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Export your countries

1. Open Settings and tap Export.
2. The app writes a file named like AroundTheWorld_2026-10-06.json and opens your phone's share sheet.
3. Save it to your files, or send it to yourself.

The file holds every country you have marked, with its status, year and note. It is plain JSON, so you can read it and keep it wherever you like. It does not hold your settings, such as the accent colour.

Import a file

1. Put the exported file somewhere the phone can reach, such as its files or a message to yourself.
2. Open Settings and tap Import, then pick the file.
3. Read the summary: how many countries the file would add, how many it would update, and how many are unchanged.
4. Tap Apply, or Cancel to change nothing.

An import merges, it does not replace. For each country, whichever record was changed more recently wins, the one on the phone or the one in the file. Just before the import is applied the app saves a snapshot, so you can go back.

To move to a new phone, export on the old one and import on the new one.

Restore a snapshot

A moment after every change, the app saves a copy of your countries on the phone. It keeps up to ten of these: the five most recent, and the last one from each of the five most recent earlier days. On top of those it keeps the two most recent copies it saved just before an import, a restore or a reset, so there are never more than twelve.

1. Open Settings and tap Restore a snapshot.
2. Pick one from the list. Each shows when it was saved and how many countries it holds.
3. Choose Merge to keep what you changed after it was saved (for each country, the newer record wins), or Replace everything to put your countries back exactly as they were then.

What you have now is itself kept as a snapshot, so a restore can be undone the same way.

Reset all data

1. Open Settings and tap Reset all data.
2. Type the word reset and confirm.

This removes your countries and your settings. Snapshots are kept on purpose, so a reset made by mistake can be undone with Restore a snapshot. To remove everything, snapshots included, delete the app from your phone.

If the app says "Your countries could not be read"

This screen takes the place of the globe when the app cannot open the file that holds your countries. It says which of three cases it is.

• The file is damaged. The button starts again from the most recent snapshot the app can read, and the screen names that snapshot's day and how many countries it holds before anything happens. What you changed after that snapshot was saved is not in it. If there is no snapshot to read, the list starts empty.
• The file was saved by a newer version of the app. Update the app and it opens again as it was.
• The file could not be opened just now. Try again only opens it again and changes nothing in it.

Do not delete the app first: that removes the snapshots, which are what the button starts again from. The button deletes nothing. The file that could not be read is set aside in the app's own storage, where the app keeps at most three such files; the app has no screen that shows them. A file you exported earlier can be imported afterwards.

How the count works

The number at the top of the globe is the countries you have visited, out of 193: the member states of the United Nations. The app counts against that one list and has no setting to change it.

• Only Visited counts. Want to go never does.
• Territories, such as Greenland or Puerto Rico, can always be marked, and they light up like any country. They are not part of the number. The app shows them beside it, as "+ 3 territories".
• The same goes for Vatican City, Palestine, Kosovo and Taiwan, which are not UN member states. They can be marked, and the app counts them with the territories.
• Disputed areas cannot be marked, so they are in no count.

How borders are drawn

The globe is drawn from Natural Earth, a public-domain map dataset, and follows its borders: de facto, which means the lines as they are held on the ground today. The one exception is Cyprus, which is shown whole. Names are neutral. Where a boundary is disputed, its line is dashed.

Disputed areas, such as Somaliland, are shown and named on the globe, but they cannot be marked and they are in no count.

Everyone sees the same globe. The app does not change its borders by country or by language, and it takes no position on any dispute.

Other questions

A country is too small to tap

Zoom in: pinch the globe, and small islands grow large enough to tap. Or use the list. Tap the search icon at the bottom of the globe, type the start of the name, and tap the dot at the end of the row to mark it.

The video stopped rendering

A render is cancelled if the app goes to the background. Keep the app open until it finishes, then render again.

Where the video and the still card go

To your phone's share sheet, and from there wherever you send them. The video has no sound. On iPhone, Save Video and Save Image put them in Photos; the first time, iOS asks for permission to add to your library.

Contact

David Prasinos, prasinosdavid@gmail.com

The app cannot send a report by itself, because it has no network access. When you write, it helps to say which phone you have and the version shown in Settings, About.