I spent a year doing the research for myself. Visa rules on a dozen government sites. Cost spreadsheets for eight cities. Three Reddit tabs open per country. A text file of questions for every guy I met who'd actually moved — which of the YouTube claims held up, which were nonsense, and what the second-year reality looked like after the honeymoon ended.
It was exhausting, and I still ended up with a set of decisions I wasn't sure were mine — a lot of the sources I'd absorbed were affiliate-laundered top-10 lists or cherry-picked success stories selling something. There wasn't a neutral tool that took my actual situation (budget, timeline, what I wanted from the move) and returned a ranked shortlist I could defend.
PassportBro is the tool I wish I'd had. You answer 21 questions. It weighs them against sourced country data — cost, visa, safety, healthcare, internet, English level, climate, dating culture. It ranks every country and shows the reasoning, so you can tell if a high score comes from data you care about or data you don't.
That's the research half. Your quiz answers, shortlist, and trips live on your phone and never leave. No tracker fires when you open the app. If you also want to talk to other guys doing the same research, the Community tab is there — you get a random 4-character handle, no email or phone, and you can delete the whole account with one tap.
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Emil Arnold
Founder · one-person team
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Offline research
Quiz, ranking, shortlist, trips, and every country page work with Airplane Mode on. The research side doesn't need a backend — only the optional Community tab does.
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Anonymous by default
No email, no phone, no photo — ever. The Community tab gives you a random 4-character handle you can reroll or delete at any time. The research side collects nothing at all.
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Sourced, not vibed
Every country page cites its sources and shows a lastResearchedAt date. If a rule changed last month, you can tell.
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No paywall on v1
Ranking, compare, shortlist, and every country page are free forever. If we add paid features later, they won't remove anything you already have.
The Community tab is an anonymous, opt-in layer on top of the research app. One tap gives you a random 4-character handle — no email, no phone, no photo. From there you can see who's currently in each country, join a country's group chat, or DM another user. Every piece of it is reversible: reroll your handle whenever, "Disappear" from the presence map with one button, or delete the whole community account (and every message and DM you've sent) from the Profile tab.
The tab also keeps outbound links to real external communities — subreddits, forums, and chat groups for each country. We don't host those, moderate them, or take payment to list them. Whichever side of the Community tab you use, the research side of the app stays untouched.