A private map of your own photos

The world,
as you lived it.

The trips you’ve forgotten are already on your iPhone, buried in thousands of photos. DearMaps puts them back on a map — scanned on your device, uploaded nowhere.

Sound familiar?

Your life is in there somewhere.
You just can’t find it.

01

How many photos are sitting in your camera roll, unopened?

Thousands, probably. A grid sorted by date that you scroll past, never through.

02

Can you remember where that photo was taken?

The café, the viewpoint, the street you got lost on. The place is what brings the day back — and it’s the first thing you lose.

03

Does it sit badly that your memories live on someone else’s feed?

Posted for other people, ranked by an algorithm, mined for ads. That isn’t a diary. It’s a billboard.

Every photo below is a real place someone walked through. Yours are in there too, somewhere under four thousand screenshots.

Casa Batlló at dusk
Barcelona Apr
A London street with Union Jack flags
London Jan
Monserrate above Bogotá
Bogotá Jun
Manhattan Bridge from Dumbo
New York Nov
A trattoria on a cobbled street in Rome
Rome Mar
Golden Gate Bridge at sunset
San Francisco May
Berlin Cathedral on the Spree
Berlin Feb
A lantern-lit alley in Tokyo
Tokyo Oct
Sydney Opera House at golden hour
Sydney Dec
A Parisian bakery storefront
Paris Sep
How it works

Four swipes from a dead camera roll
to the year you forgot you had.

01

You don’t build the map. It builds itself.

Magic Scan reads where and when your photos were taken — on your iPhone, never on a server — and turns a year of camera roll into places in about a minute. No typing, no importing, no account needed.

The DearMaps globe with photo memories
02

Suddenly you can see where you’ve been.

Your year stops being a list of dates and becomes a shape: London in January, Berlin in February, Barcelona in April. The trips you’d have sworn were longer ago than they were.

Photo memories pinned over Europe on the DearMaps globe
03

Open one and you’re back there.

DearMode fills the screen the way the moment filled it — big, quiet, with the place and the date resting underneath instead of a comment count.

DearMode showing a Barcelona memory
04

Trips you’d forgotten, one swipe apart.

A bridge in San Francisco. A hill above Bogotá. The evening you’d completely lost. This is the part people don’t expect — not new photos, the ones you already had.

DearMode showing a San Francisco memory

Your map is built on your iPhone. Nothing leaves it unless you choose to share it. Add a free account and your vault backs itself up to your own iCloud, so a lost phone isn’t a lost year.

Made for you

Three quick questions.
Then see what your map could look like.

Who do you travel with?
What do you want to remember?
How often are you away?

Nothing you pick here is saved or sent anywhere.

The trips you took, all in one place.

When you travel alone, nobody else remembers it for you. Your photos do — DearMaps just puts them back where they happened. A few trips a year adds up faster than you think — that’s forty places a decade.

An illustration. Your real map is drawn from your own photos.

Find my memories
Features

Everything a memory needs.
Nothing it doesn’t.

Magic Scan

On-device AI finds the trips hiding in your camera roll and pins them for you. No uploads, no waiting.

DearMode

Photos, video and voice notes, relived fullscreen.

DearMode showing a memory above Bogotá

Encrypted vault

Every photo, video and note is encrypted on your iPhone before it’s saved.

Your own iCloud

Your vault syncs across devices through your iCloud — not our servers.

Share by choice

Publish a memory to the feed only when you want to. Friends send Echoes back.

Drop a pin anywhere

Tap the map, snap a photo or write a quick note. It lands exactly where it happened.

Photo memories pinned over Europe
Every day

A reason to come back
even on a quiet day.

The Daily Maze

One country, one maze, one timer — the same puzzle for everyone on the same day. Swipe your way to the star, then see where your time lands on today’s leaderboard.

  • A new maze at your local midnight
  • Keep a streak going day after day
The Daily Maze with a green trail traced toward the star

A feed of real places

Memories people chose to share, from everywhere. Echo the ones that move you, follow the pals whose maps you love — and share yours only when you want to.

  • See it as a list or on the map
  • Send Echoes back to the people you follow
The DearMaps home feed with the daily challenge and a shared memory
Make it yours

Your map, in your colour.

Pick any accent you like and the whole app follows — pins, buttons, the tab bar, every screen.

DearMaps in orange
DearMaps in pink
DearMaps in yellow
DearMaps in green
DearMaps in blue
DearMaps in purple
Privacy

Your memories are yours.
We never see them.

  • On-deviceEncryption happens on your iPhone, with keys that never leave it.
  • Private by defaultNothing is shared until you choose to share it.
  • Never sold, never naggedNo ads, no data for sale. DearMaps is free to use, and Pro exists only for people who decide it’s worth supporting — a thank you, not a toll.
FAQ

Questions people ask
before they install.

Does DearMaps upload my photos?

No. Magic Scan reads where and when each photo was taken on your iPhone itself, and every photo, video and note you save is encrypted there too. Nothing leaves your phone unless you choose to: backing up to your own iCloud with a free account, or publishing a memory to the feed.

Do I need an account?

No. You can build your map, run Magic Scan and keep memories without signing up — everything stays on your iPhone. A free account adds backup and sync through your own iCloud, and the feed.

What happens to my memories if I lose my phone?

With a free account, your encrypted vault syncs to your own iCloud and comes back when you sign in on a new iPhone. Without an account, memories live only on that phone — so if they matter to you, create one.

How does Magic Scan work?

It looks at the location and date saved inside your photos, groups them into trips and moments, and pins each one where it happened. It runs entirely on your iPhone and takes about a minute. Everyone gets two scans for free; Pro makes them unlimited.

Is DearMaps free? What does Pro add?

DearMaps is free to download and use: unlimited memories, up to 7 photos each, and sharing to the feed. Pro adds up to 20 photos and videos per memory, voice notes, unlimited Magic Scan and custom categories, and the yearly plan starts with a 7-day free trial. Prices are shown in the App Store in your currency.

If I cancel Pro, do I lose anything?

No. Every memory stays exactly where it is, and your videos and voice notes keep playing. You just can’t add new ones of the Pro-only kinds until you subscribe again.

Who can see my memories?

Only you, by default. For each memory you decide whether to keep it private, share it with your Pals or publish it to the public feed. A published copy is re-saved without its hidden photo metadata, and appears at the place you pinned.

Can I delete my memories — or my whole account?

Yes. Deleting a memory removes it from your iPhone, from your iCloud backup and from the feed if you published it. You can delete your whole account from Settings inside the app.

Which devices does DearMaps work on?

iPhone and iPad with iOS 26 or later. There’s no Android version (yet 😉).

Where will your map
take you back to?

Free to download. Start with the photos you already have.

Download on theApp Store

Available on iOS 26 and later. Subscriptions and purchases are handled securely through the App Store.