Support & FAQ

iOS wakes the app through the significant location change service when you have moved a long way. Stamp Days hands that point to Apple's reverse geocoder, gets a country back, closes the visit you were on and opens a new one.

You do not have to open the app for this to happen. That is what the "Always" location permission is for.

Fix it by hand. Open the History tab, tap the visit, and change the entry or exit date. If a trip is missing entirely, add it with Add Past Visit and set the dates yourself.

This is expected rather than a fault. The app infers a crossing from your phone's movement, so a short hop over a border, a phone that was switched off, or a stretch with no signal can all end up logged late or missed. The history is editable for exactly that reason.

So the count carries on while the app is closed, which is the whole point of it. A tracker you have to remember to open is a tracker you will forget to open.

The app asks for "When In Use" first, behind a button you tap, and only asks for "Always" afterwards. If you grant "When In Use" only, the country updates when you open the app rather than on its own.

It uses the significant location change service, which is the low power option iOS provides for this. It wakes the app when you have moved a long distance instead of following GPS continuously, so it costs far less than a navigation app does.

Yes. Turn Manual Mode on in Settings and pick your current country from the list. With manual mode on, the app reads no location data at all.

The map, the history, the backfill and the stats all still work. You enter the trips yourself instead of having them detected.

Only if you enter them. Apple's geocoder answers with a country and never a state, so there is nothing for the app to detect a state from.

You can record a state on a visit yourself, in the same place you edit or backfill a trip.

Yes, over any date range. Use Add Past Visit, pick the country, set a start and an end date. The app tells you how many days that adds and previews the entry before you save it.

There is no limit on how far back you can go. The free version includes the first five visits you add by hand, and Stamp Days Plus, a one-time purchase, removes that limit.

Import from Photos, which is part of Plus, can also rebuild past trips from the places your photos were taken. It reads only the location and date of each photo.

The small, medium and large widgets show the current country and its day count, and the medium and large add your total countries, total days and countries this year. They read the same local data as the app through an app group on the device.

They refresh when the app records a change and on the schedule iOS gives widgets, so they can trail the app by a short while. Open the app if you want the two to agree right now.

Yes, since version 1.7, with Stamp Days Pro. The Schengen count shows how many days you have left in any 180-day period, the last day you can stay and when your full 90 days come back. It checks whether planned trips fit, reminds you with a local notification before your last day, and shares a border report of your stays. Tax Days shows your days in each country for every tax year, including the UK, Indian and Australian tax years, with midnights, travel days, the longest stay and the US substantial presence test, and shares a PDF or spreadsheet with your tax adviser.

Both are off until you turn them on and choose the date to count from. They are planning aids, not legal or tax advice. The app does not know your nationality, your visas or any residence permit, it infers crossings from your phone's movement, and the record at the border is what counts. Check the numbers against your own stamps and tickets where the difference matters.

Stamp Days is free to download. Automatic tracking, the map, your history, day counts, On this day, the summary stats and the widgets are free, along with the first five visits you add by hand.

Stamp Days Plus is a one-time purchase, $4.99 in the US App Store, that adds Import from Photos, the charts, unlimited hand-added trips and data export. Stamp Days Pro is $9.99 a year with a 3-day free trial and adds Schengen 90/180, trip planning and reminders, the border report and Tax Days to everything in Plus. It renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the period, in your Apple Account settings.

If you bought the original one-time Stamp Days Pro, Schengen and Tax Days are included at no extra cost. If you downloaded the app before it had any purchases, you keep Plus. There is no advertising.

Your travel history stays on your device. Stamp Days has no server, no account, and no analytics.

Country names come from Apple's own location services, which is the one request the app makes to anything outside the phone. The privacy page sets out what that covers and what it does not.

Delete the app. Your countries, visits and settings live in its own store on the device and go with it.

To stop it reading your location but keep the history, switch automatic tracking off in Settings, or withdraw the permission in the iOS Settings app.

No. Stamp Days is an iPhone app and is not built for iPad. There is no Mac or Apple Watch version either.

It needs iOS 18 or later.