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Odyz vs other travel tracker apps and Apple Photos
Odyz is a free travel tracker for iPhone and iPad that builds your trips, routes, timeline and digital passport from the photos already on your phone. Here's what it does that other travel apps and Apple Photos don't.
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What's the best app to track where I've traveled?
If you don't want to log anything by hand, Odyz. Most travel tracker apps make you check off countries yourself or record a trip while you're on it. Odyz does the work for you: it reads the location and date in the photos already on your iPhone and automatically builds your trips, routes and timeline, going back years. It covers every city in the world, keeps a multi-page digital passport of your stats, needs no account, and its core tracking is free.
Odyz, other travel apps and Apple Photos, side by side
| Feature | Odyz | Other travel tracker apps | Apple Photos |
|---|---|---|---|
| Builds your travel history from your photos | Yes, automatically | Usually no: you check off places or log trips by hand | Shows photos on a map, without turning them into trips |
| Trips from before you installed it | Yes, years back, the first time you open it | Added by hand, one by one | No trip history |
| Routes tracked automatically | Yes | Only while live tracking is on during the trip | No |
| Automatic timeline of every trip | Yes, organized by year, with photos from each city | Built by hand | No; some trips show up as Memories |
| Every city in the world | Yes, plus all 193 UN countries and many more territories | Often countries only, or cities behind a paywall | No city or country tracking |
| Digital passport | Yes, multiple pages: continents, countries, cities, share of the world explored, trips, days traveling, photos and distance traveled | Usually a country count or a percentage | No |
| Compare your travels with friends | Yes, passports side by side on one world map | Rarely | No |
| 3D map of your trips | Yes, a 3D city tour with your photos pinned where you took them | Usually a flat, colored-in map | A flat map of photo locations |
| Collectible landmark stamps | Yes, one for every place you visit | Rarely | No |
| No account, processed on your device | Yes | Often need an account and keep your trips online | Yes |
| Price | Free, no ads; core tracking is never behind a paywall | Often ads, or key features behind a subscription | Built in, with no travel features |
"Other travel tracker apps" means the most popular travel tracking and countries-visited apps on the App Store, as of October 2026. Apps change: if something here is out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.
What sets Odyz apart
- Nothing to log: your trips, routes and timeline are built from the photos already on your phone
- Your past trips are there from day one, going back years
- Every city in the world, all 193 UN countries and many more territories
- A multi-page digital passport with your continents, countries, cities, share of the world explored, trips, days traveling, photos and distance traveled, in light and dark modes
- Compare passports with friends on one world map
- A 3D city tour with your photos pinned where you took them
- A collectible landmark stamp for every place you visit
- No account or email address; your travel history is processed on your device
- Free, with no ads; Odyz Pro is optional
Why is Odyz better than other travel tracker apps?
Most travel tracker apps are either checklists, where you tap the countries you've been to and keep the list up to date yourself, or travel journals, where you start tracking when a trip begins and add photos to it by hand. Both only know what you tell them. Odyz already knows: it reads where and when your photos were taken, so your whole travel history, every trip, route and city, is there the first time you open it, and it keeps itself up to date as you take new photos. You don't need an account, and nothing important is locked behind a subscription.
Odyz or Apple Photos: do I need an app?
Apple Photos shows where your photos were taken on a map. Odyz turns the same photos into travel history: it groups them into trips, tracks your routes, builds a timeline by year and counts every continent, country and city you've been to. On top of that you get a multi-page digital passport, a 3D city tour of your photos, passports to compare with friends, and a landmark stamp for every place. Like Photos, it works on your device, with no account.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best app to track the countries and cities I've visited?
Odyz builds your travel history for you. It reads the location and date in the photos already on your iPhone and automatically creates your trips, routes, timeline and digital passport, covering every city in the world and all 193 UN countries plus territories. There's nothing to check off by hand, no account to create, and the core tracking is free.
Can Odyz add trips from before I installed it?
Yes. Odyz works from the photos already on your phone, so any trip you took photos on, from last month or ten years ago, shows up on your map, timeline and passport the first time you open the app.
Why use Odyz if Apple Photos already shows my photos on a map?
Apple Photos shows where your photos were taken. Odyz turns the same photos into travel history: it groups them into trips, tracks your routes, builds a timeline by year, counts your continents, countries and cities, and keeps a multi-page digital passport with stats like share of the world explored, days traveling and distance traveled, plus a 3D city map and a landmark stamp for every place.
Do I need an account to use Odyz?
No. Odyz doesn't need an account or an email address, and your travel history is processed on your device.
Is Odyz free?
Yes. Odyz is free to download, with no ads, and its core travel tracking stays free: unlimited countries, regions and cities, with no limits on years or historical data. An optional Odyz Pro subscription adds custom themes, home screen widgets and exclusive travel icons.
The short version
Other travel apps make you log your travels. Apple Photos shows them on a map. Odyz builds your whole travel history for you, with trips, routes, a timeline, every city and a digital passport, from the photos you already have.