Passage vs Alight Map

Every journey deserves to be remembered. Passage is a beautifully crafted photo app that overlays accurate transit information and elegant route maps directly onto your travel photos. Whether you are cruising above the clouds or watching the landscape roll past a train window, Passage turns each picture into a personalized travel story, helping you share memorable trips with friends, family, and the wider social media community. In addition to Flight and Railway modes, Passage now lets you draw Road Routes for your car trips too! Whether you're flying above the clouds, riding the rails, or driving the open road, every journey can become a personalized travel story worth keeping and sharing. Key Features Trip Recap Image – Combine up to 8 photos and your route in one image. Freely adjust the photo layout and title to keep your travel memories together. Route Map Overlay – The app automatically reads the Exif GPS data embedded in any photo and generates a stylish map that connects your departure and arrival pins. The map style adapts seamlessly to light and dark mode, ensuring a clean, modern look on any device. Travel Info Overlay – Add essential details such as flight or train numbers, operator names, departure dates, times, and full route information. All data is rendered as a sleek text layer that blends naturally with the photo's composition. Railway Info & Route Map – Record the railway company, date, time, and departure/arrival stations right on your photo. For Japan's railways, Passage can even draw the full route map, from the Shinkansen to limited express and local lines. Road Route Overlay – For road trips, Passage draws a road route map connecting your departure and arrival points, complete with the date and time, beautifully overlaid on your photo. Works With Past Photos – No need to capture a picture at the exact moment of travel. Import any existing photo from your library, and Passage will extract GPS coordinates to create a complete travel card instantly, allowing you to organize your past journeys anytime. Preserves Your Album Timeline – Saved images retain the original capture timestamp and GPS location. This means your device's photo album stays perfectly chronological, and you can search by date, location, or airline/railway later without disrupting your library. How It Works Choose a photo – Open any picture from your camera roll or take a new one. Automatic detection – Passage reads the Exif GPS data and suggests the most likely transit route. Customize – Add or edit the flight/train number, operator, date, time, and any personal notes. Save – The overlay is saved as a high-resolution image that retains the original metadata, keeping your album timeline intact. Perfect For Everyone who loves to travel, by air, rail, or road. Travelers looking for a unique, design-forward way to document their trips. Aviation and train fans eager to showcase airline, train, and route details. Social-media lovers who enjoy sharing beautifully designed travel memories. Anyone who values an organized photo album that reflects real travel chronology. Privacy Photo overlay maps are rendered offline on your device. Gallery and trip recap images use Apple Maps online for maps and routing. Images stay on your device unless you share or send them. The developer cannot access them. The internet is also used for Apple’s native geocoding (coordinates to place names) and place search, ads, and fully anonymized analytics. Why Choose Passage? Seamless integration with your device's native photo library. No internet connection required for high-resolution overlay generation. Output perfectly optimized for printing, postcards, or sharing on Instagram, Threads, X (Twitter), and other platforms. Lightweight, fast, and beautifully designed for both casual travelers and power users. Get started today and turn every journey into a story worth sharing. Download Passage for free and start creating beautiful travel cards in seconds.

Alight Map reads the places your photos already remember, and lights up every city you've walked — one by one — on a world map that belongs to you alone. No check-ins. No travel logs to keep. Your photos have been quietly recording where you've been all along; Alight Map simply brings that memory to light. YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR MAP • Every photo with a location becomes a ray of light on a dark, night-sky world map • Cities shine brighter the more life you've left in them • Open any city's archive: the years, the places, the visits, and every photo you took there A WEEKLY POSTCARD • Four numbers from your week, drawn as a small constellation • Share the card, or save it back to your library RELIGHT THE PAST • Old photos without coordinates? Search the city and set their light on the map yourself, by hand PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Everything is computed on your iPhone • We read only the time and place each photo carries — your photos never leave your device • No accounts, no uploads, no tracking The map only Alight Map can draw is the one you've been drawing your whole life.