네이버 - NAVER

NAVER Corp.

About this app

A wealth of information optimized for mobile! Experience the NAVER app, refreshed daily.

The NAVER app offers five spaces tailored to different content types. Your favorite is in “Home Feed,” short and quick entertainment can be found in “Clip,” and “Content” provides news and various reading materials. “NAVER Plus Store” offers a personalized shopping experience, with deals, rewards, and benefits, and “MY” is where you check your activity logs as well as authentication and payments. Download the NAVER app now for your everyday convenience!

1. Browse content tailored to your interests by topic
From sports and entertainment to fashion and beauty, and Health, NAVER continuously recommends personalized content across various subjects at the bottom of the search home.

2. Clip: Dive into the captivating world of short-form content—watch, create, and enjoy!
During short breaks or before bedtime, take a moment to enjoy some clips and unwind. Capture the happy moments of your daily life quickly and easily, and share those precious memories with your close friends. Also, you can collect your favorite clips in ‘My Clip Board’.

3. NAVER Plus Store, where you save more and earn more
A wealth of shopping content with tailored products and offers at the bottom of Home will help you explore and discover the joy of shopping. Experience a unique shopping journey that lets you save, earn, and collect more through hyper-personalized deals that include today’s discounts, various promotions, and trending items.

4. Authentication, payments, and activity logs — all at once in MY
MY brings together your scattered activities, including on-site wallet alternatives, payment solutions, checkout/pre-order lists, favorite items, and saved locations.

5. Make your daily life more convenient with various recognition tools in the search bar
Tap the search bar to conveniently use various search features, including Lens for image-based information search, Music Search to identify songs you’re curious about, Voice Search for hands-free searching, and Around Me for information on nearby restaurants and other places.

※ Supporting Wear OS devices.
Use the NAVER app from Wear OS devices to check information that changes in real-time, such as the weather and stock prices, and use membership, coupons, and the on-site payment feature. Additionally, you can immediately access frequently-used tools, such as weather and Pay, through tiles and complications.
-The weather information is provided only in Korea.

※Details of required access permission
- Location: You can use features, including location-based information navigation and search, and attach your current location.
- Camera: Record Clip videos, add photos, or search for information using QR codes or images.
- Files and media(photo, video, audio): Use files on your device to access features like creating Clip videos and searching for images.
- Microphone: Record Clip videos, search for voices and music, translate voice, and attach voice files.
- Contacts: The contact information stored on your device can be used for features, such as wire transfer, gifting, and address book.
- Phone: Access permission is required to verify the mobile phone number on the device you are currently using when using features such as NAVER certification, login without password, and NAVER Pay.
- Physical activity: Access permission is required to count the number of steps on NAVER’s pedometer service.
- Notification: Access permission is required to receive information on key announcements, events, and promotions, or check the number of steps counted by the pedometer service on the device notification center (Only available on devices with OS version 13.0 or higher).

※ NOTE
For best experience, install NAVER app on Android OS 9.0+. For issues, contact us via NAVER app Settings - Customer Center.
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Contact: 1588-3820
NAVER 1784, 95, Jeongjail-ro, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do

Ratings and reviews

My non-Korean internet was completely fine to create an account but when they told me to log in after email/phone verification, my network is now suspicious. I was locked out. Naver told me to just create a new one. Tried but then I never got the text to verify my number. Tried on my phone through wifi, cell data, on the dekstop, with and without a VPN. Nothing worked. Its unfortunate that everything pretty much gets booked through this app because foreigners can't make accounts.

While the details of the map itself and the real-time subway/bus information warrant 5 stars, the search engine optimization is awful for the English language version of this app in my specific use case. This review is primarily for the English language version, although no matter if I write a location in English or hangul (the Korean alphabet), I keep receiving the "No results" display, even when choosing from Naver's own list of auto-complete options! Furthermore, because phonetization of Korean into English letters can be spelled in various ways, it's difficult to search for a specific place if you're typing in English, which is probably the most common use-case for foreign visitors who are not familiar with hangul. Naver needs to improve their algorithm to allow for variances in the English spelling of Korean place-names. The only way I can get directions for a specific location is if I tap on the location on the map, but that presumes I already know the general location of the place I'm looking for. Without a much better search engine for English users, this app only rates a 2 out of 5 for me.

After submitting the paperwork to Naver for "real name" in support for QR code, I was updated to the latest version which does not have an English setting like the previous version (unless they are hiding it really well). It used to be on the logon page and most of the content was translated. Now, having to press the bird on EVERY SINGLE PAGE is a pain and time consuming. That is IF the page has it. The redesign could be pretty nifty if it was in English but you aren't able to use the new navigation until you figure out what each one is because there is no ability to translate the landing page. I still use it, it just takes me 10x longer to accomplish what I need to do. Thinking about finding an APK for an older version.

What’s new

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