Release Notes
AtlasDays Changelog
A record of what's shipped in AtlasDays since the App Store launch.
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New
- Polish - AtlasDays is now available in Polish, bringing the app to fourteen languages.
Improved
- Refinements - small refinements throughout the app.
New
- Backup to a file - in addition to iCloud Sync, save a full copy of all your trips, trackers and settings to a file, and restore it on another device.
Improved
- Under the hood - improvements for a smoother and faster experience.
New
- Two-limit trackers - Norway tax residence, UK naturalisation and Australian citizenship follow both of their limits in one tracker, with a chart for each.
- US Substantial Presence Test and Irish tax residence - two new trackers built around how each test is actually written.
- Eight more presets - absence planning for residence permits in Italy, Switzerland, France, Spain and Qatar, Cyprus citizenship, New Zealand Super, and Denmark's overseas work rule.
Improved
- Tracker trip lists - trackers that count days away can show trips inside the country, outside it, or both.
- Widgets - the medium tracker widget can chart either limit of a two-limit tracker.
Improved
- Interface - minor improvements and optimizations.
New
- Residence status trackers - presets for green card absence limits, Canada's permanent residency obligation, Australia's Resident Return Visa, and the EU long-term resident rule.
- Citizenship trackers - presence requirements for the United States and New Zealand, and absence limits for Australia, Germany and UK settlement.
- Days away - a tracker can count the days you are away from a place, not only the days you are there.
- Windows in calendar months - set a rolling window as a number of calendar months rather than a number of days.
Improved
- Finding the right preset - presets are grouped by the question you are asking: how long may I stay, will I be taxed here, will I lose my status, am I building a record.
New
- Four more languages - Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese, translated throughout the app.
- A light globe - the 3D globe follows your appearance setting, with a light look to match the rest of the app.
- Calendar day markers - every day carries a marker on the bar line, and tapping anywhere in a day opens it.
Improved
- Forward-looking trackers - insights say when planned trips will push you over the limit, or when a target can no longer be reached in time.
- One full-screen map - the expanded map is the globe, and the country sheet over it follows your appearance.
New
- Country Presence Report - the PDF export is rebuilt as a document to hand to a consulate or a tax office, with a personal details block, a country chart, and an optional signed declaration.
- Select for Export - choose exactly which records go on a report, with sort, select all, and filtered views.
- Turkish - the tenth interface language, translated throughout the app.
- Seven more tax residence presets - Albania, Armenia, Lithuania, Moldova, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Taiwan, each with its guide.
Improved
- Trip cards - one metric treatment across every screen that shows a trip.
New
- Guides behind every rule - open the atlasdays.app guide for a tracker straight from the sentence describing its rule.
Improved
- Add a Tracker - one searchable list instead of a two-step wizard, with search across every preset.
- A refreshed app icon - Atlas holding a sharper globe.
- Home Screen widgets - in sync with your latest changes, and in full color on a tinted Home Screen.
Improved
- Polish and refinements - small under-the-hood improvements across the app.
AtlasDays 2.0 is the biggest release yet: a new way in over an interactive 3D globe, seven new languages, video support, rebuilt import and export, and a version built properly for iPad.
New
- Interactive 3D globe - spin the Earth and watch your countries light up as your photos are scanned, in a rebuilt onboarding that starts you with real trips. The globe is also a new view on the full map.
- Seven new languages - AtlasDays is fully translated into Dutch, German, Spanish, French, Russian, Ukrainian, and Japanese, alongside English, with country names, widgets, and exports following your language too.
- Videos count too - your videos now help place where you have been, with thumbnails that show their length and full-screen playback with scrubbing, sound, and landscape.
- Rebuilt exports - export a re-importable AtlasDays backup, a customizable XLSX spreadsheet, or a PDF report, each from its own dedicated screen.
- US States overview - a dedicated screen for the states you have visited, with swipeable tracker suggestions on the dashboard.
Improved
- Built for iPad - a proper two-pane layout in Settings and the Timeline, and an edge-to-edge world map that adapts as you resize or rotate.
- A fresh look throughout - every card, sheet, and settings screen takes a softer hand-drawn style, with a new slider for how strongly your accent color tints the background.
- One way to import - Photos, Flighty, and CSV now share a single import screen, each with its own setup guide, and review lists open newest first.
New
- Chart view modes - pinch or double-tap a tracker chart to switch between a readable scrolling window and the full history at a glance.
- Multi-year tracking windows - counting windows and limits now reach up to ten years, for long-term residence and citizenship rules.
New
- Residence presets - ready-made tax residence trackers for 26 countries, each built from official government rules.
- Schengen visa preset - track a single-entry visa using the authorized stay printed on your visa.
- Visa presets - ready-made trackers for the US Visa Waiver (ESTA) and short stays in Türkiye.
Improved
- Preset picker - browse tracker presets by category: Residence, Schengen, Visa and Entry Limits, Travel Goal, US State, or Custom.
New
- Days at sea - photos taken offshore can be recognized as international waters, with coastal shots matched to the nearest country.
Improved
- Photo import - better heuristics for in-flight photos and photos saved from other people, so suggested trips reflect your own travel.
- Auto-Detect - open trips now end the moment your departure is detected, and quietly resume if you return the same day.
Improved
- Auto-Detect - trip suggestions include clearer notifications and smoother review flows.
New
- More state presets - US residency trackers now cover 21 states.
Improved
- Trip suggestions - auto-detected trips now sit in date order within your timeline, styled like your other trips.
- Dashboard title - the dashboard now opens with today's date.
- Photo scanning - flags reveal in a smooth, paced cascade as your library is scanned.
New
- Auto-detected trip suggestions - add or dismiss them by long-pressing the notification, without opening the app.
- Home Screen quick actions - long-press the app icon to add a trip or send feedback.
- Send Feedback flow - a structured way to reach support, with diagnostics included automatically.
- Quarterly Pro option - a shorter-term option alongside annual and lifetime.
Improved
- Redesigned Pro paywall - a calmer layout with an animated preview of each Pro feature.
Improved
- Cleaner world map - small countries are easier to see and tap, down to the smallest micronations such as Vatican City and Liberland.
- UN labels in the dashboard - the Places list can show UN and observer-state tags, matching the country pickers.
New
- US state tracking - your US trips can record which state you were in, and it flows through your timeline, map, trackers, and exports.
- States on import - re-scan your photos or re-import from Flighty and your existing US trips fill in their states, with nothing to re-enter.
- US states in the widget - the home-screen tracker widget now shows the state for state-tagged US trips.
Improved
- Import review - review every trip before importing, with manual entry available any time.
New
- Import success screen - every import now finishes with a clear summary of trips imported and photos linked.
- Photo favorites - tap the heart in the full-screen photo viewer to favorite a photo in your Photos library.
Improved
- Crisper flags - every country flag is sharper at any size, with new flags for the MERCOSUR, CARICOM, GCC, and East Africa Tourist Visa presets. Tap a flag on the country detail sheet to zoom in.
- Faster Timeline - loads quickly even with hundreds of trips.
Improved
- Polish throughout - small refinements to trip cards, imports, and accessibility across the app.
New
- Flighty import - import your Flighty history and choose whether to include overnight flights and transits.
Improved
- Import review - Flighty, CSV, and photo imports now share a clearer conflict inspector for similar trips.
- Trip editor - refreshed trip editing with a cleaner design for adding or reviewing a trip.
- Date selector - the trip date picker now supports swiping between start and end dates and shows weekdays.
New
- Custom date format in PDF reports - choose your own date format when exporting a PDF.
Improved
- Trip form - cleaned up the form for adding a trip, with year-only dates moved into the date picker.
Improved
- Tab navigation - the active tab now stays put across sheet dismissals and app resume.
New
- Manage Imports - review all your past CSV and photo imports, and remove an entire batch at once if you want to start over.
- Country picker overhaul - we made it easier to select the right country by adding an A-Z side index for fast jumping, and offering suggested countries at the top.
- Trip Colors in calendar - the timeline calendar can now tint trip bars by the country's continent instead of a single accent color.
Improved
- Dashboard stats cards - redesigned progress cards in the dashboard stats.
Improved
- Photo matching - Improved photo matching from your library, especially for photos taken near coastlines.
- Timeline navigation - Refined search and navigation in Timeline.
New
- Calendar timeline - Switch the Timeline between list and calendar views, browse trips month by month, and jump straight to the month you want.
Improved
- iCloud sync status - AtlasDays now shows when local changes are still waiting to sync to iCloud, alongside clearer sync error messages.
- Photo import continuity - improved how AtlasDays groups at-home photo history into trips when photo evidence is sparse.
New
- Find Photos - scan your photo library to automatically match photos to trips in your timeline. Review matches before saving.
- Hide home country - new timeline toggle hides stays in your residence country, for users who want to focus on travel abroad.
Improved
- iCloud sync - clearer labels in sync settings, showing when data was last sent and received.
New
- Home screen widgets - add a world map or any tracker to your Home Screen, with small, medium, and large layouts, including tracker forecasts at a glance.
- Charts for all trackers - charts are now available across all tracker types, including calendar-year trackers, so every tracker shows the same visual history.
Improved
- Tracker experience - refined tracker layouts, clearer status text, and polish across widgets, charts, and related views.
- Trip timeline - upcoming trips now stay grouped with their year, with clearer planned-trip labels in tracker detail and the main timeline.
New
- Tracker chart - rolling window trackers now include a scrollable chart showing your day count over time, with projections based on planned trips.
- Photo strip on trip cards - trips with photos now show a swipeable preview strip on the card in comfortable view.
Improved
- Photo import review - a new help sheet explains how trips are inferred from your photos and what to check before importing.
New
- Photo import - scan your photo library to reconstruct travel history from geotagged photos, review and edit candidates, then import - all processed on-device, nothing leaves your phone.
- Trip photos - imported trips display live thumbnails loaded directly from your photo library - AtlasDays never copies or stores your photos.
Improved
- Smarter auto-detect - location-based trip detection now supports return trips and smart transit detection.
New
- Travel purpose - categorize each trip as Tourism, Business, Medical, Transit, or Personal.
Improved
- Refined trip cards and a simpler trip-entry form.
First public release of AtlasDays - a private travel history, day counter, and reporting tool for iPhone.
Included in this release
- Travel timeline - log exact trips, older approximate history, and transit records in one continuous timeline.
- Visa and residency trackers - Schengen 90/180, rolling windows, per-entry limits, fiscal-year periods, and custom day thresholds.
- Dashboard overview - world map, country totals, days abroad, and yearly breakdowns.
- Threshold alerts - notifications as you approach any visa or residency day limit.
- CSV and PDF export - export your records or generate printable travel reports.
- On-device and private - no account required, with optional iCloud sync.