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worlddex.

designed & built solo · iOS · 2026 · in TestFlight

a travel collection game. the places you've been become foil trading cards, minted from your photo library, entirely on-device. no accounts, no servers, nothing uploaded.

collect the world, one city at a time.

⦿ common→⦿ uncommon→⦿ rare→⦿ epic→⦿ legendary

the legendary japan card — gold foil on dark navy
✦ the foil, live. move over the card

2,046

cards to collect

244

countries & territories

1,802

collectible cities

12

legendary countries

[01] the story

[01]the reposition

it started as a privacy-first travel tracker: your photo library already knows everywhere you've been, so the app maps it without a single byte leaving the phone. it worked, but nobody opens a map twice. a collection you want to complete is a different story, so the map became a binder, and every place became a card.

[02]the rarity engine

every card carries a tier, common through legendary, derived from real tourism-pressure data: World Bank arrival numbers against population. the fewer travelers who make it somewhere, the rarer its card: Japan is common, Bhutan is legendary. your passport score weighs each pull 1 / 2 / 4 / 8 / 16, and a percentile ranks you against 100,000 modeled travelers. the app is upfront that they're modeled, not real users.

[03]the craft

2,046 card faces and zero commissioned artwork: every card is drawn procedurally, with the country's real geometry etched in gold on dark navy and tier palettes running a warm gold-to-coral family. one hard rule in the design system: no purple. the foil stays gold, teal and coral, in-app and on every share.

[04]the ceremony

new cards arrive with the lights off. each one waits face down until you tap, paced like opening a real pack. the vault shelves your collection by region, rarest first, with locked cards showing only a question mark. sharing mints a holo card of your whole world, and even that only leaves the phone when you send it.

[02] the rarity ladder

one country, five tiers: the same Japan, minted common through legendary. weights double at every step.

japan minted at common
⦿ common×1
japan minted at uncommon
⦿ uncommon×2
japan minted at rare
⦿ rare×4
japan minted at epic
⦿ epic×8
japan minted at legendary
⦿ legendary×16

[03] the ceremony

the ceremony, the vault, the share: every screen stays dark so the gold foil pops.

reveal ceremony: an epic Gabon card glowing in the dark, tap to keep revealing
the reveal. tap to keep revealing
the shareable holo card: my world in cards, with rarity map and traveler percentile
the share: my world · in cards
three cards fanned on royal blue: Kyoto common, Uyuni rare, Longyearbyen legendary
the opening hand: common, rare, legendary
a vault shelf: Asia, three collected cards then locked question-mark card backs
the vault: rarest first, the rest still face down

the one-line pitch

see the world you've collected.

✦ made on iPhone · photos never left the device

WorldDex app icon: a gold-framed card with an engraved globe on royal blue

in TestFlight since September 2026. the collection engine, vault, reveal and holo share are built, flipped on, and in testers' hands. the App Store is next.