What's new

MapRecap is now available in English, Ukrainian, Spanish and French — including the country names drawn on your map and baked into the exported video.

The picture you export is a passport page now: paper and guilloche, a world map that traces your trips out from your home country, border stamps — or the flag of every country you have been to — your own data fields and a machine-readable strip along the bottom. Four looks, three formats, and the page opens on a finished example so you can see what you get before you start.

Car, train, ferry and walking legs each get their own 3D model instead of an emoji badge — they ride along the route line the way the plane already flew it.

A per-leg picker with thumbnails: six road vehicles, four train styles (steam, high-speed, diesel, tram) and two walking characters — plus a colour for the car on each leg.

Steam, high-speed and diesel trains are drawn as real multi-car consists whose carriages articulate through bends instead of sliding around as one rigid block.

A ship leg is now routed over actual shipping lanes instead of a straight line across the map. It is worked out inside your browser, so the route never leaves your device.

The tram renders in 3D instead of a flat emoji. Train carriages stay coupled on north–south legs rather than drifting apart. The walking figure and the ferry get contact shadows that sit under them instead of beside them. Flights over the pole stay in frame. The map credit baked into an exported video always matches the imagery actually drawn, so the export stays safe to use commercially. And the flat-icon switch no longer strands itself on a leg that has stopped showing it.

Two real-imagery bases for your route animation: a cloud-free satellite mosaic and a clean pale relief map. Both work on the 2D map, the 3D globe and in exports — attribution included, commercial use stays safe.

Pick the frame rate in the Export tab — 30 fps for smaller files, 60 fps for extra-smooth motion.

A new camera mode holds one steady framing of the entire trip, and the plane now spins its propellers as it flies.

On a phone the day calculators now save a vertical, story-format summary card; desktop keeps the wide one.

City suggestions stay on screen with the keyboard open, a new stop scrolls into view, addresses get proper names, and "Add stop" waits until you pick a place — free-typed stops used to break the animation.

On the visited-countries map the tooltip now fades out after a second instead of staying forever, and removing a country shows none at all.

As your route plays, every country you visit fills in with a soft fade — flights colour the country you land in, while car, train, ferry and walking legs colour every country you cross along the way. Give the whole trip one colour, or let each country take its own from a pastel palette. On by default, in the 2D map, the 3D globe and the exported video.

The 2D map now wraps around the globe, so a westward or round-the-world trip flies over real land instead of running off the edge into empty ocean — in both the live preview and the exported video.

The Schengen, Turkey and CA-4 calculators now link straight to the authoritative source for the rule they count (including SICA for CA-4), so you can verify the law yourself.

A quick-step strip and numbered steps walk you through, a worked example appears in the empty state, and a one-click "Clear" resets everything. Summary and calendar actions now stay hidden until you have added trips.

The analyzer page has a refreshed look that matches the rest of the site, plus an explicit "How to find your file" guide with steps for both Android and iPhone.

The Schengen, Turkey and CA-4 calculators can now put a reminder straight into your calendar — your re-entry date, or the last day before you hit the limit. Download an .ics file (works with Apple, Google and Outlook) or add it to Google Calendar in one click.

The Google Timeline analyzer now detects your export format on its own — no more choosing Android or iPhone by hand. Newer on-device exports (including current iPhone ones) that used to come back empty are now read correctly.

Türkiye runs the same 90-days-in-any-180 rule as Schengen, counted separately. The new calculator tracks your Turkish days — with the rolling-window chart, future-trip planning and Google Timeline import you know from the Schengen tool.

Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua share one 90-day limit under the CA-4 agreement — hopping between them does not reset it. The new calculator counts your days from regional entry, shows your exit-by date and models the one-time extension.

Your route now labels each country you pass through and every stop's city — right on the map and in the exported video — in your chosen language (English, Ukrainian or Spanish).

The Midnight and Light 2D maps are now crisp vector maps that show only country borders — no roads or region clutter — and the coastlines stay sharp even when the camera zooms right in.

A new toggle lifts the plane's route line off the map as it flies, casting a shadow on the ground below, so flights read as actually being in the air.

The visited-countries map now lets you switch between Equal Earth and Mercator projections — for both the on-screen map and the image you export.

The route builder now carries the full site header on desktop, and you can zoom the map with your trackpad or mouse wheel, just like any map app.

Fixed the "Stylized" map style so it renders properly during the 2D animation instead of falling back to the dark map.

MapRecap is now available in English, Ukrainian and Spanish.

The site now opens in your browser's language by default, and remembers if you switch.

A page that tracks every meaningful update to MapRecap — you are looking at it.

Monaco, San Marino, Liechtenstein and other tiny nations are now selectable on the visited-countries map.

The route animator can now cruise through intermediate stops with a smooth banking turn instead of landing every time.

The 90/180 calculator now flags your busiest upcoming date so you can plan around it.

A new tool that tracks your days in the Schengen area against the 90-in-180 rule, so you can see at a glance how many days you have left.

Build a map of every country you have been to and export it as an image. It can auto-fill from your Google Timeline, or you can just tap countries by hand.

Route animations now slow down at each stop for a more natural feel, and default to a 9:16 vertical format on phones so your video is ready to share.

Sharing any MapRecap page now shows a proper preview image and description on social media and in chats.

Self-hosted fonts, a lighter homepage demo video, and stricter security headers make the site quicker and safer to use.

Fixed the visited-countries map to count every country you have actually been to, handle disputed territories more correctly, and keep the on-map count and the list in sync.

A new landing page and a live phone mockup let you preview exactly how your animated map will look as an Instagram Reel or Story before you export.

The map-style picker now shows a real preview of each style instead of a generic swatch, so you can see what you are choosing.

Analyzed trips now sort oldest-first by default, come with sorting and filtering, and show color-coded countries on each trip card.

On round-trips and multi-flight journeys the plane now lands and takes off at each stop, and sliders no longer jump when you scroll past them.

The Google Timeline analyzer is now its own page, with a one-click "Animate" handoff that sends a detected trip straight into the route animator.

Pick your home country from a name search with autocomplete instead of typing a country code.

Fixed a data issue that could merge two distinct countries into one, and stopped long-haul flight arcs from overshooting their destination.

Switching between the 2D map and 3D globe mid-playback now stops the animation cleanly instead of glitching.

Animate your journey on a spinning 3D globe, complete with a plane following the route, progressive route reveal, and a smooth takeoff-and-landing feel. Export it as a video too.

A new clean, tile-free map style for your 2D animations, drawn from vector borders for a minimal look.

Globe videos now export at your chosen aspect ratio and a fixed high resolution, with a constant on-screen plane size no matter the camera tilt.

Fixed video export on large screens, mobile play/reset controls, a readable reset dialog, and removed broken map tiles.

A redesigned, animation-first homepage that leads with the route animator, plus a cleaner tabbed editor for building and styling your trip.

Route animations now play right on the page instead of in a popup, so you can tweak the map style, colors, and speed and see the result immediately.

Set the line color, style, and animation speed for each leg of your trip individually, plus camera controls and per-leg map icons.

The route builder now has a proper mobile portrait layout with crisp retina map tiles.

Routes that cross the international date line now draw the short way around instead of wrapping the long way across the map.

Added proper page titles, descriptions, and social preview tags across the site so pages look right in search results and when shared.

Fixed the stop delete button alignment, a stuck hover state on touch, and now allows only one empty stop at a time.

A 3D plane marker now flies above your 2D map with a shadow, following a curved great-circle arc for flights and taking off and landing at each stop.

Drag a hue slider to recolor the plane instantly, and toggle whether distance in kilometers is shown.

The homepage carousel now includes a looping demo video wrapped in a phone mockup so you can see the animation in action.

Build a trip and watch it animate along real roads, with a growing kilometer odometer instead of static per-stop dates.

Added real "How it works" and Privacy pages explaining that everything runs in your browser and nothing is uploaded.

Evened out animation speed across walking, driving, and flying, and fixed jumpy first frames and play/pause resume.

The trip builder now remembers your work between visits, so a reload no longer loses your route.

Replaced the static homepage mini-map with a real interactive map, and added a clear how-to-export guide for getting your Google Timeline data.

Fixed the trip builder to a single column on mobile, sharpened map tiles so the camera zoom is no longer blurry, and corrected the dark map style.

The first version of the trip builder: create a route and play it back as an animated map flyover with switchable map styles.