How to set up Bounded

The setup flow

1. 1Choose your home base. Pick the country you consider home — Bounded uses it as the baseline of your timeline: any day without travel data counts toward your home country. If you are fully nomadic, choose Nomad instead.
2. 2Set your goal. Tell Bounded what you care about — staying within visa limits, managing tax residency, or keeping a residence permit — so it can suggest the right counters.
3. 3Restore your travel history. Bounded scans the GPS tags on your photos and rebuilds your past trips in seconds, entirely on your device. See how the photo restore works.
4. 4Check your trips. Review the countries, border crossings, and travel days Bounded found. Tap Add more to fill gaps, or Looks good to continue. Opening a trip here shows the timeline strip: drag a trip’s edge to fix its dates, or drag the whole trip to move it.
5. 5Enable location access. Allow Always location so GPS tracking can log your country each day in the background — no check-ins needed.

Add your first counter

On the Home tab, a Track the rules that matter card suggests two counters that fit your goal and home base — tap one to add it, or Browse all counters for the full catalog. You can also tap the + in the tab bar and choose Add a counter (iOS 26 or later; see the quick-add menu) to browse or search the visa, tax, and residency rules. See Day counters and built-in rules for how counters work.