We're building the map made
by travelers, not businesses.
Photerra is a social travel app. Instead of switching between Google Maps, Instagram, TripAdvisor, and your group chat, you find spots real travelers shared, plan day-by-day itineraries, and book what you need — all in one place.
Every pin is a photo.
Photos, not business listings. Every spot on Photerra is a real picture a real traveler took, geotagged to the exact coordinate. If someone took the time to post it, it's probably worth your time.
Depth before breadth.
We seed cities deeply before expanding to new ones. A useful hub has hundreds of spots, not dozens. We'd rather be the best app in eight cities than a shallow index of a thousand.
No dark patterns.
No sponsored listings disguised as recommendations. No inflated reviews. No "suggested" spots that are really ads. The ranking is the ranking.
Planning a trip shouldn't mean twelve open tabs across Google Maps, Instagram, TripAdvisor, and your group chat.
It shouldn't mean scrolling past sponsored results to find the one spot that actually makes the trip.
It should mean opening one app, seeing what real people actually loved about a place, and building a trip from those spots — together with the people you're going with.
That's what we're making.
I'm David Levien — a software engineer who built Photerra end-to-end. I kept falling for places I'd never find my way back to, so I made the map I wished existed. These days my friends and family put more on it than I do.
David on LinkedIn →What's on the map today.
Every spot below is real — a photo from a traveler who was actually there. Here's where Photerra stands right now.
Real, geo-tagged spots across eight cities and parks — each one posted by a real traveler.
Live on both stores. Free to download, free to use, no account required to browse.
Builds day-by-day itineraries from real community spots — not generic lists. We're improving it constantly.
Deep-linked partners: OpenTable, Resy, Booking.com, Airbnb, Hostelworld, Hipcamp, Skyscanner, Viator, GetYourGuide, Uber, Lyft.
Your data, your call.
Most travel apps make money from you — your attention, your data, your clicks. We don't. Here's exactly what that means, in plain terms.
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We never sell your data.
Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to anyone. No ad networks, no behavioral tracking, and we honor Do Not Track.
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We don't track where you go.
Your location shows you what's nearby in the moment, then it's forgotten. The only places we keep are the ones in photos you choose to post.
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You're a username, not a name.
Other travelers see the username and photo you chose — never your real name, email, phone, or location history.
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You own what you post.
Edit or delete any spot — or your whole account — anytime, honored within 30 days. The one limit, stated plainly: spots other travelers already saved into their own trips stay theirs.
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Quiet Mode.
Share spots with the community without anyone being able to trace your movements across the map. Public spots, private patterns.
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Real people, not AI.
Every spot is a real photo a real person took. AI only helps sort what's in it — a viewpoint, a quiet spot, good light. It never invents a place.
Read the full Privacy Policy for the legal details.
Try Photerra.
Tell us what's missing.
We're in the stage where your feedback actually changes the product. If there's a city you wish we seeded, a feature you wish we had, or a spot you wish was on the map — tell us.
Or reach us directly at info@photerra.com.
