Week 444 was posted by Charanjit Chana on 2026-04-27.
Over the past few weeks I began prototyping an app for myself, one that turned Guides in Apple Maps into a usable bit of functionality. As usual, it spiralled into a fully featured app that I thought would benefit more people who are trying to create collections of locations (Guides) and want to be able to do the bare minimum, like sorting and filtering.
Waylist is available in the App Store now, and an update with more features is already pending in the App Store Review process.
Waylist does more than just collect locations, but that's it's core feature. You can send a location from Apple Maps to Waylist or use the Discover tab to do the same with Waylist. Either way, you create a guide and then store stuff in it. It really is that simple.
Where it excels is in organising that information. There are 4 sort options, and each Guide can be sorted individually, and different ways to filter. Right now, you can filter using text or, if you turn a Guide into an itinerary, by day.
I test drove the test on a recent trip to South Wales but found it was lacking some crucial features and actually the terminology didn't work at all so took he opportunity to start from a clean slate and using the first build as prototype that validated the idea.
The rebuild is more organised in its structure and didn't take long, despite hitting a roadblock with CloudKit, and I published the app this past week.
Version 1 had a the basics in place and the next update has a bunch of quality of life improvements and optimisations. I have a long list of enhancements which I'm working my way through.
Like Team Sheets, it's built with Liquid Glass in mind and because I've used SwiftUI and SwiftData, it should feel like an app Apple would build while I hope it fits within my own universe apps I'm building.
The app is £1.99, but I have a handful of promo codes I can share so you can get the app for free, just get in touch and I'll share them if they are still available and you can see the launch video I put together on the dedicated marketing site for Waylist if you'd like to learn more.
Tags: app store, apple, apps, swift, swiftui, Waylist