Maplure.com, the map animation maker for stories about places
Maplure.com is online map animation software for anyone who needs to show where something happened, how a journey went or how a region changed. You describe the animation in a sentence or build it step by step, and Maplure turns it into a map video you can download and drop into your own edit. It runs in the browser, so there is nothing to install, and you can start without an account.
Map animation with AI
Most map videos start as a plain idea: fly from London to New York, highlight France, follow the Silk Road east. In Maplure you type that idea into the prompt box, and the AI writes it out as a timeline with the camera moves, routes, labels and region fills already in place. It is map animation from AI that you can still edit. Every step it writes stays on the timeline, so you can change its timing, colour or wording by hand. Longer briefs work too: split a script into timed scenes, ask for a three second pause or set the total length, and the map animation generator follows it. Type @ to pick an exact place, so two towns with the same name never get mixed up. With no AI model connected, a built-in parser still understands phrases like “zoom to Japan” or “fly from Paris to Rome”.
A map animation editor with a real timeline
Under the preview sits a timeline that works like the one in a video editor. Each kind of step has its own track. Drag a clip to move it, drag an edge to trim it, and let it snap to other clips or to the playhead. Undo covers every drag, and you can step through the animation one frame at a time. Camera clips show their zoom curve, so you can see where a move speeds up and where it settles. This is what makes Maplure a map animation editor and more than an animated map generator: the first draft arrives quickly, and the details stay under your control. Open the editor to try it.
Routes, regions and moving icons
Routes follow the world as it is. Flights curve across the globe, drives and walks use real roads and footpaths, trains run on railways and ships take real sea lanes. A plane, truck, ship, helicopter or train can travel the route with a solid, dashed or glowing trail, alone or in formation. You can also import a recorded track from a GPX, KML, GeoJSON or CSV file, such as a run, a bike ride or the path of a storm. Countries, states, provinces and cities can be filled with colour or with their flag, given a border that draws itself on, or set apart by dimming everything around them. Captions, callouts, info panels, pinned labels and animated counters put names and numbers on the map.
Map styles, 3D terrain and film looks
Pick one of 19 map themes or satellite imagery, or make your own palette for land, water, roads and borders. Turn on real 3D terrain and buildings, add a sky at the horizon, and tilt the camera to look across a mountain range. A chase camera can stay low behind a moving icon, and a reveal can zoom from the whole globe straight down to one place. Documentary looks add an old paper map, relief shading, dust and film grain. Labels come in 28 fonts, with halos, shadows, glows and boxes.
Export animated map videos for any channel
When the animation is ready, Maplure works as a map video maker right in your browser. Export MP4 up to 4K at 60 frames a second, WebM with a transparent background for overlays, a GIF for chats, or PNG frames for compositing. Choose vertical for Reels, Shorts and TikTok, landscape for YouTube, square or portrait for feeds, or export all four shapes from one project in a single ZIP. Music and voiceovers go into MP4 and WebM files, and safe-zone guides show where an app’s buttons will sit over the frame.
Who uses this map video creator
Maplure is built for people who explain places. Travel creators turn an itinerary into a route the viewer can follow. History channels trace campaigns, trade routes and old borders. Journalists show where a storm is heading or where an event took place. Teachers walk a class through a country one city at a time, and analysts put figures on the map with counters and callouts. Each of these has a ready-made template you can open, change and export, so you can create animated maps without starting from a blank page.
Work from your AI assistant
Maplure Map Animator also connects to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini CLI and other apps that support MCP. Your assistant can build an animation, look at frames from it, fix what it sees and render a finished MP4, so you can make a map animation with AI from inside the chat you already use. The integrations page shows how to connect each one.
Your work stays with you
You don’t need an account to use Maplure. Projects save in your browser as you work, and you can keep a copy as a project file or a share link. Sign in when you want cloud saving, so your maps are there on another computer too.
