# North - Save & Share Places — Best place for the best spots > Save, organize, and share favorite places with notes, ratings, and collaborative lists. (iPhone/iPad app by Wayward Lane, LLC.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/north-save-and-share-places/id6504123063 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Wayward Lane, LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/1751021943) - Category: Food & Drink, Travel - Price: Free - Rating: 4.29/5 from 28 App Store ratings · 21 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.0 · 102 MB - Languages: English - Released: 2024-06-23 - Data updated: 2026-06-09 - Monetization: free - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/north-save-and-share-places/id6504123063/reviews.md ## What is North? North is the fastest and easiest place to save your favorite spots and share them with others. Whether it’s that coffee shop your friend raved about, a new restaurant opening in your city, or a cute shop you want to check out next time you’re in Tokyo, North is your new go-to “place for your places”. TRACK THE ONES YOU WANT TO REMEMBER Say goodbye to searching through messy notes or trying to find that text about that one place from that one friend. Say hello to a simple and intuitive app that puts all your favorites in one place. - Save places in seconds with a fast and simple search - View all your saved places on a map - Organize your saved places automagically with Smart Lists RECORD YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE GO Want to remember what you thought of a place, but don’t want to post your thoughts in an online review for the world to see? Save notes and ratings on your places privately with North. - Add text notes on places to remember the important details - (Privately) rate places with sub-ratings for attributes like food and service - Filter your places by rating to easily find your favorites COLLABORATE ON SHARED LISTS Heading on a trip with friends? Want to brainstorm date night ideas with your boo? Collaborative lists make saving places to go together a breeze. - Send invites to collaborate via text, email, and more—even AirDrop - Easily see new places added by others on your list - Add comments and tags to share your thoughts PUBLISH YOUR BEST LISTS FOR EASY SHARING We’ve all been talking about it, and we agree—you have great taste. Thats why your friends keep asking for your favorite places from your last trip to London. With a tap, turn any North list into a beautiful interactive map online to share with friends. - Published lists include your thoughts and helpful place details like opening hours and address - List viewers don’t need to download anything, and they look great on desktop and mobile - Viewers can easily save their favorites of your spots to their own account ## Key features - Save places quickly - View saved places on a map - Organize with Smart Lists - Add private notes and ratings - Collaborate on shared lists - Publish interactive maps ## What do users think of North? **Pros** - 🗺️ Interactive maps to easily find and organize favorite spots - 🤝 Ability to share lists with friends and family - 🗒️ Useful for planning upcoming trips and exploring one's own city - 📝 Ability to add notes to saved places - 🗂️ Smart lists that automatically categorize saved places - 🌟 Beautiful and user-friendly design - 🎯 Fills a major life void for frequent travelers - 🧠 Better than using personal notes or other apps to keep track of places ## Recent user reviews (10 of 21) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/north-save-and-share-places/id6504123063/reviews.md ### 2/5 — The developers seem to have stopped working on it *2026-01-17, version 1.12.1* I’ve emailed support, offered a lot of input, and even sent screen recordings of bugs in action. It’s 11 months without an update. This developer seems to have abandoned the app. Might be time to switch to Beli or So Good. ### 5/5 — So glad I found this app! *2025-09-10, version 1.12.1* I love this app! It’s a great alternative to Google maps for organizing places I want to go. I like that you can create custom lists. A suggestion: I would love to be able to label places with emojis on the map, so instead of looking at the map and seeing a bunch of pins and hearts, there could be separate icons for each of my lists. I would also love to be able to put my lists in a custom order. Right now when I make a new list, the spot that it gets put into is completely random which is a little frustrating. And finally, I would love if friends could see my saved places and lists automatically without me having to send them a link. ### 1/5 — Think the developers gave up on this app *2025-07-30, version 1.12.1* Had an issue and wrote to the developers with no response. Feels like maybe this app was abandoned so wouldn’t invest too much time into it. ### 1/5 — Not recommended, it’s pointless *2024-10-19* You can do most of what this app does in Apple or Google maps. Apple Maps gives great guides and very private. Who knows what this app does with my data, it’s free so you are the product. Only difference is adding friends but Apple and Google maps has so much more data, reviews, guides and lists. Sorry but no point to this app. Just another app to have for nothing. **Developer response:** Hi there! We're sorry you don't find value in our product, but we're glad that you are satisfied with using Google or Apple Maps. We do want to be clear—we state very clearly in our Privacy Policy (https://north.industries/privacy) how we use your data. We never sell user data, and we use leading practices to protect and secure your data. We will, at some point, introduce premium features for North that users can optionally pay for, if they see value. This will be our revenue model—we will never monetize our user's data. We also invite you to try a few of our features that differentiate significantly from Google and Apple Maps. With North, you can overlay your friends pins on your map, or follow along in realtime as they add new places. Smart Lists also make it easy to build automatically-updating lists with places that meet your specified filters, meaning no more manual list management. And list filtering, collaboration, and publishing are far more powerful than on either Apple or Google Maps. ### 5/5 — A dream! *2024-08-10, version 1.8.0* As someone who was constantly Googling and Instagram searching the best spots for coffee or cocktails anytime I went to a new city—North takes all the hard work out of finding the best places, even in my own hometown! I no longer have to keep silly lists in my Notes app. I also love being able to collaborate and share with friends to get recommendations and keep track of where I’ve been. Massive round of applause! ### 5/5 — North Gang Gang *2024-07-24, version 1.7.1* North has been incredibly helpful in organizing my favorite spots. Love the collaborative lists for planning with friends. The app is easy to use and keeps everything in one place. Couldn’t ask for more! ### 5/5 — A Game Changer *2024-06-28, version 1.7.1* This app is changing how I keep track of places. I’m enjoying exploring the many features like the ability to share lists and the interactive maps. Amazing! I can easily find and organize my favorite spots. North is a game changer! ### 5/5 — Great for organizing my “Spots” *2024-06-27, version 1.7.1* This app was definitely missing from my phone before! When friends visit town I used to send them long texts with restaurant and coffee shop recommendations- now I can share my spots on here. Plus, it’s great to have a location to gather all the restaurant recommendations I get that’s not just a note in my phone! ### 5/5 — How did this not exist already? *2024-06-26, version 1.7.1* This is a pretty simple idea that is executed incredibly well. The idea of having a “place for your places” where you can save and share all the spots that are important to you, places you want to try, ones you want to share with your friends… it almost seems like it would just be built into your phone already, but this is the first version of this concept I’ve come across that actually works well! This app does a great job of making everything simple and user-friendly. Love it! ### 5/5 — The simplicity 👩🏼‍🍳💋 *2024-06-26, version 1.7.1* This is soooo much better than my previous system (my previous system was my own brain). I love that it's not public too; I just want to share my favorite spots with friends visiting town, I don't need everyone in the city to know. ## Frequently asked questions about North ### What does the North app do? North is an application designed to help you save, organize, and share your favorite places. You can quickly save locations, add private notes and ratings, and create collaborative lists with others. It also allows you to publish your lists as interactive maps for easy sharing. ### How can I save places with North? You can save places in seconds using a fast and simple search function within the app. Once saved, all your favorite spots will be displayed on a map and can be automatically organized into Smart Lists for easy management. ### Is North free to use? Yes, the North app is completely free to use. There are no in-app purchases or advertisements mentioned, indicating a free monetization model. ### Can I share my saved places with others? Absolutely. You can collaborate on shared lists with friends and family, inviting them via text, email, or AirDrop. Additionally, you can publish any North list into a beautiful, interactive online map that can be shared with anyone, even if they don't have the app. ### What kind of information can I record about a place? You can record private notes to remember important details about a place. The app also allows you to privately rate places using sub-ratings for attributes like food and service. This information can be used to filter your saved places and easily find your favorites. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.12.1 — 2025-01-22 Nothing too exciting this time, just a few minor bug fixes. ### 1.12.0 — 2025-01-20 Exciting updates in this release! Log a Visit (Check-Ins): Keep track of where you've been and your favorite spots! With our new "Log a Visit" feature, you can easily record your visits right in North. Activity is now Home: We heard how much you love browsing your friends' activity, so we’ve made it even easier to find—it’s now on the Home tab. Plus, your own activity is now included, so North feels just as great in solo mode. The Action Button: We’ve simplified common actions to just a couple of taps. Quickly log a visit, save a place, create a list, or start a poll with ease. North Curators: Discover amazing places around the globe with recommendations from North and our incredible curator partners. Check out their picks by visiting the Explore tap and turning on the layer for saved places by North and our curator partners. Bug Fixes and Updates: We’ve squashed bugs and added micro updates throughout to keep things running smoothly. We can’t wait to hear what you think! ### 1.10.1 — 2024-11-19 A few bug fixes and performance improvements. ### 1.10.0 — 2024-11-14 This release includes a ton of fun updates. --- Introducing Polls We are so freaking excited for this one. We’ve said before that the best recs come from friends—but what if those friends aren’t on North? With Polls, it’s now easy to ask a question, like “What’s the best coffee in Paris?”, and share a link anywhere your people are: post it on X, share on Threads, send a text, email it—heck, you could put the link on a banner and fly it from an airplane. On your Poll, your friends can suggest places and vote on their favorites. The best part? They can do it all from the web or their phone, without downloading an app or creating an account. Now, you can easily crowdsource recommendations from your friends and followers. And once folks add places, you can easily save the ones you want to remember in North. Another great use case for polls? Deciding where to go to dinner with friends. Simply open North, create a poll asking—”Where should we go for dinner tonight?”, and pop it in a group text. Friends can add suggestions and vote on their favorites in seconds. --- North goes vrooooom In our opinion, app performance is a critical part of user experience. North should be easy-to-use, and part of that is ensuring it’s fast. This release we’ve shipped over a dozen improvements to speed. Here are the highlights: - Images load MUCH faster - Loading North featured lists and other users’ public lists is now much faster - North stays speedy on the Your Map tab even if you have 8,000+ places - The activity feed refreshes much quicker than before - Accepting friend requests now doesn’t take forever --- Measure your influence You all have discovered thousands of places through your friends on North. Now, we’re giving you a way to measure how often your friends are saving places that they discover through you. On your home screen, you can now see your "Influence", which goes up every time someone saves a place you added first—either from the activity feed, the shared map, or from one of your lists. Get out there, you trendsetters. --- Finally, we’ve shipped a ton of small improvements to the app based on feedback from all of our wonderful users. - You can now set your preferred unit of measure (km or miles). This is also defaulted based upon the location settings of your phone. - You can now add places to standard lists without marking them as “Wanna go” or adding a rating. This is helpful when you’re creating a list of recommendations for someone else, but you don’t want these places saved to your places. - We’ve updated the UI on the map for adding and removing different layers (such as friends' pins and North's recommendations). - You can now create Smart Lists that are conditioned off of country (previously, it was only possible to do this by region and city). ### 1.9.5 — 2024-10-20 Small bug fixes and improvements to importer. ## Apps similar to North | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Finny \| Dining App](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/finny-dining-app/id1604428170) | 5.0 (3) | Free | Food & Drink | | [deatour](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/deatour/id6748699875) | 5.0 (2) | $3.99 | Food & Drink | | [Tastebuddy - Dining Made Easy](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tastebuddy-dining-made-easy/id6737732908) | 5.0 (9) | Free | Food & Drink | | [Beli](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/beli/id1478375386) | 4.9 (15,435) | Free | Food & Drink | | [Drawer - Save Places and Spots](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/drawer-save-places-and-spots/id582432085) | 5.0 (1) | Free | Food & Drink | | [Overlook Maps](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/overlook-maps/id6736413146) | 3.6 (23) | Free | Food & Drink | ## Related topics [wayward lane](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/wayward-lane) · [222 place](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/222-place) · [placely anbieter](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/placely-anbieter) · [north](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/north) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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