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How we count

Rules of the iPhone app as of 19 October 2026

Stoodmark reads the time and place of your photos on your iPhone and suggests what to count. Here is what counts and what does not. Nothing is counted until you tap.

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    What the app reads

    The app reads when and where your photos were taken, on your iPhone. Nothing looks at what is in a photo, and photos you have hidden are never read.

    Photos without a place are skipped. Screenshots never count, and neither do most saved images; a saved photo that still carries its place can be read like one of your own.

    time and place · never what is in a photo · screenshots never count

  2. 02

    Countries

    A country comes from where a photo was taken, World Heritage or not. A country is any of the 235 countries and territories with an ISO 3166‑1 code (Hong Kong, Greenland or Puerto Rico, for example). Four areas without a code of their own are joined to a country, as in UNESCO’s lists: Kosovo to Serbia, Northern Cyprus to Cyprus and Somaliland to Somalia; Australia’s Indian Ocean Territories join Australia. The disputed Siachen Glacier counts for no country.

    Photos taken on a coast, in a harbour or just offshore count for the country there. Very small countries and territories, such as Vatican City, Monaco, San Marino or Macao, are told apart from the country around them.

    A country is ticked when your photos there span some time. A country with photos from a short time only is listed as “Photos from a short time only (a layover?)” and left unticked. This is a rough guard against layovers, so before you add anything you can tick or untick any country.

    photos over time → ticked · a short time only → you decide

  3. 03

    Photos taken in flight

    GPS works on planes, so one window-seat photo could add a country you only flew over. Photos taken in flight count for nothing: no country, no World Heritage site, no distance. Photos taken after landing count as usual.

    Only the very first or very last photo, each time the app looks through your photos, may not be told apart from one taken in flight.

    in flight → no country, no site, no distance

  4. 04

    Only at the airport: TRANSIT

    If all your photos in a country were taken at a large airport during one short stop, the country is a transit. It is listed as “Only at the airport (a transit)”, left unticked and not counted. It is kept as a light, dashed TRANSIT mark, on your phone only.

    If you left the airport, say for a walk in town during a long layover, the photos from town make it an ordinary visit under the rules above.

    The app cannot see whether you passed immigration, so you decide, on the country’s page: “I entered the country (count it)” or “I only changed planes here (don’t count)”. A country you marked as a transit stays one when you scan again, unless you tick it yourself in the list of finds.

    every photo at a large airport, one short stop → TRANSIT

  5. 05

    World Heritage sites

    A site is found when you took photos at it or close to it. For a site made of several places, any of its places will do. Where sites lie close together, photos count for the nearest site only.

    The site is ticked as “stood at” when several of your photos were taken right at it (at the site or one of its places), or when one was and you were near it at different times. Screenshots and most saved images never count towards these photos.

    Otherwise it is listed under “Maybe you only passed by” and left unticked: a road, a train, a view from afar.

    photos right at the site → ticked · only close by → maybe

  6. 06

    Sites that cross borders

    A World Heritage site in several countries is listed under each of them. A country’s list never shows another country’s sites.

    A sealed site counts the countries listed for it as visited. For a site that crosses borders, that is every one of its countries, even if you stood in only one.

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    You decide

    Nothing is counted until you tap. “Add to my passport” records only the ticked finds; “Review one by one” lets you tick or untick each.

    Later you can seal any World Heritage site by hand (“I have stood here”) or remove a seal (“Remove seal”). A seal made from your photos is marked “Photo-proven”; one added by hand, “Sealed by hand”.

    A country without one of your seals can be added or removed on its page (“I have been to this country”). A country with one of your seals stays counted until you remove that seal. Every country with a World Heritage site is in the Countries tab; the page of a country without one (such as Hong Kong or the Maldives) opens from your passport, your transits or your trips.

Next to other counting communities

Travellers who count countries have long argued about these cases. Here are the written rules of three communities, quoted from their own pages, next to ours. Stoodmark is not affiliated with any of them, and a Stoodmark count is not proof for their lists.

MTP = Most Traveled People, TCC = Travelers’ Century Club

Photos taken in flight, flying over

Stoodmark
Not counted.
NomadMania
Overflights: “87% rejection rate” in its polls of users.
MTP
“Sailing through territorial waters alone does not count, nor does flying through territorial airspace.”
TCC
A visit needs you to “disembark from your aircraft, ship, or vehicle and set foot in the territory.”

Only at the airport

Stoodmark
Shown as TRANSIT, not counted. You can count it.
NomadMania
So-called ‘visits’ involving airports are rejected as a minimum visit, “irrespective whether immigration is crossed or not”.
MTP
Does an airport transfer count as a visit? “For MTP, the short answer is ‘no.’” Where immigration is regulated, “official entry must be made through immigration/passport control.”
TCC
Counts “even if only a port-of-call, or a plane fuel stop”, provided you set foot in the territory.

How long you must stay

Stoodmark
No minimum stay. A country with photos from a short time only is shown unticked, for you to decide.
NomadMania
No fixed minimum. Crossing “a mere borderline” and returning is not enough; leaving the station “for 10 minutes and sensing some significant landmark of the area” is accepted.
MTP
“There is no minimum time requirement for a visit.”
TCC
“It was decided that even the shortest visit would suffice.”

Proof

Stoodmark
The time and place stored in your own photos, read on your phone. Nothing checks whether a photo was edited, so it is a record for you, not proof.
MTP
“Photographic evidence is not normally acceptable alone, as it is easily doctored.”
TCC
“Membership is based on an honor system for the first 100 qualifying places.”

How ours differs

  • Stoodmark decides from the time and place of photos, not from what you did there. It cannot see immigration, a landmark or a port call.
  • It leaves airport-only countries out, like NomadMania and Most Traveled People, and is stricter there than the Travelers’ Century Club. To count the TCC way, mark the transit “I entered the country (count it)”.
  • Leaving a country with photos from a short time only unticked is a guard against layovers, not a minimum stay. None of the three communities sets a minimum stay.
  • All three ask that you were in the country yourself. In Stoodmark, sealing a site that crosses borders also counts the countries of that site you did not stand in (see “Sites that cross borders”).

Sources

All pages opened and checked on 19 October 2026.

Data: country borders from Natural Earth, airports from OurAirports, the places that make up World Heritage sites from Wikidata.