Leaving Canada
Work out which Canadian obligations may still apply as you go, and keep your departure details in one place.
MapleExpat: stay organized when life crosses borders
Leaving Canada, living abroad, or moving back? MapleExpat helps you keep track of possible Canadian tax and residency obligations, the travel days you log, upcoming deadlines, and questions to take to a cross-border professional.
MapleExpat provides general information and reminders. It does not file tax returns, give professional advice, or determine your tax residency.
Not on the App Store yet.
Who it is for
Living abroad
Keep your checklist, deadlines and day counts current while you are away.
Moving back
See what may apply as you return, and what to ask a professional before you do.
How it works
- Enter your situation: your ties to Canada, dates and the countries involved.
- Review the checklist items that may apply and your Residency Signal.
- Log your trips and see your day counts.
- Choose whether to get optional email reminders for checklist deadlines.
- Prepare questions to take to a cross-border professional.
Inside the app
Home
Checklist
Day counter
Ask MapleExpat
Pro Question Brief
Sample screens from a test profile with made-up details. Screens may change before launch.
What the product actually does.
Practical tools for complex cross-border lives.
Residency Signal
A deterministic tracker for residency ties. We deliberately call it a signal, never a legal determination, keeping the user safely on the right side of professional advice.
Day Counter and Deadlines
Log your trips and see your day counts in each country, paired with optional email reminders for checklist deadlines.
Country notes
A plain-language explanation for each of 21 countries, including its tax treaty with Canada where one exists.
Ask MapleExpat
A Claude-powered assistant for plain-language explanations of complex tax concepts and knowledge base articles.
What each feature does
Residency Signal
Calculated from your answers using fixed rules, not by AI. It is a signal to discuss with a professional, not an official determination.
Checklist
Shows obligations that may apply to the situation you entered. You can manage the items: mark them done, not applicable, snoozed or flagged for your professional.
Day counter
Counts days from the trip countries and dates you enter. MapleExpat does not record your location.
Reminders
Optional email reminders for the checklist deadlines you can see. Email delivery is not guaranteed, so keep an eye on your deadlines in the app too.
Country notes
Plain-language information for the countries listed below, including the Canada tax treaty where one exists.
Ask MapleExpat
Optional AI explanations drawn from MapleExpat's reference content. Answers may be incomplete, out of date or wrong.
Pro Question Brief
A Premium feature: a brief of your situation and recent questions that you can take to an accountant.
Countries covered
MapleExpat has country notes for these 21 countries. Where a country is not listed, you can still use the checklist, day counter and reminders.
- Australia
- Cambodia
- China
- France
- Germany
- Hong Kong
- Japan
- Kuwait
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- South Korea
- Spain
- Thailand
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Vietnam
The notes include the Canada tax treaty where one is in force: 18 of the 21. Qatar and Saudi Arabia are under negotiation and Cambodia has none (treaty status checked 7 August 2026). Canadian topics are checked against Government of Canada sources. Topics about other countries are researched but not professionally reviewed.
Free and Premium
MapleExpat is free to download. Premium is an annual subscription sold through the App Store.
| What you get | Free | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Checklist | First 3 items | Full checklist |
| Ask MapleExpat | 3 questions in total, for the life of your account | Up to 15 questions a day |
| Day tracking | Canada, up to 5 trips | Every country you add |
| Reminder emails (if turned on) | For the checklist items you can see | For your whole checklist |
| Pro Question Brief | Not included | Included |
Canadian App Store price: CAD 39.99 a year plus any applicable sales tax. Elsewhere the App Store shows the price in your local currency. See the Termsfor details.
Privacy choices and limits
- You enter your trips yourself. The app does not record your location, and it does not ask for your contacts, photos, camera or microphone.
- The app contains no analytics, advertising or crash-reporting tools, and does not track you across other apps or websites.
- Ask MapleExpat is optional. Nothing is sent to its AI provider, Anthropic, until you give a separate consent, and you can withdraw it in Settings.
- Reminder emails are off unless you turn them on, and every reminder has a stop link.
- You can export your data or delete your account from Settings.
- MapleExpat does not file tax returns and does not give tax, legal or investment advice. Confirm anything that matters with a qualified cross-border professional.
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Get one email when MapleExpat launchesThe Architecture: A Trust Firewall
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Deterministic Rules Engine
All obligation logic, day counting, and compliance thresholds are handled by a strict, versioned rules engine. There is no LLM involved in the core math. The Residency Signal is calculated from your answers using fixed rules, not guessed by AI. It's a signal to take to a professional, never a determination.
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AI for Explanation Only
We use large language models strictly for the "Ask MapleExpat" feature to translate complex rules into plain language. The AI explains the rule, but it never writes the rule.
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Protected Data Boundaries
Sensitive financial data is handled with strict privacy boundaries. MapleExpat doesn't use your information to train AI, and our AI provider, Anthropic, doesn't train its models on our users' questions by default. Users have full data export and account deletion controls.
The same architecture we bring to your workflows.
When we build AI systems for international schools and SMEs, we use this exact same philosophy. We identify the steps that require strict compliance and lock them behind deterministic trust firewalls. We reserve AI for the tasks it is actually good at, like drafting, summarizing, and translating.
MapleExpat
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Rules, not AI guesses
Fixed rules, not AI, decide the core calculations. AI only explains, and its answers can still be wrong.
02
Transparent logic
You can audit exactly why a system made a specific decision.
03
Platform-agnostic deployment
We select the right models and frameworks for your specific data sensitivity.
Your Workflows
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