Save the place
Search for a restaurant, landmark, park, shop, hotel, or anywhere else worth remembering.
Coming soon to iOS
Remember
Remember
the places
that matter.
Basho is your private place journal — a personal map of where you've been, what you saw, and the moments you want to keep.
Private by design
Your photos
Your map
My Places
24 saved
Maroon Bells
Aspen, Colorado · 3 photos
“Cold morning. Almost no one there yet.”
A journal built around places
Your trips don't need another folder.
Basho connects your memories to the places where they happened, so your travel history stays useful instead of disappearing into a camera roll.
Keep the memory
Attach your own photos and notes so you remember what made the place worth keeping.
See your story
Look back through your places on a map instead of scrolling endlessly through thousands of photos.
Your places
A personal map that grows with you.
Every saved place becomes part of your own map — where you've eaten, wandered, stayed, explored, and want to return.
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Recently visited
Find the places from your latest trips without hunting through Photos.
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Favorites and keepers
Keep the places you genuinely want to remember or visit again.
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Searchable memories
Remember the coffee shop, museum, hotel, beach, or hidden stop from years ago.
My Places
Private travel history
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May 18
The Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL · 4 photos
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Oct 04
Maroon Bells
Aspen, CO · 3 photos
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Aug 11
Little Goat Diner
Chicago, IL · 2 photos
Private by design
Your memories are yours.
Basho is built as a personal journal, not a public social network. Your saved places, notes, and personal photos are for you.
There is no public feed to maintain, no audience to impress, and no need to turn a good trip into content.
No public photo feed
Your personal photos aren't displayed for strangers to browse.
No follower economy
Basho is useful because of what you remember, not how many people see it.
A tool for your life
Use Basho before, during, and after a trip as your own place organizer.
Why Basho
Notice where you are.
Basho takes its name from Matsuo Bashō, whose writing found meaning in ordinary places and fleeting moments.
The idea is simple: places shape our memories. Basho gives those memories somewhere better to live than a camera roll.
An old silent pond—
a frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.
— Matsuo Bashō
Keep the places worth remembering.
Join early access and we'll let you know when Basho is ready for iPhone.