War & history map videos, made on your phone.

Pick a year, paint the territory, draw the front line, drop the arrows. Mapmarch turns it into a smooth 9:16 or 16:9 map animation you can post to Shorts, TikTok or YouTube. You don't need After Effects or a desktop.

Free to join. We're building it now and will send early builds to the waitlist first.

THE PROBLEM

Map animation tools were built for desktops.

The polished war maps you see on big history channels usually come from After Effects plus a paid plugin like GEOlayers. On a phone, most mapping creators stitch frames together by hand in CapCut, Alight Motion or FlipaClip. And the mobile map apps on the store make travel routes, not borders, fronts and empires.

WHAT WE'RE BUILDING

Everything a mapping video needs, built for a thumb.

Borders by yearStart from a historical or modern base map, then recolour countries, provinces or custom regions frame by frame.

Fronts & arrowsDraw a front line once, nudge it forward, and Mapmarch tweens the movement. Curved attack arrows animate themselves.

Shorts-ready export9:16, 1:1 or 16:9 MP4, with a date counter, captions and a voice-over track that lines up with the timeline.

Scenario templates"What if X invaded Y" and "every year of an empire" templates you can remix instead of starting from a blank map.

Works in the browserNo install. It opens on Android, iPhone, tablet or laptop, and the same project syncs between them.

Your map, your channelExports have no watermark on paid plans, so you can use them in monetised videos. Pricing isn't set yet. Waitlist members get a say.

HOW IT COMPARES

Where Mapmarch fits

Option	Good at	Gap Mapmarch is aiming at
After Effects + GEOlayers	Studio-grade results	Desktop only, paid, with a steep learning curve
CapCut / Alight Motion by hand	Free and on your phone	Every frame is manual, and moving a front line takes hours
Travel-route apps	Plane and car routes	No territories, borders or fronts
Web map animators	Fronts, routes and exports in a desktop browser	Mapmarch puts phone-first editing and Shorts first

The comparison reflects our reading of public product pages in October 2026. Tell us if we got something wrong.

Want the first build?

Join the waitlist and tell us what you make. We'll use your answer to decide which templates ship first.