How to save places from Grok to a map
By the Pocket Places team · Updated · 3 min read
Grok is handy for finding what people are posting about right now. Ask it for the cafés people in Seoul are talking about this month, and you’ll get five worth the trip.
Then you want those places on a map you’ll have with you.
Saving them one by one is slow, and a screenshot is easy to lose. Here’s how to have Grok save them for you instead.
The short answer
Grok saves them to a map in Pocket Places, not to your Google Maps lists. Connect Pocket Places at grok.com/connectors, 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 Grok, and ask Grok 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 Grok, step by step
- 1Download Pocket Places for iPhone or Android and sign up. Connecting Grok is free.
- 2Go to grok.com/connectors, tap New Connector → Custom and paste pocketplaces.app/mcp.
- 3Ask for places: “Find 5 cafés people in Seoul are posting about. Save them to my map.”
- 4Planning a trip? Say “save it as a trip.”
- 5Open Pocket Places. Share the map with a link, or tap Directions for Google Maps.
Connectors work on every Grok plan, the free one included. Set it up once on grok.com, and it’s in the Grok app too.
What happens when Grok saves a place
We match recommendations to real place listings before saving them, so each one gets its address and hours.
Ask for a map, and Grok makes a new list that opens as one. Ask for a trip, and Grok saves the itinerary to your Plan tab, with each day’s stops in the order it planned them.
Find 5 cafés people in Seoul are posting about this month. Save them to my map.
Saved to your mapSaved 5 cafés under Seoul: Onion Anguk, Cafe Layered, Fritz Coffee Company and 2 more.
Try asking
Using Grok on the road
With Pocket Places connected, Grok can answer from your own map. Ask out loud in the car, “Where should we stop for lunch?”
It picks from the spots you saved nearby, and tells you which post each came from. You’ll remember why you saved it.
Why keep Grok’s finds on a map
Find it again
Your spots sit under their city, next to anything you saved from Instagram or TikTok.
Directions in Google Maps
Tap Directions on any spot, and it opens in Google Maps.
Share it
Send the list or the trip with a link. Friends can save it, or plan the days with you.
Tips for asking Grok
Ask for what’s new
“Opened this year” or “people are posting about this month” gets you places your friends haven’t heard of.
Ask for a number
Five cafés are easier to choose from than twenty. Ask for more when you want them.
Save the trip, not just the places
Say “save it as a trip,” and every day keeps its order.
Ask Grok. Save a map.
Connect Pocket Places. Then ask Grok to save what it finds to your map.
Connect GrokQuestions
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 SuperGrok?
No. Any Grok plan works, 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.