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MapTap - Travel Collection & Journal

Turn your travels into a map, collections & travel score

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MapTap turns your travel photos into a growing collection on a world map. Drop a photo from anywhere you've been - MapTap pins it to your map and unlocks a collectible magnet for that place. As you collect, your Travel Score grows and badges stack up. It's less like a journal, more like a collection that builds itself. Built solo. 2,000+ travelers already collecting and sharing journeys. Android now, iOS coming soon.

PH · launched Sep 15, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 1 view

Niche: digital journaling apps · 287 launches, 21 in the last 7 days ▼ -19% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Travel & hospitality
  • Content generation
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Android
  • Social Media
  • Travel
  • Maps

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Could you build this?

Yes It is a standard mobile photo-mapping app that extracts EXIF GPS coordinates, plots them on Mapbox/Google Maps, and gamifies visits with unlockable badges.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 464 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #145 of 465 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 318 days after the earliest competitor.

  • All Travel Memories: Journal · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • Mapicus · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • Travel Archive · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • TravelMapVisited · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • Charted · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • Album Map · ph · 2026-10-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • Travel Game · ph · 2026-10-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • MyTripLog · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55

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