Apps to save and share places
Guide · Updated November 3, 2026
The short answer
Google Maps lists and Apple Maps guides are already on your phone and good for saving places as you go. Mapstr and Corner are maps you follow friends on, Beli ranks the restaurants you’ve eaten at, Wanderlog plans a trip and Polarsteps logs one. Go Here is for a map of a city you hand to someone: notes and ratings per spot, a link that opens with no app or account, and the spots you’d rather keep to yourself hidden.
Google Maps lists
Save any place to Want to go, Favorites or your own lists, with a note on each. A list is private or shared by link, to view or to edit, and whoever opens the link can save it. Everyone already has it, and directions, hours and reviews sit right there. Sharing is set per list. See Go Here vs Google Maps lists.
Apple Maps guides
Collect places into guides on iPhone, iPad and Mac, synced through iCloud, alongside guides from publishers. A guide can be shared as a link. Best if everyone you share with is on Apple devices. See Go Here vs Apple Maps guides.
Mapstr
A personal map of saved places, organised with tags and colours, with maps from friends and creators to follow and collaborative maps. Strong for people who sort by tag. See Go Here vs Mapstr.
Beli
A social app for restaurants: you rank the places you’ve eaten at by comparing them, keep a want-to-try list, and see your friends’ scores. Best if you mostly care about restaurants and your friends are on it too. See Go Here vs Beli.
Corner
A map of the places you save and the friends you follow. Share a TikTok or Instagram link to Corner and it becomes a pin on your map, with lists to keep and recommendations that learn your taste. On iPhone and Android.
Wanderlog
A trip planner: a day-by-day itinerary on a map, bookings brought in from your email, and a budget split with the group, planned together in real time. On the web, iPhone and Android. See Go Here vs Wanderlog.
Polarsteps
A travel log: it tracks your route as you go and keeps your photos, videos and stories along it, for friends and family to follow. It also plans trips, and turns one into a printed book. On iPhone and Android.
Go Here
A map per city of every kind of place you’d send someone to, each with a note, a rating out of 10 and pictures. One link opens it in any browser, with no app or account; an invite link lets friends add to it; Hide keeps a spot off every link. It reads places out of videos, posts, screenshots and pasted lists. Works in a browser and on iPhone.
Which to use
- Saving as you go, in the app you navigate with: Google Maps or Apple Maps.
- Ranking restaurants with friends: Beli.
- A big tagged map with friends’ maps to follow: Mapstr.
- Friends’ spots, and places saved from TikTok and Instagram links: Corner.
- A trip of several days, with bookings and a budget: Wanderlog.
- A log of a trip as it happens, for family to follow: Polarsteps.
- A city you hand to someone, with your notes, some spots kept back: Go Here.
Questions
What is the best app to save and share favorite places?
It depends what the list is for. Google Maps and Apple Maps are handiest for saving as you go. Beli is built for ranking restaurants with friends, Mapstr for a tagged map you follow others on, and Wanderlog for planning a trip. Go Here is built for sharing a city: notes and ratings per spot, a link anyone can open without an account, and spots you can keep off it.
Is there an app for sharing a list of restaurants with friends who don’t have the app?
Go Here shares a list as a web page, so the person you send it to needs no app and no account. Google Maps lists and public Mapstr maps also open from a link.
Which apps let me save places from TikTok?
Go Here, Mapstr and Corner all take a TikTok from its Share button and find the places in it. Go Here’s iPhone app reads the caption, the text on the video, the location tag and what’s said in it, and adds the ones you tick to your map of that city.
Which app plans a trip from my saved places?
Wanderlog plans a trip of several days, with bookings and a budget. Go Here plans one day at a time: Plan a day picks two to six stops from your map of a city and orders them to walk well.
Go Here
Your favorite places, on a real map, one city at a time. Share them with a link, or keep some to yourself. No account needed.