How to save places from Claude to a map
By the Pocket Places team · Updated · 3 min read
You told Claude you’d have two days in Kyoto in April. It came back with a plan that starts at Fushimi Inari before the crowds and ends with matcha in Gion.
Now you want those places on a map you’ll have in Kyoto.
Copying names out of a chat one at a time gets old by the fourth shrine.
Here’s how to have Claude save them for you, in one message.
The short answer
Claude saves them to a map in Pocket Places, not to your Google Maps lists. Add Pocket Places from Claude’s connectors directory, or just tell Claude “Connect Pocket Places.” Then ask for places and say “save them.” Whole itineraries save as trips. Share the map with a link, and tap Directions on any spot to open it in Google Maps.
What is Pocket Places?
Save spots from posts to a map
Pocket Places is a free app for iPhone and Android. It keeps every spot you want to visit on a map of its own.
Share an Instagram or TikTok post, and it finds the spots in it. Connect Claude, and ask Claude to save its picks there too.
Spots sit under their country and city, and open with no signal.
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How to save places from Claude, step by step
- 1Download Pocket Places for iPhone or Android and sign up. Connecting Claude is free.
- 2In any Claude chat, say “Connect Pocket Places” and tap Connect.
- 3Ask for places: “Make me a map of 5 matcha spots in Kyoto.”
- 4Planning a trip? Say “save it as a trip.”
- 5Open Pocket Places. Share the map with a link, or tap Directions for Google Maps.
Pocket Places is in Claude’s connectors directory, so there’s no link to paste. It works on every Claude plan, the free one included.
What happens when Claude saves a place
The first time, Claude asks your permission to use Pocket Places. Choose Always allow if you’d rather not be asked again.
We match recommendations to real place listings before saving them, so each one gets its address and hours.
Ask for a map, and Claude makes a new list that opens as one. Ask for a trip, and Claude saves the itinerary to your Plan tab, with each day’s stops in the order it planned them.
Make me a map of 5 matcha spots in Kyoto.
Made a listMade Kyoto matcha with 5 spots, starting with Ippodo Tea and Saryo Tsujiri. Each one has its address and hours.
Try asking
When Claude doesn’t use your map
Connectors can be on or off in each chat. If Claude answers without saving, tap + in the message box, then Connectors, and check Pocket Places is on.
Why keep Claude’s picks on a map
It’s there in Kyoto
Your spots sit under Kyoto, next to anything you saved from Instagram or TikTok.
It opens with no signal
Your map stays on your phone, so it opens in a station with no signal.
Directions in Google Maps
Tap Directions on any spot, and it opens in Google Maps.
You can share it
Send the list or the trip with a link. Friends can save it, or plan the days with you.
Tips for asking Claude
Give it the dates
Hours and seasons change. Telling Claude when you’ll be there helps it plan around them.
Ask for a map by name
“Make me a map of matcha in Kyoto” tells Claude to save, not just suggest.
Ask what you haven’t seen
“What did I save in Kyoto that I haven’t been to?” turns old saves into a plan.
Ask Claude. Save a map.
Add Pocket Places from Claude’s directory. Then ask Claude to save what it recommends to your map.
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What is Pocket Places?
A free app for iPhone and Android. It keeps every spot you want to visit on one map. It saves spots from Instagram and TikTok posts, and the places you ask your AI to save.
Does Pocket Places save to my Google Maps lists?
No. It saves places to your map in Pocket Places and leaves your Google Maps lists as they are. Every saved spot has a Directions button that opens it in Google Maps.
Do I need a paid Claude plan?
No. Connectors from Claude’s directory work on every Claude plan, and connecting your map is free on every Pocket Places plan.
Can I share the map with friends?
Yes. Share any list or trip with a link from the app. Friends with Pocket Places can save the list, or plan the trip with you.
What if the AI names a place that doesn’t exist?
We match recommendations to real place listings before saving them. If we can’t find a place, we don’t save it, and your AI tells you which.