Best apps to track the places you have visited

These three never ask for your location, and two of them say so out loud. Visited's developer writes on visitedapp.com that they do not track your location, unlike other travel apps, and that there is no GPS tracking in the app. Been's and Stampie's App Store privacy sections list no location category at all. Treat that as a feature they chose, because that is what it is.

Been is the simplest of them: tap a country or a US state, watch a percentage of the world tick up. Free with ads, with a $2.29 premium unlock, $4.99 weekly or $19.99 yearly.

Visited goes wider. Countries, cities, regions and 175+ curated categories, so your record can be more interesting than a list of borders you crossed. Pro is $59.99, or $9.99 monthly, or $34.99 yearly, with single unlocks between $3.99 and $9.99.

Stampie turns every entry into a collectible stamp, over 1,000 of them, which is the closest thing here to a souvenir you did not have to walk to. Pro is a one-time $29.99, or $6.99 monthly, or $29.99 yearly. On both stores its ratings are still thin, 15 on the US App Store when we checked, so you are early.

Polarsteps tracks the whole trip by GPS without being asked and pairs the line on the map with a journal your family can follow. Free to download, with Plus at $9.99 monthly or $34.99 yearly. What it records is the route, not a verified list of individual places, which matters if what you want is a countable collection.

Google Maps Timeline is the one that costs nothing and is already installed. It is off until you turn it on, and once on, Maps saves your visits and routes automatically on each device you are signed in to. Google's help page also states plainly that Timeline is not available for Maps on your computer, so this is a phone feature.

You may have read that Timeline moved to storing history on your device with automatic deletion. The Google help page we checked on 9 September 2026 does not state that, so this page does not claim it either. If it matters to your decision, read Google's page yourself; it is linked in the sources below.

What that page does state is worth having anyway: Timeline is opt-in rather than on by default, and once it is on it logs in the background with no collect gesture at all. That is the real difference from everything else here. Nothing on your Timeline is something you decided to keep.

Souvenirs is the other end of the scale from a checklist. A souvenir sits at a real named place and claiming it usually requires being near the actual location, so the record is of somewhere you physically stood rather than somewhere you remember going. Free to download with a limited number of free claims; the Collectors Club is $8.99 monthly, $69.99 yearly or $99.99 for life.

Fog of World belongs in this list even though it collects nothing. It clears fog from a world map based on where you have actually walked, which is the most complete record here of physical movement, at $30.00 once and with no free tier at all. What it gives you is area, not a list of places, and it is the only app on this page you cannot try before paying.

If the record is a memory aid, a manual checklist wins easily. It costs the least, it works retroactively for the twenty years before you installed it, and it never sees your location. You can add Rome in 2011 because you were there in 2011, and nothing argues with you.

If the record is proof, only the GPS apps can offer it, and only for what they actually check. Souvenirs checks that you were near the place at the moment you claimed. Fog of World checks that you moved through the area. Polarsteps and Timeline record where you went without gating anything on it. The manual apps take your word, which is the correct trade if the collection is only for you.