what3words: Navigation & Maps

what3words

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About this app

what3words is an easy way to identify precise locations. Every 3m 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 favourite 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 travellers 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 85% of UK emergency services as well as the AA, and many UK delivery companies now use it for navigation. 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 favourite 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 favourite locations and categorise 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 favourite 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

What a rubbish. This used to be an amazing app, but now you get a massive banner that takes up 25% of your screen and put the subscription right in front of your face, and have the courage to ask me to pay. I thought this was supposed to help people in emergency situations. There's pop ups, and hard to confusing navigation.Glad to know that if I ever need a quick location, I'll have to fiddle around to try and tap on a tile to find the words. It's a joke, it's getting uninstalled.You ruined it!

the drive to try and monetise the system/App has made it virtually unusable to a regular user. Today I find I cannot automatically navigate to a W3W location with a pro subscription. it was only a few weeks ago when I was last able to do that. I like the idea and why you developed still makes sense but not if I need to have a subscription. Hero to Zero!

Used to be great, an excellent utility for emergency use. Now it's stuffed with intrusive click-bait ads of the nastiest types. The endless nagging to update to the over-priced Pro subscription is unacceptable. Goodbye what3words, you were good until you got too greedy. No doubt you'll discover too late that user goodwill is precious. Oh, and why are all the 4*/5* reviews ridiculously short, poorly written and from just one geographical area?

What's new

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