Plinn is a small app for keeping track of the bookshops, restaurants, and back-alley museums you actually want to remember — and turning them into a real trip when you're ready.
The map fills with sponsored pins. The feed scrolls. Every place has stars. We wanted the opposite of that, so we built it.
A list, kept by hand. The places you actually loved. The trips you actually took. Nothing in between.
— the only line on the back of every Plinn business card
{[
['No feed', 'You only see places you, or a friend, put there.'],
['No sponsored pins','Nobody pays to appear in your map.'],
['No stars', 'Restaurants have hours and addresses. The taste is yours.'],
['No streaks', 'No badges, no levels, no weekly streak emails.'],
['No tracking', 'Foreground location only. No ad identifiers. No third-party SDKs.'],
].map(([k, v], i) => (
Plinn is a long bet on a quieter kind of travel app — and a small, opinionated team building it. If that's the next decade you want to back, we'd like to talk.
Round
Open.
Seed round. Quiet for now — talk to us.
Traction
Coming soon.
Numbers we'll share once the beta is bigger.
Team
Small.
Design, engineering, AI. Munich and Cape Town.
The deck, the financials, and a thirty-minute call. We'll send all three.
We send TestFlight invites in small batches. Drop your email and we'll add you to the next round.
iOS
TestFlight · open
Android
summer 2026
Price
free
{!sent ? (
) : (
Saved
Your invite is on the way.
Check the email you gave us. If you don't see it within 48 hours, write to hello@plinn.app.
)}
);
}
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// FAQ
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const FAQ_ITEMS = [
{
q: 'Is Plinn free?',
a: 'Yes. There may be a paid tier later for unlimited trips or family sharing, but the core of the app — saving, loving, composing — will always be free. We will tell you in plain English before that changes.',
},
{
q: 'How is this different from Google Maps or Apple Maps?',
a: 'They show every place; we show your places. They monetise discovery; we don\'t. Their map labels what a giant index thinks is important; ours labels what you loved first, what you saved second, and what we found for you last.',
},
{
q: 'Is there really no algorithmic feed?',
a: 'There is no feed at all. The only places you see are ones you saved or a friend shared. The app does compose trips from your saved places using an AI model — and it tells you which places it pulled from, every time.',
},
{
q: 'What does the AI do, and what does it not do?',
a: 'It does two things: write itinerary text when you press compose, and parse natural-language search ("coffee my friends liked, walkable from here") against your places. It does not browse the open internet for you, recommend strangers\' places, or learn from your behaviour without telling you.',
},
{
q: 'What about my privacy?',
a: 'We collect the places you save, the trips you make, and your taste signals — that\'s it. No ad IDs, no third-party SDKs, no background location. "Forget everything" is a single tap and we keep no copy. Read the full stance on the privacy page.',
},
{
q: 'When is Android?',
a: 'Summer 2026, honestly. We are a small team and we wanted to do iOS very well first. If you sign up for the waitlist with an Android email, we will tell you the day it ships.',
},
{
q: 'How do I share a list with a friend?',
a: 'Tap and hold any list, then "share." Your friend gets a link; they can open it whether or not they have Plinn. If they do have it, they can save any place from your list with one tap — but never your whole list. The notes and order stay yours.',
},
];
function FAQ() {
const [open, setOpen] = useStateL(0);
return (
09 · Questions
The honest ones.
What people actually ask us, and what we actually say back. No hedges.
);
}
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function PhotoBand() {
return (
Somebody's, kept by hand.Berlin · 21:40 · blue hour
