What Urban Passport is

How it works, in one paragraph

Every spot in Urban Passport is a collectible card with a question, a short story, and a look-for hint. You can study the cards from your sofa — but a stamp is only earned on location, verified by a GPS geofence, never just tapped. Studying a city is free; stamps and completed categories go into a persistent digital passport that stays with you across trips and devices. Urban Passport is built for solo explorers and for groups of every kind — school trips, company outings, stag and hen dos, language trips, hostel groups: group sessions run with a six-digit code, teams from 6 up to 100 participants, depending on group size (one phone per team is enough), and everything earned in a session lands in each player's personal passport.

What Urban Passport is not

• Not a DIY scavenger-hunt builder. Unlike tools such as Actionbound, teachers and players do not create their own content — every spot, question, and story is curated and fact-checked by us.
• Not an audio guide or classic city-tour app. There is no narrated route to follow. It is a game: study, travel, answer on site, stamp.
• Not a check-in app. A stamp cannot be earned from home or by tapping a button — the phone must physically be within 18 to 75 metres of the real place, depending on the spot.

The numbers

Studying any city is free. The first city, Hamburg, includes free spots to play before buying the full city pack.

For teachers and school classes

A city rally with Urban Passport fits a 90-minute outing or a half-day program, needs only smartphones — no guide, no printed material — and the teacher sees each team's progress live. Class sessions run on the German-language Klassenfahrt Hamburg page, live today for schools. Details for groups in English are on the Groups & Classes page.

Who makes it

Urban Passport is developed in Hamburg, Germany — the same city its first passport covers. Every spot is verified against public sources before it ships, and the street-art collection is walked and photographed on site.