Two apps solving the same first problem
Both apps start in the same place. You are scrolling, you see something worth remembering, and the platform's own bookmark folder is where it goes to die.
Both fix that with the share sheet. You send a post to the app, it reads the content, and the thing inside it becomes something you can find again. From there the two diverge, and the difference is scope.
Stasht saves everything. Plotline saves travel.
What Stasht does
Stasht takes posts, screenshots and links from Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, Pinterest, Reddit and the open web, and turns what is inside them into searchable cards. Places, dates, recipes, products and plain text all get pulled out.
Restaurants and places land on a map. Events sync to your calendar. It will remind you when it is time to visit something you saved, and it sends a weekly roundup of what you have collected.
It runs on iOS and Android, with Chrome and Safari extensions for saving while you browse and for bulk importing. It is free.
That is a genuinely good product, and the breadth is the point. If your saved folder is a mix of recipes, a jacket you want, a gig in March and a bar in Mexico City, Stasht is built for exactly that mess.
What Plotline does
Plotline only does travel, and goes deeper because of it.
You share a reel, a TikTok, a YouTube video, a Google Maps list or any link, and every place in it gets extracted and pinned to your travel map with the creator's tip kept alongside, so the pin remembers why it is there. Places get sorted into travel categories: eat, brew, sip, explore, vibe, stay, shop, go, party. You can filter a city by those, and by the platform a place came from.
Then it builds the trip. Give it a destination, dates and a pace, and it turns your saved places into a routed day-by-day itinerary, grouping what sits near each other and anchoring days around where you are staying. Trips can be planned with friends in real time, with editor and viewer roles.
Side by side
| Stasht | Plotline | |
|---|---|---|
| Extracts places from TikTok and Reels | Yes | Yes |
| Map of saved places | Yes | Yes |
| Saves recipes, products, events | Yes | No, travel only |
| Keeps the creator's tip with the place | Not stated | Yes |
| Travel categories and filters | Basic | Nine categories, plus vibe and source |
| Day-by-day routed itinerary | No | Yes, 1 to 14 days |
| Plan a trip with friends live | Not stated | Yes, editor and viewer roles |
| Calendar sync and reminders | Yes | No |
| Browser extension | Chrome and Safari | No |
| Platforms | iOS, Android, desktop | iPhone, Android on a waitlist |
| Price | Free | Free, Premiere from $9.99/month |
Where Stasht is the better answer
Three cases, and they are real.
**You save more than travel.** If half of what you keep is recipes and products, a travel app will annoy you. Stasht is built to hold all of it in one place.
**You are on Android or you save from a laptop.** Stasht ships on Android and has browser extensions. Plotline is iPhone only right now, with an Android waitlist, and there is no browser extension. That is a straightforward gap on our side.
**You want to spend nothing.** Stasht is free across the board. Plotline's free tier is real and covers the full map, categories, Collections, planning a trip with friends and your first trip plan, but there is a daily cap on saves, and unlimited plans need Premiere at $9.99 a month.
Where Plotline is the better answer
**You are planning an actual trip, not just collecting.** A map of pins is where Stasht finishes and where Plotline starts. Turning eighteen scattered places into five sensible days is the work, and it is the part Plotline automates.
**You want to know why you saved something.** Six months after you save a bakery in Lisbon, the useful part is not the pin. It is the line about the custard tarts coming out at ten. Plotline keeps that attached.
**You are going with other people.** Co-editing a trip live, with roles, is free in Plotline.
What happens to one saved reel
The clearest way to see the difference is to follow a single post through both apps.
Say you save a reel about a day in Mexico City. It names five places: a bakery in Roma Norte, a taqueria, a museum, a rooftop bar and a market.
In Stasht, that becomes cards. The places land on a map, the text is searchable, and if the reel mentioned a date you get a calendar entry. Later, when you are near one of them, it can remind you. That is a good outcome, and for a lot of people it is the whole job.
In Plotline, the five places are pinned individually with categories applied, so the bakery is filed under brew, the taqueria under eat and the market under shop. Each pin carries what the creator said about it, so the taqueria pin remembers the al pastor is carved off the trompo and the queue is worst at nine. When you plan the trip, those five sit alongside everything else you saved for Mexico City, and the planner groups them by which ones are close enough to do in one afternoon.
The distinction is what happens after the save. Stasht is optimised for finding the thing again. Plotline is optimised for turning forty of them into five days.
The honest summary
Stasht is a better bookmark manager. Plotline is a better trip planner. If your problem is that everything you save is scattered across six apps, take Stasht. If your problem is that you have forty saved places for Japan and three weeks to turn them into an itinerary, take Plotline.
There is nothing stopping you running both, and if you already have a pile of saves in Google Maps lists, Plotline will take the whole list in one share.