NFC + Travel Maps

Pin your memories
to the place
they happened.

Tap an NFC pushpin on your map and instantly relive the trip — photos, videos, the story, exactly where it happened.

Free to start • Native iOS & Android • No credit card

Iceland · Day 4

★★★★★

Tap to revisit
How it works

Three taps from souvenir to story.

No app for your guests, no QR codes, no logins. Just a tap.

01

Stick the pin

Push a Holy Cow Canvas pin (or any NFC-capable pin) into your travel map at the spot you want to remember.

02

Write the tag

Open PushPin on your phone, create a pin, and tap the back of your phone to the pushpin's NFC tag. Done in seconds.

03

Tap to revisit

Anyone — you or a guest — can tap a phone to the pin and instantly see your photos, videos, dates, and notes.

Features

Built for the way you travel.

Native iOS & Android

A real native app with built-in NFC writing — no third-party tag tools required.

Satellite map per pin

Each trip gets an interactive Mapbox satellite map you can zoom, pan, and explore.

GPS-aware photo gallery

Upload photos and PushPin reads their GPS metadata to plot every shot on the map automatically.

Multi-location trips

One pin can cover a whole road trip. Tap a marker to filter photos to just that stop.

Ratings & date ranges

Add a star rating, a date or date range, and an 'About' link to give the story context.

Shareable links

Every pin gets a clean public URL — share it in a text, an email, or write it to any NFC tag.

Partner

Holy Cow CanvasArt for life's adventures.

Holy Cow Canvas is a family-owned, USA-based workshop that makes handmade canvas pushpin maps and personalized wall art. Their travel maps — world, USA, state, national parks — are designed to commemorate the trips and milestones that mattered.

PushPin gives those physical pins a digital memory layer. Stick a pin in your Holy Cow Canvas map, write its NFC tag with PushPin, and the next tap brings the trip back to life.

Visit Holy Cow Canvas

Handmade in the USA · Free personalization

Build your ownTested & working

Make your own NFC pushpins.

A 3D-printable pin design and the exact NFC tag we tested it with. We've done a full write-and-read round-trip from the PushPin app — both pieces are below.

Free STLTested with PushPin

Teardrop Pin Mini

Our compact teardrop pushpin shell, sized to seat a 5 mm NTAG213 FPC sticker. Free download — print in any color, any filament, on any home 3D printer.

Download the STL
RecommendedTested with PushPin

5 mm NTAG213 FPC tags

The exact tags we tested with the Teardrop Pin Mini — tiny 5 mm NTAG213 FPC stickers (pack of 10) that seat inside the printed pin shell. Confirmed: PushPin can write and read these straight from the app.

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Start pinning your story.

Create a free account and turn your next trip — or every trip you've already taken — into a tappable memory.