What's new in Stampie: June 2026

Welcome to the first issue of What's new in Stampie, a little series where we round up where the app is heading so you can follow along without digging through release notes.

Since this is the first one, let me start at the beginning.

How Stampie started

Stampie was born last year at a hackathon. The first version was a quick offline prototype, a demo really, with a stamp for all 195 countries and nowhere to keep them but the phone itself.

It worked, so I shipped it. Stampie went up on the app stores and quietly stayed there. It found a little organic reach on its own, but I didn't have the time to take the idea any further, so it sat at roughly that first version for a while.

A few months back I finally came back to it and started building it for real. That's when I made the call: keeping offline data safe is harder than it looks, and I didn't want anyone's travels to vanish with a lost phone or a cleared cache. So I added accounts, so your stamps live somewhere safe and follow you from one device to the next. Shareable profiles were already on my mind too, and the whiteboard filled up fast.

A few months later, here's what that turned into. We started building it properly as a small two-person team, and these are the major changes, all in one place.

Your stamps now hold your photos

Trips are about the moments, not just the list of places. So now you can add your own photos to any stamp.

Pull a few shots in from your camera roll and they show up as little polaroids right on the entry. Tap into the full gallery to swipe through them properly. A stamp for Peru stops being a date on a page and becomes the llama that photobombed you, Machu Picchu at sunrise, the friend you went with.

Been there before? (x2)

Some places you visit once. Others you keep coming back to. Now a stamp shows a small visit count when you've been somewhere more than once.

Your fourth trip to Istanbul finally looks like a fourth trip, not a duplicate you have to second-guess. One stamp, with the number of times you've been right there on it.

Arrival and departure dates

A trip isn't a single day. So now you can log when you left, not just when you arrived.

Each stamp can hold the whole stay now, an arrival date and a departure date, instead of pinning a week in Lisbon to one square on the calendar.

How you traveled ✈️ 🚞 🚗 🚢 🚴

Plane, train, car, and more. You can now record how you got there and how you left, just like the little plane, car, or ship on a real passport stamp that shows how you crossed the border.

It sounds like a small detail, but it's exactly the kind of thing that brings a trip back later: the overnight train, the road trip with the windows down, the red-eye you swore you'd never book again.

Stampie on your home screen

This is a new one we're excited about. Stampie now has home screen widgets, so your passport lives outside the app too.

Add the full Passport widget to see a page of your recent stamps at a glance, countries explored and all. Or pick the smaller widget that shows your latest stamp, like Croatia from 2025. Either way, it's a quiet reminder of where you've been every time you pick up your phone.

Travel profiles, synced everywhere

Remember those shareable profiles on the whiteboard? They're here. Every traveler gets a profile, and your stamps now sync across iOS, Android, and the web, so your passport is the same wherever you open it.

You're in control of who sees it. Set your profile to private and it stays just for you, or make it public and share your travels with the world.

And if you were one of the early offline users, you're covered. We wrote migration logic that quietly brings your old stamps into your new synced account, so nothing from the prototype days gets left behind.

Share cards

Sometimes you just want to see everything at a glance. Now you can turn your passport into a share card and post it anywhere.

Pick from three styles: Passport, Classic, or Postcard. Each has its own look, so you can share the version that feels most like you.

Pin the collection you care about

If you're deep into the wonders, or chasing marathons, you shouldn't have to scroll past everything to find it.

Now you can pin a collection to the top of your Stamps tab and keep it there. Whatever you're working on right now stays front and center.

Plus general bug fixes and improvements

Alongside the new features, we spent plenty of time on the quiet stuff under the hood. None of it makes a headline, but together it's what makes the app feel calm to use.

What's next

That's the first issue. Right now we're working on a cities collection and a better collection structure in general, since it's the feature people ask us for most after the ones above. A stamp for every city you've explored, not just every country.

After that, the whiteboard is wide open, and the best way to shape it is to tell us what you want. Got an idea, a feature you're missing, or a rough edge that bugs you? We genuinely want to hear it.

Drop us a line at info@stampie.app. We read every one.