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Waze is a free turn-by-turn GPS navigation app with spoken route directions, free map updates you can help make and [[road reports|real-time traffic updates]] from other [[glossary|wazers]]. [[Social networking]] and [[gaming elements]] are optional features.
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We can help you <span style="font-size:150%">[[Getting Started|getting started]]</span> using Waze, show you how to <span style="font-size:150%">[[improve and edit the maps]]</span> and invite you to <span style="font-size:150%">[[Help Improve Waze|make Waze even better]]</span>. Like all navigation apps Waze is <span style="font-size:150%">[[Problems and Issues|not yet perfect]]</span> but we have lots of <span style="font-size:150%">[[Development Plans|new developments]]</span> coming. And source code and information on changes and how Waze works is available for the <span style="font-size:150%">[[Technical Information|technically minded]]</span>.
-->Waze is a free navigation app for your GPS equipped smartphone and provides the following features:
* Spoken turn-by-turn directions
* Spoken street names (Text-to-Speech)
* Real-time traffic reports
* Real-time Gas Prices {{ref label|a|a}}
* Toll road avoidance {{ref label|a|a}}
* 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 with a massive country-wide database and Google
* Support for apps to insert destinations into Waze, such as Localscope
* Support for multiple [[Countries and Languages| languages]]  
* Gaming elements for fun and integrated [[Main Page/Social networking|social networking]]


Waze gets better when you '''just drive around with Waze turned on'''. You don't need to do anything. Read how this <span style="font-size:150%">[[Just drive around with Waze turned on|amazing process]]</span> works.
<small>{{note|a|a}} Accuracy dependent on user contributions</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 16:11, 18 May 2017

Waze is a free navigation app for your GPS equipped smartphone and provides the following features:

  • Spoken turn-by-turn directions
  • Spoken street names (Text-to-Speech)
  • Real-time traffic reports
  • Real-time Gas Prices [a]
  • Toll road avoidance [a]
  • 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 with a massive country-wide database and Google
  • Support for apps to insert destinations into Waze, such as Localscope
  • Support for multiple languages
  • Gaming elements for fun and integrated social networking

^a Accuracy dependent on user contributions


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