Comparison

Driftlog vs Countries Visited Map ‎

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Driftlog

This app automatically logs your travel destinations, including countries, cities, and dates, even when closed. It organizes your journey with photos and provides visual maps and timelines of your adventures. Enjoy a private, ad-free experience with a one-time purchase.

Highlights
  • Automatic country and city logging
  • Hands-free travel diary
  • Trip photos linked automatically
  • Visual map of visited locations
  • Year-by-year travel timeline
  • Private, on-device storage
Features
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Driftlog fills in your travel map by itself. No account, no ads, no subscription: it is free to download, and one purchase unlocks everything. YOUR OLD TRIPS ARE ALREADY IN YOUR PHOTOS You do not have to start from today. Tap import once and Driftlog reads the location that is already saved inside your photos, then puts those trips on the map with their dates. Years of travel can appear in a minute. It reads the location tag on a photo. It never looks at the picture itself. If the location history your phone used to keep is gone, this is the thing to try. Your photos usually still remember where you were. AND IT KEEPS GOING FROM TODAY Turn on location once and leave it. Driftlog records the countries, cities and regions you pass through while it sits closed in the background. No check-ins. No writing anything down. Open it after six months and the map has been filling itself in the whole time. WHAT YOU GET - A world map that colors itself in, country by country - A passport with a landmark stamp for every country you have visited - A timeline by year, down to the cities you stayed in and the dates - Memories: where you were on this day a year ago, and the year before that - A welcome back recap when you get home - Trip and year cards you can share WHAT IT COSTS Free to download. Free forever, for everyone: the world map, the passport stamps, your country count, the timeline. Free in full at home: the first three regions you visited in your home country (prefectures, states, provinces). Every city, stay date and linked photo in them, without paying anything. Free abroad: your first foreign country, in full. That is the oldest one in your history. From the second foreign country and the fourth home region onward, the details (dates, cities, notes, photos) open with one purchase. Those places still color in your map and count toward your totals. The price is shown on this page. You pay once. No subscription, no ads, no account. WHAT LEAVES YOUR PHONE Your records stay on the device. There is no account and no server behind this app. No ads, no tracking, and the App Store privacy label says Data Not Collected. Place-name lookups do go out, and it is worth saying plainly. To turn coordinates into a name like "Lisbon, Portugal", the coordinates are sent to Apple's map service, and when you type a city name to add a trip by hand, that name is sent to find where it is. That is all that is sent. Not your history, not your photos. BEFORE YOU START Automatic recording needs Location set to Always, with Precise Location on. Nothing is recorded while your phone is off. Without a data connection (roaming off, for example), Driftlog still notes the country you arrive in, except near borders, and adds the city name once you are back online. The photo import only sees photos that carry a location. Photos taken with camera location switched off are invisible to it. You can add a location to them later in the Photos app: select them, tap the info button, then Add Location, and run the import again. The import also needs Photos access set to Full Access. On Limited Access it only looks at the ones you picked. A place counts as a trip when it has 3 or more photos on one day, or photos spanning 2 or more days and at least 6 hours apart, so a late-night landing plus a photo after midnight is not counted as an overnight stay. Shorter stops are treated as layovers and left out. Your home area is excluded by default, inside a radius you can change in settings. iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 or later. Portrait only. Made by one person. Wander. It logs the rest.

About

Countries Visited Map ‎

Visually track your travels by coloring in countries and regions you've visited on a beautiful map. Log places as been, want to go, or lived, and see your exploration progress. Collect flags and relive your journeys with a dated timeline.

Highlights
  • Color in visited countries
  • Track states, provinces, and cities
  • Collect country and state flags
  • View dated travel timeline
  • Syncs across devices with iCloud
  • Export data as CSV or JSON
Features
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Every trip, on one beautiful map. Countries Visited Map turns everywhere you’ve been into a living record of your travels. Mark a country the moment you land, watch your world fill with color, and see how much of the planet you’ve explored. COLOR IN YOUR WORLD * Mark places as Been, Want to Go, Lived, or Layover * Watch your map fill in as you travel * Choose from six map styles, including satellite and a clean monochrome look YOUR TRAVEL PASSPORT * Track your progress across countries, US states, and continents * See the percentage of the world you’ve explored * Tap any stat to browse every place you’ve visited BEYOND COUNTRIES * Track states, provinces, cities, airports, and layovers * Add your own custom places anywhere in the world COLLECT EVERY FLAG * Build a wall of country and US state flags * Each flag lights up in full color when you visit RELIVE EVERY TRIP * See a dated timeline of your travels, year by year SYNCED AND YOURS * Your map automatically syncs across devices with iCloud * Back up and export your data anytime as CSV or JSON FREE TO START Track countries free, forever. Upgrade once to Passport Pro to unlock states, provinces, cities, airports, custom places, data import and export, and more. One payment. No subscription. Yours forever. Share with your family. Start mapping your world today.

Screenshots

Driftlog4 screens
Countries Visited Map ‎4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Driftlog at none against Countries Visited Map ‎'s 1. Driftlog also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Countries Visited Map ‎ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Driftlog asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Driftlog against 5.0 for Countries Visited Map ‎. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Driftlog ships an update every 3 days, Countries Visited Map ‎ every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Driftlog versus Countries Visited Map ‎: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDriftlogCountries Visited Map ‎
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews77.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAkira TakashimaZaffles

In-app purchases

None

Driftlog

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Countries Visited Map ‎

One-time1
  • Countries Visited Supporter$7.99

Questions

Is Driftlog free?
Driftlog is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Countries Visited Map ‎ free?
Countries Visited Map ‎ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Driftlog or Countries Visited Map ‎?
Driftlog and Countries Visited Map ‎ are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Driftlog or Countries Visited Map ‎ have ads?
Neither Driftlog nor Countries Visited Map ‎ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Driftlog or Countries Visited Map ‎?
Driftlog ships an update every 3 days, and Countries Visited Map ‎ every 2 months. Most recently, Driftlog was updated on October 20, 2026 and Countries Visited Map ‎ on October 21, 2026.

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