A small tool, taken seriously
Embedding a map is a thirty-second job that most tools manage to make feel like ten minutes. Maplet exists to fix that.
Embedding a map is a thirty-second job that most tools manage to make feel like ten minutes. Maplet exists to fix that.
Why we built it
Every restaurant site, clinic page, event invite and “visit us” section needs the same thing: a map that loads fast, looks right on phones, and doesn’t require a Google Cloud account to create. The existing generators technically do this — but they feel abandoned: no live feedback, no responsive preview, snippets copied from a decade-old tutorial. Maplet treats the embed generator like a product, not a landing page for ads. Everything updates live, the code follows current best practice (lazy loading, accessible titles, aspect-ratio wrappers), and the three modes — place, directions, Street View — cover what people actually embed.
What Maplet is not
It is not a Maps API wrapper, a tile scraper or a paid “premium maps” upsell. The output is a standard Google Maps iframe — the same one Google’s own share dialog produces — with your settings applied carefully. If you outgrow iframes and need custom markers or data layers, the JavaScript API is the right next step, and our guides say so honestly.
Principles
- Live over “generate”. You should never click a button to find out what your settings do.
- Code you can defend. Every attribute in the snippet earns its place.
- Free means free. No accounts, no watermarks, no expiring links.