# The Explore tab

> Source: https://help.getplannery.com/finding-places/the-explore-tab
> Updated: 2026-09-06

Browse your trip's saved places and destination guides on one map, filter by city or type, sort by what's nearest, and pull the sheet down to see more map.

**Explore** is where you find places to add to the trip you're planning. It shows your party's **Want to go** shortlist, the places already scheduled as **Going**, and the guides for the trip's cities — all on one map, with a list sheet you can drag up and down over it.

## Opening Explore

On a phone, tap **Explore** in the bottom bar. On the web, choose **Explore** from the trip's views. The map fills the screen; the list sits in a sheet at the bottom, and a pill of two segments floats at the top: **Places** and **Guides**.

## The sheet and the map

The sheet rests at three heights: a low peek that leaves the map almost clear, a middle position, and nearly full height.

- Drag the grab handle at the top of the sheet to move it. On **Places** you can also drag the filter row beneath the handle — a vertical swipe moves the sheet, a sideways swipe scrolls the chips, and a tap still picks a filter.
- Tap the handle to step to the next height.
- Pull the sheet all the way down for a full-screen map. On a phone the bottom bar tucks away too.

Tapping a pin opens the same place sheet as tapping its card. The two halves always agree about what's selected.

On the web, a **Map settings** button in the map's top-left corner switches to the **Satellite** style or turns on **3D**.

## Places

The **Places** segment lists everything the party has saved or scheduled for this trip, plus suggestions from the trip's guides.

A row of chips filters the list and the pins together:

- **All** — everything.
- **Going** — only places with a date on the itinerary. Each card shows its **Going ·** date pill.
- **Saved** — only places someone in the party has marked **Want to go**.
- One chip per place type present: **Food & Drink**, **Culture**, **Outdoors**, **Shopping**, **Experiences**.
- **Nearby** — a sort, not a filter. It reorders the whole list by distance from where you're standing. The first tap asks for your location; while it's working the chip reads **Locating…**.

Chips appear only when they'd show something. If nobody has saved a place yet, there's no **Saved** chip.

## How the list is grouped

- **A trip in several cities** gets one row of cards per city. Scroll to a city's row and the map moves there.
- **A trip in one city** gets one row per place type instead. A line above the rows names the city and, when there is one, your stay.
- **With Nearby on**, everything collapses into a single row in distance order.

The map shows one city at a time, following the row you're looking at.

## Guides

The **Guides** segment opens the trip's cities' guides inside Explore. If the trip spans more than one city, a row of city chips at the top of the sheet switches between them. You get the same guide as on the public pages — **Top Sights**, **Neighborhoods**, **Day Trips** and so on — but every card carries your trip's state: a bookmark you can tap, and a **Going ·** date pill for places already on a day. Tap a neighborhood to drill in; the back arrow returns to the city.

## Adding something new

If a place isn't in the list or the guides, tap **+** in the bottom bar to search for it or type it in. An empty trip offers the same thing as an **Add Place** button.