Your saved pins, turned into the journal you'll actually reread

The trip blog you never got around to writing —
built from the pins you already dropped.

You bookmarked the spots while planning. Pinbook turns them into a real travel journal — mark what you visited, rate it, keep the notes — before the memory fades. Then share with your friends who ask you for recs.

Map your own trip
How it works
1

Export your list

Pull the saved list you built while planning your trip out of Google Maps, using Google Takeout.

2

Upload the file

Drop the CSV into Pinbook. It finds each place on the map and groups them by city for you.

3

Make it yours

Mark the places you actually visited, rate them, keep your notes on the map — then share it.

Get your data from Google Maps

Google doesn't let apps read your saved places directly, so you export them yourself. It takes about two minutes.

  • 1

    Open Google Takeout

    Go to takeout.google.com, signed in to the Google account with your saved places.

  • 2

    Select only "Saved"

    Click Deselect all, then scroll down and check Saved — your Google Maps lists. Leave the format as CSV.

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    SavedCollections of saved links (images, places, web pages, etc.) from Google Search and Maps.
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  • 3

    Create the export

    Click Next step, keep the "email a download link" option, then Create export. It's usually ready in a few minutes.

  • 4

    Download and unzip

    Open the emailed link, download the .zip, and unzip it. Inside a Saved folder you'll find one CSV per list, named after each list.

  • 5

    Upload the trip you want

    Drop the CSV for that trip into Pinbook, on the right. That's it.

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Drop your Google Takeout CSV here
or browse your files
Biases the search so "Central Park" doesn't resolve to the wrong country.
  • You can only export your own saved lists — sign in to the right Google account.
  • Pinbook reads the CSV file only. It never connects to your Google account.
  • Your export lists each place's name and Google Maps link, but not its coordinates — so Pinbook looks each one up, and you confirm any that don't match.

Review your places

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