Nomad Tracker, a local-first iOS app to track visas and tax residency

Name: Nomad Tracker, a local-first iOS app to track visas and tax residency
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Author: gotzonza

by gotzonza·Feb 11, 2026·3 points·3 comments

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Solves a real nomad headache with local-first privacy, but the market is small and the feature set feels feature-complete rather than revolutionary.

Strengths

•Local-first architecture with zero cloud dependency removes genuine privacy concerns for tax-sensitive users.
•Fiscal Oracle using on-device ML for personalized tax/visa insights is clever and differentiated from competitors.
•Smart history backfill via photo metadata EXIF is elegant—real nomads have chaotic travel logs.

Weaknesses

•Narrow audience: only iOS, only nomads with complex visa/tax situations. Market size is inherently limited.
•Visa tracking exists elsewhere (TravelPal, Nomad List forums); the 'runways' and Schengen logic are table stakes, not differentiators.

Post Description

Hi HN, I’m full stack developer (formerly iOS) and I just launched Nomad Tracker, a native iOS app to help digital nomads track physical presence across countries for visa limits and tax residency.

Key idea: everything runs on-device. No accounts, no cloud sync, no analytics.

Features:

- Calendar-based day tracking per country. - Schengen 90/180 and other visa “runways”. - Fiscal residency day counts and alerts. - Optional background location logging (battery-efficient, never overwrites manual data). - Photo import using metadata only (no image access). - On-device “Fiscal Oracle” using Apple’s Foundational Models to ask questions about your own data. Also you can choose AI models for this, but not local.

I created this because other apps felt limiting and didn’t do what I needed. This app is visual, user-focused, and designed to make tracking easy and clear.

Happy to answer questions or discuss the technical tradeoffs.