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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.
12 of the 60 sites closest to Waze match.
- 01
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 - 02
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 - 03
Google
search engine by Google LLC
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- 05
Feeld: The Dating App for Open-Minded Individuals
Feeld connects open-minded people exploring love, desire, and alternative relationships in a safe, inclusive space.
Close - 06
Tinder | Dating, Make Friends & Meet New People
With 55 billion matches to date, Tinder® is the world’s most popular dating app, making it the place to meet new people.
Close - 07
Firefox: The fast, private browser that keeps you safe — Firefox.com
The independent browser that has your back. Firefox blocks trackers, has a free built-in VPN, puts you in control of AI, and never sells your personal data.
Close - 08
BAND – The App For Groups
Where Leaders Communicate Better
Close - 09
Datawrapper: Create charts, maps, and tables
Create interactive, responsive & beautiful data visualizations with the online tool Datawrapper — no code required.
Close - 10
Careem | Taxi, Food, Grocery Delivery & More
Get a ride in minutes, order food and grocery delivery, manage secure digital payments with Careem, the all-in-one app.
Close - 11
Visual Studio App Center | iOS, Android, Xamarin & React Native
Continuously build, test, release and monitor apps for every platform.
Close - 12
IP-API.com - Geolocation API
Free IP Geolocation API - lookup any IP address
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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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,213
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 43 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
Sitemaps
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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