A scratch map, but it remembers

Scratch maps record that you went. Everroam records what happened — the cities, the photos, the dates — on a globe that fills itself in from your camera roll.

What a scratch map can't do

A scratch map is a poster. You scratch the foil off a country, it looks good on a wall, and that's where it ends. It holds no photos, no dates and no story — and it records a country you changed planes in exactly the same way as the month you spent there.

It's also fixed to one wall. Everroam puts the same idea on a globe you carry, where each place opens into what actually happened there.

The digital version, honestly

  • Cities, not just countries. Pin the place you were, at the resolution you remember it.
  • Your photos as the marker. A polaroid or a sticker per pin, not a scratched-off shape.
  • It fills itself in. The photo library scan finds trips you'd never sit down and enter by hand.
  • It travels. On your phone, on your Home Screen as a widget, and shareable as a link.

What you give up

A scratch map is a physical object and a gift. Everroam isn't — it's an iPhone app, it needs your phone to look at, and there is nothing to hang on a wall. If the wall is the point, buy the poster. If the trips are the point, the globe holds far more of them.