DaysAround is a privacy-first travel tracker that helps you monitor your time spent in each country for tax residency and personal insight. All data stays securely on your device without ever being uploaded to the cloud.
DaysAround is a suite of privacy-first iOS applications designed for travelers who need to meticulously track their days spent in various countries and jurisdictions, primarily for purposes of tax residency compliance and personal travel documentation. The apps serve individuals such as British, American, and other non-EU travelers navigating the Schengen Area's 90/180-day rule, digital nomads managing tax residency across multiple countries, and avid travelers who wish to maintain a private record of visited countries. The core purpose is to provide accurate, automated day-counting derived from a user's existing photo library, eliminating the need for manual logging while guaranteeing that all sensitive location and travel data remains exclusively on the user's iPhone, with no external data transmission, cloud storage, or user accounts required.
Traditional methods for tracking travel days, such as spreadsheets or calendar entries, are prone to human error and often abandoned due to the tedious maintenance required, leading to potential compliance risks and personal frustration. For tax purposes, missing a jurisdiction's specific day threshold—like the common 183-day rule or the UK's complex Statutory Residence Test involving ties—can trigger unintended tax residency with significant financial consequences. Similarly, travelers subject to visa rules, like the EU's Schengen 90/180-day limit, risk overstays and future entry bans if they miscalculate. Furthermore, most modern travel map apps and trackers compromise user privacy by continuously collecting GPS location data, syncing it to cloud servers, and requiring logins, turning intimate travel patterns into a data product.
The first major feature group centers on automated, privacy-preserving data ingestion. Instead of requesting live GPS location or manual entry, the apps read EXIF metadata—specifically the date and location data—from the photos already stored in the user's iPhone library. This process happens entirely on-device; the photos themselves are never accessed or uploaded, only the embedded metadata is parsed locally. This technical approach means the system can reconstruct a travel history without any background tracking, providing a reliable, passive record based on where and when the user took pictures. The significance is profound: it delivers automation and accuracy without the pervasive surveillance typical of location-based services, aligning functionality with a strict privacy-by-design philosophy.
The second major feature group involves intelligent rule application and compliance monitoring. For tax residency, the app consolidates every relevant jurisdiction's specific day threshold on a single screen, clearly indicating statuses like 'safe,' 'close,' or 'over' for countries and US states. It is aware of complex rules beyond simple day counts, such as the UK Statutory Residence Test which factors in home, family, and work ties that can lower the residency trigger to as few as 45 days. For Schengen travel, the app calculates the rolling 180-day window, showing exactly how many of the 90 allowable days have been used, how many remain, and the date of the next full reset, providing a single, trustworthy number for travelers to rely on.
Publisher
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Launch Date2026-01-03
Platformmobile
Pricingfree
Domain Authority
Ahrefs DR5/100
Traffic Insights
Month2026-01
Estimated Visits1.5K
MoM Visits GrowthN/A(+1.5K)
Avg Time on Site0s