# Placelore — Journal the places you visit > Journal the places you visit (iPhone/iPad app by Yucheng Hu.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/placelore/id6767613390 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Yucheng Hu](https://appshunter.io/developer/1896492842) - Category: Lifestyle - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 2 MB - Languages: English, Chinese - Released: 2026-05-12 - Data updated: 2026-06-25 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/placelore/id6767613390/reviews.md ## What is Placelore? Placelore is a private place journal for your real life. It runs quietly in the background, notices when you've actually settled somewhere, and turns each stay into a place you can name, revisit, and write about. No check-ins. No feed. No friends list. Just your own log of where you've been. WHAT IT DOES • Detects places automatically from how long you stay, not from what's nearby. • Lets you rename, recategorize, or merge places so the log matches how you actually think about them. • Attaches journal entries and photos to each place — a quick note from a coffee shop, a longer entry from a trip. • Counts visits and tracked time so you can see your real-world patterns over a week, a month, or longer. • Shows your day on a map: the places you stopped, the path between them, and how long each stay lasted. • Sends gentle milestone notifications when a place reaches 5, 10, 25, 50, or 100 visits. • Categorizes places by type — Restaurant, Cafe, Gym, Park, and more — using Apple Maps, with custom categories you can add yourself. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT Most location apps want to broadcast where you are. Placelore is the opposite: it's a logbook you keep for yourself. The dwell-based detection means you only get places you actually spent time at, not every storefront you walked past. The journal and photo attachments turn raw location history into something worth looking back on. PRIVACY BY DEFAULT • All data is stored on your device. There is no Placelore server. • No accounts, no sign-in, no analytics SDKs, no advertising identifiers. • Your places, visits, photos, and journal entries never leave your iPhone unless you explicitly export them. • Background location is used only to detect dwell time. You can pause tracking for 1, 4, or 24 hours from inside the app. • You can delete every place, visit, photo, and journal entry from Settings at any time. CONTROL • Set the minimum stay duration that counts as a real visit (default: 30 minutes). • Pause and resume tracking whenever you want. • Export your raw location samples as CSV for your own analysis. • Delete individual places or wipe everything from Settings. REQUIREMENTS • iPhone running iOS 17 or later. • "Always" location permission for passive background detection. • Camera and Photos permissions only if you choose to attach pictures. Placelore is for people who want to remember their own life, quietly. If that's you, give it a try. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.4.0 — 2026-06-14 [codex] Enable release feedback batch uploads by @ychu824 in #149 Optimize data queries and async operations for performance by @ychu824 in #150 fix(capture): always-available Home FAB + clearer DI capture button by @ychu824 in #151 chore(feedback): gate prediction-feedback feature behind a runtime flag (off) by @ychu824 in #152 docs(privacy): reflect paused feedback uploads (no off-device data) by @ychu824 in #153 ### 1.3.1 — 2026-05-30 Show recently-visited short-stay places on the map by @ychu824 in #140 feat(capture): real Dynamic Island Live Activity + tappable capture fallback by @ychu824 in #141 Fix empty place picker when location is too coarse (corp WiFi) by @ychu824 in #139 Move camera affordance into Dynamic Island by @ychu824 in #142 ### 1.3.0 — 2026-05-28 fix(tracking): suppress duplicate visit when same place is already open by @ychu824 in #128 Simplify location sampling: remove synthetic floor timer by @ychu824 in #130 Reject GPS teleport outliers from day trajectory by @ychu824 in #132 Move totalVisits calculation to PlaceRanking model by @ychu824 in #133 fix(i18n): localize PlaceDetailView stats and chart titles by @ychu824 in #134 feat: logbook trip clusters (#112) by @ychu824 in #136 Home photo grid + pull-to-capture from Dynamic Island by @ychu824 in #137 ### 1.2.1 — 2026-05-20 Prevent duplicate dwell visit recording and improve duplicate detection by @ychu824 in #120 Place detail charts (#114) by @ychu824 in #121 Enforce time-floor cadence on raw location samples by @ychu824 in #122 Refactor quick capture UI to root level and simplify tracking view by @ychu824 in #123 fix(currently-at-card): dark-theme surface and buttons by @ychu824 in #124 fix(currently-at-card): hide stale card after user walks away by @ychu824 in #125 fix(map): break auto-fit feedback loop that froze the Map tab by @ychu824 in #126 ### 1.1.0 — 2026-05-17 feat(i18n): add Simplified Chinese (zh-Hans) localization by @ychu824 in #110 Redesign cluster annotation as glass pill by @ychu824 in #115 fix(i18n): translate %lld count format keys for zh-Hans by @ychu824 in #116 feat: currently-at hero card on Tracking screen by @ychu824 in #117 fix(settings): read app version from Bundle by @ychu824 in #118 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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