Early access · Free for collectors
Build your digital stamp collection. Help map the world’s stamps.
Photograph your stamps and Stamp Atlas helps you catalogue them in minutes. Choose to share them, and your collection helps build an open atlas of every stamp the world has issued.
From shoebox to atlas
No catalogue numbers to look up, no spreadsheets to maintain.
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Snap a stamp
Photograph a single stamp or a whole album page with your phone.
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We help identify it
Country, year, denomination and issue are suggested for you to confirm — no catalogue flipping.
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Watch your atlas grow
Every stamp lands on your personal map, organised by country, era and theme.
One collection, two ways to enjoy it
For you
Your collection, everywhere
A searchable catalogue of every stamp you own — on your phone at a stamp fair, on your laptop at home.
- Private by default — you choose what to share
- Browse by country, year, theme or condition
- Want lists and duplicates, always on your phone
- Export everything to CSV, any time
For everyone
An open atlas of the world’s stamps
Share the stamps you choose, and they join a free, community-built record of the world’s stamps — for every collector and every curious mind.
- Shared scans of stamps from every stamp-issuing country
- Details checked and corrected by fellow collectors
- Openly licensed data anyone can use
- Connected to our postal directory and history archive
Made for every kind of collector
Postcrossers
One home for every card you send and receive, stamps included.
Inherited collections
Turn a box of albums into a clear record of what you have.
New collectors
Start — or restart — a collection, and learn as you go.
Thematic collectors
Birds, ships, space or trains — organise by topic, across every country.
Stamp clubs & societies
Help members catalogue, swap and contribute together.
Built on a reference collectors already use
Stamp Atlas started as a free philately reference. It’s all still here, and it will power the atlas.
Questions
- What is Stamp Atlas?
- Stamp Atlas is a digital home for your stamp collection. You catalogue your stamps from photos, and — if you choose — the stamps you add help build a free, open atlas of every stamp the world has issued.
- Is it free?
- Yes. Cataloguing your collection is free during early access, and the open atlas will always be free to browse.
- Do I have to share my collection?
- No. Your collection is private by default. Contributing scans and details to the open atlas is opt-in, stamp by stamp.
- What does “open atlas” mean?
- Contributed stamp images and details are published under an open licence, so collectors, researchers and educators can use them freely. It is built by collectors, for collectors.
- When can I start?
- We’re opening Stamp Atlas to early-access members first, in small groups. Join the list and we’ll email you when your invite is ready.
Put your collection on the map
Join the early-access list and be among the first collectors to build the atlas.