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The short version.
- Name
- Roamango
- Developer
- Chaoskampf Ltd (United Kingdom)
- Platform
- iPhone and iPad · iOS 17 and later
- Released
- September 2026
- Version
- 1.0.2
- Price
- Free to download and use. One-time £8.99 unlock — no subscription
- Category
- Travel · Photo & Video
- Languages
- English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (BR), Japanese, Korean
- Output
- 1080p H.264 video file · 9:16 or 16:9 · 24, 30 or 60 fps
- Accounts
- None. No sign-up, no email, no server
- App Store
- apps.apple.com/app/id6788371735
- Website
- roamango.co
- Privacy policy
- chaoskampf.co/roamango‑privacy
- Press contact
- press@chaoskampf.co
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Copy you can lift.
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Roamango finds the trips hiding in your camera roll and renders each one as a cinematic map film.
Roamango is an iPhone app that reads the location data your camera already saved and finds the trips hiding in your photo library. Each one becomes a cinematic map film: the route draws itself between destinations while your best photos surface at every stop. It all happens on the device.
Roamango is an iPhone app that turns a camera roll into travel films. It reads the GPS coordinates your phone already wrote into every photo, works out where you went and when, and presents your travel history as pins on a globe — no sorting, no albums, no setup.
Pick a trip and Roamango renders it as a cinematic map video: the route drawing itself between destinations, your best photos surfacing at each stop, set to cleared music or your own recorded narration. It chooses the photos itself — favourites first, then portraits and panoramas, skipping screenshots, near-duplicates and pictures of menus.
Everything runs on the device. There is no account, no sign-up and no server holding your photos. Roamango is free to use, with a single one-time purchase — never a subscription — for the full set of styles and a watermark-free export.
Four things worth writing about.
Not talking points — the parts we think are genuinely unusual, including where the constraints bite.
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There is no project to start. Most video apps hand you an empty timeline. Roamango opens on a globe that is already full, because the work was done years ago by your camera's GPS chip. The app's whole premise is that the archive exists and nobody has ever had a reason to open it.
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Choosing the photos is the hard part, and it's done for you. Selection runs a tiered score — hearted photos win outright, then portraits, panoramas, shots you bothered to edit and pictures you shared — before Apple's Vision framework re-ranks on aesthetics and drops the near-duplicates, the shot-series and the frames that are mostly text. That last rule is why a holiday's worth of menus, museum placards and train tickets never make the cut.
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A travel app with no server behind it. Scanning, grouping, photo selection, geocoding and video rendering all happen on the phone; place names come from a geographic database bundled inside the app rather than a lookup service. There is no account to create, and no copy of your library anywhere but your pocket. The one network call is streaming map tiles while a film renders — which does mean a render needs a connection.
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You get a file, not a feed post. Every export is a plain 1080p video saved to your library — cleared music, no platform lock-in, nothing that expires. That sounds obvious until you try to get a finished file out of most apps that set your memories to licensed music.
Straight off the phone.
Unedited exports — no post, no colour grade, no compositing. Free to embed or cut into a review. Nothing loads until you press play.
The app itself.
Full-resolution PNGs, presented in an iPhone frame on a transparent ground so they drop onto any background. Click a shot for the original. Want them unframed, or a screen that isn't here? Ask.
The globeEvery trip the app found, pinned. This is the first screen after a scan.
Trip editorNumbered stops in order. Drag, merge, delete or add a place by hand.
Photo selectionThe app's picks for one stop — and the override if you disagree.
Film settingsLength, map theme, route line, pacing — set per trip, not globally.
Reveal stylesHow each photo arrives on the map — postcard, polaroid, full frame.
Full-frame revealThe same stop, shown edge to edge.
Year in ReviewA whole year of travel swept into one film.
Crossed PathsTwo travel histories overlaid: where you both went.
Crossed Paths, detailAnd the times you were in the same city and missed each other.
StatsCountries, distance, days away — derived from the same photo data.
Music31 cleared tracks in the app. Nothing that gets a post muted.
NarrationTalk over your own film; the music ducks underneath you.
On deviceWhat the app tells users about where their photos go. Nowhere.
Name, mark and colour.
- ✓Roamango — one word, capital R, no space, no hyphen. Written in Latin script in every language, including Japanese and Korean.
- ✓A finished video is a roam. That's the word the app uses throughout, and it's lowercase.
- ✕Not RoamReels. That was the working title during development and it isn't the product's name.
- ✕Not Roamango Pro as a separate product — there is one app, with one optional unlock inside it.
- ✓Roamango and the mango mark are trademarks of Chaoskampf Ltd.
#FF6B4D#D92626#FAF5E6#1A3F45#1F2328Every map in Roamango is drawn with Mapbox and OpenStreetMap data, and their licences require the credit to stay visible. If you crop a still or a clip, please keep the © Mapbox © OpenStreetMap line and the Mapbox wordmark in frame — or crop above them and add the same credit in your caption. This is the one element of a Roamango film that users can't remove either, paid or not.
A real person answers.
Roamango is made by Chaoskampf Ltd, a small independent developer in the UK. Questions, review codes, a demo, a quote for a piece, or a film shot to your brief — just ask.