See where your people are.
Your network on a map — built from hometowns, not real-time location. So when you land somewhere new, you already know who can show you around.
For iPhone and iPad.
Drop a pin for each person in your life. Just where they live — nothing else.
Watch your scattered crew become a single picture. The places that matter to you, mapped.
Land in a new city and instantly see who calls it home. No more wondering, no more missed reunions.
Postcard № 1
You touch down in Lisbon at midnight after a delayed flight. You open Global Friends, look at Portugal on the map, and there’s a pin: your friend Sofia, who moved here two years ago. Suddenly the city has a person in it. You text her in the morning. Three days later you’re at her favorite café.
Postcard № 2
You zoom in on Berlin and three pins appear in the same neighborhood. You hadn’t realized that many of your old colleagues had drifted to the same city. A single message thread later, you’ve got dinner plans you wouldn’t have made if your map didn’t show them clustered together.
Postcard № 3
Your friend Mateo moves from Mexico City to Tokyo. You move his pin, and a year of life-update calls is captured in five seconds. The next time you’re flying through Asia, your map has already updated — and you remember he’s there before you’d otherwise have thought to.
Your friends aren’t tracked — they don’t need an app, an account, or a phone. You add the places that matter (a hometown, a current city) and the map is yours. Your own location is used on your device to show distances and quietly let you know when you arrive somewhere a friend lives. It is not sent to Vagabonder or PostHog. Apple system services may process location and geocoding requests. Your friend data lives in your iCloud and on your device, never on a server we run. Optional product analytics is off until you consent and contains only pseudonymous usage events and limited technical metadata — never friend content, Contacts contents, or location.
Details in our Privacy Policy.
Global Friends is an iOS app that maps your friends' hometowns on a private world map. It is built for people whose closest people are scattered across countries — nomads, expats, third-culture kids, and anyone whose friends now call fifteen different cities home.
Find My Friends and Snap Map share real-time location. Global Friends does not. You add where each friend calls home — their hometown, the city they live in, or wherever you want to remember them living. There is no live tracking, no surveillance, no "who is near me right now."
Your friends are not tracked — they don't need an app, an account, or a phone. With your permission, the app reads your own location for two things: showing the distance to each friend on the map, and quietly letting you know when you arrive somewhere a friend lives. Your location is not sent to Vagabonder or PostHog, is not broadcast to your friends, and is not included in product analytics. Apple system services may process location and geocoding requests under Apple's privacy policy.
Save up to 50 friends free, including maps, notes, contact import, relationship tracking, and optional arrival reminders. Pro adds unlimited friends, premium pin styles, advanced filters with saved views, and vCard or CSV export. Choose annual Pro (US $9.99/year, with an eligible $4.99 first year) or lifetime Pro (US $34.99 once). Local prices and eligibility are shown in the app before purchase. Your saved friends remain viewable and editable if Pro expires.
Global Friends is built for iPhone and iPad running iOS or iPadOS 26.1 or later. Visit its App Store page for availability in your country. An Android version is not available.
The friends and places you add — names, addresses or home cities, notes, photos, contact links, and any interactions you choose to record. You can type these in or import selected entries from your Contacts (with your permission). Friend data lives in your iCloud private database, or locally on your device if you are not signed into iCloud. Vagabonder does not operate a server that stores your friend network. If you opt in to product analytics, PostHog receives only a pseudonymous installation ID, limited product events, and restricted technical metadata; it does not receive names, contact contents, friend data, or location.
No. Friends you add to Global Friends are not notified, and your map is not shared anywhere by default. The map exists for your reference only — like a personal journal of where the people in your life live.