Ortavo – Places & Photo Spots

Your private memory for places: photo spots with golden hour, lost places, collections with routes — in sync on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.

Ortavo is your private memory for places: favorite spots, hidden gems, photo locations, and travel destinations — on your own map, always in sync across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.

YOUR PLACES • Create a place with a touch on the map, at your current location, or straight from a photo with GPS data • Attach photos or take one right away, add notes, address, custom categories with icon and color, free-form tags • Text recognition in photos with automatic translation — entirely on your device • Favorites, wishlist, and a visit journal with date and note

FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS • Photo spots with photo style, best light, season, and tripod recommendation • Golden hour, sunrise, and sunset calculated precisely for every place • Golden hour widget for your Home Screen and a watch face complication

FOR EXPLORERS, CAMPERS & DRONE PILOTS • Lost places with danger level, legal status, and condition warnings • Drone spots with live weather, wind speed, and flying conditions • Overnighter spots for van or tent nights — status, nights limit, amenities • Fishing spots with water type, permit status, and target fish • Star spots for astrophotography with Bortle class and clear horizon • Swim spots with entry type and amenities like sandy beach or jump rock

ORGANIZE & FIND • Collections for trips and themes, with multi-stop route launch • Search across names, notes, addresses, and tags with combinable filters • Search field right on the map — finds your places and addresses worldwide • Your places appear in system-wide iPhone search

ALWAYS WITH YOU • Private iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch — no setup required • Apple Watch app: nearby places with direction and distance, create new places from your wrist • Widgets for overview, favorites, and golden hour • Siri: “Remember this place in Ortavo” or “When is golden hour in Ortavo” • Get notified when you are near a saved place • Import and export via open formats (GPX, JSON)

PRIVATE BY DESIGN Ortavo has no servers and collects no data. Everything stays on your devices and in your private iCloud. Even text recognition runs entirely on device.