Terms of use

Last updated 5 October 2026.

The short version: marking every country you've been to, and logging your recent and upcoming flights, is free. Travel Vault Pro is one payment, never a subscription. There are no adverts, your travels live on your phone, and an account and friends are optional and off until you choose them.

The agreement

Travel Vault is an app made by Pikeworks, a sole trader in Northern Ireland. By installing it you agree to these terms. If you don't, please uninstall it.

What's free

Marking every country and territory you've been to, lived in or want to visit, whatever the date, with its passport stamp; the continents; flights from the last three months and any flight still to come; backup, restore and spreadsheet export. Backup and export are free for everyone, always: your records are yours to take wherever you like.

Travel Vault Pro

Pro is a one-off purchase through Google Play or the App Store. It adds cities and places of your own, fog of war, flights older than three months, bringing in your history (Google Maps Timeline, GPX tracks, photo locations and other apps' flight exports), the whole Passport with any single year, posters and map looks. It isn't a subscription and doesn't renew. The store takes the payment and its own terms apply to it; refunds are the store's to give, and your rights as a consumer are unaffected. A purchase is restored on another phone signed in to the same store account, with Restore a purchase.

Nothing you've already added is ever hidden or taken away. If you stop having Pro on a phone (a refund, say, or a new phone before you restore), everything you logged stays and still counts; only adding more of the Pro parts waits for Pro.

Places and maps

The country outlines come from Natural Earth, the cities from GeoNames, the airports from OurAirports, and the map from OpenStreetMap through OpenFreeMap. Borders and names follow those sources and aren't a statement by Pikeworks about any dispute. You choose what counts as a country in Settings. A place missing from the list can be added on the map as one of your own.

Fog of war and your location

Fog clearing only runs when you turn it on, and you can turn it off at any time. Its accuracy depends on your phone's location, which can be wrong; squares it clears by mistake can be put back with the eraser. Keep your eyes on where you're going, not on the app.

Flights

Distances and times in the air are worked out from the airports, not taken from the airline, so they're close rather than exact. A scanned boarding pass is read on your phone, and its date is worked out from what the pass carries; check it before you save.

Your travels

Everything you add is kept on your phone. Settings has Save a backup, Restore a backup and Export as spreadsheets, and all three are free.

Your Pikeworks account

You don't need an account to use Travel Vault. If you make one, it's one sign-in for every Vault app, and it isn't for anyone under 13. Keep your way of signing in to yourself: don't share your password or a sign-in code, and sign out of the app when you finish on a phone you share. You can delete the account at any time, in the app or from the delete page, and your travels on your phone stay where they are. An account doesn't give you Pro: Pro stays with the Google or Apple account you bought it with.

An account used to get round a block or a suspension, to pretend to be someone else, or to attack or overload the service can be closed.

Friends, if you turn them on

Friends is off until you switch it on, it needs a Pikeworks account, and the app works fully without it. The community rules are part of these terms. The app asks you to agree to them before you choose a handle, and again whenever they change. They say what isn't allowed, how Block and Report work, what happens when something breaks them, and how to ask for a second look.

What you share stays yours. By sharing it you let Pikeworks store it and show it to the people you shared it with, for as long as it's shared, and only to run friends. You can delete anything you've shared at any time.

If something you share breaks the rules, it can be taken down, and friends can be switched off for your account for 7 days, 30 days or for good. Your own travels, and the rest of the app, aren't touched. If you think a decision was wrong, the rules say how to ask for it to be looked at again, and you keep your right to take it to court.

Partner links

On a country you want to go to, the app may show a link to a partner's eSIM, marked as a partner link. Buying from a partner is between you and them, under their terms; Pikeworks may earn a commission at no cost to you. You can turn partner links off in Settings.

Availability and liability

The app is provided as it is. The map's tiles come from OpenFreeMap, which can be slow or unavailable, and the countries map carries on working without it. Nothing in these terms limits liability that can't be limited by law, and your statutory rights as a consumer aren't affected. Beyond that, and as far as the law allows, Pikeworks isn't liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost data or lost records, and any liability is limited to what you've paid for the app in the twelve months before the claim.

Law

These terms are governed by the law of Northern Ireland, and its courts have jurisdiction. If you live elsewhere in the United Kingdom or in the EU, you keep the protections of your own local law.

Getting in touch

Email travelvault@pikeworks.co.uk.