Screenshot → Map

Your screenshots folder, on a map.

The recommendations are already on your phone: a friend's text, a story you grabbed, a menu photo. Drop the images in and the names come out as pins, since a screenshot carries its text with it no matter where it came from.

Or paste a caption — Instagram often needs either.

Prefer a static example? See extracted places

Texts, stories, menus
Any imageTexts, stories, menus
Several at once
BatchSeveral at once
Repeats collapse
DedupedRepeats collapse

See it in action

What you get back

4 screenshots: a friend's text, two stories, a bar menu

Names pulled out of four unrelated images, deduplicated, and mapped together, so one text thread and two stories end up on the same page:

  • Attaboy From the text — 'no menu, just tell them what you like'
  • Katz's Delicatessen From a story screenshot
  • Russ & Daughters From the same story, two slides later
  • Dimes Off the menu photo
  • Clinton St. Baking Company From the text thread
See the full itinerary on the map

How it works

Three steps, start to map

1

Drop the images

Paste with ⌘V or pick them from your camera roll, and add several at a time if you have a folder of them.

2

Arriv reads the text

OCR pulls the words off the image. The model then sorts which of them are venue names and which are somebody's commentary.

3

Check and keep

You see what it found before anything is saved, and that's where you catch the bar it put in the wrong city.

Why Arriv

Why screenshots are the fastest input

It works when links don't

A screenshot has no login wall, which makes it the dependable way to get a social post onto a map.

Sources you can't paste

A text message, a printed menu, a photo of a chalkboard — none of them have a URL, so the screenshot is the only way in.

Batch, then review

Ten screenshots become one list you approve in a single pass, which beats adding them one at a time and losing track of the repeats.

Share extension on iOS

Send a screenshot straight into Arriv from the share sheet without opening the app first.

Questions

Frequently asked

How do I turn screenshots into a map?
Drop the images into Arriv. It reads the text with OCR, works out which words are venue names, matches each one to a real place, and plots them on a map. You see the matches before anything saves, and a wrong guess takes one tap to fix.
What kinds of screenshots work?
Anything with legible text works: Instagram stories, TikTok frames, text messages, article clippings, menus, even a photo of handwriting if you can read it yourself.
Can I add several screenshots at once?
Yes. Add a batch and the results merge into one list with the duplicates collapsed, so ten images from one trip give you one shortlist.
Is screenshot import free?
Guest and free accounts include screenshot capture within a monthly allowance, which covers a trip's worth of saves. Pro raises the limit and adds capture of booking confirmations.