Plotline
Plotline is an iOS travel app that transforms saved Instagram and TikTok posts into pins on a personal travel map, then automatically generates day-by-day itineraries from those pins. The app supports real-time collaborative trip planning with friends and includes a trending map feature showing spots other travelers are saving, complete with community tips. With over 50,000 travelers and 3 million places plotted, Plotline bridges the gap between social media inspiration and actual travel plans.
- Hospitality & Travel Technology
- Applications
- Artificial Intelligence
- Software Only
- AI Agents
Funding
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Travelers accumulate hundreds of saved social media posts—TikToks, Instagram bookmarks, and YouTube videos—featuring real recommendations, but these rarely translate into actual trip plans. The gap between "I want to go there" and "I'm going there" is almost entirely organizational, leaving valuable recommendations unused and trips under-planned.
Solution
Plotline is an iOS travel app that turns saved posts from Instagram and TikTok into pins on a personal travel map. Users share a video and every place mentioned lands as a pin on their map. They can build Collections for upcoming trips, and Plotline automatically generates day-by-day itineraries from those saved places, routed and paced to taste. Friends can be invited to any trip, with everyone able to add stops and see the plan update live. The app also features a trending map that shows spots other travelers are saving in any location, complete with community tips on what to order, when to go, and practical details like prices or closures. An "Ask Plotline" feature lets users type what they're in the mood for, and the app searches both their saves and other travelers' saves to drop the best matches on the map with explanations for each pick.
Target Audience
Primary users are travelers who save places on social media but struggle to organize them into actual trip plans, particularly iOS users aged 18-35 who are active on Instagram and TikTok and seek authentic, non-mainstream travel experiences.
Features
- Automatic extraction of locations from shared Instagram and TikTok posts, converting social media saves into map pins
- AI-powered itinerary builder that creates day-by-day plans from saved places, routed and paced based on user preferences
- Real-time collaborative trip planning where friends can add stops to any day and see live updates
- "Trending" map feature that highlights destinations other travelers are saving, with community-sourced tips including dish recommendations, timing advice, and price information
- "Ask Plotline" natural-language search that queries both personal saves and community saves to surface matching spots with reasoning
- Collection feature for organizing saved places by trip or theme
- Support for importing Google Maps favorites via copy-paste