GlobsieFeatures
Everything Globsie does.
A globe you fill in, a journal you keep, friends you share with and a poster you print. Here’s all of it, in one place.
The globe
Countries · Cities · RoutesA real 3D globe
Visited countries fill in violet and wishlist countries orange, on a globe you can spin, zoom and search.
City pins
Every city you log drops a pin. A record that names only a country colours the country and leaves the pins to places you actually stood.
Routes as arcs
The journeys between your stops are drawn as great-circle arcs: violet for trips you took, orange for the ones you’re planning.
Search and explore
Search to fly anywhere. Tap a country, a route or a city for a card you can walk through: every visit, every stop.
Works offline
The country shapes ship inside the app, so the globe draws on a plane, a train or a mountain with no signal.
Light and dark
Follows your phone’s appearance, or stays light or dark if you’d rather.
Logging trips
Fast, then as detailed as you likeTick off countries in bulk
A checklist of all 251 countries and territories, so years of travel are on the map in a couple of minutes.
Dates as you remember them
2019, June 2019 or the exact day. A trip you’re on right now is logged with a start and no end, and sits pinned at the top.
Journeys with stops
Group as many cities as you like into one trip, give it a title, and it becomes one card in your list.
Ratings and categories
Rate a place, and tag the kind of trip: vacation, solo, backpacking, work, family or a road trip.
Cover photos
Use your own photo, or one of nearly 300 built-in covers of places around the world.
Drafts that aren’t lost
The form asks before a stray swipe throws changes away, and keeps a draft if the app closes mid-entry.
Journal
A row per dayDay by day
Every place carries a journal: what happened each day, and the photos that go with it.
Photos, full screen
Every photo opens full screen to page through and pinch to zoom, in the order of the trip.
Search what you wrote
Find a trip by a word from its journal, not only by its name or its cities.
Friends
Only people you’ve both acceptedAdd by username or QR code
Type a friend’s exact username or scan their code. They accept, and you’re friends.
Share trip by trip
Switch a trip from Only me to Friends, then tick the journal days and photos that go out. Everything else stays yours.
Photo posts
Friends’ trips as posts you swipe through, with the route and the numbers. Double-tap a photo to leave a heart, and see who else did.
Comments
Talk about a trip under it. Delete your own comments, and any on your trips; report anybody else’s.
Travelling now
Friends on a trip right now sit in a row at the top of the feed, if they chose to share it while they’re there.
Activity and notifications
Hearts, comments and requests in one list behind the bell, and a notification for each kind, each with its own switch.
Friend profiles
Their trips as a grid, a globe with the countries you’ve both been to, and their wishlist with the places you both want to go.
Hide me, block, report
Stay findable only by your code, block anyone without them being told, and report anything. Reports are reviewed within a day.
More about Friends and sharing
Plans
Where nextWishlist
Places you want to go, shaped exactly like your trips, with a target date and an excitement score. They show on the globe in orange.
Goals
Targets you set yourself, like ten new countries by 2028, scored from the records you’re already keeping.
Numbers
On the You tabYour stats
Coverage of the world, distance travelled, your furthest-apart pair of places, your longest streak of years, and charts by year.
42 milestones
From First Stamp to Centurion: milestones for countries, cities, continents, days away, and for the journal you keep.
Your profile
Your photo and name at the top of the You tab, as friends see you, with your QR code one tap away.
Poster
No watermarkPrint your world
Your map as vector art. Story or square, flat map or globe, four skies, countries or cities, any range of years, your name on it.
Year in Review
Any year as a card of its own, from the You tab: the year up big, the countries that were new, your trips, days away and longest stay. Share it or print it like any poster.
Photos or PDF
Save it to your photo library, share it, or export a print-quality vector PDF.
Your data
Private by defaultNo account needed
Everything works on your phone without one. Sign in later and the places you logged come with you, if you say so.
Sync
With an account, your log is backed up and shows on every phone you sign in on.
Photo backup
Opt-in. A private copy of your journal photos in your account, stored in Germany, that only you can reach.
Export and import
Your whole log as one file, whenever you want it, and back in again.
Delete, clearly
Deleting your data and deleting your account are separate, and each screen says exactly what it will do.
No ads, no tracking
No advertising, no analytics of our own, no tracking across apps or websites. The app never asks for your location.
Account or not
What needs an account?
Very little. An account is a backup and a way to share, never the way in.
| Feature | Without an account | With an account |
|---|---|---|
| Globe, trips, journal and photos | ✓ | ✓ |
| Wishlist, goals, stats and milestones | ✓ | ✓ |
| Posters and Year in Review | ✓ | ✓ |
| Export to a file | ✓ | ✓ |
| Backup and sync between phones | – | ✓ |
| Photo backup | – | ✓ |
| Friends, sharing and notifications | – | ✓ |
Your world is waiting to be filled in.
Globsie is coming soon to iPhone. Free, with no ads.