BerlinArea - explore Berlin like buried treasure
The map is open.
BerlinArea is on the App Store. Free, no ads, no account, and it works with the phone in flight mode.
iPhone and iPad · iOS 16.4 or later · Free
A city is not a list of pins. Berlin is layers of history you can stand inside, once you know where to look.
A map, a story, a shortlist.
No account, no setup, no signal. Open the map and start finding the parts of Berlin worth remembering.
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Open the map
A vintage map settles on you and the places nearby, drawn in sepia ink and gold instead of the usual grey grid.
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Follow the markers
Markers cluster by proximity and ease apart as you zoom. Open one to read why the place is worth the detour.
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Keep the best
Save the places you love to a personal list. It lives on your device, ready whether or not you have signal.
More guidebook than map app.
A normal map gets you from one place to another, buried in pins and ads. BerlinArea does a different job: a hand-picked set of landmarks, each with its history, on a map you will want to keep open.
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A vintage treasure map
An antique map of Berlin in aged parchment, sepia ink and gold, with serif place names in place of a generic grey grid.
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Markers that breathe
Landmarks cluster by proximity and spread apart as you zoom in, so a busy city stays legible at every scale.
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Every place has a story
Open a marker for the history and the reason it earns a detour. You get the context, not just a pin on a map.
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A shortlist of your own
Keep the places you want to return to in a personal list. It stays on your device, and there is no account to create.
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Find by category
Browse the Explore screen with live search: museums, parks, monuments and more, narrowed in a single tap.
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Three printings of the map
Dark, Light and Grey. Each keeps the vintage character, so the map reads as well at midnight as at noon.
No account. No tracking. Everything runs offline, on your phone.
Three moods of the same map.
Each theme is a different light cast over the same antique map.
Mitte · Landmark
Brandenburger Tor
An 18th-century neoclassical gate. Once a symbol of division, now of a reunited city.
See the map in action.
Wander the map, watch the markers cluster and spread, and open a place's story when something catches your eye. It looks like an old treasure map, with a modern offline app underneath.
- A vintage map with a live "you are here" marker
- Open any place for its history, or save it for later
- Fully offline, which earns its keep when you travel
Take Berlin with you.
Download BerlinArea on iPhone and iPad. It's free, and the whole map travels with you offline.
iPhone and iPad · iOS 16.4 or later · Free
Found a bug? Tell me.
A landmark missing from the map, a story that reads wrong, a screen that crashes on your phone. Write it here and it gets fixed. Questions and ideas land in the same inbox.
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