Moving from Visited
Years of countries in Visited do not have to be typed in again. Take a screenshot of your list, copy its text with Live Text and paste it into Globetta. It takes about a minute, even for a long list.
Visited is a separate app from another developer; Globetta is not affiliated with it, and “Visited” is a trademark of its owner. Everything we say about Visited comes from its public App Store page (US storefront, checked on 12 October 2026). Apps change, so look at the current page before you decide: Visited on the App Store.
Bring your countries over
- Open your list in Visited. Go to the view where your countries are listed by name (a list, not the map), so the names are on the screen as text. If your version only shows the map, look for the countries list in its menu, or use Import from Photos, described below. If the list is longer than one screen, scroll and take another screenshot.
- Take a screenshot of the list, and of every further screen if it does not fit on one.
- Copy the text. Open the screenshot in Photos, touch and hold a word, choose Select All, then Copy. This is Apple’s Live Text: it needs an iPhone XS or newer with iOS 15 or later and is switched on in Settings → General → Language & Region → Live Text (Apple’s instructions).
- Paste it into Globetta. On the main screen with the globe, scroll to “More”, tap “Import from a List”, paste the text and tap “Find Countries”. The text of several screenshots can be pasted together.
- Check and confirm. Globetta lists the countries it recognized, each with a tick box. Untick anything that does not belong, then tap “Mark Selected”. Countries you have already marked are shown as such and left unticked.
Good to know
- Globetta reads country names in all its eight languages, the common English spellings (USA, Czech Republic, Ivory Coast) and flag emoji.
- Lines that are not countries — headings and counters such as “Europe 12/44” — are shown under “Not recognized” and ignored.
- Everything it finds is marked as visited. Paste only the countries you have been to: a want-to-go list does not go in this way, add those on the Dream Board.
- The names are matched on your phone and the text is not sent anywhere. Nothing changes in the other app.
What comes across and what does not
Comes across: The countries, marked as visited, and the year of the first visit when it stands next to the name.
Does not come across: Cities, regions and states, travel lists and goals, itineraries, notes and photos stay in Visited. Globetta reads no other app’s data, only the text you paste.
Cities you can mark in Globetta by hand; trips and journal entries you add as you go. For countries, “Import from Photos” is another way: it suggests countries from the places your photos were taken, and you confirm each one.
Side by side
Facts about Visited are from its App Store page (US storefront) on 12 October 2026; about Globetta, from version 1.0. Where Visited does more, we say so.
| Feature | Visited | Globetta |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free to download. Its App Store page lists in-app purchases: Visited Pro, cities, regions, itineraries, ad removal and more. | Free to download. Countries, cities, trips, the journal, statistics, maps, your Travel DNA type, regions in every country, the map timelapse, Schengen 90/180 and the trip folder are free, with no account and no limit on the number of countries. Premium (subscription) adds books & PDFs (journal, trip book, passport and poster), map & themes (extra globe skins and themes) and trips & history (Travel DNA by year, the Memory of the Day widget). |
| Interface languages | 31 | 8: English, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac with Apple silicon, Apple Vision | iPhone |
| Regions and states | Regional maps for more than 20 countries, among them the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany, the UK, Russia and France | Yes, free in every country where Globetta has a region map: states, prefectures and other regions. |
| Cities | Yes (an in-app purchase on its page) | Yes, free |
| Travel lists | More than 150 categories of travel lists, from national parks to wine regions | No ready-made lists: a Dream Board of countries with priorities, plus your own places with ratings and notes |
| Globe and map | Flat map, Mercator, equirectangular or Equal Earth projection | 3D globe plus a detailed map with cities, terrain and trails; offline map areas. Extra skins and themes with Premium. |
| Poster | Can print a poster of your map and ship it to you | Makes a poster image of your map to share or print yourself |
| Trips | Itineraries with dates, hotels and notes | Trips with dates, route points, a checklist, expenses and the weather along the way |
| Journal | Notes by country: travel dates, points of interest, memories | Entries with photos, voice notes and mood, tied to a country or a trip |
Which app fits you
Stay with Visited if you need regional maps (states and regions of 20+ countries), ready-made travel lists, an iPad or Mac version, or an interface in a language outside Globetta’s eight.
Try Globetta if you want a 3D globe, trips with a route, an offline map and a journal with photos and voice notes in one app, a free core that needs no account and puts no limit on countries, and an interface in English, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil) or Japanese.
You can also use both: the import only reads the text you paste and changes nothing in the other app.