Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to PlacesAPI
Turn any HTML input into an instant location lookup
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. PlacesAPI launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Algolia Places▲451Intelligent address autocomplete for any <input>
2016 · community.algolia.com · its alternatives →
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We’re thrilled to announce PlaceKit, a worldwide geocoding API and toolkit! It’s the successor of Algolia Places, a discontinued product. Nico (my co-founder) and I worked at Algolia for 3 and 6 years respectively before launching PlaceKit. Unlike big competitors Google Places and Mapbox, it’s a single REST API, with a unique and transparent per-request pricing. PlaceKit combines OpenStreetMap, local datasets and the Algolia engine into a unique sub 50ms worldwide address search. We’ve made our JS libraries from scratch to make them lightweight, customizable, and compatible with any stack.…
2023 · placekit.io · its alternatives →
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Building blocks for creating great search
2014 · algolia.com · its alternatives →
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Build beautiful Search UX in Swift & Objective-C
2017 · community.algolia.com · its alternatives →
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LocationAPI▲222Instantly locate any device w/ WiFi, celltowers & IP address
2015 · unwiredlabs.com · its alternatives →
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Lightweight API service to get geolocation data from IP addresses. - risk3sixty/geoapi
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Give users powerful AI search & chat for your site/docs 🔎✨
2024 · its alternatives →
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The easiest way to add lightning-fast search to React apps
2016 · react-instantsearch.netlify.com · its alternatives →
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Foursquare 11▲270Find the best places everywhere, every time with place pages
2017 · foursquare.com · its alternatives →
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AI copilot for all apps, use ChatGPT without copy-pasting
2023 · ai-anywhere.com · its alternatives →
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Find a meeting point based on place type
2016 · a.placebetween.us · its alternatives →
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Bringing instant search results to 300K+ store owners
2016 · community.algolia.com · its alternatives →
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An interactive search experience for conference videos
2017 · community.algolia.com · its alternatives →
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Free IP API▲83Free, Fast and Reliable IP Geolocation, Countries, Timezones and Phone codes API for commercial and non-commercial usage, Available in JSON and XML formats.
2023 · freeipapi.com · its alternatives →
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I find myself often texting people, "where are you?" so I wrote this little iPhone app that lets me text them a special link. When they click the link, it uses the HTML5 geolocation API to report their location and shows it on a map. http://whru.at/ It's only as accurate as the HTML5 geolocation API, but I've been finding it pretty useful. What do you think?
2012 · whru.at · its alternatives →
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:earth_americas: Geodata API - Get countries, and cities to plug in drop-downs. - shivammathur/countrycity
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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