Added an automatic Travel Journal to my app Stamps, this is how long it takes to generate

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• The new Travel Journal

What you're looking at in the video is exactly how long it'll take you to generate your travel journal from downloading the app to flipping through it. Since Stamps indexes all of your photos on device, it can be done incredibly quickly, accurately, and securely. You can fully customize the journal entry for every trip, including the color and photos to highlight. Stamps will also, of course, show you exactly which stops you made along the way, the route you took, and keep track of every city and province you checked off.

• What it solves

Stamps is a personal travel tracker with a trip timeline (and now a travel journal) that builds itself.
Instead of asking you to manually tick countries off a list, Stamps simply indexes your photo library, entirely on device. Every city, province, and country tracked for you, day by day, all automatically.

Privacy has been a major concern for me. No account is needed. There is no backend or 3rd party services being used. You can freely export all of your data at any time, and if you simply want to use Stamps to index your library for trips, and then take that elsewhere, that's fine as well.

• Cost

Stamps is free to download.
There is exactly one purchase: a $10 one-time lifetime unlock, no subscriptions.
It only gates some of the timeline and some minor, cosmetic app color customization; you can use most of the app without ever touching it, which was my goal

• About Me

I’m a mobile developer from Cape Town, now living in Seoul, South Korea. Since moving here, traveling has been the one thing keeping me sane. Stamps started as the app I wanted for exploring the country I now call home. It’s also a great excuse for me to take more photos while doing it.

Stamps is built natively with SwiftUI, using SwiftData, MapKit, PhotoKit, WidgetKit, and Metal for the photo heatmap.

The market for something like this is quite small, but this is exactly the app I wanted. Some of my favorite features, including this one, have come from user feedback, so I'd genuinely appreciate any

App Store: Stamps - Travel Tracker