Travel · for travelers who want a map of real moments
Stampic is a photo map for travelers who want every picture on it to be a real record of where they stood and when. There is no gallery upload: you shoot inside the app, and the photo lands on a dark map as a polaroid at the exact spot you took it. Anything older than five minutes cannot be posted, so the map only holds moments that happened. Anyone can browse the map without an account, and posting is anonymous, with no nicknames and no profiles.
The map opens on your location in a dark, darkroom tone. Photos other people shot nearby sit on it as small polaroid frames, and at lower zoom they gather into numbered clusters. The buttons along the bottom are the flight jump with its distance, your film deck, your page, and the camera.
Tapping a polaroid opens it full size over the map. The photo carries an orange seven-segment date stamp in the corner and a heart with its count underneath. There is no caption and no author name, because the app has no text posts and no profiles.
Your own page is styled like the back of a film camera. It shows how many stamps you have left on the map, how many hearts they have collected, the date your film was loaded, and an Old Film counter that reads 0 of 3 until you use a lifetime slot.
Most photo maps let you pick anything from your library and drop it wherever you like. Stampic removes that door on purpose. The only way to put a photo on the map is to open the in-app camera and press the shutter. The photo is tagged with the coordinates of the phone at the moment of capture, and you cannot move it. The server also checks the time between the shot and the upload, and rejects anything older than five minutes.
The effect is that a pin on the map means one thing: someone was standing there, at that time, and this is what they saw. There are no filters, no editing, and no text. What you see on the map is the photo and a date stamp.
The camera holds up to three shots. Each time you post, one frame is used, and a new frame develops every fifteen minutes. The camera screen shows this as a film roll with a winding animation and a development gauge, and when the roll is empty the shutter shows a NO FILM overlay until the next frame is ready.
The limit is the point. You cannot post twenty photos of the same alley in a row, so each frame goes to the moment that deserves it. After you press the shutter the upload happens in the background: you return to the map immediately, the new stamp shows as developing, and it clicks into place when the upload finishes.
There is one exception to the no-upload rule, and it is deliberately tiny. You may bring in three photos from your past, ever. The app reads the location and date from the photo file itself rather than trusting anything you type, pins it in permanent sepia, and counts the slot as used. Deleting an old film later does not give the slot back.
This is how a first trip from years ago can sit on the same map as last weekend, without turning the map into a gallery dump. Your page shows the counter as 0 of 3, 1 of 3, and so on, so you always know what is left.
The deck flips through moments from far away as if you were boarding a flight. Cards are polaroids with slight tilt, varying paper tone, and small wear marks. Heart the ones you like, and a boarding-pass hint card shows the next destination and its distance. The airplane button on the map jumps the camera to a random trace at least 150 km away, so browsing always lands you somewhere you did not choose.
Each card also carries a share link. You can report a photo with a two-step reason picker, and repeated reports on the same photo hide it automatically. Blocking a user removes their pins from your map.
Public locations are offset 30 to 50 meters from the real spot before anyone else sees them, so a photo taken at home never exposes the door. The original coordinates stay in a private column and are never returned to other users. GPS metadata is stripped from the photo file on the server. Sign-in is Google or Apple only, and the server keeps the provider identifier, not your email. There are no ads, no in-app purchases, and no tracking prompt. Browsing the map needs no sign-in at all; you only sign in to post, heart, or report.
Not in the normal flow. Photos are taken inside the app and posted within five minutes. The only exception is Old Films: three photos from your past, for the lifetime of your account, pinned from the location and date in the file itself.
You hold up to three shots, and one new frame develops every fifteen minutes. When all three are used, the shutter is disabled until the next frame is ready.
No. The coordinates other people see are offset 30 to 50 meters from the real spot. The original is stored privately and never shown.
No. Browsing the map and opening photos works without signing in. You sign in with Google or Apple only when you want to post, heart, or report.
No. There are no ads, no in-app purchases, and no tracking prompt.
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