1-MINUTE QUIZ
What's The Best Way To Track Your Passport?
How often do you travel abroad?
What do you carry your passport in right now?
Welcome. Let's find the right one.
100,000+ travellers use Spotminders passport holders. Before we show you what we make, we'll show you how all three options actually compare.
Ten quick questions and you'll get the ranking.
Where do you think you'd be most likely to leave it?
Nobody loses a passport while they're holding it
It goes missing at the tired moments. The seat pocket after a long flight. The tray at security, where five go in and four come out. The hotel safe on checkout morning when the bags are already in the car.
Checking your pocket tells you it's there right now. It does nothing about the moment you set it down and walk away.
What worries you most when you travel?
Here's what actually happens when a passport goes missing
There is no search. Nobody is sent out to look for it.
There's a form, a reference number and a queue, and the form exists so a replacement can be issued. That is a completely different thing from somebody finding your passport.
And the moment you report it lost, it's cancelled permanently. Find it in the hotel safe that same evening and you still can't fly on it.
Which is why the only thing that helps is knowing where it went while it's still where you left it. That's tracking. The question is just whether it's built into the cover or bolted on.
My phone buzzed as we left a cafe in Rome. His was still on the table.
What phone do you use?
All three options run on Apple's Find My network, so this decides what we can honestly recommend.
Tracking only works if it's already on your phone
All three options use Apple Find My, the app already on your iPhone, and a network of 2.3 billion+ devices worldwide. No new app to download. No subscription on any of them.
What separates them is what they do with it. Leave a Passport Holder Air behind at a hotel desk or airport counter and you get a Left Behind alert while you're still close enough to turn around, then open Find My and see exactly where you left it. Lost somewhere in the room, give it a loud remote ring and you'll hear it from the bottom of a bag.
Setup takes less than 45 seconds.
How do you feel about charging another thing before a trip?
A tracker only helps if it's alive on the day
This is where most trackers let people down. The battery was flat and nobody knew.
The three options are miles apart here. The Passport Holder Air runs 3 years on a charge and ships pre-charged, so it's ready the moment it arrives. Satechi's cover runs up to 5 months per charge. An AirTag runs on a coin cell you have to buy and swap, and it dies without warning.
You can check the Spotminders battery level on your phone, and when it eventually runs low you drop it on any wireless charger.
What else are you holding at the check in desk?
Choose all that apply
One hand at the desk, and nothing in your pocket
Everything you reach for in one spot. The Passport Holder Air carries passport, boarding pass and cards, with SIM card slots and a built-in SIM tray opener so you can swap SIMs the moment you land without hunting for a paperclip.
And the one you'll actually carry is the thin one. 87 grams, 11mm thin, 35% slimmer than the version before it. It slips into a jacket pocket and disappears.
For comparison, Satechi's cover is 17mm and holds four cards. An AirTag holds nothing and adds a disc around 8mm thick that stops a cover closing flat.
Do you think about card or passport skimming?
Your passport and your cards answer when they're asked
There's a chip in your passport and in your contactless cards, and both are built to be read without being opened. That's how border gates and card machines work.
RFID blocking keeps your passport chip data yours, and it costs almost nothing to build, which is why all three options here have it.
So treat RFID as the minimum rather than the reason to choose. What separates these three is what happens after you put it down somewhere.
WHAT TRAVELLERS TELL US
We asked customers how travelling changed after their first trip with a Passport Holder Air.
Have you got a trip booked?
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Do you want to stop checking your pocket every ten minutes?
Matching your answers. Comparing 3 ways to track a passport. Checking tracking, battery, thickness and value.
100,000+ travellers use Spotminders
Your passport protection plan is ready.
Your results unlocked a free Passport Holder Air when you buy 2.
Based on your answers, we've matched you with:
- Tracker built into the cover, with a Left Behind alert and a loud remote ring
- 3-year battery from one charge, arrives pre-charged
- RFID blocking, Litchi Signature Leather, 11mm thin
- 100-day money back guarantee and free shipping
“Nice sturdy passport cover! Love that while on a trip I will only have to carry this as it has room for a few credit cards and cash. Bought one for my husband also.”
Laura J.“Luxury in a passport cover? You bet!! The passport cover has a very luxurious look and feel and was easily added to my 'Find My' app on my iPhone. Spotminders really has a great product here!”
Michelle Z.“Fantastic product! We own several Spotminders cards already, so when we planned for an out of country excursion the Trackable Passport Covers were a no-brainer.”
Linda K.