Passport
Questions and answers
Everything people ask before they install it: what it is, what it needs, and what it does with your photos. Short answers, no marketing.
Passport is an app for iPhone Duo that turns your photo library into a booklet of your travels. It reads where and when your photos were taken, groups them into trips, and prints one stamp for every country you have photographed. Open the phone and the booklet opens with it: the cover on the outside, facing pages within.
Any iPhone running iOS 27.1 or later. Passport is made for iPhone Duo: open the phone and the booklet spreads across both screens, with the fold where the gutter of a real booklet would be. On any other iPhone it shows one page at a time, and everything still works. It is simply at its best on a phone that folds.
Three things, roughly. It can show one layout on the outer panel while the phone is closed and a different, much larger one across the inner panel when it is unfolded. It can lay content out either side of the division running down the middle of the open screen, instead of painting over it. And it can respond as the hinge moves between closed, part-open and flat.
Passport uses all three: the cover is drawn on the outer panel, the two halves of the inner panel become the left and right pages of an open booklet, and the gutter down the middle is treated as the spine of the book rather than an obstacle.
From the photographs themselves. Passport reads the place and date recorded in each photo, groups them into visits, and stamps a country once you have genuinely spent time there — several photos in one place, not a single frame shot during a layover. A trip you barely photographed prints nothing at all, which is deliberate: a thin stamp is worse than no stamp.
Nothing is inferred from your calendar, your email or your contacts. If it is not in a photograph, Passport does not know about it.
No, to both. There is no account, no sign-in, no cloud and no sync. Passport works entirely on the phone, and works the same with the network switched off.
Nothing about where you have been. Your photo library is read on the device, and nothing about your places or your trips is ever uploaded. There is no account. The app reports anonymous usage and crash data so it can be improved — not linked to you, not used for tracking — and you can turn that off in Settings.
The one exception is entirely yours to trigger: a postcard you choose to share, which leaves as an ordinary image through the normal share sheet, to whoever you send it to.
No. It is a keepsake — a private record of where your photographs were taken, shaped like a booklet because that is a pleasing way to look back at a decade of travel.
It cannot be used to cross a border or to prove who you are. It carries no state emblem, reproduces no real border stamp, and copies no page of any actual document.
Every booklet Passport prints carries the line Not a travel document.
It has not shipped yet. Passport is coming to the App Store as a paid app: you buy it once and it is yours, with every feature included — no subscription and no in-app purchases. The site says “coming soon” rather than naming a month because the date is not fixed, and a date we would have to move is worse than no date.
On the wallpapers page. Forty-eight countries, each drawn for both screens: a passport cover for the outer panel and a stamped visa page for the inner one, sized to the real framebuffers. They are free, need no account, and the page reads in twenty-nine languages.
A map gives you points on a plane and lets you pan around them. Passport gives you a document, and you leaf through it. Trips become pages, visits become stamps, and the newest journeys are dealt first, with older ones thinning out behind them.
The difference matters in practice: a map answers “where have I been?”, while a booklet answers “what was that year like?”.