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LOCAL · LINKTRAVEL MAP SEARCH

Google gets you to the station.
Local Link gets you to the door.

Myeongdong → 명동

In Korea, Google Maps stops at transit: no walking directions for the last few hundred meters. Naver Map and KakaoMap do that part, but they match Korean names. Local Link converts the name you know into local-script search text and opens it in the map locals actually use — in Korea, China, Japan and beyond.

Download on theApp Store FREE · IPHONE & IPAD · NO ACCOUNT
NNaver Map
KKakaoMap
高Amap
GGoogle Maps
Local Link map selection screen showing Naver Map, KakaoMap, Apple Maps and Google Maps options for 명동
HOW IT WORKS01–03

Search with the name you know. Find it on a local map.

01DESTINATION

Pick where you're going

Choose the country and city. Local Link prepares searches that match how places are written there.

02SEARCH

Type the name you know

English, romanized, or local spelling — the app generates the local-script candidates that map services actually match.

03MAP

Open in the right map

One tap hands the converted search to Naver, Kakao, Amap, Google or Apple Maps. No app installed? It opens on the web.

CONVERSIONLOCAL SCRIPT

Names that finally match.

Local map services index places in their own script. Searching “Myeongdong Kyoja” in English gets you nothing on Naver — 명동교자 gets you lunch.

Myeongdong→명동KOREA · HANGUL
Wukang Road→武康路CHINA · HANZI
Ichiran Shibuya→一蘭 渋谷JAPAN · KANJI
Din Tai Fung→鼎泰豐TAIWAN · HANZI
MAP APPSPER COUNTRY

The right map, per country.

Each destination gets the map apps that actually work there, in the right priority — with automatic web fallback when an app isn't installed.

🇰🇷

Korea

  • NNaver Map
  • KKakaoMap
🇨🇳

China

  • 高Amap (Gaode)
🇯🇵

Japan · Taiwan · SEA

  • GGoogle Maps
🌍

Everywhere

  • AApple Maps
SCREENSIOS 26

Built like a field tool, not a brochure.

LOCAL-SCRIPT CANDIDATES
LOCAL-SCRIPT CANDIDATES
ONE-TAP MAP LAUNCH
ONE-TAP MAP LAUNCH
SAVED · ICLOUD SYNC
SAVED · ICLOUD SYNC
DETAILS06

Down to the details.

Works offline

The conversion data ships inside the app. Airport basement? Still converts.

No account, no tracking

Nothing to sign up for. No analytics leave your device.

iCloud sync

Saved places follow you to your iPad — through your own iCloud, not our servers.

Country shortcuts

Curated searches per destination: coffee chains in Shanghai, beauty stores in Seoul.

5 languages

English, 한국어, 日本語, 简体中文, 繁體中文 — UI and conversion both.

Copy & large text

Show the local script full-screen to a taxi driver, or copy it anywhere.

Search without knowing the local spelling.

Free on iPhone and iPad.

Download on theApp Store

Local Link · About this app

Local Link converts place names into local-script search terms and opens them in local map apps.

Platform
iOS
Official download
App Store
Developer
kkiruk studio · 끼룩 스튜디오