Every country you have been to, on one globe.

A map that builds itself

Most "countries visited" apps are a checklist with a map attached. You scroll through 195 countries and tap the ones you have been to. It is quick, and all it gives you back is a number.

Stadu works the other way round. You log the trip, the place or the night out, and the country lights up because something happened there. Zoom in and the shading turns into pins: the stops of that road trip, the museum, the hotel, the concert.

So the map shows more than where you have been. It shows what you did there, one tap away.

What is on the globe

• Visited countries, shaded on a 3D globe you can spin and zoom.
• Pins for every logged place, trip stop, concert and life event that has a location, clustered when you zoom out.
• Two map styles: a dark globe and satellite imagery.
• Stats: how many countries your trips have reached, the list of them, and the total distance between your trip stops in kilometres or miles.

Trips with every stop and every leg

A trip in Stadu is a list of stops, each with its own date, note and photos, plus the way you got from one to the next: car, train, plane, ferry, bike or on foot. Each leg is drawn on the map in its own colour.

Because every trip has a route, it can also play back as an animation on a 3D map, with the right vehicle for each leg. The replay is free.

No GPS tracking, on purpose

Stadu does not follow you around. It does not ask for location permission and never records where your phone is. You add the stops yourself, which takes a minute per trip and means nothing logs your movements in the background.

That is a real trade-off. If you want the route recorded automatically while you travel, a GPS tracker such as Polarsteps does that and Stadu does not. Here is the full comparison.

Your map stays on your phone

Stadu has no server of its own, so there is no account and no copy of your travel history anywhere except your device. The whole map exports to a backup file you keep.

Showing the map and looking up places does send requests to Mapbox, the map provider, as any map app does. There is simply no profile that collects your trips in one place.