AtlasedYour journal stays on your iPhone.
In short: Atlased has no account, no developer server, no advertising and no analytics. Your journal, and anything read from your photos or calendar, stays on your iPhone. Nothing is shared unless you choose to share it.
Your travel journal
Atlased is an iPhone travel journal. It stores the countries, cities, journeys, travel dates, notes, wishlist entries, flight records and cover photos you keep. You don't need an Atlased account. The app has no developer-operated backend, advertising, analytics SDK, friends service or app-managed cloud sync.
Journal records are stored in the app's own storage on your iPhone and are never uploaded to a developer server. Files in the app's storage, including chosen covers, may be included in your iPhone's own backups according to your device settings.
Atlased keeps automatic backups of your journeys, places and flights in the same local storage, along with a log of counts and times (never places or names) so you can see what changed. They stay on your iPhone, are never sent to the developer, and can be restored or deleted in Settings → Journal health. Deleting the app deletes them.
If iOS reports a crash or a freeze, Atlased keeps that report on your iPhone. It contains technical details and no journal content, and it leaves your device only if you choose to share a diagnostic report from Journal health.
Photos (optional)
If you choose to find trips in your photos, iOS asks you to allow access to selected photos or your whole library. Atlased reads the saved locations, capture dates and on-device identifiers of the photos and videos you allow, to suggest places and journeys. Screenshots and items without a usable location are skipped. Atlased doesn't edit or upload your originals, and finding trips doesn't read the images themselves.
Countries and towns are matched on your iPhone using place data bundled with the app. If you choose “Find missing places”, eligible coordinates are sent to Apple's place-name service to get place names. This needs a network connection. Photo pixels, filenames and notes are never sent. Results are kept on your iPhone; the lookup cache is protected and excluded from device backups.
Journeys show bundled destination photos unless you pick a cover with Apple's photo picker. A chosen cover is resized and saved on your iPhone without the original photo's location data. Turning off Photos access doesn't delete covers or journeys you've already saved.
Your home areas
Atlased can suggest where you live from your photos' dates and places, on your iPhone, so trips start and end correctly. A suggestion becomes a confirmed home only when you confirm it, and you can change or remove it at any time.
Confirmed home locations and your border choices are kept in a separate protected file that is excluded from device backups. They are never included in journal backups, shared pictures or reports. The Year wrap can draw your trips from your home town's public city centre (never your home itself), so someone who sees a shared Year wrap could tell roughly which city the lines start from. Photos at a confirmed home are never sent for place-name lookup.
Calendar (optional)
If you choose to add flights and hotels from your calendar, iOS asks for calendar access. Atlased then reads the calendars and years you choose. Event titles, locations, notes and dates are processed on your iPhone to suggest journeys, stays and flights. Atlased never creates, edits or deletes events, and never sends calendar contents to a developer server.
Calendars on your iPhone, including iCloud and Google calendars added in iPhone Settings, are supported; Atlased has no separate Google sign-in. Revoking access stops future reading but keeps the journeys and flights you've already saved.
Apple Maps and purchases
Atlased uses Apple Maps for map imagery and labels. Map imagery comes over the network, and map requests can reveal the area you're viewing to Apple. Apple also provides the optional place-name lookup above. These services are covered by Apple's own privacy information: Apple Maps & Privacy and Location Services & Privacy. Atlased doesn't ask for your live location or track where you are.
If you choose Atlased Pro, Apple handles the purchase: a yearly or monthly subscription, or a one-time lifetime unlock. The purchase belongs to your Apple Account. Atlased checks your purchase on your iPhone through StoreKit, never sends receipts to a server, and never sees your payment details. You manage or cancel a subscription in your Apple Account settings.
Trip anniversaries
If you turn on trip anniversaries, iOS asks permission to show notifications. Atlased then schedules notes on your iPhone for the mornings your past trips began. No server sends them, and nothing about your trips leaves your phone. Turning the setting off removes them.
Sharing, reports and backups
Nothing is posted automatically. When you choose Share, Save Image or Export, iOS sends or saves exactly what you chose to the place you pick, whose own privacy practices then apply.
- Shared itineraries include the title and dates if you leave them on, each place, its country and its days. Notes, coordinates and source details are left out.
- Shared photos are temporary copies with their location removed (videos are shared as they are); the copies are deleted afterwards.
- “Make an album in Photos” adds the chosen photos to an album named after the journey. It's the only time Atlased changes your library, and it needs full Photos access.
- Year wraps leave out notes, journey titles and individual travel dates.
- JSON backups are more detailed than shared pictures and can include notes, coordinates and calendar details. Keep them private. Home locations are never included.
Your choices
You can edit or delete any journey or place, remove covers, disconnect calendars, change Photos or Calendar access in iPhone Settings, and choose what appears before you share. Settings → Clear this journal removes journeys, places, flights, covers and temporary reports; an automatic backup is kept so a mistake can be undone, and you can delete it in Settings → Journal health. Clearing doesn't touch your original photos or calendar events. Deleting Atlased removes everything the app stored on your iPhone.
Children
Atlased doesn't knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children; everything stays on the device that uses it.
Contact and changes
Questions about privacy? Email getatlased@gmail.com. Emails you send are used only to answer you. Please don't send your photo library, calendar or a journal backup unless you choose to for support.
If Atlased's data practices change, this page will be updated and the effective date above will change.