Straight answers.

Yes. Pin where you parked (or use Automatic Parking when your car's Bluetooth disconnects), then follow the live compass and distance back to your vehicle. That includes multi-level garages and large lots, exactly where Maps parking reminders tend to just disappear.

Yes. Beyond find-my-car, DropPin Vault is a spot saver for any place worth keeping: campsites, trailheads, stalls, stand locations, and places shared from Google Maps. Everything lives in a searchable vault on your phone with photos, tags, favorites, and notes.

Maps can remember a recent park for a while, until it forgets, or you switch phones, or it just is not in the mood. DropPin Vault keeps the ones that matter: photo, notes, tags, Favorites. Maps is a reminder. This is a vault.

Embedding a basic map is free. What people actually want next to it (address search, autocomplete, turn-by-turn) runs on paid Google APIs, and that adds up fast. Somebody always ends up paying that bill: you, through ads, a subscription, or being tracked for ads. We skip all of it.

Walking back to a spot only needs a compass and a distance. That is free and lives on your phone.

Want a real map? Tap Show Map on any spot to see it in Google Maps. Tap Navigate instead to jump straight into turn-by-turn walking directions there. Both hand off to the app already on your phone. No maps API bill. No ads.

Yes. Android only.

Coming soon. Follow @DropPinVault on X, that is where the Play link drops first.

Open the place in Google Maps on your phone, tap Share, pick DropPin Vault. The first time, Android usually buries it under More apps because you have never shared here before. After that, it shows up faster. DropPin Vault opens Add Favorite Spot with the place filled in. Add a photo, tags, notes, save it.

Tap the heart icon on any spot to favorite it. Favorites collect in the star Favorites Hub so they are easy to find later. Tap the up-arrow icon to pin a spot to the top of the Vault and mark it Active. Tap either icon again to undo it.

Tap a spot to add notes, photos, or tags any time after saving, not just the moment you first pin it. Long-press a spot to select several at once for bulk actions like tagging or deleting. Search by name, filter by tag, or use the Near Me and Photos filters above the list when you cannot remember what you called that one spot from six months ago.

When your phone disconnects from the car's Bluetooth, Automatic Parking can drop a pin for you. Helper, not a guarantee, phones and battery settings get weird sometimes. You can still Pin or Snap by hand.

Setup: Settings → Vehicles → Add Vehicle (name, color, icon, pick the paired Bluetooth car; pair it in Android Bluetooth first if it is missing). Then Settings → Automatic Parking → enable it. Grant Bluetooth, Location, and battery permissions. Test with Auto-Park Now in settings before you trust it on a real trip.

Save and find stay free, forever, no ads, no catch. If you want to say thanks, Premium is $2.99 one time. Not a subscription. You get Look Packs, plus colors, buttons, splash, app icon, home header name, haptics, and extra widgets.

Nope. Drive backup is optional and only turns on if you flip that switch yourself.

On your phone: spots, photos, notes, tags, all of it. We do not run a mystery cloud that quietly collects your stuff. Optional Drive backup goes to a hidden folder in your own Drive, not ours. Details live in the Privacy Policy.