# North - Save & Share Places — user reviews > 21 indexed App Store user reviews of North by Wayward Lane, LLC, rated 4.29/5 from 28 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/north-save-and-share-places/id6504123063/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/north-save-and-share-places/id6504123063.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 23 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 5 ## 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 ## Newest reviews (8 of 21) ### 5/5 — Game Changer!!! *2024-06-25, version 1.7.1* Easy to use, beautiful interface, and all necessary information in one place!! They've thought of everything, making it so easy to share restaurant lists and vacation recs with friends. 10/10 ### 5/5 — Beautiful & A Pleasure To Use *2024-06-25, version 1.7.1* I’ve been searching for an app like North for ages! It’s beautifully designed, and perfectly serves my needs without unnecessary features. It’s so easy to build, augment and manage my lists in North, as well as share them with friends. So happy I found this app! ### 5/5 — Great way to save your favorite places *2024-06-25, version 1.7.1* The smart lists make it really easy to organize all your favorite spots. I love it! ### 5/5 — Super slick *2024-06-25, version 1.7.1* When friends would visit, I used to send them a stock email about what restaurants and bars were good. Now I just send them my North list! Beautiful app, too ### 5/5 — How can I say how much I love North? *2024-06-25, version 1.7.1* I use North all the time. It’s great for planning upcoming trips, but also for exploring my own city better! Every week I try to go to one new place and North has made keeping track of that much easier. ### 5/5 — Great app for organizing places you love or want to visit *2024-06-25, version 1.7.1* This app is really well done and super useful for keeping my place lists organized. The smart lists automatically categorize which saves a ton of time. I use it to organize lists of restaurants and for planning places to visit on vacations. Great design and easy to use. Highly recommend! ### 5/5 — Made it onto my Home Screen *2024-06-24, version 1.7.1* I use north almost everyday to save places I hear about and make recommendations to my friends. It’s great! ### 5/5 — Finally!! *2024-06-24, version 1.7.1* I’ve been waiting for an app like North for years. My Google maps is a total mess of stars, hearts and flags. I can never find what I’m looking for and I have no memory of how I found the place in the first place. I’m using North now instead to save places because I can add notes to places. It also has useful map features to see nearby places you have saved. PLUS! I can share lists of places instead of doing the annoying text a million links. Wow. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 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. ### 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. ### 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. ## Most praised reviews (3 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — North fills a major life void for this frequent adventurer *2024-06-26, version 1.7.1* I travel a ton to cities large and small, and given the combo of my work and personal travel, I’m constantly wanting a way to document the best tips I get and the best experiences I have. I’ve tried everything — iPhone notes, google docs, heaps of yelp reviews as a minor history, but nothing brings together the wide range of features North gives me to chart my next adventure and document what I loved most about my last. I also love that the next time someone asks me what to do in Paris, I can simply share my list on North, and they’ll have immediate, highly usable insights. Beautiful design, insightful feature set. RAH! ### 5/5 — Easy to use and great for travel *2024-06-26, version 1.7.1* Simple and intuitive ### 5/5 — Great Idea! *2024-06-25, version 1.7.1* So happy to have a place to store all my travel notes and love the idea of sharing lists with my friends! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-09.*