Map Along – See Every Place in a Video on a Map

See every place in a YouTube video on a live map, synced to playback. History, travel, geography: routes, borders, quizzes.

Watching a video about Ancient Rome, the Silk Road, a road trip through Patagonia or the news from a country you couldn't point to on a map? Map Along puts every place it mentions on a live map, right next to the video, in sync with playback. Click "Map this video" and Map Along finds the cities, battles, rivers, regions and empires in it. As the video plays, each place lights up the moment it's named and the map flies there, so you always know where the story is. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT YOU GET ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▸ Synced to playback Pins drop the moment a place is named. A card shows what it is, its era and a Wikipedia link, and a year badge follows the story, from 331 BC to today. ▸ Click to jump Every place is listed with its timestamp. Click a pin or a row and the video jumps to the moment it was mentioned. ▸ Routes as they happen Campaigns, voyages, migrations and trade routes are drawn as arrows from start to end, labelled with who moved and when. Battles get their own markers with both sides and the outcome. ▸ Borders through time When a video talks about the Byzantine Empire in AD 600, you see the Byzantine Empire in AD 600, not modern Turkey. Empires, kingdoms, modern countries and regions are outlined, matched to the year the story is in. ▸ Videos without captions too No captions? On a paid plan, Map Along can listen to the video instead and map it (uses one extra credit; you see the cost before anything is charged). ▸ Test yourself (Voyager plan) • Video quiz: up to ten questions written from the video itself, each with an explanation and a link back to the moment it was covered. • Blank-map challenge: the labels disappear. Find the video's places on an empty map; the closer your click, the more points. ▸ My videos Every video you've opened is saved in the toolbar popup, with its places and your best quiz score. Reopen a map or retake a quiz in one click. ▸ Take the map with you Export any video as a spreadsheet (CSV), for Google Earth and My Maps (KML), or as a map image (PNG). Great for lesson plans, research and trip planning. Works with history and empires, travel vlogs, geopolitics explainers, documentaries, news reports and podcasts — any video where places matter. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRICING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Map Along is a paid service with a free trial. New accounts get 3 videos to try it, quizzes included. No card needed for the trial. • Explorer — $2.99/month or $24/year: 30 credits every month • Voyager — $5.99/month or $49/year: 120 credits every month, plus video quizzes and the blank-map challenge One credit opens one video, and it's yours for good: reopening, exporting or retaking its quiz is free. Videos over an hour use 2 credits; videos without captions use one extra credit to transcribe. Credits refresh every month and don't roll over. Cancel anytime. Payments are handled securely by Lemon Squeezy. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW IT WORKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Open any YouTube video and click "Map this video" above the recommendations. 2. Sign in with Google (first time only). 3. Press play. If someone already mapped the video, it opens instantly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRIVACY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Map Along does nothing on a video until you click "Map this video". It doesn't track what you watch, and uses no analytics, ads or trackers. To map a video it sends that video's captions (or, for videos without captions, its public link) to our server, where an AI model finds the places. Map results are shared, so a video mapped once opens instantly for everyone. Full details: https://mapalong.app/privacy Map Along is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or Google. Historical borders: Cliopatria (Seshat Global History Databank, CC BY 4.0). Modern borders: Natural Earth. Maps: Mapbox and OpenStreetMap contributors. Help and FAQ: https://mapalong.app/support