At that time Israeli developers Uri Levine, Ehud Shabtai and Amir Shinar could hardly believe that 5 years later they will be striking $1.3 billion bargain with Google. It may seem unbelievable that 9 years after the first release it holds close attention of users all over the world. Nowadays Waze is the second most popular navigation app (after Google Maps) in the American Apple’s App Store. A custom catchy design is also one more reason to fall in love with this app.
All together they provide users with an exciting and funny experience. Waze is a GPS navigation app with a broad variety of useful and amusing features. In this article we will find out what kind of an app Waze is and how much it costs to build something similar. A bunch of cool things, as it turned out! And the Waze navigation app is one of the brightest examples. “What can you add to a navigation app except for the navigation?” you may ask. It may erroneously seem that we don’t need such a diversity of car navigation apps because they all are quite similar. But is there a place for something innovative? Such apps can suggest the best way to get to our destination point in the shortest time or help us to find the nearest coffee house with fresh pastries while we’re waiting for our friends.
Impressive, right? And this is no accident.
I dare say you will agree that it’s too difficult (or even impossible) to imagine our life without GPS navigation apps, isn’t it? Recent statistics by App Annie only proves it! Just take a look at the download rate of the best 2 GPS navigation apps in Google Play:ĭo you still think whether it is profitable to build a navigation app or not?