Things nomads ask us.
Asked at coworking tables, in hostel kitchens and over email. Here is how stays work, how we count your visa days, and what your friends can and can’t see.
21 questions
About
A free travel journal and day counter for digital nomads. Every city you've lived in sits on one map, your Schengen and tax days are counted for you, and you see which friends are in the places you're heading. It's a website and an installable web app, so it works on your phone too.
Yes. The map, stays, counters, friends and every safety feature cost nothing. A few extras will be paid later, or yours for a while when you bring friends along. Safety and privacy are never behind a paywall.
One nomad, building it between check-outs and flights, with ideas from the people who use it. No ads and no big company behind it. The legal publisher is named on the privacy page, and you can reach us at hello@peregraapp.com.
You can install the web app today: open peregraapp.com on your phone and choose Add to Home Screen. It works offline too, handy on a night bus with no signal. A native app for iPhone and Android is the goal, and the community helps fund it.
Stays & import
A city plus the dates you were there, like Lisbon, 4 to 31 March. Everything hangs on it: past stays hold your notes, places, photos and the weather you had, the current one shows your counters and the forecast, and next ones show who will be there too.
Almost. Forward the booking email to your personal Peregra address (Airbnb, Booking.com, Hostelworld and Worldpackers first) and we suggest a stay for you to confirm. You can also let Peregra read the locations of your photos, which happens in your browser and keeps only the city and the date, or import a calendar file (.ics). You review every suggestion. The reading is rule-based, there is no AI involved.
No. There is no background tracking. When you open Peregra it may ask your browser once for your location, only to check whether you have landed in a new city. Your exact position is never stored and never shown to anyone.
Visa & tax days
For any day, it looks back over a rolling 180-day window and counts the days you were present in Schengen countries. The limit is 90, and the day you enter and the day you leave both count. Your planned stays are added too, so you see the days you have left, the date you need to be out by, and you can test a stay before you book. The counter is off if you are an EU, EEA or Swiss citizen or hold a residence permit. The European Commission's short-stay calculator is the official check.
No. The counters are guidance worked out from the dates you enter, so they are only as good as those dates. Rules change and depend on your nationality and situation. Check the official sources before you cross a border.
Peregra counts your days per country per calendar year, so you can see where you stand. Around 183 days is one tax-residence test among several, and every country has its own. That is why Peregra says "days in country" and never "tax resident". Ask a tax adviser before you decide anything.
Privacy & safety
Only the people you choose. Each stay has one of four sharing levels: only me, close friends, people you have met, or everyone. By default a past or current stay is visible to people you have met, a future stay to close friends, and your notes, places and photos to you alone. Friends see the city and the month, never your address or your exact dates.
One switch that hides you from everyone for as long as you like, for the weeks you just want to disappear. You drop off your friends' maps, lists and overlaps, and you can still use everything yourself. Switch it off when you feel like company again.
Friendship first, never dating. Friends and meetups need a verified phone number, strangers can send one message until you reply, meetups happen at public venues, and you can block and report anyone in two taps. A real person reads every report. Women can choose women-only meetups and women-only visibility.
Never. No ads, no trackers, no data brokers. Your data runs Peregra for you, and that is all it is for.
Go to Settings, then Your data, then Delete my account. Download your data first if you want to keep it. Deleting removes your stays, notes, photos and messages for good.
Community
Share your invite link, show your QR code across the coworking table, or enter a friend's code. They show up once they accept. Peregra never reads your address book and never sends messages on your behalf.
Small get-togethers in a city, like a Sunday run or a Friday dinner, set up by nomads at a public venue. Join one, chat with the group, or start your own. Meetups need a verified phone number, and women can make a meetup women-only.
Only people who actually stayed in a city can rate it, once per stay: women-friendly, pet-friendly, Wi-Fi, cost and the cheapest supermarket. An average appears once at least five people have rated, and a single rating is never shown on its own.
Support
Support Peregra once or every month, send us an idea, or bring your nomad friends along. Each one moves the app forward.
Into building the app: App Store and Google Play fees, development, checking city information and the servers that keep it running. Payments go through Stripe. Your support pays for a product made by one nomad, it is not charity and it is not tax-deductible.
Use the ideas form on the Help us grow page, or write to ideas@peregraapp.com. Every idea is read by a real person.
Still wondering?
Write to hello@peregraapp.com. The nomad who builds Peregra reads every message and writes back, from whichever city the laptop is open in.