Kyoto
Japan
“Riverside ramen at dusk”
Coming soon to iPhoneEvery place you’ve been,
Every place you’ve been,
on one map.
A private travel map for you and a handful of friends. Drop a pin wherever you’ve been, watch your passport fill in, and find out who’s three countries ahead. No feed, no strangers, no streaks.
Lisbon
Portugal
“Best pastéis in Alfama”
Marrakesh
Morocco
“Rooftop mint tea”
Reykjavík
Iceland
“Northern lights, March”
Oaxaca
Mexico
“Mole + mezcal crawl”
Queenstown
New Zealand
“Sunrise over the lake”
Hanoi
Vietnam
“Egg coffee, old quarter”
A map, a passport, and four friends ahead of you.
Six parts of maple. All six are built — nothing on this page is a roadmap.
Your map
Everywhere you’ve been, one city at a time
Search a city and pick it, or press and hold the map and let maple snap to the nearest one. Either way it’s a handful of taps, and nothing is saved until you confirm.
- Four one-tap ratings: Loved, Liked, Meh, N/A — no stars, no scores
- Six named pin colours — Forest, Rust, Gold, Teal, Indigo, Plum — plus a note
- Pick the real travel year as you add it, or tap “Not sure” and leave it undated
- Been back? A city holds every visit: “3 visits · 2015 – 2023”
- Eight Charlestons stay eight Charlestons — same-name cities are told apart
- Apple Maps, deliberately desaturated with points of interest hidden
- Every pin lands instantly and syncs behind you, offline or not
From your photos
Build your map from photos you’ve already taken
A photo library isn’t a map — but it knows where you were. With your permission maple reads the date and location metadata, works out which cities you were in and when, and hands you a list to approve.
- About ten seconds, even on a 40,000-photo library — it reads metadata, not pictures
- Nothing leaves your device; only the city names you keep are ever stored
- You approve every pin. maple suggests, nothing lands until you say so
- See what each year holds before you commit, pick the years you want, cancel any time
- Places near your home base are held back — they’re trips you didn’t take, and you can change where maple thinks home is
- Your own library only, never shared albums — those are other people’s photos
- A place you already have gets a second visit, not a duplicate; trips split at a three-week gap
- Imported places arrive unrated. Metadata can’t know how you felt about Porto
Your passport
The shape of everywhere you’ve been
Not a scorecard. maple measures your map end to end — 31,240 km of it, 78% of the way around the equator — and tells you the story in it: where it began, your furthest corners, the quiet years.
- Your four corners — furthest north, south, east and west — and the furthest you’ve been from home
- Year by year, with repeat visits counted: “New York ×2”
- Where your map begins, the latitude band it all sits inside, your longest gap
- “4 pins aren’t dated” is an invitation, not a scolding — tap one to fix it, undo if you slip
- Your standing rides along at the top — “#4 in your circle” — and opens the leaderboard
- Continents covered survive as one collapsed line, four of five, down at the bottom
- The share card is the one place that counts the world: “21 countries. 11% of it.”
Your circle
One code. One friend at a time.
Everyone gets an 8-character code, a QR, and a link. They redeem yours and you’re connected — there’s no request to send and no approval to wait for.
- Adding a friend shows them your whole map — there are no per-place controls
- It’s symmetric: you each see the other’s map, each in their own colour
- Friends of your friends see nothing at all
- Invite by text straight from your contacts — which never leave your phone
- One swipe removes someone, and they stop seeing your map
The leaderboard
Someone’s always three countries ahead
Rank your circle by countries, by cities, or by this year alone. It’s the smallest possible amount of competition: one number, one line telling you what to do about it.
- Medals for the top three, with your row pinned on if you’re not in it
- One target line — how many countries to pass the person above you
- Ties don’t count as passing
- The podium sits on Explore, next to what your circle has been pinning lately
- No streaks and no badges. You don’t travel daily.
Overlap
Where you two haven’t been yet
Open a friend’s map and maple splits your two histories three ways: the places you both know, the ones only you do, and the ones only they do.
- The countries they’ve been to that you haven’t, with their cities and rating
- Tap one to jump straight to their pins there
- Nothing left to explore? “Their next trip is your next idea.”
Your next trip starts with your people.
maple is landing on iPhone soon. Be there when it does — start your map, add one friend, and start closing the gap.