American Palette

There are more than 3,143 discoverable counties in the United States. Most people see a few dozen in a lifetime and never notice. American Palette notices.

Leave it running while you travel. The moment you cross a county line, that county fills in with its own color, numbered in the order you found it. No check-ins. No buttons to press. You just drive, fly, or scooter, and the map slowly becomes a picture of everywhere you've been.

Every county now gets a color chosen so that back-to-back discoveries never look alike, the result is a map that reads as a color palette

Flying somewhere and it missed a few counties? Retracing an old trip? Switch on manual mode and tap any county to add it with the visit number you choose. Everything after it renumbers itself. Long-press any county to see when you found it, or remove it if you marked one by mistake.

- Progress for all 50 states, with completed states called out
- The exact percentage of U.S. land area you've covered
- Best day, longest streak, total travel days, and when you started
- 30 achievements across four categories, each one telling you plainly what it takes to unlock and exactly how close you are

One tap builds an image of your painted map with your numbers underneath and your color palette running along the bottom. Save it or post it.


YOUR DATA, YOUR DEVICE

Nothing is uploaded. There's no account, no sign-in, and no server. Your counties live on your phone. Export everything to a JSON file whenever you want, and import it back on a new device. We take privacy and security extremely seriously.

County boundaries are bundled with the app, so tracking keeps working with no cellular/internet signal at all — through the Nevada basin, across west Texas, up the Alaska Highway.


MADE FOR THE ROAD

- Three map styles: satellite, satellite with labels, and a minimal basemap that lets the colors carry
- County borders on or off
- The discovery chime mixes with your music and follows the ring/silent switch — it will never interrupt navigation or a podcast
- Battery-aware location tracking that tightens up near a county line and relaxes in the middle of one

Whether you're a county collector working toward all 3,143, a road tripper who wants a record of the long way home, or someone who just wants to see how much of the country they've actually touched — the map is waiting.


Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Look for the blew navigation arrow on when the app is not in focus to confirm that the app is still tracking location in the background. Force quit when you no longer wish to use it to save battery life.