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“A quiet terrace for wine at sunset.” Type it the way you'd say it to a friend who lives there — PinFinder turns the sentence into a real shortlist, in whichever city you happen to be standing in.
This page describes PinFinder 2.0, currently in development. The previous version is already on the App Store as a guide to İstanbul & İzmir.
Rooftop · Natural wine · 4 min walk
Courtyard garden · Quiet · 7 min walk
Terrace · Small plates · 9 min walk
Ranked live · curated picks lifted to the top
No filter safari, no eleven tabs open, no scrolling a thousand reviews for a place that closed last spring.
Type it plainly — “cheap breakfast near the station”, “somewhere with a laptop-friendly corner”, “date spot, not too loud”. Prefer taps? The filters produce exactly the same search.
Your words become a structured query — category, price, vibe, opening hours, distance — and the engine searches the neighbourhood you're in right now, live.
A handful of real candidates on a map and in a list, reranked so the places we've personally vetted rise to the top — with a note on why.
Every one of these is a working search. No keywords to guess, no category tree to climb.
PinFinder doesn't need a guidebook written about your city first. The engine works from day one, everywhere — and gets sharper where we've curated.
Ask in full sentences. The AI turns intent into a precise query — category, price band, vibe, hours — instead of guessing at keywords.
Land somewhere new and it just works. PinFinder figures out which neighbourhood you're standing in and searches it live — no city packs to download.
Hundreds of places we've vetted by hand carry an editorial note and a PinFinder Pick badge — and they get lifted above the algorithmic noise.
See the shortlist as pins on a real map or as cards with photos, ratings and walking distance. Switch whenever the question changes from “where” to “which”.
Keep the ones you liked. Saved places group themselves by neighbourhood and drop straight onto the map when you're back in the area.
Going to Rome next month? Browse the neighbourhood from your sofa and arrive with a shortlist already saved — travel gets planned before the trip, not during it.
Search engines are good at listing what exists and bad at telling you what's worth your evening. So PinFinder runs both: a live engine that covers every city, and a hand-built layer on top of it — notes, tags and badges written by people who've actually sat at the table.
Where we've curated, those places rise. Where we haven't, the engine still delivers. You never hit an empty screen because we haven't visited your city yet.
PinFinder works without a sign-up. Your location is used to work out which neighbourhood you're in and is never stored as a trail. Your saved places belong to an anonymous ID — and deleting your account in the app really deletes the data behind it.
One neighbourhood is yours forever, at no cost. Travelling for a week? Buy a week's worth — not a subscription you'll forget to cancel.
One neighbourhood, forever. 3 AI searches a day, map, list and saves included.
One more neighbourhood, permanently yours. One-off — no subscription.
A whole city for 30 days, unlimited AI search. One-off — nothing renews.
Every city, unlimited search, routes. Also $9.99/month.
Prices are in USD and may vary by region. Final pricing is confirmed in the App Store at launch.
All of them. The search engine is live rather than pre-packaged, so any city with places on the map works from the moment you open the app. Our curated layer currently focuses on Western European and North American city centres and grows neighbourhood by neighbourhood.
The walkable area around you — Trastevere in Rome, the East Village in New York, Nişantaşı in İstanbul. PinFinder sizes it from the real shape of the district rather than a fixed radius, so a free unlock is worth roughly the same wherever you are.
No. There's no sign-up, no email and no password. Your saves and unlocks are tied to an anonymous ID created on your device.
No. Trip Pass and Unlock an Area are one-off purchases — they never auto-renew. Only the Pro plan is a subscription, and it's cancellable at any time in iPhone Settings.
It's in active development and heading to the App Store soon. Email us and we'll let you know the day it ships — nothing else, no list.
PinFinder 2.0 is coming to the App Store.
Leave your email and you'll be the first to know.