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Atlas
A private, local-first travel map and journal for iPhone and iPad.
Product promise
Remember where you have been without forcing an account, server sync, or social feed into the experience.
Atlas lets users mark countries, states, cities, and places they have visited; build trips, road trips, wishlists, goals, stats, and progress cards; optionally scan photo location metadata on-device for visit suggestions; and export or restore their own backups.
The product should feel like a personal paper map brought into a modern iOS app: calm, precise, warm, useful, and quietly premium.
Product problem
Travel memories are often scattered across photos, notes, apps, and memory.
Many travel apps push accounts, feeds, or cloud sync where a private personal map should be enough. Atlas keeps the focus on personal memory, not public performance.
Privacy stance: Atlas is local-first, does not require an account, and does not add a social feed. Photo Auto-Fill is review-first, and original photos are not uploaded by Atlas.
What Atlas does
A personal travel record with maps, trips, goals, stats, backups, and optional on-device suggestions.
Mark places visited
Countries, states, cities, and meaningful places.
Build trips and road trips
Group memories into organized travel records.
Track goals and wishlists
Plan future places and see progress over time.
View stats and cards
Progress cards, travel stats, and visual summaries.
Compare travel progress
Compare places and overlays without turning the app into a feed.
Photo Auto-Fill
Optional on-device photo metadata suggestions that stay review-first.
Export and restore
User-controlled backups, export, and restore paths.
Atlas Pro
Advanced compare overlays, premium globe styles, widgets, Trip PDF export, and share templates.
App experience
Five main surfaces keep the product understandable.
Technical highlights
Native iOS engineering focused on privacy, data ownership, and launch readiness.
- SwiftUI and SwiftData.
- MVVM-style view models.
- Focused services for Photos, geocoding, visit inference, stats, backup/export, widgets, StoreKit, and map visualization.
- App Store docs, StoreKit testing, widgets, backup/restore, tests, and launch smoke workflows.
Why it matters as Stammen Tech work: Atlas shows product design, privacy-conscious architecture, native iOS development, launch readiness, and polished consumer UX without turning a personal travel journal into a social product.