Ortavo – Places & Photo Spots

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 style, best light, season and tripod recommendation • Golden hour, blue hour, sunrise and sunset calculated precisely for every location • Sun and moon position as a compass with their daily path — on the map as a ray with a time slider • AR viewfinder: sun, moon and Milky Way paths right in the camera image • Night sky: Milky Way visibility window and aurora chance for your location • Cloud cover at golden hour — so you know in advance whether the trip is worth it • Golden hour countdown in the Dynamic Island, reminder 30 minutes ahead • Calculators for depth of field, hyperfocal distance and long exposure with ND filters • Capture data (EXIF) of your photos: camera, focal length, aperture and ISO • Golden hour widget for the 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 • Share collections via iCloud as “can edit” or “view only” — a pencil or an eye shows your access at a glance • Leave a shared collection or tour and keep a private copy • Search field right on the map, with filters — finds your places and addresses worldwide • Your places appear in system-wide iPhone search TOURS & LIVE SPEED • Record tours: distance, duration, elevation gain and average speed • Color the track by speed, lateral g or acceleration — with a track preview in tour details • Share tours via iCloud: friends see the whole route on their map • Share tours as GPX • Live Speed for car, train, flight and ship: real-time speed, lateral and longitudinal g, stopwatch — save sessions as tours 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.