You paste a TikTok or Instagram link into Routely. A few seconds later, a real place shows up on a map, ready to add to a trip. Here's what actually happens in between.
1. Pulling the place out of the video
A travel video usually names a place somewhere in the caption, the audio, or on-screen text — sometimes all three, sometimes none of them clearly. Routely pulls the video's caption, transcribes the audio, and reads any on-screen text, then looks across all three for the name of a specific, visitable place rather than a vague description like "this beach."
2. Turning a name into a real location
A name alone isn't enough to put a pin on a map. "Blue Bottle" could be a dozen different cafes depending on which city the video was filmed in. Routely cross-references the candidate name against real place data to find the specific location the video was actually about, not just the closest text match.
3. Handling more than one spot per video
Plenty of videos aren't about one place — a "5 spots in Lisbon" video has five. Routely extracts every candidate spot from a single video, resolves each one independently, and gives you all of them at once instead of making you paste the same link five times.
4. Review before anything gets saved
Nothing gets added to your trip automatically. Every resolved spot shows up in a review screen with everything selected by default — you untick anything that isn't right, and confirm the rest. If Routely got a spot wrong or couldn't find it, that one's easy to drop without losing the rest.
5. Onto the map, into the trip
Confirmed spots land on your trip's map alongside everything else you've saved — from other videos, from friends, or added manually. That's the actual point: a saved video isn't a bookmark you'll lose track of, it's a pin on the same map as the rest of the trip, ready to sit next to a hotel, a friend's suggestion, or a stop from a completely different app.
If you've got a bookmarks folder full of "save for later" travel videos, that's exactly what this is built to fix.
