Trouvailles

Personal places · iPhone · iPad · Mac · Android

Every place worth remembering. Kept your way.

A restaurant a friend swears by, a shop you don't want to lose, the bench with the view — map and list, always in sync, with your own tags, notes, photos and ratings. Share a place with one tap; no account, no server, nothing to sign up for.

Built for you & the people you trust Map & list in sync Tags & friends Share in one tap 32 languages
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The real difference

No account. No server. Just your places.

Trouvailles keeps everything in its own format, on your own devices — synced privately between your Mac, iPhone and iPad — photos included — through your own iCloud, never a shared backend. Share a place (or a whole selection) with someone through the ordinary share sheet, and if they use Trouvailles too, it recreates itself on their end with position, tags and notes intact — no invite, no sign-up, no third party in between.

Own JSON format iCloud sync, photos included Daily iCloud Drive backup Peer-to-peer share Full data export

Every day

Built around how you actually save a place.

Map and list read the same data and stay in sync — tap a place in either and find it in the other.

Organize

Tags, your way

Colour-coded tags you create on the fly, searchable and sortable by name or by how often you use them — add or remove several at once across a whole selection of places.

Together

Friends

Note who recommended a place or who you visited it with, then filter the map to just the places tied to someone in particular.

Detail

Ratings, notes & photos

A star rating, a comment, and photos you can crop, rotate and reorder — taken on the spot or added later, right from the place's own page.

Nearby

Notified when you're close

Mark a place “notify when nearby” and get a gentle nudge on approach — handy for the place you keep forgetting is right around the corner.

Privacy

Keep a place private

Hide any place from the list and the map with one switch — it stays out of sight (and out of anyone you share with) until you decide to show it again.

Search

Search that never comes up empty

Your saved places and live map suggestions appear side by side as you type — save a suggestion instantly, or tap through for the full picture first.

Map

Apple Maps or OpenStreetMap

Pick your basemap, with standard, satellite or hybrid views right from the map itself — no digging through settings.

Getting there

Straight to your favourite app

Open directions in Uber, Citymapper, Transit, Waze or Google Maps, and reviews on Instagram, TripAdvisor, Michelin or TheFork — one tap out to whichever app you'd already reach for.

Everywhere

Bring what you already have

Import from Contacts, CSV, GeoJSON, KML, KMZ, a Mapstr export, Foursquare/Swarm check-ins, vCard or a Google Maps Takeout — added alongside what's already there, the original file never touched.

To try

A 👀 for the places you want to try

Flip the 👀 toggle on any row to mark a place “to try” — it gets a badge on the map and in the list, and one tap on the bottom bar shows only those places. Mark them “already tried” when you've been.

Fast

Sort, filter, select

Sort by name, distance, date or rating — tap the same sort twice to reverse it. Search, tag filter, 👀 and the list/map switch live in one bar at the bottom. In multi-select, change the icon or rating, add or remove tags, or mark “to try” for every checked place at once.

Photos

Find a photo for you

No picture yet? Trouvailles can look on OpenStreetMap, on the place's own website, on Wikimedia and (on iPhone, iPad and Mac) in Apple's Look Around — and lets you pick which ones to keep when it finds several. Only when you ask.

Details

Website & opening hours

Add a place's website, then let Trouvailles read its opening hours — from the site itself, or from OpenStreetMap — and tell you whether it's open right now.

Widget

Places near me

A home-screen widget lists your saved places closest to you, with the distance and “Open” or “Closed” whenever their opening hours are known. Tap one to jump straight to its page.

Filters

Combine filters your way

Match all checked tags or at least one, see everything still “to categorize”, and layer “Open now”, “Already tried”, “Already visited” and 👀 on top. Tags can carry an emoji, follow an order you choose, and even trigger a nearby alert for every place that wears them.

Import

Share a page, get the places

Share an article, an Instagram post or a TikTok — or a Google Maps, TripAdvisor or TheFork page, or a restaurant’s own website — to Trouvailles and it picks out the places it mentions, with their Facebook, Instagram and TripAdvisor pages when the site links to them. Prefer to paste a link? Settings > Import has a box for that. Tick the places you want, add your tags once, done.

Map

Your map, your way

Drag a pin to where the place really is, jump the map to another city, and size the pins to taste. Nearby alerts reach from 50 m up to 100 km.

Export

GeoJSON or spreadsheet

Back everything up as GeoJSON, or export a CSV with the same columns Mapstr uses for your spreadsheet — and bring it back any time.

Worldwide

32 languages

From Arabic, Hebrew and Persian (right-to-left) to Korean, Thai and Vietnamese — Trouvailles opens in your phone's language, and you can switch to any other from Settings, instantly.

Tidy

Duplicates, found for you

Review places that are strictly identical — same name, address, icon, tags, comment, position, rating and photos — and keep only the oldest of each group, with its notes and visits merged.

Safety

Back up & restore

A full copy of your places goes to your own iCloud Drive every day, so it survives even if you delete the app. You can also export everything to a GeoJSON file and bring it back on any device — a restore replaces your current places, so you always know exactly what you end up with.

Everywhere

Photos that follow you

Photos you add or edit show up on your iPhone, iPad and Mac through your own iCloud — and a banner warns you if your data only lives on one device.

Share

Fix it before you save

Share a place from Google Maps or Instagram and the text it came with is right there under the address — select any part of it and use it as the name or the address, or clear the name with one tap. For Instagram, the name after the @ is suggested.

Map

Every tag, in colour

Each pin on the map wears a coloured arc with one segment per tag of the place, so you can read a place’s tags at a glance — the 👀 badge still marks the places you want to try.

Safety

A real trash, with restore

Deleting a place sends it to the Trash — restore it any time for 30 days, empty the Trash yourself, or let it clear automatically once the 30 days are up.

Import

Photos come with the page

Import a restaurant’s or shop’s website and its own presentation photos are added to the place, with no duplicates.

Add

Add it, then finish it

As soon as you add a place its full page opens at full height — tags, who recommended it, visits and photos are already within reach, no second tap needed.

Budget

Price at a glance

Give a place a budget from € to €€€€, the same way you give it a rating. It shows in the list and in the place’s page, and travels with your CSV export.

Search

When the maps don’t know the place

Can’t find a small shop or a new restaurant? Tap “Search the web” under your results. Your search goes to DuckDuckGo, the pages found are read on your device to find an address, and nothing is saved until you choose. Only when you ask.

Import

From Google Maps

Pick the .zip of your Google Takeout (or its .json and .csv files) and your saved places, reviews and lists come over with their rating and comment. “Home” and “Work” addresses are left out on purpose.

Notes

Links you can tap

Web addresses written in a place’s note are clickable — a video, a menu, an article: one tap and it opens.

Visits

Every visit, editable

Log each visit with its date and the people you went with — and tap a visit any time to correct the date or who came along. A comment box is always open on the place’s page, ready to type in, with no need to go through Edit first.

Languages

Speaks your language.

The whole app — menus, help, permission prompts — is translated, with the same wording on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android.

العربية Català 简体中文 繁體中文 Čeština Dansk Nederlands English Suomi Français Deutsch Ελληνικά עברית हिन्दी Magyar Bahasa Indonesia Italiano 日本語 한국어 Norsk فارسی Polski Português (Brasil) Português (Portugal) Română Русский Español Svenska ไทย Türkçe Українська Tiếng Việt

Your data stays yours.

Nothing is bundled or shared without asking. Export every place — tags, notes, ratings and photos included — to a single JSON file whenever you want a backup or want to look at it outside the app.

Storage
Local, own format
Sync
iCloud, your devices only — photos included
Sharing
Direct, via the share sheet
Backup
Daily in iCloud Drive, or one JSON file on demand

Privacy

No account, no server, no tracking.

Trouvailles has no account and no server of its own. Your places, tags, notes, ratings and photos stay in the app's own format, on your devices and in your own iCloud — never a Kinevia backend. A daily backup copy goes to your own iCloud Drive; you can switch it off in Settings. No analytics, no ads, no third-party SDKs.

Location
To search and sort by distance, and to add a place at your position. Background location only powers the optional, off-by-default “notify when nearby” alerts — for the places you choose, nothing else.
Contacts
Opt-in, to show your contacts' addresses as pins on the map. Never saved as places, never synced or sent anywhere.
Maps & search
Apple Maps or OpenStreetMap for the map (your choice on iPhone, iPad and Mac); address search uses Apple's MapKit on those, and OpenStreetMap's Nominatim on Android — queried directly, not through a Kinevia server.
Photos
Added to a place stay in the app's own storage and your own iCloud (sync and daily backup) — never uploaded elsewhere.
Photo & hours lookup
Only when you tap “Find a photo” or “Find opening hours”, after a one-time confirmation: the place's name and position go to OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia (and to Apple for Look Around on iPhone, iPad and Mac), and the place's own website page is read. Nothing runs in the background, and nothing goes through a Kinevia server.
Web search
Only when you tap “Search the web”, after a one-time confirmation: your search text goes to DuckDuckGo, and the pages it finds are read on your device to look for an address. Nothing runs in the background, and nothing is saved before you choose.
Import from a link
Only when you share a page to Trouvailles: that page is read on your device to find the places it mentions, then you pick which to keep. Nothing is stored before you confirm.
Sharing
Only when you use the share sheet yourself — nothing sent in the background.
Your data
Export everything to one file anytime, or delete the app to remove it all — nothing left behind on any server, because there isn't one.