Your memory for places
Save it once. Find it when it matters.
Every spot you find on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube or Google Maps, saved to a map of your own — filed by country and city, sorted into your lists, and back on your screen the moment you're nearby.
Free to use on iOS and Android · Nothing lands on your map until you say so
See how a share becomes a spotThe problem
Saved posts aren't saved places.
You already find great spots every week. The trouble is where they end up: six apps, none of them a map, none of them talking to each other.
Instagram saves
1,240 posts. No map.
TikTok favourites
312 videos in one folder.
YouTube Watch later
“Best of Lisbon” — 22 minutes long.
Screenshots
Somewhere in 3,904 photos.
Google Maps
“Want to go” · 214 places, no reason why.
Notes
“TOKYO!!!” — a list of names.
Group chats
Scrolled past on a Tuesday.
Pocket PlacesOne map. Every spot you meant to go to. With the reason you saved it.
Filed by country, city and list. Back on your screen when you're close.
That amazing restaurant I saved on Instagram six months ago? I can’t find the Reel.
I have 70 places saved for Tokyo. They’re across Google Maps, Instagram, screenshots and notes.
I walked two blocks from a café I’d wanted to visit for months and had no idea.
I remember saving somewhere great around here. I just don’t know where.
How it works
From a post to a place, in one share.
Nothing to type, nothing to copy across. The share sheet you already use is the whole workflow.
- 1
Find something
A Reel, a TikTok, a YouTube guide, a Google Maps link, a screenshot of a chat. Anywhere a place turns up.
- 2
Share it to Pocket Places
Tap Share and pick Pocket Places. The caption, the audio, the comments, every slide and the text burned into the video are all read, and the spots named in them are shown to you with what the post said about each.
- 3
It lands on your map
Confirm the ones you want. Each is saved with its city, its country and the reason you wanted to go.
- 4
It comes back when it matters
On your screen when you are nearby. In the list when you are planning. Nothing to dig through.
When the name is only spoken
A reel that lists ten spots out loud and captions itself “Lisbon 🇵🇹” still comes back as ten spots. And if a post says it has ten, we don't stop at three.
When it's text on the screen
A slideshow with the names on the slides, or a list burned into the video, gets read off the frames. So does a screenshot from your camera roll.
When nobody writes it down
A reel of one hotel lobby names nothing at all. That one is recognised from the pictures — the only time the app goes on a likeness, so it stays quiet unless it is sure, and you still confirm it.
No link to share? Type a spot's name, paste a link, add a screenshot, or share a hotel from a booking site or a tour from Viator. See every way in
Your map
Your map isn't where you've searched. It's where you want to go.
Every spot you save is a real place on a map of your own — not a bookmark, not a screenshot. Open it in a city and see what you meant to do there.
Bar Termini
Bar · Soho, London
“Tiny, standing room only, and the best negroni in London.”
Saved from a Reel by @london.aperitivo · 6 months ago
Every spot keeps its story
What the post said about the place is saved with it, so six months on you still know why you wanted to go.
Nothing lands until you say so
Every spot is shown to you before it is saved. Wrong match? Fix it in a tap. The map stays yours.
Still there without signal
Your map, lists and search work with no connection, which is exactly when you need them most.
Lists
You don't think in pins. You think in trips.
A city, a weekend, a craving. Lists hold spots the way you already think about them, and a spot can sit in as many as it belongs to.
Tokyo 2026
24 spots · 4 cities
Onibus Coffee, Afuri, Shinjuku Golden Gai…
Coffee
31 spots · 6 cities
Adds new coffee spots on its own
Date night
9 spots · London
Bar Termini, Brasserie Zédel…
Weekend escapes
12 spots · 5 cities
Under two hours from home
Restaurants to try
47 spots
Shared with Ana
Portugal, someday
17 spots · Lisbon, Porto
Comporta, Time Out Market…
Two lists you never build
Every spot is somewhere you've been or somewhere you mean to go, so Wishlist and Visited spots are there from the start. Stamp a spot visited and it moves between them on its own.
Lists that fill themselves
Tell a list what it's for — hotels in Rome — and the next hotel you save in Rome is offered to it, named beside the spot with an × to say no. What the list already holds is read as well, so a name that could mean anything is decided by the eight ryokans already in it rather than by guesswork. Three lists can do this at a time on the free plan.
Hotel de Russie
Rome · Hotel
Nearby
You saved it six months ago. You're 200 meters away.
Saving is only half of it. The other half is the place coming back at the right moment, without you having to remember it existed.
An alert when you're close
Turn on nearby alerts and Pocket Places lets you know when you're within 500 meters of a saved spot, even with the app closed.
And whether it's open
Every spot around you says Open now or Closed now beside how far away it is, from the place's own opening hours. Filter to the ones open right now and the list is what you could actually walk into.
Narrowed to what you're after
Sort by distance, rating or price. Filter to cafés, bars or any other kind of spot. Or narrow the whole screen to one list — everything you saved for this trip, and nothing else.
Not only on holiday
The bakery from a TikTok, the bar a friend mentioned in March. They're five blocks from your office, and now you'll know.
Search
You remember what it was like. Not what it was called.
Search your map for the name of a place, a city or a list and you get it. Search it for somewhere quiet to work or the bakery from that reel and you get that too, because it goes on what your spots actually are and on what was said about them.
It reads what you wrote down
Your own note, the line the post said about the place, and the lists you filed it in all count. “Big tables, nobody rushes you” is how you find it again a year later.
Everything you have saved, in one place
Spots, cities, regions, countries and lists, all from one field. Searching by name works with no connection; searching by meaning needs one.
Travel
Every trip, already organised.
Save a spot and it files itself under its country and city. Open Japan and there are Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, each holding what you saved there, with the ones you've been to stamped.
Country, city, spot
No folders to make. A spot saved in Kyoto turns up under Japan, under Kyoto, on its own map, with the others you saved there.
A passport that fills itself in
A stamp for every country you've been to, and the grey ones waiting beside them. Stamp them by hand, or let a day spent somewhere new earn one.
Save a city before you know the spots
Know you want Kyoto long before you know where in Kyoto? Save the city and it waits on your map, ready for the spots to arrive.
Plan
Four days in Lisbon, out of the spots you already saved.
Type what the trip is — four days in Lisbon in May, and we have to do the azulejo museum — and Pocket Places lays out the days. Not the internet's top ten. The places you saved, in an order that works.
The days are cut by geography
Spots near each other land on the same day. Lunch is somewhere you saved within a short walk of that day, dinner near where you're sleeping. Two cities close enough to commute between share one hotel instead of moving you.
It asks, then you decide
Whatever the sentence left out, the next screen asks — how long, who's going, the budget, the spots you can't miss — with every answer already filled in and editable. Nothing is written until you say plan it.
Then it's yours to move
Drag a stop to another day, or a whole day to another place in the trip. Anything that didn't fit waits under “Not scheduled” rather than disappearing. Share the trip and someone else can see it.
Bring what you already have
Already have hundreds of places saved? Bring them with you.
Ask Google for a Takeout export of Maps, or Mapstr for an export of your map, and open the file in Pocket Places. Every place lands exactly where you had it rather than on a namesake somewhere else, your lists and tags come with it, and you see the lot in one review — keep what you still want, drop the rest.
Years of “Want to go” stars, finally somewhere that tells you when you're close to one. The free plan brings 25 places across so you can see it work on your own map; Plus brings the whole export.
Sharing
Send a list. Build the trip together.
Share a list with a partner or a friend and they can add their own finds to it. Everyone sees who added what, and anything they like goes onto their own map.
Personal first
Your map is yours. Sharing is a choice you make one list at a time — there's no feed, no followers and nothing to keep up with.
Questions
The things people ask before they save their first spot.
Anything else? Get in touch, or read how it works in full.
How do I save places from Instagram?
Tap Share on any Instagram post or Reel and choose Pocket Places. It reads the caption, the audio and the comments, finds the spots named in them, and shows you each one to confirm before it lands on your map. Profiles and location pages work too.
Is there an app to save places from TikTok?
Yes. Share a TikTok video or photo post to Pocket Places and the spots it names are found and saved to your own map, with what the creator said about each one kept beside it. Videos where the names only appear on screen work as well.
Is there an app to save places from YouTube?
Yes. Share a YouTube video or Short to Pocket Places and the spots it names are saved to your own map. It reads the description — timestamps and chapter lists included — and the video’s subtitles, so a city guide that names its places out loud comes back as a list of places. It works on one video at a time; a channel or a playlist has no single place behind it. It reads about half an hour of speech, so a spot named at the very end of a feature-length vlog may need adding by hand.
How do I organize restaurants I find on Instagram?
Every spot you save in Pocket Places goes on one map and is filed by country and city automatically. On top of that you make lists — Restaurants to try, Date night, Tokyo 2026 — and a list can be told what it is for so new spots that fit are offered to it as you save them.
Is there an app that tells me when I am near somewhere I saved?
Pocket Places does. Turn on nearby alerts and it lets you know when you are within 500 meters of a saved spot, even with the app closed. The Nearby screen shows everything you have saved around you, sorted by distance, rating or price, and filtered by kind of place.
How do I move my Google Maps saved places into another app?
Ask Google for a Takeout export of Maps (your places) and open the file in Pocket Places. Each place comes over exactly where you had it, your lists come with it, and you see everything in a review where you keep what you still want. They land on your map, grouped by country and city.
Can I import my places from Mapstr?
Yes. Ask Mapstr for an export and open the file in Pocket Places through Import from Mapstr. Your places, notes and tags come across, with the tags offered back as lists you can untick. The full comparison is at pocketplaces.app/mapstr-alternative.
Is there an alternative to Google Maps saved lists?
Pocket Places is built for exactly the places Google Maps saved lists hold, plus the ones you find on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube — and a Google Takeout export brings the ones you already starred straight over. The difference is what happens after the save: spots are organised by country, city and list, they come back when you are nearby, they can be searched by what they are rather than by name, and each keeps the reason you saved it.
How do I organize places for a trip?
Make a list for the trip — Portugal 2027, say — and share posts and links into it as you find them. Pocket Places groups the spots by city, shows them on a map, and lets a friend add their own finds to it. When you are ready to work out the days, the Plan tab builds a loose day-by-day trip out of the spots in it.
How do I remember restaurants I want to try?
Save them to Pocket Places the moment you see them, then let the app do the remembering: they show up on the Nearby screen when you are close, in a Wishlist that fills itself, and in a search across everything you have saved.
Is there a Pinterest for places?
That is a fair description of Pocket Places: a personal collection of spots gathered from wherever you found them, organised into lists, and drawn on a map you can actually walk. It is personal rather than social — your map holds the places you wanted to remember.
Does it work with every post?
It works best when the post names a place or carries a location tag, which most recommendations do. Vague posts may come back empty, Instagram Stories are not supported, and on YouTube it has to be a single video rather than a channel. You can always type a spot in, paste a link, or add a screenshot instead.
Is Pocket Places free?
Yes, on iOS and Android, and the spots you save are never capped. The free plan covers 20 shared posts or links a month, 25 places brought over in bulk from an export, and three lists that fill themselves. Pocket Places Plus raises all three for people importing a whole map or saving from posts every day. Everything you have saved stays yours either way.
The internet will keep showing you places worth going.
Pocket Places makes sure you remember them.
Free to use · iOS and Android · Synced across your devices