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Waze
Who runs Waze, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest GPS navigation app alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Sygic
Measured from Waze’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Waze01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Waze
Waze waze.com
Get driving directions, a live traffic map & road alerts. Download the GPS traffic app, powered by community.
Wikidata: GPS navigation mobile app
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Waze tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
3 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 8 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Waze
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Waze, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Homepage - Sygic | Bringing life to maps
Redefining the travel experience with the world’s most advanced offline GPS Navigation app for iPhone, Android and Windows phone. Trusted by 200 mil. drivers.
Very close - 02
TomTom — Maps and Location Technology
TomTom Technology for a moving world. Meet the leading independent location, navigation and map technology specialist.
Very close - 03
company owned by System1
Very close - 04
HERE Technologies: The Live Map That Powers Real-World AI
HERE Technologies provides live map data, routing and location APIs, and a location platform that powers fleet, automotive and real-world AI applications.
Very close - 05
Mapbox | Maps, Navigation, Search, and Data
APIs and SDKs for AI-powered maps, location search, turn-by-turn navigation, and geospatial data in mobile or web apps. Get started for free.
Very close - 06
Komoot | Find, plan and share your adventures
Turn your next ride, hike, or run into an adventure with komoot. Get inspired by tapping into shared community knowledge and recommendations, then bring your adventures to life with the easy route planner.
Very close - 07
MAPS.ME (MapsWithMe), detailed offline maps of the world for iPhone, iPad, Android
MAPS.ME (MapsWithMe) are offline maps of the whole world. Map of the USA: New York, San Francisco, Washington. France Paris. Italy: Rome, Venice, Florence, Rimini. Spain: Barcelona, Madrid. Japan, Great Britain, Turkey, Russia, India. For Android and iOS devices.
Very close - 08 Very close
- 09
Ride with GPS: The Most Trusted Platform for Cycling Routes and GPS Navigation
Plan, navigate, and share cycling routes worldwide with Ride with GPS. Our user-friendly app and tools empower cyclists of all levels to explore and modify routes with confidence.
Very close - 10
AllTrails: Trail Guides & Maps for Hiking, Camping, and Running | AllTrails
Explore the outdoors with AllTrails, the best app for hiking, biking, and running. Discover curated guides, trail maps, photos, and reviews for over 500,000 trails worldwide.
Very close - 11
Hiking Trail Maps, Ski Touring, 4x4 Offroad App | Gaia GPS
outdoor navigation application
Very close - 12
Map of the UAE cities: detailed maps with search by address — 2GIS
A detailed map of cities of the UAE: search by address, phone numbers, photos, opening hours and a convenient route search
Close - 13
Strava | Running, Cycling & Hiking App - Train, Track & Share
Strava connects millions of runners, cyclists, hikers, walkers and other active people through the sports they love – all on our mobile app and website.
Very close - 14
Google
search engine by Google LLC
Close - 15
outdooractive.com • Europe's largest outdoor platform | Outdooractive
The portal for outdoor athletes: hiking, cycling, mountain biking, and skiing. With free online route planner and GPS trails and tracking for your smartphone.
Very close - 16
Golf GPS App, Scorecard, Shot Tracking & More | 18Birdies
The #1 RATED GOLF GPS APP. Get distances with GPS, keep score, track shots, and more – all the tools you need to play your best when you're on the course.
Very close - 17
Где мои дети | Скачать приложение для Android и iOS
GPS Трекер для ребенка «Где мои дети» - скачайте приложение бесплатно и будьте спокойны за своих детей.
Very close - 18
MapMyRun — Run Smarter
MapMyRun is the #1 running GPS app with training plans, challenges, and largest database of the best places to run.
Very close - 19
location based freemium app for families
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Waze’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Waze uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Waze adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 40 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Waze’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Hosting
- Google Cloud header via: 1.1 google
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Google Cloud DNS NS ns-cloud-b1.googledomains.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=k0_7da8Nm3RA9ZFG-8Nj2895hmeUdDr3RuP1vQVNyOs
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Apple Business · not on waze.com 9/20
- Atlassian · not on waze.com 9/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on waze.com 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on waze.com 9/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on waze.com 7/20
- Google Analytics · not on waze.com 7/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on waze.com 6/20
- DocuSign · not on waze.com 6/20
- Next.js · not on waze.com 6/20
- React · not on waze.com 6/20
- nginx · not on waze.com 6/20
- Google Tag Manager 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on waze.com 4/20
- Adobe · not on waze.com 4/20