PassportTracker vs Globetrail
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PassportTracker
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PassportTracker is a beautiful, private travel journal built around a fully animated passport. Stamp every country you've visited, attach geotagged photos as proof, and watch your passport fill up — all entirely on your device. No account required. No subscription. No ads. Pay once, it's yours forever. FEATURES - 229 countries, territories, and islands — including Corsica, Sardinia, Hawaii, the Galápagos, and French Polynesia as their own entries - Animated passport that opens, flips between pages, and tilts with your device - On-device photo verification — attach a photo to a stamp and PassportTracker checks the GPS metadata to confirm you were there - Achievements — earn badges as you explore more of the world - Sort and group your stamps by year, continent, or alphabetically - Your passport reflects your home country — cover design, emblem, and colours match your real passport PRIVACY Everything stays on your device. Your name, countries, photos, and passport details are stored locally and never transmitted anywhere. There are no servers, no analytics, and no third-party SDKs. To delete your data, just delete the app.
Globetrail
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Every country you’ve been to, filled with its own flag. Globetrail turns your travels into a map you’ll love to look at, helps you remember every trip, even the ones you forgot, and shows you where to go next. Tap a country to mark it, or let Globetrail find your past trips in your photos. No account, no sign-up: your travels stay on your iPhone and in your own iCloud. THREE MAPS, ONE WORLD • Globe: a realistic Earth to spin, with your countries lit up • Planisphere: a flat map where every visited country wears its flag • Detail: Apple Maps, down to regions, cities and the places you’ve seen A PAGE FOR EVERY COUNTRY, REGION AND CITY Facts, capital, languages and currency, Wikipedia in your language even offline, and everything you saw there. Mark a city and its region and country follow. COLLECTIONS, UNESCO AND WONDERS The complete UNESCO World Heritage List, more than 1,200 sites, and ten collections to complete: the new seven wonders of the world and of nature, peaks, volcanoes, waterfalls, lakes, deserts, national parks, islands and coasts, iconic monuments. Each one has its trophies. TRIPS FOUND IN YOUR PHOTOS Globetrail reads only where and when your photos were taken, right on your iPhone, and rebuilds your trips. Keep a diary with stops and dates, and turn the places you want to go into a plan with a countdown. YOUR YEAR IN TRAVEL Every December, your year told in stories and in a globe video made on your iPhone, ready to share. MADE TO SHARE A passport with a stamp for every country, a poster of your map to print, photos with your flag or your flight as an overlay, and a QR code or link to compare countries with a friend. STATS AND TROPHIES Continents, percentages, streaks and a timeline of your years, more than 90 trophies and Game Center leaderboards. ON THE ROAD • Arrival Notice: land in a new country and Globetrail asks whether to mark it • Nearby: the UNESCO sites, wonders, cities and countries around you that you haven’t visited yet ALWAYS AT HAND Widgets for the Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy, your trip as a Live Activity, an Apple Watch app with complications, Siri and Shortcuts, Spotlight, and a Control Center button that marks the country you’re in. FREE AND PRO Free, with no limit on what you mark: countries, regions, cities, UNESCO sites and collections, the three maps, every country page, stats, trophies, widgets, Apple Watch, iCloud sync, your year in travel, comparing with friends and up to three trips in the diary. Globetrail PRO, as a subscription or a one-time purchase, adds the Earth, Antique paper, Ink and Neon map styles, an unlimited diary with all your photos, the full photo import with regions, cities, places and every trip, all the photo overlay templates, the printable passport and poster, PRO statistics (distances, extremes, languages, currencies and your percentile), alerts near UNESCO sites, wonders and collection places, four alternative app icons and sharing without the Globetrail mark. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking. Your travels stay on your device and in your iCloud; Globetrail only sends anonymous usage statistics, which you can turn off in Settings. In 11 languages, on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PassportTracker at none against Globetrail's 3. PassportTracker also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Globetrail sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. PassportTracker asks for nothing beyond the download.
PassportTracker ships an update weekly, Globetrail every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PassportTracker | Globetrail |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 116 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dawn Giles | Aumatex srls |
In-app purchases
PassportTracker
No in-app purchases
Globetrail
- PRO Monthly$2.991 Month
- PRO Yearly$11.991 Year
- PRO Lifetime$29.99









