If you use Skratch and want something different, the biggest differences with Globestamp are scope and accounts. Skratch is a scratch map plus a travel toolkit, with eSIMs, visa help, guides and an account; Globestamp keeps to the record of where you've been, found by reading where your iPhone photos were taken, privately on the phone, with no account. If you rely on Skratch's eSIMs or visa checker, Globestamp has neither.
Everything below about Skratch comes from its App Store listing, website, privacy policy and help center as they read on 13 November 2026.
Skratch and Globestamp side by side
| Skratch | Globestamp | |
|---|---|---|
| Mark countries as visited, want to visit or lived | Yes | Yes (Been there, Want to go, Lived there) |
| Cities, states, regions and attractions | Yes | Yes, plus airports, wonders, World Heritage Sites and national parks as globe layers |
| Finds countries from photo locations | Not stated; the listing says it "helps you automatically build your map" | Yes, on the iPhone |
| Photos and videos on the map | Yes, uploaded as "memories" and backed up to your account | Your top countries and cities, each with your own photo; photos never uploaded |
| Travel eSIMs | Yes | No |
| Visa checker and eVisa applications | Yes | No |
| Destination guides and travel info | Yes | No |
| 3D globe | Yes | Yes |
| Widgets | Yes | Yes |
| Share your map | A link to your live map, viewable without an account | Share cards; compare with a friend by a link, no account |
| Account | Yes: name, username, email and mobile number | No account |
| Get your data out | Its help center says a full copy isn't available; specific requests by email | CSV, PDF, KML, GeoJSON |
| Android | Yes | No, iPhone only |
One app for the whole trip, or one job done thoroughly
Skratch's listing and website describe a lot more than a map: travel eSIMs in 200+ locations, eVisa applications, weather, plug types, tipping, emergency numbers and guides for picking where to go. If you like having all of that in the app that also holds your countries, that's a real convenience, and Globestamp doesn't try to match it.
Globestamp goes deep on the record instead. Besides the count, it gives every country a stamp drawn after its real entry stamp, counts your days in every country (with Schengen 90/180 and 183-day alerts in Pro), adds up how far you've flown, and keeps a bucket list of 48 things, about half of which tick themselves from your photos.
Photos: how each app uses them
Both apps touch your photo library, in different ways.
Skratch's help center says it uses location data from your camera roll to show your photos and videos by country, and you choose which ones to add to the map as memories. Its privacy policy says uploaded memories are stored in the cloud and associated with your account, while other camera roll data is kept "only in hashed form", with location read only if you explicitly consent.
Globestamp reads where every photo was taken to find your countries, including trips you'd forgotten, and does it on the iPhone. Photos are never uploaded. Its rules keep the count honest: a photo taken from a plane never counts, a photo more than 25 km from any coast is at sea and never counts, and screenshots never count. Anything uncertain waits on a "To check" card for you to decide.
For what your photos can and can't tell you, see how to find every country you've been to from your iPhone photos.
Accounts, offline use and privacy
Skratch's privacy policy lists name, username, email address and mobile number as required account information, and its help center says the app isn't built for full offline use: changes made offline need a connection to save. Its App Store privacy label, written by the developer, lists Data Used to Track You: Identifiers, Usage Data; Data Linked to You: Purchases, Contact Info, Identifiers, Usage Data; and Data Not Linked to You: Location, Identifiers, Usage Data, Diagnostics.
Globestamp has no account and no ads. It keeps your data in your iCloud, with a backup. Why a travel tracker without an account is worth looking for explains the trade-offs either way.
Counting differences
Skratch's help center says its countries follow the UN list of sovereign and observer states, with some territories shown as disputed. Globestamp lets you count by the 193 UN members, all 250 countries and territories, the Travelers' Century Club's 330 (Pro) or your own list (Pro), and in a disputed place you decide which country it counts for. 193, 195, 250 or 330: which list should you count by? explains why the totals differ.
Moving over
Globestamp takes a list pasted from any tracker, so you can copy your Skratch countries across and let the photo scan add what's missing. How to move your visited countries from one app to another covers cleaning up the names. And if part of the appeal of Skratch is the scratch-off idea itself, scratch-off map or travel app? compares the paper version.
Skratch is a trademark of its owner; Globestamp is not affiliated with it.