Pinbox - Map Your World app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 9328 ratings )
Travel Navigation
Developer: Seasonal Spring
3.99 USD
Current version: 8.4, last update: 4 months ago
First release : 02 Nov 2013
App size: 1.32 Mb

Featured by Apple in “Best New Apps”!

Plan your next trip, mark places you want to go, and remember your favorite spots. Across town or across the world, you’ll never forget another place with Pinbox!

Add pins where you are, where you’ve been, or where you want to go. Pinbox makes it easy to quickly record and organize your important places into distinct maps for every activity, occasion, or geographic region.

Unlike other apps, Pinbox doesn’t force you to save all your places on a single map. You can make one map for your favorite local restaurants - make another map for your next business trip or vacation - and make another map for errands you need to run this weekend. The possibilities are endless!

Pinbox is about you and your places. It’s not a social network. You don’t have to create an account or enter your Facebook details to use the app. Your maps aren’t cluttered with random places bookmarked by strangers. Pinbox is simply the best app for privately bookmarking places that are important to YOU!

FEATURES

• Simple, easy-to-use interface
• Drop a pin for each place you want to remember
• Add photos, notes, and other details to each pin
• Choose from seven different pin colors
• Organize your pins into separate maps
• See your location in relation to your pins
• Send maps to other Pinbox users
• Send pins to Apple Maps, Google Maps, Waze, or Transit for directions
• Display maps in Standard, Hybrid, or Satellite
• Save up to 5,000 pins total

EXAMPLES OF MAPS YOU MIGHT CREATE

• Travel planning
• Favorite restaurants or restaurants to try
• Customer locations/sales calls
• Friends and family locations
• Real Estate listings
• Favorite hiking/biking trails
• Secret fishing spots
• Dog-friendly places
• Parking spots
• Favorite stores
• Multi-stop errands
• Potential photoshoot locations
• The list goes on and on and on…


Still not convinced? Here are a few of our favorite reviews…


“Pinbox is one of those simple apps that does one thing so well it feels frictionless”.
-- Stephen Grassie


“The interface is gorgeous - I would say that it looks like something Apple designed”.
-- Macaddict


“I have been using this to keep track of all the places the kids and I go so they can see how spread out our world is and they can see where all we have gone. Will use it forever”.
-- 1Cool Daddy


“This app is extremely useful and so simple to use. A lifesaver for keeping track of locations”.
-- Davies Photo


“I love this app. It is exactly what it claims to be. I have wanted this app since the smartphone was invented. So simple, and so many uses”.
-- T1Man



Using Pinbox on an iPod Touch or an iPad:
Like other map apps, Pinbox uses GPS to determine your location. iPods and Wi-Fi-only iPads do not have a GPS receiver. On these devices, Pinbox provides your approximate location using information based on your proximity to known Wi-Fi networks (when on and available). The more accurate the available information, the smaller the circle identifying your position on the map. This feature is not available in all areas. Known Wi-Fi networks are predominantly in urban areas. An internet connection is required to load maps, look up addresses, and search. Although Pinbox can be installed on iPads, it’s not formatted for the larger iPad screen - it runs doubled like all other iPhone apps.



Pinbox is the result of a collaboration between Scott D. Smith and Paul Burd. We sincerely hope you like it!

Pros and cons of Pinbox - Map Your World app for iPhone and iPad

Pinbox - Map Your World app good for

I used to print a map and label each spot on my itenerary but Pinbox makes it so much easier. You can zoom in to find street names; pins link to websites; you can color code; you can write yourself memos for each location; and you can share the map with friends!
I like to keep track of interesting stores and restaurants. Pinbox lets me do just that! Some places dont have websites or are hard to find again and this app solves that problem!
The app is excellent for putting pins at places that I have travelled. I used to use the National Geographic World Map until an update caused me to lose hundreds of pins that I entered. Great communication with the developer assured me that this app was the way to go. It is very easy to use and just what I needed.
Operating a Garage Door Company in Edmonton Canada, dispatching 9 technicians driving around the city every day for repairing, installing and giving quotes on garage doors. Using this app we make a new map everyday for each technician and when we get a new customer to book its very easy to have a full view at all the work left to be done at that day and where in the city we will be in order to give a time frame for the new customer. Amazingly low cost, perfectly designed, bugs free app ! Saves me thousands and we never miss an appointment.
As my pin collection grows, so does the worry of losing them all because of a bad update. Definitely needs an option to export pins with and without all the metadata (including "pinned on" date.) Also second tap on direction arrow should bring "compass view" as defaulted in Apple Maps.
Ive tried a bunch of apps to pin multiple locations on a map and this ones the best. I can include information like photos, notes, URLs, phone numbers etc. It is easy to use, its UI is clean, and it keeps to the point. I also have been able to learn locations on a map, too. I like it for remembering one town from another on a long road trip. I can also get directions directly from the app. I saved several customized maps for different countries. It does a good job if that, too, so if you want to "bookmark" locations on a map, you found it.

Some bad moments

The idea is great but the app disappeared off my phone and I lost a LOT of pins as theres no iCloud copy. What a waste of time.
Ive been wanting an app like this for awhile and I am so happy with how this one is designed and executed. Its very straightforward and easy to use. I have several different categories and I am constantly adding cool new places all the time. Props to these guys/gals for making such an intuitive app. Thank you. 2015 UPDATE: Docked a star because it needs an iOS update for 6 and 6+.
The app is good for pinpointing locations, but could be updated to where if the app is deleted, locations could still be accessed. There is no login, so there is no individual account to save. Itd be helpful to be able to save locations.
Salesmans dream app! This app is great to map out all your customers. Only thing needed is the ability to colorcode the pins. Having an option to change the color of the pins would be awesome, other than that great app.
Love this app! Works perfectly. Needs two features: - sync your collection of maps to iCloud and/or share them - iPad version
I avidly read outdoor/travel magazines, books, websites but have had no way to organize the places I see until I found this app! I can pin all the places I see and want to go, write notes on why I wanted to see the place, the address and contact phone number if available. I tend to find myself on spur of the moment travels to randomly decided places. This allows me to locate my position and see if theres any spots nearby that Ive wanted to go to that maybe my brain isnt remembering at the current moment. Super simple and easy to use. I thoroughly enjoy that its personal and doesnt include others ratings, comments and reviews on places. Allows me to form my own opinion without the influence of others. I only see the app getting better with more options and features as it is developed more. Worth the $3!

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