Waymap vs Candle

Find your way anywhere, and help others do the same. Waymap is a navigation app for everyday journeys. Plan your route, get walking directions, and move through the city with confidence. Then, when you step inside a Waymap-enabled venue, navigation keeps going. Through buildings, underground spaces, and back outside again. No GPS dead zones. No signal dropouts. No gaps in guidance. What makes Waymap different is the impact of every journey. Each trip helps improve routing, refine accuracy, and strengthen guidance for the next person; including people who are blind, visually impaired, or navigating with other accessibility needs. You are not just finding your way. You are helping make your city more accessible for everyone. NAVIGATE EVERYWHERE · City-wide journey planning for the places you go every day · Seamless navigation across outdoor, indoor, and underground spaces · Step-by-step guidance throughout your journey · Works where GPS and signal often fail BUILT WITH ACCESSIBILITY IN MIND · Designed to support blind and visually impaired travellers · Step-free journey support, including accessible routes where available · Clear guidance for independent travel · Compatible with VoiceOver and TalkBack YOUR JOURNEYS HELP IMPROVE ACCESS · Waymap adapts to how you move for more accurate guidance over time · Every journey helps improve our map and directions for future users · Supporting a future where more people can travel independently PRIVACY BY DESIGN · No sign-up required · Your data stays yours, with no location data shared to external servers Navigation is processed on device WHERE CAN I USE WAYMAP? Waymap supports everyday navigation across several cities and continues into participating venues where Waymap-enabled mapping is available. These may include stations, hospitals, shopping centres, universities, stadiums, and other complex public spaces. If your city is unavailable, let us know you want Waymap where you are, we’re always adding more cities and venues to our map! IT’S FREE TO USE Waymap is free to download and use. Venues license Waymap to offer navigation to their visitors, so there is no cost to use the app. Join a growing community of people navigating the world, and helping make it more accessible with every step.

Candle helps blind and visually impaired people find their way. The app is built for VoiceOver from the ground up: large buttons, clear announcements and vibration instead of looking at a map. COMPASS • Direction by vibration: Candle vibrates when you point your iPhone north or in one of the eight compass directions, and announces it. • Compass to a destination: hold the iPhone in front of you – Candle tells you the direction and distance to your destination. PLACES NEARBY • Explore: cafés, restaurants, pharmacies, ATMs, bus stops, taxi stands, hospitals, public toilets, pedestrian crossings and traffic lights with sound signals – sorted by distance while you walk. • Radar: point your iPhone in a direction and hear which places are there. • Wikipedia: articles about sights around you. YOUR PLACES AND ROUTES • Save favourite places – from your current position or by address search, also by voice. • Walking navigation to saved places, with announcements you choose: detailed or short. • Location notes: leave a hint at a spot, e.g. "stairs after the door" – when you pass it with Candle open, your iPhone vibrates and Candle tells you the hint. Add a new one quickly with a long press on the Candle icon. • Share places as a link and receive them from family and friends. PRIVACY No sign-up, no ads, no tracking. Your places and location notes stay on your device. For maps, places and routes Candle uses open services such as OpenStreetMap. OPEN SOURCE Candle is free and open source: github.com/freegroup/candle Found a bug or have an idea? We welcome feedback – especially from blind and visually impaired users.