Ruiners

Invisible LLC

About this app

Ruiners is a collaborative maps app for marking, sharing, and talking about the
places you love — and the ones that let you down. The name is a joke: a strong
opinion can "ruin" a place, in the best way. The takes here are pointed, not bland.

Think of it as a shared guidebook with margin notes from people you actually trust,
built right on top of the real Google map you already navigate with.

BUILD YOUR MAPS
• Create your own maps — "Best Tacos in Austin," a honeymoon trip, a coffee crawl.
• Pin places any way you like: search Google Places, long-press the map, or drop a
pin at exact coordinates.
• Give every place a category and a custom icon, and give each map its own look.

REAL GOOGLE MAPS UNDERNEATH
• Full map, place search, and accurate directions.
• A "my location" button frames the map around where you are.
• Sort your places alphabetically, by most recent, or by what's nearest right now,
and filter a big map down by category with a tap.

SHARE YOUR TAKE, TOGETHER
• Write a description for each place and talk it through with friends in a
threaded discussion.
• Everyone on a map keeps it current together.

INVITE FRIENDS, YOUR WAY
• Share a map as an admin, editor, or viewer — you control exactly what each
person can do.
• Invite by username, or send a link to someone who isn't on Ruiners yet.

STAY IN SYNC
• Real-time in-app updates when someone adds a place or joins the conversation on
your maps, with optional email and push notifications you fully control.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• Maps are private to the people you add. There's no public feed, and no way to
browse or search anyone else's maps.
• Want to show one off? Switch on a view link and anyone signed in to Ruiners who
has that link can see a read-only copy. Switch it off and access ends.
• Your email address is never shown to other users — only you ever see it.
• Sign in with email, Google, or Apple, with optional two-factor authentication.

One experience across iPhone, iPad, Android, and the web.

What’s new

Ruiners is a collaborative maps app. A map is private to the people its owner adds, and there is no public feed or directory — you cannot browse or search other users' maps. An owner may optionally enable a read-only "view link" for one of their maps, which works only for a signed-in user who already has that link.