Waze Navigation & Live Traffic

Waze

Contains ads

About this app

Always know what’s happening on the road with Waze. Even if you know the way, Waze tells you about traffic, construction, police, crashes, and more in real-time. If traffic is bad on your route, Waze will change it to save you time.

Why Waze?
◦ See what’s happening - Alerts about traffic, police, hazards and more on your drive
◦ Get there faster - Instant routing changes to avoid traffic and save you time
◦ Play music & more - listen to your favorite apps for music, podcasts & more right from Waze
◦ Know when you’ll arrive - your ETA is based on live traffic data
◦ Pay less for gas - find the cheapest gas along your route
◦ Drive with Android Auto - use Waze on your car’s display
◦ Always find the way - choose from a variety of voices to guide you while you drive

Be prepared, drive with Waze!

Ratings and reviews

Offering extensive functionality, this app competes well with other navigation apps. The main differences lie in user preference and GUI design. I encountered two drawbacks: one specific to this platform and another in a different app. Fortunately, one of these issues was resolved in a recent update, improving full-screen map display on larger vehicle infotainment screens. However, one feature that seems to be missing is satellite view. Apart from that, it's a solid choice.

No easy way to just add a favorite location. Other than that, very good. Accurate. As good as Google maps to me. I like how the posted speed limit is on the screen next to your actual speed. Large text is great for android auto, but the Map icons and map text are too tiny, even on my giant screen. No means or ways to save current location to favorites with android head unit in automobile. Press and hold does nothing. No menus or pop-ups appear. .

I like that Waze isn't as flooded with social features as maps is. And I like the speed limit indicator while just driving. But...the navigation is...well...pretty bad. It might work well in large cities. I tried mapping a drive to location that requires driving on ONE long-ish dirt road. Waze calculated a route that was 50% longer than the normal route to minimize dirt roads (the "avoid long ones" feature was not activated).

What's new

This version includes several bug fixes and performance improvements.