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Waze is a <span style="font-size:125%">[[How to get the free Waze client|free navigation app]]</span> for your <span style="font-size:125%">[[Client device|GPS equipped smartphone]]</span>
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* spoken turn-by-turn directions
* free map updates you can help make
* destinations search by road and place names, landmarks and Google Local Search
* [[road reports|real-time traffic updates]]
* for [[Countries and Languages|every country and a growing number of languages]]
* [[gaming elements]] for fun
* integrated [[social networking]]


<span style="font-size:150%">Find out how...</span>
-->Waze is a free navigation app for your GPS equipped smartphone. It has the following features:
* to <span style="font-size:125%">[[Getting Started|get started]]</span> using Waze
* Spoken turn-by-turn directions
* to <span style="font-size:125%">[[improve and edit the maps]]</span>
* Spoken street names (Text-to-Speech) {{ref label|a|a}}
* you can <span style="font-size:125%">[[Help Improve Waze|make Waze even better]]</span>
* Real time traffic reports
* the <span style="font-size:125%">amazing way Waze gets better</span> when you <span style="font-size:125%">[[just drive around with Waze turned on]]</span>
* Real time Gas Prices {{ref label|b|b}}
* Toll road avoidance {{ref label|b|b}}
* Free regular updates to the map that [[improve and edit the maps| you can help make]] are installed automatically
* Search for destinations how you like: entire address at once, category, place name, landmark or use the addresses from your contacts
* Integrated destination search: Google, Foursquare, Bing
* Support for apps to insert destinations into Waze, such as Localscope
* Support for multiple [[Countries and Languages| languages]]  
* Gaming elements for fun and integrated [[social networking]]


Like all navigation apps Waze is [[Problems and Issues|not yet perfect]] but we have lots of [[Development Plans|new developments]] coming. And source code and information on changes and how Waze works is available for the [[Technical Information|technically minded]].
<small>{{note|a|a}} BETA: in selected countries<br/>
{{note|b|b}} Toll Roads and Gas Prices dependent on user contribution</small>
 
 
Read more about the amazing way Waze gets better when you [[just drive around with Waze turned on]]
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Latest revision as of 07:58, 21 April 2015

Waze is a free navigation app for your GPS equipped smartphone. It has the following features:

  • Spoken turn-by-turn directions
  • Spoken street names (Text-to-Speech) [a]
  • Real time traffic reports
  • Real time Gas Prices [b]
  • Toll road avoidance [b]
  • Free regular updates to the map that you can help make are installed automatically
  • Search for destinations how you like: entire address at once, category, place name, landmark or use the addresses from your contacts
  • Integrated destination search: Google, Foursquare, Bing
  • Support for apps to insert destinations into Waze, such as Localscope
  • Support for multiple languages
  • Gaming elements for fun and integrated social networking

^a BETA: in selected countries
^b Toll Roads and Gas Prices dependent on user contribution


Read more about the amazing way Waze gets better when you just drive around with Waze turned on