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The current app has 18 self-guided visits across all 14 countries. Each one links six or seven stops, with written notes, a suggested order, directions and saved progress.

• Italy: Ancient Rome, Florence, Venice and a separate Vatican visit.
• United Kingdom: Westminster to Bloomsbury, and the City of London with the South Bank.
• Elsewhere in Europe: Paris, Lisbon’s Belém district, Madrid, Athens, Berlin and Amsterdam.
• Beyond Europe: Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Seoul, Bangkok and Mexico City.

These are hand-picked city visits inside a much larger place catalog. You can still explore other cities and plan trips there wherever the catalog has suitable places. See all 18 self-guided visits →

Open Tours and choose a visit. In Rome, for example, the list takes you from the Colosseum and Forum toward Trevi, the Pantheon and Piazza Navona. Each stop has a short introduction, fuller place details, an estimated visiting time and a Directions button.

Follow the suggested order or start wherever you like.

• Pause anytime: mark a stop as visited, break for lunch and come back later. Your progress saves on the phone.
• Plan your time: the visit time shown covers time at the sights, so allow extra for travel, queues and breaks.
• Check ahead: confirm venue hours and ticket requirements before deciding how much to fit into your day.

The visits are designed for exploring independently, with written place notes. There is no human guide, narrated audio or GPS-triggered commentary, so you explore freely. Admission tickets and bookable experiences are bought separately.

Some place pages include a website or reference link, so you can look into the venue and its booking options.

• Their terms: the destination site handles its own prices, availability and purchase.
• Reminders, not tickets: a booking reminder in your itinerary prompts you to arrange admission. It is not a reservation or a ticket.
• Busy sights: for a popular museum or timed entry, book ahead through your chosen service and keep the confirmation handy.

Yes. Open Directions on a place or itinerary stop and choose where to begin:

• Current Location for wherever you are now.
• Hotel / Address for a saved starting point in that city.
• Previous Stop when it is available for the visit.

Choose walking, transit or driving, then open the journey in Apple Maps or Google Maps. They supply the route, current travel time and navigation, and a saved address gives you an easy way back. The app does not book hotels: arrange your stay with your preferred service, then add the address. Check the entrance and map pin before setting off.

Free gives you room to find out what appeals to you:

• Browse countries, Atlas town summaries and the place catalog.
• Read and follow the self-guided city visits.
• Rate your interests and make a one-day plan, or see Day 1 of a longer plan.
• Use the Stay Counter and bundled offline place information.
• Export your data, restore a backup and answer a trip invitation.

Each paid plan adds more. Trip Pass opens the full multi-day planner and Today, Traveler adds unlimited saved trips and planning together, and Atlas Member adds the full Atlas collection. Explore the places first, then pick the plan that fits.

Choose by the kind of planning you want to do:

• Trip Pass: every day of the planner and Today for 30 days from purchase. It does not renew automatically.
• Traveler: Trip Pass features, plus unlimited saved trips and Traveling Together. Monthly and annual options are offered in the app.
• Atlas Member: Traveler features, the complete illustrated dossiers for all 14 countries, Atlas Watch alerts and Scouting Trips.

You see current prices, renewal terms and any trial for your Apple Account in the app before you buy. Pick Traveler for the journeys, and Atlas Member when you also want the full country research.

Plenty works offline, so you can read on a train or keep roaming switched off:

• Place information: the country place details are built into the app.
• Your trip: Atlas town summaries, saved plans and visit progress stay on the phone.
• Atlas Member: the full dossiers are built in for offline reading while your access is active.

Websites, current tickets and opening information, new map searches and live directions need a connection or that provider’s own offline features.

• Maps: download them in your chosen map app before you travel. The Shortlist Atlas does not include its own offline street-map navigation.
• Before you leave: open the app, check the plan and save the confirmations you will need separately.

In Settings, open Backup, Import & Privacy. Export everything creates a file containing your trips, edited days, ideas, shortlist, stay log and scouting scores. Save it somewhere you can reach from another phone, then use Restore from an export to bring it back.

You can also enable iCloud backup and use Restore from iCloud to retrieve the last available copy on your Apple Account. This is backup and restore, not live syncing between devices.

Already have a list? Import accepts supported Google Maps Takeout files or a CSV with name, latitude and longitude. They arrive as saved places; importing a list does not reserve or schedule what is on it.