Your camera roll becomes a passport of every country you’ve been to. Read on your iPhone, with no account.
Every photo carries the date and the place it was taken. Postmark reads them on your iPhone, finds your trips and stamps every country you were in. There is nothing to type and nothing to sign up for.
Photos from a plane never count. Higher than 9,000 metres or faster than 400 km/h, and it stays off the map.
Airport stops are yours to decide. Photos taken only at an airport make a transit stamp, which counts only if you say so.
Home is a seal, never a pin. The country you live in counts as Lived. Where you live is never shown, only the country.
Bring the rest. Add trips from Google Maps Timeline, the flights in your calendar, Flighty or Polarsteps, or add a country by hand.
Count it your way. Every country and territory (250), the 193 UN members, or the UN with its two observers (195).
Keep it. Your passport is kept in your own iCloud, with a backup file and exports in CSV, KML, GeoJSON and PDF.
Japan’s landing permission, Korea’s ring, Thailand’s date wheel, the Schengen box. Each country keeps one design for good, with its name in its own script, inked the way a rubber stamp inks.
As in the app: the face comes down large and out of focus, lands, and the ink spreads from the side pressed hardest.
A stamp’s finish comes from one number: how many international visitors its country receives in a year. France prints in plain ink. Kiribati, with about 12,000 visitors, prints in light.
Visitor figures: UN Tourism, through the World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Every country also has a postage stamp of its own land, engraved from real elevation, shown here in its finish.
The places in your photos become stamps too, on album pages of their own, with the best-known ones you haven’t seen yet left as empty spaces.
World Heritage sites are cachets with their year of inscription. Parks, volcanoes, peaks and ski resorts are round stamps of their real ground, rarer the further they are from a city. The eight Wonders print in Prism.
Stay 30 days or more in a country that isn’t home and its page gets a visa sticker, printed on security paper with a hologram laminate and two machine-readable lines.
VISAS
Every visa page hides a print of its first country’s land. Tap the paper and the book goes under the lamp: the page goes dark and the print glows.
Every passport starts in Classic navy. The others open as you travel, each with a foil press of its own, and a cover you’ve earned is never taken away.
The Director reads a trip’s photos on your iPhone, picks the best and cuts them to the beat of a song that’s cleared to share. Then change anything in the Studio: tap what you see in the film to edit it.
Your card is your passport’s data page. Send it as a link or show its code, and your friends’ passports stand on your shelf in their covers. No account, and no server in between: the passport travels inside the link.
A friend without Postmark opens your link and sees your passport on a page that keeps nothing.
Six chapters, from Far from home to Close to home. Half of them tick themselves from your photos, and a finished chapter is pressed in foil.
From 1 December, your year as a story of up to twelve pages, with cards to share.
Every word of the app, set in Rubik.
Widgets for the Home Screen and the Lock Screen: your count, your flags and what’s new this year. Five app icons to choose from, all free.
The passport, every stamp, the covers, the bucket list and your year in stamps are free. Postmark Pro takes the postmark off your films and adds the Neon world, all twelve tracks, unlimited re-exports, the travel-days tools and family passports.
