Suroy on the App Store
Suroy for iPhone and iPad: a passport for the life you have already lived. 82 provinces, Been and On my list, dated stamps, Sakto ba, the Daily Suroy and Suroy Fun Run. Out now on the App Store.
Suroy on the App Store and Google Play · Out now
How much of the Philippines have you seen?
82 provinces. Mark where you have been, keep the rest on your list, and play a little on the way. Made in Cebu, for anyone who loves this country.
10°18’N 123°54’E · Cebu
iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 and later · Android 8.0 and later
Free · No account · Light and dark mode
7,641islands
82provinces
4games
7widgets
1question a day
0accounts needed
The Passport
Your map, first thing on screen.
Most of us have seen more of the country than we can name. A cousin's wedding in Iloilo. A work trip to Davao. That one summer in Sagada everyone still talks about. Suroy counts all of it, from the day you were born, not the day you downloaded an app.
Tap the provinces you have been to and watch your map fill in. Keep the rest on your list. Your Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao counts sit under the map, and one card shares the whole thing, your count and your Sakto ba? title included, so the group chat can argue about who has been to more.
Been is where your feet have touched. On my list is the rest of the map.
The Spine
Color says whether. Length says when.
- Not yet
A short stub you can still see, because the country is all there whether you have been or not.
- Been
Longer, and in Sunrise. The same Sunrise that fills the province on the map.
- The newest
Longer still. Exactly one tick carries it, and it moves the moment you mark another.
- Your finger
The longest of all, for as long as you are holding it.
0 of 82
Batanes to Tawi-Tawi
Eighty-two ticks, north to south.
Down the right edge of your Passport runs a rail with one tick for every province, in geographic order, Batanes at the top and Tawi-Tawi at the bottom. A province you have reached is a Sunrise tick. One you have not is a short stub, still there, still counted.
The longest tick is wherever you were last, so the rail answers that question without a word of text. Run a finger down it and each province lights up as you pass, its name on a card that follows your thumb.
The pawikan
It always finds its way back home.
The small turtle swimming beside your count is an olive ridley, the pawikan that still comes ashore to nest on Philippine beaches.
A hatchling runs for the water on its first night and spends years out at sea. When it is grown and ready to nest, it swims back to the same stretch of coast where it was born. Scientists are still working out exactly how it knows the way. It gets there anyway.
That is what the Passport is about, too. However far you go, the count keeps pointing home. The pawikan greets you when you mark a province, then turns to watch your rail.
It is also why Suroy Wear made Tidal Hope, a line for the sea the pawikan keeps coming home to.
A year in places
2026, counted.
Put the dates in and the app builds the year for you: an annual map, a chapter for every month, and the count of where you actually went. Old trips count as much as new ones. A wedding in 2014 belongs in 2014.
Coming soon
Your year, as a reel. One tap and the app will turn your year into a short vertical video: the map filling in month by month, each province landing with its date, sized for Stories and Reels.
A little more of home.
The Widget
Your map, the size of your whole screen.
The full page was an iPad size when it arrived. On iOS 27 it comes to the iPhone: one widget, the whole archipelago, Batanes down to Tawi-Tawi, on a Home Screen page of its own. Your count and your list run down the side. The map takes everything else.
Seven sizes now. The provinces you have been to fill in solid. The ones you want to go to are outlined, waiting. The rest stay as hairlines, and that is the part that gets you. Every size updates the moment you mark a province, without you opening the app. On the Lock Screen, a small count of where you have been, there every time you pick up the phone.
Small, medium, large and full page on the Home Screen. A circle or a bar on the Lock Screen. The full page needs an iPhone on iOS 27; on iPad it has been there since 1.1.
The Spine, on its side
On the Lock Screen and in the widgets the rail lies down, Batanes on the left and Tawi-Tawi on the right. The same 82 ticks, the same Sunrise.
Batanes
BatanesTawi-Tawi
At night · New in 1.4
The Philippines, after dark.
Open a province and see it the way the satellites do after the sun goes down: the cities bright, the coasts traced in towns, the mountains dark. Tap the capital and it comes closer, with how many people live there.
The new At night widgets keep your Home, or your whole Passport, glowing on your Home Screen. And on iPhone and iPad, every region you finish earns a night portrait of its own.
The night lights are real satellite imagery, credited in the app. The photograph above is ours.
Province pages
Every province has a page.
Tap Cebu and it opens: the shape with the provinces around it, a stamp for every visit in the ink of the year you went, the note you kept about the boatman or what you actually paid, and the day plan you saved, with the transfers, reference prices in pesos and the things worth confirming before you book. Send it to anyone as a Padala. If there is a Suroy Wear piece for that place, it is here too, and only here.
Tap a province you have not reached yet and it goes on your list, with the day plan we drafted for it if there is one. Finish a trip and the province is stamped with the date. All 82 have a page, even the ones we have not photographed yet, because the page is about your record, not our archive.
Since 1.2 a note can carry a photograph. One you choose yourself, kept with your words on the province page, and left off every card you share.
Your saved trips, notes and day plans live under My trips and notes inside the Passport.
Play
Sakto ba?
One of our photos. One place name. Is it right? Swipe right for Sakto, left for Sayop, and do it before the timer runs out, because every card comes faster than the last. Three misses and the run is over. The postcards are easy. The deep cuts are where the points are, and where the bragging rights live.
Every frame is ours, shot across the Philippines, most of them from the drone. If you have ever stood at a viewpoint and thought you would know it anywhere, this is your chance to prove it. Pass the phone around the table. It gets loud.
Every run ends with a title, and the title is the point. Start as a Turista, still on the tour bus. Climb to Lakwatsero, never home on a weekend. Then Tigsuroy, Island Hopper, Bisdak Navigator, Drone Pilot, Suroy Veteran. Share the card, tell your friends what you are, and make them earn theirs.
And at midnight, the Daily Suroy drops one question with dozens of good answers. Name a province in the Visayas and most people say Cebu. Name one nobody else would, and the rank shows it.
Coming soon
Multiplayer challenges. Send a deck to the group chat and see who is really Bisdak.
Suroy Fun Run
8,900 meters of CCLEX, on foot.
Start in Cordova and run the whole bridge to Cebu City. The jeepneys coming at you carry real route codes, the ones you grew up reading off windshields, 58 of them, and they swerve the way jeepneys do. There are carabaos. There are potholes. There is a dog that does not care about you. Grab the lechon for a boost, thread the puso lines, and when a 04L nearly clips you the game says Amping, the way your tita would.
Run long enough and the light goes from morning to dusk over the Mactan Channel. Make it across and the card says Naabot. If you know Cebu, you will feel it in the first thirty seconds.
- 04L Lahug
- 06B Guadalupe
- 01K Urgello
- 12L Labangon
- 04M Ayala
- and 53 more
Coming soon
The Fun Run, in 3D. With a Cebuano soul. We are rebuilding it on the real route, mapped from Cordova across the CCLEX to Cebu City, so every curve and every rise sits where it does on the bridge. Made in Cebu, about the crossing Cebuanos know by heart.
Why we made it
Because the usual ten is not the country.
Suroy is Cebuano for "to wander." Suroy.ph grew out of a habit of taking the long way home, and became a magazine about the Philippines most guides skip: the falls two towns past the famous one, the port you only know if you have slept on the ferry, the fiesta nobody outside the province has heard of.
The app is that same idea in your pocket. A way to see how much of your own country is already part of you, and a nudge toward the part that is not yet.
- Made inCebu, by the people behind Suroy.ph and Suroy Wear.
- PhotosAll ours. Every cover, every quiz card, every Sakto ba? frame.
- WorksWith or without signal. On the ferry, up the mountain, on the plane home.
- YoursYour Passport lives on your phone. The plain-words version.
The photography
Every frame in the app is ours.
Shot across the Philippines by Suroy.ph, most of it from the air. The launch cover changes every time you open the app, and each one carries a location stamp, the drone position where it was recorded, so you can go stand there yourself.
Suroy Wear · Statement Series
The runner wears Padayon. So can you.
Release notes
What is in it, and what is next.
Android
1.4
4 October 2026 · Out now
Your Biodata. The first page of your Passport, like the real thing: your name if you want it there, your Home, the date of your first stamp and the regions you have sealed, down to the machine line.
The Philippines at night. Every province as the satellites see it after dark, with how many people live there. Tap a capital for its towns and cities.
Your Home Screen, lit. New At night widgets: your whole Passport, or just your Home, glowing the way it does from space.
Stamps in the ink of their year. Each year you travelled gets its own ink, and your Home and the places on your list sit on the home page like tickets for where you are headed next.
Padala, signed. Suroy can remember how you sign off, so every postcard ends the way you would end it.
1.3
30 September 2026 · Out now
Padala, made yours. Send any province as a postcard with your own photograph and a few words. Three styles: Stamped, The Big Name with your photograph inside the letters, and Both Sides, with a written back like a real card.
Lights. Your provinces at night, lit the way the satellites see them.
Region seals. Go to every province in a region and it earns a seal. Seventeen of them, laid out like a page of stamps.
A stamp for every visit. Each trip gets its own dated stamp on the province page. The provinces around it are drawn in, and the place you call home says HOME.
The moment you mark. The stamp strikes and your count turns over. Your share card now carries a stamp for every province you have been, all the way to 82. And you can save your whole Passport as a file, so it stays safe.
1.2
26 September 2026 · Out now
Metro Manila, on its own. Mark it Been, keep it On my list or call it HOME, and it shows on your map, its own page and your share card. It sits outside the 82, so it never takes a tick on the Spine. Search finds it too.
Pasalubong and words from home. Province pages now carry what to bring back and a few words from the place, with where each one comes from.
The pawikan swims. It moves between three sea homes when you open the app, tap it or mark a province, and only then. At night it swims slower, eyes half open.
1.1
23 September 2026 · Out now
Suroy for Android, and it is the whole app, not a smaller one. Your Passport redrawn: the newest province leads the page, the Spine runs down the right edge with a Sunrise tick for every province you have reached, and marking one lands with a stamp.
An empty Passport opens on a sea off Siargao, and it is gone the moment you mark your first province. Two tab icons of our own, your rail and a saranggola. The Daily, Sakto ba?, the Fun Run and the Cebu Quiz all share a card you can keep. Android 8.0 and later, no account, and the app never asks where you are.
iPhone and iPad
1.4
6 October 2026 · Out now
Your Biodata. Your Passport now opens like the real thing: your name, your home province, your first stamp and every region seal you have earned, down to the machine line.
The Philippines at night, as seen from space. Each province shows its real night lights, and every region you complete earns its own night portrait. Tap a provincial capital for a closer look.
Two new widgets. Home at night and Passport at night, so the lights come with you.
Stamps in the ink of their year. Your stamps take the ink of the year you went, and All years brings every year together on one map. Your region seals get their own album, and at 41 provinces your Passport says it: Half the Philippines.
Padala, signed. Every Padala carries the province's name and a link to the app, and Suroy remembers your sign-off for next time. On iPad, the map holds still while your cards scroll beside it.
1.3
30 September 2026 · Out now
Padala, made yours. Put your own photograph on the postcard, in three styles: Stamped, The Big Name with your photograph inside the letters, and Both Sides, with a written back like a real card.
A stamp for every visit. Each trip gets its own dated stamp on the province page. The provinces around it are drawn in, and the place you call home says HOME.
The moment you mark. The stamp strikes, your count turns over, and you feel it land.
A card worth posting from day one. From your very first province, your stamps sit in the sea beside your map, and every province you have been gets one, all the way to 82.
Soon Stickers in Messages. Every province you have been, cut out as a sticker, ready to send.
1.2.2
25 September 2026 · Out now
Pasalubong and words from home. Province pages now carry what to bring back and a few words from the place, with where each one comes from.
Introducing Padala. Postcards from the places you love. Pick any province and its map becomes a postcard you can send to anyone, from the barkada group chat to Lola on Messenger. You went. Now padala.
Dates the way you remember them. A visit can be as exact as a day or as loose as a year, and a note can belong to the visit it is about.
Your year, kept. A keepsake of the year in your own photographs. And your Passport can now be saved as a file and opened again, so your record goes where you go.
1.2.1
23 September 2026 · Out now
The Spine and the pawikan, on iPhone and iPad. The same rail of 82 ticks down the right edge of your Passport, a Sunrise tick for every province you have reached and the longest one for wherever you were last, and the same companion swimming beside your count. Both platforms read the same now.
1.2
16 September 2026 · Out now
The full page, on your iPhone. The whole country on one widget, taking a Home Screen page to itself. It was an iPad size in 1.1. On iOS 27 it is on the phone.
Keep a photograph with a note. Choose one photo for a note and find it again on the province page, or all of them together in your memories. Your photos and your words stay off every card you share.
A year in places. An annual map and a chapter for each month, built from the dates you entered yourself. Old trips count. Put the date in and they show up.
Hold and glide. Hold a province and move across the map, release to step inside. The Passport, the province pages and the editors are written in Swift now, and you can feel it.
Metro Manila, on its own. A separate record for the capital region. Your 82 provinces stay 82.
Sakto ba?, tidier. Full swipes, clearer Cebuano word cards, photos sized properly on iPad, and Look again to go back over the ones you missed.
1.1
13 September 2026 · Out now
Suroy for iPad. The whole map, at the size it deserves. Every game, every province page, both ways round.
Glass tab bar. Passport and Play now sit in Liquid Glass on iOS 26, and the map runs underneath it.
Race code. Every Suroy Fun Run is a new road now. Your card carries a code; send it to the group chat and they run the same one.
The Daily talks back. Type Baguio when the board wants Benguet and the Daily tells you why, in one line, instead of blaming your spelling.
Culture boards. Thirty-eight new Daily boards, and the first that are not places: festivals, kakanin, Cebuano family words and food, folk dances, street food, fruit, ulam.
Full-page Passport. The whole country, top to bottom, on one extra-large widget, on iPad.
1.0.5
9 September 2026 · Out now
Two tabs, Passport and Play. The Passport now opens on your map, and every one of the 82 provinces has its own page: your Been stamp, the notes you kept, the day plans you saved, and the Suroy Wear piece for that place if there is one. Finish a trip and the province is stamped with the date. The share card carries your Sakto ba? title. Home Screen widgets in three sizes plus a Lock Screen count. Play brings the four games together with a countdown to the next Daily. Your saved trips, notes and day plans move into the Passport under My trips and notes. Approved and released on 9 September 2026. If your phone has not offered the update yet, it is rolling out in stages this week; open the App Store and pull down to refresh.
1.0
9 September 2026 · Out now
The first one. Passport for all 82 provinces with shareable map cards, and a home screen widget of your map in three sizes. Atlas with ten researched destinations and one longer journey (the Atlas is now Day plans, inside the Passport). Sakto ba?, the Daily Suroy, Suroy Fun Run and Cebu Quiz. Journal (now Notes). Light and dark mode, VoiceOver throughout, and a launch cover from the Suroy.ph drone library that changes every open. iPhone, iOS 17 and later.
What is next
On both
The Fun Run in 3D, with a Cebuano soul. The real CCLEX, from Cordova to Cebu City, curve for curve.
A new Play page. Every game on one shelf, and on the Fun Run card your runner sprints to your best.
Stickers in Messages. Every province you have been, as a sticker for the group chat.
Stories on the stamp. Suroy.ph stories on the province they belong to, and nowhere else.
Live ranks. The Daily rank from real players, not our estimate.
Two Passports. Yours and a friend's, side by side. No accounts, still.
Group chat decks. Send a Sakto ba? deck and find out who is really Bisdak.
Each one gets listed here the day it ships.
Made in Cebu by SuroyPH Media Group OPC
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