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, hands you back the globe, and gives you a passport to fill with stamps.
Every country is already waiting in there.
Give it a spin. Each lit dot is a country far knows, with its cities, its places, its animals and its food. Yours fill in as you go.
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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, a stamp lands in your passport. Cities and places 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 — visited, wished for, and the countries with a warning on them, each in its own colour.
Every country is a page worth reading.
Open one and far tells you what it knows: the months actually worth going, the weather there right now and the local time, whether your passport needs a visa, what things cost in your own currency, what to wear where it matters — and, if something is happening there, the official advisory and any live hazard alert.
Best time to visit — February, March, April.Computed from two years of measured temperature and rainfall. Not an opinion.
The list behind it is the collecting mechanic: 238 countries and territories, each with its own cities and landmarks and its own percentage still to fill.
And the parts that keep you going.
Your world, at a glance
A title, a level, and the counts: countries, cities, places, journeys, days on the road, and the exact share of the world you have covered.
A passport that fills with stamps
Every country you have been to gets its own ink. Six stamps a page, and you turn the pages like a real one.
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, money, what to wear
Set your nationality and your currency once. Every country page then says whether you need a visa, shows prices in your money, and notes where more covered clothing is expected.
Safety, live
Official travel advisories and live natural-hazard alerts — eruptions, storms, floods — on every country page and on your map. If it changes for a country on your wish list, far can tell you.
Trips you are planning
Put a date on a dream trip and far reminds you three days before and on the morning you leave. It also shows which countries you have never been to are easy to reach from where you are.
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, passport, wish list, 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. The backup goes to your own iCloud, through your Apple ID, not to us.
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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 — place photos and descriptions from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, advisories from the U.S. State Department, hazard alerts from GDACS, climate and weather from Open-Meteo, exchange rates from ExchangeRate-API. 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.
Collecting is free. Knowing is Plus.
The globe, your world map, every country you mark, the passport that fills with stamps, badges, the share card and the iCloud backup — free, with no trial that runs out and no advertising. Nothing about you is sold on; there is nothing about you to sell.
far Plus adds the part that saves you work before a trip: visa rules for your passport, prices in your own currency, the best months to go, live weather, official travel advisories and hazard alerts, the country guide — animals found only there, nature, famous events, food to try — and reminders before a planned trip.
- Free foreverGlobe & world map · countries, cities, places · passport with stamps · badges & levels · share card · iCloud backup
- far PlusVisa · your currency · best time & weather · advisories & hazard alerts · animals, nature, events, food · trip reminders CHF 3 / month · CHF 15 / year · CHF 25 once, forever
The first three countries you open are fully unlocked, so you can see what Plus is before paying.
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 Collecting the world costs nothing. Plus is optional, from CHF 3 a month.
- iPhone Built for iOS, in English and German, using the photo library you already have.
- On device No account, no server, nothing uploaded. Your map never leaves the phone.
www.gofarapp.com — collect the world.