Where your data lives
Your journal lives on your iPhone, iPad or Mac. There is no account and no Traveled server. We never see your travels. A few requests do leave your device, all of them to Apple, and they are listed below.
Last updated 4 October 2026
Where your journal is stored
Travels, planned travels, cities, notes and photo captions are stored in a database inside the app, on the device you use. Photos are copied into the app when you add them and stored next to that database.
Traveled does not ask for access to your photo library. You pick photos in Apple’s photo picker, and the app only receives the ones you choose. When a photo is copied in, its location and camera details are removed. Only the date it was taken is kept.
Traveled adds no encryption of its own. The journal is protected the way your device protects every app’s files: on iPhone and iPad by the system’s encryption once you set a passcode, on a Mac by FileVault if it is turned on.
What leaves your device
| What | Sent to | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Map tiles for the area on screen | Apple (MapKit) | To draw Atlas on iPhone and iPad, and every map on Mac |
| The city name you type, with its country | Apple (MapKit) | To find the city when you add it to a travel |
| A check of your purchase and the Pro price | Apple (App Store) | When the app starts, to know whether Traveled Pro is unlocked |
| Your purchase | Apple (App Store) | Only when you buy or restore Traveled Pro |
Nothing else. Visits and Years on iPhone and iPad are drawn from map data inside the app and need no network. Apart from the city name you type, nothing from your journal is part of these requests.
Traveled has no analytics, no advertising and no crash reporter of its own, and no third-party code that sends data. Apple may share crash reports with us if you allow it under Settings, Privacy & Security, Analytics & Improvements. That is Apple’s setting, and your choice.
No account, still on all your devices
Traveled Pro is one purchase tied to your Apple Account, not to an account with us. It unlocks on every iPhone, iPad and Mac signed in with that Apple Account. If it does not show up, use Restore Purchase. The app stores one thing about it: whether Pro is unlocked.
Your journal does not sync. Traveled does not use iCloud for the journal, so each device keeps its own. To bring a journal to another device, export it and import it there.
Backups and moving to a new device
Your journal and photos are part of your device’s regular backup: iCloud Backup or a computer backup on iPhone and iPad, Time Machine on a Mac. Traveled leaves nothing out on purpose, except small preview images it can rebuild.
With Traveled Pro you can export the whole journal to a .traveled file, with or without photos. On iPhone and iPad you share it like any file, to Files, iCloud Drive or AirDrop. On a Mac you save it where you like. Traveled itself uploads it nowhere.
Importing a .traveled file is free, and you choose how. Merge adds new travels and updates existing ones. It deletes nothing. Replace everything deletes the journal on this device and puts the file in its place. Traveled offers to export a copy first.
What Traveled does not protect against
- Anyone who can unlock your device can open Traveled. The app has no lock of its own.
- A .traveled file is not encrypted. Anyone who has the file can read your travels and notes and see your photos. A file exported on a Mac also carries that Mac’s name. Keep it where you keep other private files.
- Your device backup is as safe as your Apple Account and your computer.
- Apple receives the map, search and App Store requests listed above. They follow Apple’s privacy policy, not ours.
- We cannot recover anything for you. There is no copy on our side. Without a backup or an export, a lost device means a lost journal.
- Deleting the app on iPhone or iPad deletes its journal from that device. On a Mac, macOS may keep the app’s data folder after you delete the app. Backups and exported files are never deleted by Traveled.
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