exported as a CSV, a JSON backup or calendar events. Manual mode sets the country by hand and uses no location data at all. US state tracking is manual for the same reason: Apple's geocoder answers with a country and never a state. The app cannot promise a complete record, because it infers a crossing rather than reading a passport stamp, and it is not a visa or tax tool: it counts days and leaves the rules to you. Travel history stays on the device, with no server, no account and no analytics. Stamp Days runs on iPhone with iOS 18 or later and is free to download. Tracking, the map, history, day counts, On this day, summary stats and the widget are free, and a single one-time Stamp Days Pro unlock, $4.99 in the US App Store, adds Import from Photos, the charts, unlimited hand-added trips and data export. There is no subscription and no advertising.
What Can Stamp Days Do?
It answers one question: how many days have I spent in this country?
The count keeps itself
iOS tells the app when you have travelled a long way. Stamp Days works out which country that is and picks the count up from there, with the app closed and your phone in a pocket.
A map you can read at a glance
One marker per country, sized by how long you stayed. Tap a marker for the days, the number of visits and the dates of every trip you made there.
Every trip, entry to exit
The history is grouped by month and shows both dates plus the length of the stay. Any entry can be corrected, which matters because the detection is a guess and not a passport stamp.
Backfill what came before
Add a trip you took years ago over any date range. The app tells you how many days it is about to add and shows a preview of the entry before you commit to it.
Stats that add up
Total countries, total days and the current streak on three tiles, then a days-by-country ring and a top-countries bar chart underneath. The summaries are free and the charts come with the one-time unlock.
A widget on the home screen
The country you are in now and the day count, without opening anything. It is part of the free app rather than a reward for buying something, and so is On this day.
On this day
The dashboard shows where you were on today's date in earlier years. It is free.
Import from Photos and export
Rebuild past trips from the places your photos were taken, reading only the location tags and the dates. Export a CSV of every day and visit, a full JSON backup, or calendar events. Both come with the one-time unlock.
Manual mode, no GPS
Turn automatic tracking off and pick your country from a list instead. Nothing about your location is read while manual mode is on.
No account and no server
There is nothing to sign up for and nowhere to sign in. Your travel history lives in the app's own store on your phone, and deleting the app deletes it.
Three Steps, Then You Forget About It
The setup is one permission prompt. After that the app has nothing for you to do.
Give it location access
The app asks for "When In Use" first, through a button you tap, and only asks for "Always" after that. Background access is what lets the count carry on while you are not looking.
Travel
iOS wakes the app when you have moved far enough to matter. Stamp Days turns that point into a country name, closes the old visit and opens a new one.
Check the number when you need it
The widget has the current country and day count. The History tab has every trip with its dates, and you can fix any of them by hand.
What Stamp Days Keeps Track Of
Four running totals, each of them built from the same trip history you can edit.
Where you have been
Every country with at least one recorded day, mapped and listed.
Days abroad
The sum of every visit, and the same figure split per country.
Days in a row
How long the current stay has been running, counted from the entry date.
Times you went back
Per country, the number of separate trips and the dates of each one.
See It In Action
Five tabs, and most of the time you will only look at two of them.
What Stamp Days Won't Do
It infers a crossing from your phone's movement. That is useful, and it is not the same thing as a record of where you legally were.
Catch every crossing
A short hop over a border, a phone that was switched off, or a day with no signal can all end up logged late or missed. That is why every visit in the history can be edited.
Tell you what you are allowed to do
It does not know your nationality, your visas or any country's rules, and it gives no legal or tax advice. It gives you a day count. What that count means is between you and the rule you are reading.
Detect a US state
Apple's geocoder answers with a country, never a state. You can record a state on a visit, but you set it yourself the same way you backfill an old trip.
Work without asking Apple
Turning a coordinate into the word "Portugal" means a request to Apple's location services. That part leaves the phone. Your travel history does not.
Who Is Stamp Days For?
People who need the number, and would rather not keep it in a spreadsheet.
Digital nomads
Keep a running count per country without logging anything by hand
Schengen 90/180 travellers
Have the day count in front of you when you go to check the rule
Expats and the 183-day rule
A dated history to bring to the person who actually advises you
Frequent business travellers
Entry and exit dates for every trip, grouped by month
Long-trip travellers
Watch the map fill in as you go, sized by the time you gave each place
Anyone keeping a record
Backfill the trips you already took and have the whole thing in one list
How Much Does Stamp Days Cost?
Free to download, with a single one-time unlock called Stamp Days Pro for $4.99. There is no subscription.
Free, with Stamp Days Pro as a one-time $4.99 unlock for the rest.
- Automatic tracking and unlimited countries
- The map, the full history, day counts, On this day and the summary stats
- The home screen widget
- Stamp Days Pro, $4.99 one-time: Import from Photos, the charts, unlimited hand-added trips and data export
- No subscription, just the one-time unlock
- No ads and no account
Free Online Tools
Browser-based tools for counting days and planning trips. No sign-up, nothing uploaded.
Schengen 90/180 Calculator
Add your trips and see how many of your 90 days you have used in the rolling 180-day window, how many are left, and the longest stay you could start on a given date.
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Stamp Days is free to download on the App Store. The support page covers how the detection behaves, what it misses, and how to correct it.