Google Maps has the trail. Photerra has the bend in the trail where the view opens up. Every pin is a real photo at a real coordinate — the bench at sunset, the café with the good light, the mural on the side of the laundromat. Then plan a trip around it, and book what you need without leaving the app.
A live preview of Photerra's map. See all cities →
She has 12 tabs open across Google Maps, Instagram, blogs, and three group chats. Every directory shows her the same 30 places. She wants the bench at sunset, the café with the good light, the turn in the trail where the view opens up — not another top-10 list.
Instead of five place-entries, the map shows hundreds of specific spots — each one pinned to the coordinate where a traveler stood and pointed a camera at something worth standing there for.
A tap adds any photo to her trip. Each one is geotagged to the exact coordinate — the bench at sunset, the café with the good light, the turn in the trail where the view opens up.
Photerra turns her saved spots into a day-by-day route. Or she describes the trip — "a weekend of quiet viewpoints and good coffee" — and the AI builds it from spots real travelers shared. Not Google Places. Not a top-10 list.
OpenTable, Resy, Skyscanner, Booking.com, Uber, Maps — one tap from any spot or itinerary. No app-switching, no copying addresses, no losing her place.
One visual map instead of twelve tabs. A trip built from real photos, not generic lists. Something she can book, share, and tweak on the go.
Every other travel app indexes businesses — names, hours, categories. Photerra indexes the photos themselves, pinned at the exact coordinate each one was taken. A different kind of map, not a different inventory.
Google Maps has the park. Photerra has the one bench at sunset. Every pin is a photo at the exact coordinate where it was taken — not a business listing, not a scraped review.
"A weekend of quiet viewpoints in Portland." "Three days of good light and long walks in Lisbon." The AI pulls from photo-spots real travelers captured, so what you get back reflects where people actually went.
260+ in San Francisco. 220+ in Portland. 200+ across LA & San Diego. We go deep in a few cities before we go wide — so the map is useful the day you open it.
Drag spots into days. Auto-optimize routes. Collaborate with your group in real time.
OpenTable, Resy, Skyscanner, Booking.com, Hostelworld, Airbnb, Hipcamp, Apple Maps, Uber, Lyft — all in-app.
Add 5, 50, or 500 photos at once. Each lands at the coordinate where you took it. No forms, no manual entry — the photo is the entry.
We go deep before we go wide. A thin layer across 500 cities is a noisy pile; hundreds of real spots in each of eight cities is useful. These are where the community is already active.
Want your city next? Tell us where you'd like to explore →
Yes. The app is free to download and all the core features — browsing the map, saving spots, building trips, inviting friends — are free. We make money on the affiliate side when you book a flight, hotel, restaurant, or campsite through the app. You're never charged for a spot.
You can browse the pre-seeded map without an account. To save spots, build trips, upload your own photos, or plan with friends, you'll need a free account — email or Apple/Google sign-in.
San Francisco, Portland, Los Angeles, San Diego, Philadelphia, Hawaii (select islands), Yosemite & Sequoia National Parks, and Mexico City — each seeded with hundreds of real traveler spots. See all cities →
You can still use the app — upload your own spots, build trips anywhere, and the AI planner works globally. The eight seeded cities are just where there's already a dense community layer to discover from. If enough travelers in your city start posting, it becomes the next hub.
You can download trips for offline use before you leave — the full itinerary, maps, and saved spots stay available without data. Fresh discovery and booking need a connection.
Tell it where you're going and what you want ("quiet viewpoints," "good light for photos," "where locals gather"). It builds a day-by-day itinerary from real traveler spots — not generic lists. Refine with prompts or edit by hand.
Yes. Trips are collaborative — invite friends and everyone can add, reorder, or comment on spots. Photerra auto-calculates routing, distances, and travel times across days.
Each photo becomes a spot on the map, pinned to the coordinate where you took it. A background AI categorizes what's in it (viewpoint, quiet spot, good light, unusual detail). Other travelers discover them, save them, and build them into trips. Your camera roll becomes someone else's adventure.
Every spot you share becomes part of a map no business directory can build. Help map it — start with your own camera roll.
No ads. No sponsored results. No account required to browse.