Cartina, the globe that draws the world you have seen, arrives on the App Store
Nidello's first app lights up every country you have visited on a globe, down to provinces and regions, with 141,810 places to tick off. Offline, in thirteen languages, with no account and no ads.
CANADA, 13 October 2026 — Nidello today releases Cartina on the App Store. For iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, it is a globe where every country you have visited lights up: spin it with your finger, tap a country, and watch your map fill in year after year. It is also the studio's first app to ship.
Cartina is Italian for "little map": the one you slip into your pocket before you leave.
What sets Cartina apart
- Further than countries. 252 countries and territories, and 3,649 regions across 239 of them: provinces, states, regions and prefectures. You did not visit the United States, you visited California, Oregon and Maine.
- 141,810 places to tick off. Eighteen collections: mountains, lakes, waterfalls, volcanoes, dive sites, golf courses, world cities, airports, national parks, world capitals, landmarks, ports, trails and great treks, World Heritage sites, natural wonders, dream islands, extreme points and wonders of the world. Goals (50 countries, every Canadian province, ten summits) and eighteen badges to earn along the way.
- It counts your days. Days abroad this year, days left in the Schengen Area and your last allowed day, the 183-day threshold country by country, and a reminder before the Schengen limit.
- Ten years of travel in a single tap. Cartina reads the location of your photos, works out the countries and regions, and rebuilds your history with the right dates. The photos never leave your phone.
- Useful for giving blood, too. A blood or plasma donation centre asks where you have travelled, and when. Cartina keeps every stay with its countries, regions and dates: the answer is ready, with no digging through your memory.
- Your map, wherever you want it. Send your places as pins to Apple Maps, or as a KML file for Google Earth and Google Maps.
- Everything works offline. Countries are identified on the device, from map data bundled inside the app: you can tick one off on a plane.
- iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Save a place from your watch, even with your iPhone out of range. Widgets and complications come with it.
- Thirteen languages: English, French, German, Spanish (Spain and Latin America), Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Simplified Chinese, Korean, Arabic and Russian, with Siri.
- Nothing of yours with us. No ads, no account, no tracking, and no server of ours: your map stays on your iPhone and in your iCloud.
On the U.S. and Italian App Stores, the app is listed as Cartina Atlas.
"The idea came to us on a trip in the Alps, with my youngest son, in one of those moments when you take the time to think. We looked at each other and said we just had to do it."
— Daniel, founder of Nidello
Availability
Cartina is available today on the App Store: apps.apple.com/app/id6816935313.
About Nidello
Nidello is an independent app studio in Canada. Its apps for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch work offline, keep their users' data on their devices or in their own iCloud, and contain no advertising or analytics. More at nidello.ca/cartina.
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