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The complete chart

Every feature, charted.

The full inventory — everything SnapperMapper does with your travel photos, and nothing it does behind your back.

The map

Chart I

A hand-drawn map of every day

Each day of a trip becomes its own map: a custom parchment style with X marks, torn ribbons, brass day coins and your route drawn photo by photo. Stretches you didn't photograph appear as honest brass dots — routes are never invented.

Parchment cartography · no blue water

A day view: dashed trail on a parchment map, ribbon header, brass day coins

Chart II

Sunrise-to-sunset trails

The route colors itself from morning green to evening red, so you can see where the day began and where it wound down without touching anything. Wobbly GPS is quietly smoothed, and the trail stays readable at every zoom.

Read the rhythm of a day at a glance

Chart III

Time travel by thumb

Drag the timeline and a red playhead walks your actual trail. The nearest snap lights up as you go — with its distance from the playhead — and the map follows along. Narrow the day with start and end handles, or press play and watch the whole day happen again.

Scrub · play back · relive

Chart IV

Lantern mode

After dark, the whole app deepens into candlelit parchment. Nothing inverts, nothing glows blue — your eyes stay adjusted and the map still reads like a map.

The same map, by candlelight

The day view in lantern mode: deepened parchment colors for night reading

Chart V

A map that holds its place

Snaps cluster and separate continuously as you zoom, never popping. A compass control returns you to north-up in one tap, and leaving a day and coming back drops you exactly where you were — same center, same zoom.

North-up · zoom-adaptive · remembered

The places

Chart VI

Places that name themselves

SnapperMapper works out where you stopped — the temple, the noodle bar, the viewpoint — and labels it on the trail, with how long you lingered. Zoom out and places consolidate; zoom in and they separate. Wrong guess? Pick an alternative or rename it yourself.

Automatic · zoom-adaptive · yours to overrule

Chart VII

Your own points of interest

Make a place from any photo, right in the viewer — anchored to where the snap was actually taken. A searchable editor offers nearby suggestions and matches on partial names, and favorite places carry a small wax seal wherever they appear.

Any photo can mark the spot

The snaps

Chart VIII

Review a day in a minute

Sort a day of photos with three swipes. The upcoming queue floats above the current snap, your recent decisions sit below it, and holding a queued snap compares it full-size before you commit. Undo goes as deep as you need, and progress survives leaving the screen.

Keep · favorite · hide

Chart IX

The Snap Library

Every imported snap lives in a three-column library — hidden, kept, favorite — grouped into collapsible days. Move any snap between columns whenever you like. Your Photos library is never modified; curation is the map's business, not your camera roll's.

Every decision reversible, forever

Chart X

Full-screen, with the facts

Open any snap full-screen and swipe through the entire day in order, wherever you entered from. Each one carries its local time, its coordinates, and the place name once it resolves — and any photo can become the trip's cover in a single tap.

Swipe the whole day · set the cover

Chart XI

Selfies, kept to yourself

Likely selfies are recognized entirely on your iPhone and quietly badged. One switch keeps them out of exported journals — the route stays, your face stays home. No uploads, no new permissions, ever.

Detected on-device · nothing leaves

The keepsakes

Chart XII

PDF trip journals

Turn a trip into a journal someone would actually want to read: photo grids, day chapters, and continuous route maps with start and end flags. Filter to favorites only, and every page is generated on your iPhone.

Print it · gift it · shelf it

Chart XIII

Albums that stay in sync

Build a Photos album from a trip's kept or favorite snaps. Every sync reconciles the album to exactly your current picks — and it never edits or deletes a single asset.

Exactly your favorites, every time

The workings

Chart XIV

The right local time, anywhere

A photo taken at 11pm in Tokyo belongs to the Tokyo day, not to whatever your phone thinks the date is now. SnapperMapper works out each photo's own timezone from where it was taken, tells you while a date is still provisional, and quietly re-files days as the answers firm up.

Your days, not your phone's timezone

Chart XV

Import as often as you like

Choose a date range and SnapperMapper reads only what it needs. Maps, days and counts fill in while the import is still running, and you can keep browsing throughout. Adding photos later picks up where you left off, and an overlapping range never produces a duplicate.

Pick a range · add more later · never twice

Chart XVI

Trips, days, and second thoughts

Keep as many trips as you like, each with its own cover photo, date range, counts and a miniature route glyph of the whole journey. Names write themselves from the dates until you'd rather choose. Filed a day under the wrong trip? Move it — days that meet merge cleanly instead of doubling up.

Rename · re-file · re-cover

The fine print

Chart XVII

A guide on the first morning

A single Getting Started page explains the whole idea before you begin — what Keep, Favorite and Hide actually do, and that hiding only ever changes SnapperMapper. It never nags you again, and it stays in Settings for whenever you want it back.

One page · then out of your way

Chart XVIII

Readable by everyone

Every core screen works with VoiceOver, Voice Control and Switch Control, scales through Dynamic Type, and respects Reduce Motion. Curation status is carried by shape as well as color, so keep, favorite and hide never depend on seeing the difference.

VoiceOver · Dynamic Type · Reduce Motion

Chart XIX

Private by design

Everything happens on your iPhone. No account, no analytics, no photo ever uploaded. The app never deletes or edits anything in your Photos library — the only thing it will ever change, at your request, is which album a photo belongs to. It works under Limited Photos Access too, if you'd rather hand over only a selection.

No account · no cloud · no analytics

SnapperMapper home screen stating that dates, locations, and thumbnails stay on this iPhone

That's the whole chart.

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Free · No account · No cloud · iPhone