Nomad Tracker

What is Nomad Tracker?

Nomad Tracker is the premium residency and visa tracking solution for digital nomads. It automates the most challenging parts of staying compliant by combining GPS based automatic tracking, photo metadata reconstruction, and sophisticated tax and visa logic. The app acts as your residency command center where you can monitor Schengen days, visa runway for other countries, and the 183 day fiscal residency rule — all in one place — with a privacy first approach that keeps your data on your device.

Nomad Tracker blends automated presence tracking with intelligent insights to help you optimize taxes and visa planning. It uses efficient background processing and a privacy first design to ensure your location data remains private and accurate, while providing actionable analytics at your fingertips.

Key Features

• Schengen and Visas: Rolling window calculations for Europe 90/180 and visa runway tracking for every other country
• Fiscal Residency: Monitor the 183 day rule with precision and support for custom fiscal years such as the UK April 6 start
• History Backfill: Privacy first engine that reconstructs past travel history by scanning photo metadata without compromising privacy
• Fiscal Oracle: AI powered fiscal assistant that analyzes travel patterns and provides personalized insights for tax optimization and visa planning
• Your residency command center: Aggregate travel data into actionable insights with filters for immigration modes or fiscal modes
• Year in Review: Heat map style grid showing each day colored by country to reveal patterns at a glance
• Geographic Risk Board: Interactive map highlighting days spent in each country with quick stats and easy data entry
• Set it and forget it: Sophisticated local algorithms keep your records accurate without draining the battery
• Battery Efficient GPS: Uses Significant Location Changes API and sleeps when you do
• On-Device Intelligence: Data stays on device and is processed locally
• Home Screen Widgets: Configurable counters for Schengen days remaining or fiscal year accumulation
• Privacy and pricing: No subscription traps, deterministic accuracy, and 100 on-device privacy
• Pro features: Widgets, Alerts, History, Exports and Fiscal Oracle; plus Custom Runway Configuration for complex visa rules

How to Use Nomad Tracker

1. Install Nomad Tracker on your mobile device
2. Open the app and grant location access with Always Allow to enable automatic country change detections, and avoid force quitting the app so it can wake for location updates
3. Configure your rules in settings: set up your Schengen rolling window for 90/180 days, enable visa tracking for your itinerary, and configure your custom fiscal year start date if needed
4. Let the app start collecting data automatically; if you want to bring in past trips, use the History Backfill feature which reconstructs earlier travel history from your photo metadata
5. Explore the dashboards: Year in Review heat map, Geographic Risk Board, and the residency command center
6. Switch between Immigration mode for visa runs and Fiscal mode for tax compliance to see the different perspectives
7. Upgrade to Nomad Tracker Pro to unlock Smart Alerts for tax and visa limits, Home Screen Widgets, CSV data export for your accountant, the Historical Dashboard, and the Fiscal Oracle AI assistant; Pro also enables Custom Runway Configuration for complex visa rules
8. Keep the app running in the background and enjoy battery efficient GPS that minimizes drain

Use Cases

• Digital nomads crossing Europe while staying compliant with Schengen 90/180 rules and selecting preferred residence countries
• Remote workers with a custom fiscal year such as the UK tax year who need precise 183 day tracking for tax residency decisions
• Individuals performing visa runs or residency transitions who require a clear visual overview of days spent and upcoming runways
• Tax professionals and advisors who require exportable data via CSV and a historical dashboard to review clients year over year
• Privacy conscious users who prefer on device processing and data never leaving the device

FAQ

How do I ensure automatic tracking works? To enable Set it and forget it you must grant the app Always Allow location permissions. This lets the app detect country changes even when your phone is in your pocket. Also avoid force quitting the app as that stops location wakeups.

What features are included in Nomad Tracker Pro? The core automatic tracking is free forever. Upgrading to Pro unlocks the full power of your data: Smart Alerts for tax and visa limits, Home Screen Widgets, CSV Data Export for your accountant, the Historical Dashboard to view previous years, and the Fiscal Oracle AI assistant. Pro also enables Custom Runway Configuration for complex visa rules.

How is my location data handled? All processing happens on-device. Your location history is stored in a local database and never sent to our servers. We believe your movements are your private business.

Does it support the UK Tax Year? Yes. You can configure custom fiscal year start dates in the settings and the logic engine automatically adjusts all calculations.

How does the Schengen calculator work? It uses the rolling window method. We look back 180 days from today to count how many days you have spent in the Schengen area, and you can apply this logic to today or to future dates.