what3words: Navigation & Maps

what3words

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About this app

what3words is an easy way to identify precise locations. Every 10ft square has been given a unique combination of three words: a what3words address. Now you can find, share and navigate to precise locations using three simple words.

Easy navigation, simple deliveries and more
Use what3words to:
- Help emergency services know exactly where to find you - especially in hard to describe locations or places with inaccurate addresses
- Plan exact meet-up locations, simplifying navigation for you and others
- Give car breakdown services your precise location
- Navigate to any destination easily
- Save your favorite memorable spots so you know how to navigate back to them - a viewpoint, waterfall or proposal location
- Save key locations, from incident reporting to delivery entrances
- Help people find your business or Airbnb - perfect for travelers tired of relying on inaccurate street addresses
- Help people navigate to accessible entrances

Help others find and navigate to you
what3words addresses are accepted by over 4,800 9-1-1 Emergency Communications Centers from across the United States, helping first responders locate and navigate to you easily and quickly. Businesses and hotels display what3words on their contact pages and booking confirmations - anywhere you would normally find location information: on maps, in guidebooks and more.

Discover your favorite new location app
Popular features:
- Find your current what3words address offline
- Compatible with other navigation and map apps, including Google Maps and Apple Maps
- Save your favorite locations and categorize them into lists
- AutoSuggest prompts you with intelligent suggestions
- Available in over 50 languages
- Navigate offline with Compass mode
- Add a what3words address to a photo
- Wear OS support for smartwatch navigation

More accurate than street addresses, simpler than GPS coordinates
Street addresses and postcodes aren’t accurate enough to specify exact locations - for navigation, deliveries and more. what3words is a more precise way to do so - and it’s also a more accessible way to communicate location information than latitude/longitude coordinates or GPS - in short, it’s a simple ‘geocode’.

Navigate adventures, big and small
Offline navigation and compatibility with your favorite map apps - like Google Maps, Apple Maps and more - make what3words the perfect tool for daily trips and bigger adventures.
- Walking somewhere unfamiliar? Use what3words to navigate to your precise destination stress-free
- Find the perfect camping spot - and remember how to find it later - by saving the what3words location
- Meetups made simple: help others find hiking trailheads, shop car parks, precise entrances and more by sharing the what3words location
- Navigation couldn’t be easier with the what3words Compass, which guides you straight to where you need to be

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Ratings and reviews

I no longer recommend this app to others. When most useful major features were moved behind a paywall and subscription, it lost most value to many users. The cost is now far greater than I think most people who used the excellent older version of the app will find acceptable. The only positive reviews of the app now appear to be less than one or two lines. Detailed comments show dissatisfaction with the new model with limited power. I was very sorry to lose this app from my pool of useful apps.

I work for an organization that does a lot of hiker rescues. a long time ago someone thought it would be a good idea to use this app to simplify the process of relaying coordinates to a large group of people and for a while it worked okay. Now every useful feature has been locked behind a paywall which has essentially made that app unhelpful. Specifically losing the ability to display GPS coordinates.

I love what3words, but the app doesn't integrate with Android Auto, so I don't know how I'm supposed to use it to navigate anywhere in my car. You can send a destination to Google Maps by using the phone screen, but that doesn't work when you're in your car. If you send the destination before getting in your car, it doesn't show up in Android Auto. This is their primary use case and it just doesn't work.

What’s new

what3words is now available for Android Auto. Connect your phone to your vehicle to get started.