About AusVisa Tracker

An independent, local-first mobile app for anyone navigating the Australian visa system — whether you're waiting on a skilled grant, ticking off Working Holiday days, or trying to remember which form you uploaded six months ago.

What the app does

• Application tracking. Add an application by subclass, stream, nominated occupation, state, and ABS flag. Log milestones as they happen — lodged, health, police, RFI, interview, grant.
• Predicted grant dates. Two estimates per application: a "Feeling lucky" p50 and a "Down to earth" p90, both based on the latest publicly available Home Affairs processing-time averages.
• WHV days tracker. An opt-in tab for Working Holiday (417) and Work and Holiday (462) holders to log specified work days, per round, with employer, job, postcode, dates, and CSV export.
• Achievements. Seventeen unlockables tied to real milestones. Optional. Quiet by default.
• Sharing. A clean 1200×1200 share card for the moments that matter, generated on-device.

The philosophy

Local-first

Every piece of data you put into the app stays on your phone, in a SQLite database protected with iOS file protection and excluded from Android backups. There's no cloud sync, no account, no login. The trade-off is real: lose your phone, lose your data. The upside is that we — and any future hypothetical attacker — have nothing to leak.

No analytics, no SDKs

The app makes exactly one type of outbound request: fetching public visa processing-time averages from a small Cloudflare Worker. That request contains a subclass number and nothing else — no device ID, no installation ID, no anything that ties back to you. Read the full privacy policy if you want the gory details.

Free, and quietly so

There's no upsell, no premium tier, no ads, no waitlist hack. The app is free because charging for it would mean building all the things charging requires — accounts, receipts, support — which is exactly the bloat I built it to avoid.

What this is not

AusVisa Tracker is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Australian Department of Home Affairs. Processing-time figures are approximate and curated manually; the app shows when they were last verified and tells you to always confirm against immi.homeaffairs.gov.au before making real decisions. Nothing here is migration advice. If you need that, talk to a registered migration agent.

Who built this

One developer in Australia who got tired of refreshing a SharePoint page in the dark. The fastest way to reach me is via the contact page.

Want to help test? Drop a note via contact and I'll send through the TestFlight link as soon as Beta App Review clears.