# Wren: Places to Your Map — Place lists into map guides > Organize travel recommendations from screenshots and files into Apple Maps guides. (iPhone/iPad app by Spencer Fields.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wren-places-to-your-map/id6802053382 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Spencer Fields](https://appshunter.io/developer/6797912455) - Category: Travel, Navigation - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Rating: 5.00/5 from 1 App Store ratings · 1 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 32 MB - Languages: American English, Arabic, Bangla, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French (France) and 34 more - Released: 2026-08-20 - Data updated: 2026-10-22 - Monetization: free with in-app purchases - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wren-places-to-your-map/id6802053382/reviews.md ## What is Wren? Someone sends you a reel. Five places you have to eat at in Rome, a rooftop bar in Lisbon, a bookshop down an alley in Tokyo. You mean to remember. By Thursday it is gone. Wren catches them — off a screenshot, out of a list another app exported, or from a guide you already keep — and puts them where you will be standing when you need them. FOUR WAYS IN Places do not only arrive as screenshots, so there are four ways to hand them over. All of them end in the same place: a guide in Apple Maps. 1. FROM A REEL OR A POST. Share it to Wren and the places are read out of it. Wren's server fetches the post, reads it and discards it — the video never reaches your phone. Paid, with 250 posts a month. 2. FROM SCREENSHOTS. One tap per place, from a reel, a post, a message from a friend, or a photographed page of a guidebook. Text recognition runs on your phone, so the screenshots stay there. Wren also reads the caption to work out which city you are looking at, and asks you to confirm it. 3. FROM A FILE. A list exported from another app — CSV, KML, KMZ, GPX, GeoJSON, or a Google Takeout export of your saved places. Where the file carries coordinates, each place is looked up near its own, so a list spanning three cities resolves correctly rather than being dragged towards one of them. 4. FROM A GUIDE YOU ALREADY HAVE. Share a guide out of Apple Maps, paste the link into Wren, and it reads the places already in it. Newly found places sit alongside them, and one guide is made holding both. THEN YOU CHECK IT Every place shows what was read beside what was matched, so a wrong match is obvious rather than confident. Anything not found — or found wrongly — can be searched again by hand. Nothing is written to Apple Maps until you say so. What comes out is not a copy of your places in another app. It is an actual guide, in the Maps you already use, on every device signed in to your Apple Account. About a hundred and fifty places fit in one guide; beyond that Wren splits them into numbered guides and tells you before it does, rather than quietly dropping the ones that would not fit. ANYWHERE, NOT JUST RESTAURANTS Restaurants and bars, certainly. Also viewpoints, markets, hotels, galleries, shops, trailheads, beaches and the odd petrol station someone insists does the best coffee for fifty miles. Anywhere with a name and a location. NO ACCOUNT, NO SIGN-IN Wren has no account and reads nothing from yours. Screenshots are read on your device and are never uploaded. Three things leave your phone, and only when you ask: the name of a place, sent to Apple Maps so it can be found, exactly as the Maps app does; a shared guide link, sent to Apple to be expanded; and the link to a reel or post you share, sent to Wren's own server, which fetches that post, reads the names out of it and discards it. Nothing about the post is kept. FREE, WITH OPTIONAL PURCHASES Guides of up to three places are free, for good, and so is reading a screenshot. Two one-time purchases: one removes the three-place cap and lets you add to a guide you already have, the other reads places out of a shared post. Buying both together costs less than buying them apart. No subscription, and everything restores on your other devices. WHAT APPLE ALLOWS, PLAINLY Apple Maps offers no way to add to an existing guide from outside the app, so combining makes a new guide holding the old places and the new ones together — Wren keeps them, so it can be made again in a tap. ## Key features - Save places from screenshots - Import locations from files (CSV, KML, etc.) - Add to existing Apple Maps guides - Places organized in Apple Maps - No account or sign-in required - Privacy-focused, data stays on device ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Guides of any size | $4.99 | one-time | ## Is Wren safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Wren. ## Is Wren legit? Wren: Places to Your Map has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Wren is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Recent user reviews (1 of 1) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wren-places-to-your-map/id6802053382/reviews.md ### 5/5 — Good for trip planning! *2026-10-20* Wren is a fantastic way to keep track of places you come across on social media. Very useful! ## Frequently asked questions about Wren ### How does Wren save places? Wren allows you to save places from screenshots using text recognition, import them from various file formats like CSV and KML, or add them to your existing Apple Maps guides. All saved locations are consolidated into easy-to-access guides within Apple Maps. ### What file formats does Wren support for importing locations? Wren supports a variety of file formats for importing locations, including CSV, KML, KMZ, GPX, GeoJSON, and Google Takeout exports of your saved places. This flexibility ensures you can bring in recommendations from many different sources. ### Is Wren free to use? Yes, Wren offers free guides for up to three places. For guides with more than three places or the ability to add to existing guides, there is a one-time optional purchase. There are no subscriptions or recurring fees. ### Does Wren have ads? No, Wren does not contain advertisements. The app is designed to be ad-free, focusing solely on helping you organize your travel recommendations. ### How does Wren handle privacy? Wren prioritizes your privacy by requiring no account or sign-in. Screenshots are processed on your device and never uploaded, and the app does not connect to external services like Instagram. Only necessary data like place names are sent to Apple Maps. ### What devices is Wren available on? Wren is currently available on iPhone. Your saved guides sync across all devices signed into your Apple Account. ### How often is Wren updated? Wren was last updated on August 31, 2026, indicating active development and support. The latest version is 1.2.0. ### Can I edit places in Wren before they are saved to Apple Maps? Yes, Wren allows you to check every place, comparing what was read with what was matched. Any incorrect matches can be searched again by hand, and nothing is written to Apple Maps until you confirm it. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 2.1.12 — 2026-10-21 Fixes and small improvements. ### 2.1.11 — 2026-10-15 New: you can now rate Wren from the ⋯ menu. ### 2.1.10 — 2026-10-13 Share a reel or post and Wren now reads your first three for free, so you can see the places it finds before you decide to buy. The purchase screen also starts with the places you already have ready. ### 2.1.8 — 2026-10-09 Nothing changes in how Wren works. Wren can now also tell whether its ads on TikTok lead to downloads, as it already can for Instagram. In the UK and Europe this happens only if you allow tracking, and saying no changes nothing in the app. ### 2.1.7 — 2026-10-05 Sharing is smoother. After you share a reel or a post, a notification appears — tap it to open Wren straight away. No more hunting for the app on your Home Screen. Large video reels that could not be read before now work. ## Apps similar to Wren | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [LifeMap - Your Life's Map](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lifemap-your-lifes-map/id6755345045) | — | Free | Travel | | [Tabi Craft AI -旅のAIコンシェルジュ-](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tabi-craft-ai-ai/id6760831585) | — | Free | Travel | | [RaraGuide – Audio Tour Guide](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/raraguide-audio-tour-guide/id6751832140) | — | Free | Travel | | [Itsuka 海外旅行の目標貯金｜費用とウィジェット](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/itsuka/id6799023998) | — | Free | Travel | | [FellowTrip](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fellowtrip/id6764199662) | — | Free | Travel | | [Suwa Taisha NAVI](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/suwa-taisha-navi/id6471942466) | 2.0 (1) | Free | Travel | ## More apps by Spencer Fields - [Easy-Post Mobile Companion](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/easy-post-mobile-companion/id6798723985) All apps by Spencer Fields: https://appshunter.io/developer/6797912455 ## Related topics [wren](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/wren) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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