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Tofu Maps
Create personal maps you can share without accounts
82 followers
Create personal maps you can share without accounts
82 followers
Tofu Maps lets you create personal maps, save places, and share them by link — without signing up. Perfect for travel ideas, city guides, filming locations, or personal collections of places. Simple, fast, and privacy-first.
Tofu Maps
Hi! I’m Ruslan, the maker of Tofu Maps.
The idea came from a simple frustration: I was constantly saving places everywhere — notes, chats, screenshots — but never in one simple map I could easily share. Most map tools felt too heavy: accounts, onboarding, cluttered interfaces. So I built Tofu Maps as a lightweight alternative — something that works instantly.
What I wanted to achieve:
- no signup, no friction
- create a map in seconds
- share it with a single link
- focus on places, not features
People already use it to:
- collect travel ideas
- share city guides with friends
- save filming locations
- keep personal place libraries
This is an indie project, built and designed by one person, and I’m actively improving it.
I’d really love to hear your feedback — what works, what feels missing, and how you’d use it.
Thanks for checking it out, and happy to answer any questions 🙌
Congrats on the launch! Love the simple, link-first approach to personal maps—perfect for lightweight trip curation and sharing without account friction.
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Is there an availabilty of creating an account?
Tofu Maps
@busmark_w_nika Tofu Maps is designed to work without accounts by default. You can create, edit, and share maps instantly, with no signup, no profiles, and no tracking.
That said, optional accounts are planned for a future version — mainly for:
syncing across devices,
managing multiple maps,
and collaboration.
But they’ll remain opt-in, not required.
The core idea stays the same: Tofu Maps should always be usable as a lightweight, privacy-first tool, even without an account.
positioning this as a lightweight, privacy-first alternative to bloated map apps is a great wedge. since there's no cloud account syncing, does the data live entirely in local storage, and is there an easy way to export (like KML or GeoJSON) if I want to back up my list?
Tofu Maps
@samet_sezer Tofu Maps is privacy-first by default:
there are no accounts, no profiles, no tracking, and your data stays under your control.
How data works:
If you create a list normally, it lives locally in your browser (IndexedDB / local storage).
Nothing is uploaded anywhere unless you explicitly share a map by link.
Shared maps are read-only by default and can be protected.
Backups & export:
You can export any list at any time.
Currently supported formats: GPX, KML/KMZ, and CSV.
GeoJSON is on the roadmap, but the existing formats already work well with Google Maps, OSM tools, Garmin, and most GIS software.
The goal is to feel closer to a notes app or a personal library for places, not a social network — lightweight, portable, and fully under your control.