Everything worth asking

Two things. It keeps a globe of everywhere you have been — countries filled in, flights drawn, kilometres counted. And it plans days in a city out of a curated catalogue of places that read as somewhere locals use rather than somewhere a guidebook sends you.

No. The globe works with no account at all, and nothing is behind a sign-in wall. An account exists only so your trips have a backup that survives a new phone.

The globe does, entirely. You can also download a city before you fly, so the catalogue and its opening hours are on the phone when you land without a signal.

Fifteen are seeded, three are live and the rest are still ingesting. Cities are added when the catalogue for them passes a quality bar, not on a schedule.

The globe, forever. Countries, past trips, backfill, stats, badges. No trial, no expiry, no card.

The planner. £6.99 for a single trip or £24.99 for a year. Your first planned trip is free so you can see what you would be buying.

Settings, your name, Subscriptions, on your iPhone. Apple handles the payment, so cancellation and refunds go through them and not through us.

Open data: Overture Maps and Foursquare OS Places for the catalogue, OpenStreetMap for opening hours, Wikipedia for how well known somewhere is, OurAirports for the globe, Natural Earth for boundaries. No paid data broker sits in the middle deciding what you see.

Distance scoring peaks in the neighbourhood ring and decays both towards the tourist core and out into the suburbs, scaled to each city. Notability is deliberately non-monotonic — somewhere with 168,000 visits a year is damped, somewhere with 8,000 is not. The first version ranked a chain carvery in Enfield as the most local place in London, which is how we learned to do it this way.

Arrival detection runs on the device using visit monitoring, not continuous GPS, and the result is reduced to a country code before it goes anywhere. Planning a day sends the places in your plan to Apple for travel times and a rough centroid to a weather service for the forecast.

Yes, from inside the app, in one step. It removes the account and every backup attached to it. What is on your phone stays on your phone until you delete the app too.

No, and we will not pretend otherwise. Hours come from OpenStreetMap and only attach where the name and location match closely, so coverage is thin in some cities. Where we do not know, the app says so instead of guessing.

The plan is solved, not written. It is a deterministic solver over a real catalogue with real constraints — opening days, travel time, how far apart the stops are. Nothing invents a place that does not exist.

Not yet, and not soon. iOS first, done properly.