ALIGN ATL vs WayPoint.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ALIGN ATL
This pedestrian navigation app helps users plan ideal routes through Atlanta based on customizable parameters. It offers features like audible crossing signals, street lights, low crime rates, and sidewalk availability, with conflict notifications and street view imagery.
- Customizable route parameters
- Conflict notifications
- Turn-by-turn navigation
- Street view imagery integration
- Route preview
- Accessibility features
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Plan your ideal pedestrian route through Atlanta with the ALIGN app! ALIGN is the user-friendly route planning and navigation tool with special features that aid older adults and people with mobility and/or visual limitations. Pick your starting point, destination, and most important parameters, and ALIGN will create a route that best suits the options you’ve selected. Parameters include audible crossing signals, street lights, low crime rates, sidewalks, and more. The app will notify you of conflicts both before you start your route and during the turn by turn navigation. Functions: • Set up to five essential parameters and unlimited secondary parameters to generate a route that will meet your individual needs. • See a map overview of the route with indications of where you may encounter the types of features you have identified as conflicts. • Preview the route before you start walking: step by step directions show you where you may encounter the types of features you have identified as conflicts. • Access street view imagery of the portion of your route where a conflict has been identified.
WayPoint.
This navigation app crowdsources information about assistive tools for visually-impaired pedestrians. Users can contribute to and view data on installation and maintenance status, enhancing accessibility.
- Crowd-sourced mapping
- Assistive tool information
- Installation status updates
- Maintenance status updates
- Visually-impaired pedestrian focus
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WayPoint - A Crowd-sourced mapping app to inform installation and maintenance status of assistive tools for the visually-impaired pedestrians
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: WayPoint. at 5.0 against ALIGN ATL's 4.0. WayPoint. also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 26 months). ALIGN ATL's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 17.5). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
WayPoint. holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.
ALIGN ATL ships an update every 26 months, WayPoint. every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ALIGN ATL | WayPoint. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 26 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 140 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Georgia Tech | Seungschik Yoo |
Customer experience
ALIGN ATL
WayPoint.
In-app purchases
ALIGN ATL
No in-app purchases
WayPoint.
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is ALIGN ATL free?
Is WayPoint. free?
Which has better reviews, ALIGN ATL or WayPoint.?
Do ALIGN ATL or WayPoint. have ads?
Which is updated more often, ALIGN ATL or WayPoint.?
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