A home for all your Google Maps lists.
Link your Google Maps with Places, add your own tags and notes, plan a trip, and share it with a link.
An animated tour of the Places app: importing a Google Maps list, filtering it on the map, tagging a place and adding a note, adding places to a trip collection, and sharing it with a link.
How it works
Copy a list link
In Google Maps, open a list, tap Share, then Copy link. Lists shared by friends work too.
Paste it into Places
Every place comes in with its address, its neighborhood and a category.
Find it when you're there
Filter by city, type or tag. When the list changes on Google Maps, re-sync it.
What you can do
Suggested collections
Name a collection or pick your Google lists, describe the trip in a sentence, and get a collection split into days or neighborhoods, with nearby places kept together.
Ask Claude about your places
Connect Claude to your account and ask about the places you saved. It reads your tags, notes and collections and, if you let it, builds and organizes collections from them.
Add any place
Paste a place's link from Google Maps and it's saved here. One tap saves it in Google Maps too.
Map and list
See your places on a map or as a list. Open one to see your note and the lists it's on.
Near me
Standing somewhere? See which of your saved places are closest. Your location stays on your device.
Sorted by type
Restaurants, cafés, bars, museums and more, detected when you import.
Search everything
Find a place by name, note, tag, neighborhood or list. Typos and accents are fine.
Trip collections
Group places by day, check them off as you go, and add a note to each one.
Share with a link
Send a collection to a friend. Keep it private, unlisted or public.
Plan it together
Invite a friend to edit a collection. You each add places you saved; your notes stay yours.
Works offline
Install it on your phone. Your places stay available without a connection.
Save a city offline
Save a city on this phone. Its map and your pins open without a connection.
Google Maps stays the source
Re-sync a list when it changes there. A place removed on Google keeps your notes and tags here.
No password
Sign in with a passkey or an email link. Nothing to remember, nothing to leak.
Always getting better
See what changed right in the app. A dot on your avatar says when there's something new.
Questions
How much does it cost?
Nothing. I made Places for myself and my friends, and the internet is already full of paid apps. No plan, no trial, no ads, no card.
Do I need to connect my Google account?
No. You paste the link of a shared Google Maps list and Places reads it from there. It never signs in to Google and never changes your lists.
Can I import a private list?
Only once it's shared: Google doesn't let anyone read a private list. In Google Maps, open the list, tap Share, then Copy link. Lists friends shared with you work too, and so does your Favorites list: its places come in with a heart.
What happens when a list changes on Google Maps?
Re-sync it from Sources & account. New places come in, and a place removed on Google stays in Places with your notes and tags.
Can I add a place that isn't on a list?
Yes. In Google Maps, open the place, tap Share, then Copy link. In Places, tap + and Place from Google Maps, and paste it. It's only in Places until it's on one of your Google Maps lists: Save in Google Maps gets it there in one tap, and from then on it stays in sync, with your notes and tags.
Who can see my places?
Only you. Collections start private. Share one as Unlisted (anyone with the link) or Public (anyone, and it may show up in search engines), or invite someone to edit it with you: they see that collection, not the rest of your places, unless you let them add yours too (the places only, never your notes or tags).
Can I plan a trip with a friend?
Yes. In a collection, open Share and invite them to edit with a link, which works once, for 7 days. You each add places you saved and arrange them together. Your own notes, tags and visited marks stay private. When you invite them, choose whether they add only their own saved places or yours too, and switch it per person any time. They can leave whenever they like, and you can remove anyone you invited.
How do suggested collections work?
Name a new collection, or pick Google lists, and describe what you want. Places suggests sections and an order using only places you saved, and you see the result before creating it. To draft it, your saved places (only the picked lists' when you pick some) and your description are sent to Claude, Anthropic's model; your description isn't stored. It's free too, within a daily limit.
How do I connect Claude?
In Sources & account, under Connect an agent, create a token. Add Places as a custom connector in Claude, or in any app that supports MCP, and ask away. It only reads your places until you turn on Allow edits to collections: then it can build and organize collections from places you saved, but never delete or share them. Revoking the token cuts it off at once.
Does it work on my phone, and offline?
Yes. Open it in your phone's browser and add it to your home screen. Your places stay available without a connection, and changes sync when you're back online. From Places, save a city on the phone and its map and pins open offline too.
Can I delete my account?
Yes, from Sources & account. It permanently deletes your places, notes, tags, collections and share links. Your Google Maps lists aren't affected.
Start with one list
It's free, and importing takes a minute. You can also look around the demo first.