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 · Out now
A passport for the life you have already lived.
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.
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10°18’N 123°54’E · Cebu
iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 and later · Android in development
Free · No account · Light and dark mode
82provinces
7,641islands
82province pages
4games
7widgets
1question a day
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.
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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.
Province pages
Every province has a page.
Tap Bohol and it opens: the shape, your Been stamp, 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. 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
Why we made it
Because the usual ten is not the country.
Suroy is Bisaya 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.
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 Bisaya 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, Bisaya family words, Cebuano 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
After 1.2
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.
Suroy for Android. In development now, for the phones most of the country carries. Same Passport, same games, same rule: no account, and the app never asks where you are.
Group chat decks. Send a Sakto ba? deck and find out who is really Bisdak.
Each one gets listed here the day it ships.
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Made in Cebu by SuroyPH Media Group OPC
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