waveOut vs Clew Maps
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
waveOut
Navigate your surroundings using immersive spatial audio cues and virtual waypoints. This app offers a hands-free, intuitive experience by guiding you with sound, allowing you to focus on the world around you.
- Audio Augmented Reality waypoints
- Spatial audio guidance
- Hands-free navigation by hearing
- Multiple view modes (cards, map, AR)
- Save favorite places and routes
- Indoor and outdoor navigation
- Explore nearby places
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The world's first spatial audio navigation app - See the world through your ears. Our mission is to make navigation easy for everyone. **Features at a glance: 1. Audio Augmented Reality - Virtual waypoints are placed in the real world around you 2. Spatial Audio - You can hear the waypoints as if a friend was calling 3. Navigation by Hearing - Follow the sounds until the destination. Simple and hands-free 4. Three views: descriptive cards, map view (classic) and AR view 5. Save favourite places and routes 6. Three different guiding sounds 7. Explore nearby places with “Around Me” 8. Navigate indoors as easily as outdoor **What to do -Wear headphones -Start a route -The phone’s back camera must be facing the same direction you are looking at as images of the streets and house walls are analysed locally on your phone to improve localization (data is not stored or processed for anything else). -Follow the audio: no need to look at the screen -To get the best experience, please check out our tutorials **Route planning can be done: -Directly on the app -In your (desktop) browser with the web planner at: https://app.waveout.app/map -Places and routes can saved on your account and can be user later for navigation. ** Help us improve All feedback is welcome! It is the way by which we will improve. If you have any suggestions, questions or need help, please write us at support@dreamwaves.io With your help, we create the navigation of the future! ** Free version and premium features The app has all the features in place for audio navigation and is currently completely free. In the future we will introduce premium features including higher localization accuracy and these will be part of a subscription plan. ** App details Headphones are needed to hear the waypoints. Even though we use spatial audio, any headphone model will work. For the best experience, we recommend open headphones so you are always aware of the world around you. For an amazing experience we will support selected hearables. Stay tuned! ** Behind the scenes An intuitive experience requires that the virtual content is displayed flawlessly. We use state-of-the art computer vision methods to determine the location of the user within the world. We take the latest augmented reality toolkits, global positioning advances and machine learning methods, combine them with some magic and obtain the position with incredible accuracy. **Spatial audio Spatial audio simulates the way people naturally understand sound locations. When a phone rings, or a friend calls, you immediately turn your head. Spatial audio does the same and we use this to help you find the next waypoint in the easiest way. Terms of service: Privacy policy: https://www.dreamwaves.io/impressum.html Website: https://www.dreamwaves.io Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dreamwaves.io/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dreamwaves.io Twitter: https://twitter.com/dreamwaves_io LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dreamwaves Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvX11E-zUioNxhqEl2PLBZg/featured
Clew Maps
This app provides augmented reality indoor navigation for visually impaired users. It allows recording, sharing, and following indoor routes using printable tags for accurate access.
- AR indoor navigation
- Route recording
- Route sharing
- Printable tag anchoring
- Navigation for visually impaired
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Clew Maps is an AR indoor navigation app that allows visually impaired or blind users to record, share, and navigate routes in indoor environments. The starting points for indoor routes are anchored to printable tags that allow users to easily and accurately access saved routes (even ones recorded by other users).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Clew Maps at 5.0 against waveOut's 3.0. Clew Maps also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks). 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.
Clew Maps holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
waveOut ships an update every 5 weeks, Clew Maps every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | waveOut | Clew Maps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 90 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dreamwaves GmbH | Paul Ruvolo |
Customer experience
waveOut
Clew Maps
In-app purchases
waveOut
No in-app purchases
Clew Maps
No in-app purchases








