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what3words: Navigation & Maps

Navigation • what3words Ltd.
4+ v5.10.5 Recorded price: Free App Store →
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(44,045 App Store ratings)
🏆 Best: #2 Top Grossing (NGA)
IPA Analysis
Technical Specs
Bundle ID com.what3words.ios.what3words
Version 5.10.5
App Store Size 315.02 MB
Minimum iOS 16.1
Devices iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple Watch
Catalog release date 2013-07-01
Latest recorded version date 2026-10-20
Features & Support
Apple WatchVision Pro
Advisory 4+
Languages (61)
English, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Cambodian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Laotian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian Bokmål, Oriya, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Singhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Zulu
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Description

what3words is an easy way to identify precise locations. Every 10 foot square has been given a unique combination of three words: a what3words address. Now you can find, share and navigate to precise locations using three simple words. Use what3words to: - Find your way anywhere in the world using just three words - Plan exact meet-up locations - Help people find your apartment, business or Airbnb - Always find your way back to your parking space - Save key locations, from incident reporting to delivery entrances - Save your favorite memorable spots – a sunset, a waterfall, proposal location - Guide people to accessible entrances - Help emergency services find you You can find what3words addresses in travel guides, website contact pages, invitations, travel booking confirmations and more – anywhere you would normally find location information. If you’re invited to a friend’s home, ask them to share their what3words address. Popular features: - Find your current what3words address offline - Compatible with navigation apps, including Apple Maps and Google Maps - Save your favourite locations, categorise and share them as lists - AutoSuggest prompts you with intelligent suggestions - Available in over 60 languages - Navigate offline with compass mode - Add a what3words address to a photo If you experience any problems or have any questions, email us at [email protected] EULA: https://what3words.com/terms

What's New

Version 5.10.5 2026-10-20
NEW: AI Voice is now available on Apple Watch. Find and navigate to what3words locations just by talking. Pro membership required.
Version 5.10.4 2026-10-09
NEW: AI Voice is now available on Apple Watch. Find and navigate to what3words locations just by talking. Pro membership required.
Version 5.10.3 2026-09-25
NEW: AI Voice is now available on Apple Watch. Find and navigate to what3words locations just by talking. Pro membership required.
Version 5.8.0 2026-06-04
what3words is now available for CarPlay. Connect your phone to your vehicle to get started.

App Store User Reviews

jacobo de la serna 2022-11-29
★★★★★
★★★★★

I could have…but didn’t know about it.

I have just downloaded this app. But I’m writing too say, I need this just 2 weeks ago. I had been visiting a friend who lived in mountains of Northern New Mex...I have just downloaded this app. But I’m writing too say, I need this just 2 weeks ago. I had been visiting a friend who lived in mountains of Northern New Mexico. Only 30-40 minutes from the state’s largest city. But it’s off the grid. I ran into engine trouble on my return home. This stranded me in 18°F weather I was not prepared for. Along a busy road used primarily by long haul truckers moving very fast. I was stalled on the white line of the shoulder. And very much afraid. I had no heat that working and used my battery up with warning lights. My road side assistance could not locate me. I couldn’t reach anyone I knew it was just after 11:00pm. I froze and was afraid till I was rescued by a towing company owner who was almost 2 hours away. Who cared to do whatever it would take to find and help someone didn’t know. I was traumatized by this event. I was also blessed that he cared. If I had installed this app it would have been easier to be found and it would not have taken 11 hours. Cold and afraid with nothing to eat or drink. I have this app now and I to never use it. But I feel better prepared should I need to. Thank you for helping ease the burden of my experience. It’s nicest thing next to being rescued that anyone could do for me. I recommend this app for everyone!
Verticaltakeoff 2022-08-25
★★★★★
★★★★★

Phone app is great, watch app could be too

The phone app is awesome. So useful for many things like food delivery to apartment complexes, meeting friends when no address is available, boat and hiking nav...The phone app is awesome. So useful for many things like food delivery to apartment complexes, meeting friends when no address is available, boat and hiking navigation, locating a parked car and so much more. The Apple Watch app could be amazing with a few tweaks. Currently it’s possible to save a location using the watch but there is no way to view the saved location list. Relying solely on voice search can be cumbersome as so many words sound similar and background noise can be a problem. It would be so useful to have a “saved list” on the watch to pick from. Folders would help with organizing locations. Going out for a hike, urban exploration or jet ski ride with a list of locations, added to favorites in advance on a phone or tablet would be great. The compass navigation would be so handy on the watch. Especially without a phone. A few tweaks on “compass mode” would make a big difference. The heading could be more bold and pronounced to make it easier to see at a glance. Also the distance needs to be bigger and bolder so it’s easy to see at a glance. Currently it shows the destination in bold print in the center of the compass. That isn’t very useful while actively navigating. I would rather have to tap or long press to confirm or change the destination. Overall this is a very useful app. I hope they make a few changes to the watch app and make it as awesome as the phone app.
Minimus inter alios 2019-01-14
★★★★★
★★★★★

Critically Important App

I just told my family members to download and install what3words. Everybody should have it. This app can save lives. Don't get stuck in a situation where you ca...I just told my family members to download and install what3words. Everybody should have it. This app can save lives. Don't get stuck in a situation where you can't communicate your exact location except in the most circumstantial fashion, by numerical coordinates, or by saying what you see around you, or by walking to find the mile marker while other drivers are zooming by at 65mph. What if you are trapped in earthquake debris, or are on a rooftop in a flood, or have lost your way walking in the Pine Barrens like Paulie and Chris in The Sopranos, or had a bad fall while hiking? Three words is all it takes for people to locate you with a precision of a 3x3m square.
Baseballbum 2019-03-10
★★★★★
★★★★★

Great potential, but.......

This app has great potential to get to a much more accurate location than normal GPS, but it has a couple of shortcomings that need to be addressed. First, if y...This app has great potential to get to a much more accurate location than normal GPS, but it has a couple of shortcomings that need to be addressed. First, if you decide to save more than a few locations you will have a hard time finding the one you want since there isn’t any way to sort them. They are just listed in the order you saved them. Until app makers like Apple add 3words to their contact app this is a problem. 3words could at least list them in alphabetical order using the name you set for the location. Second, the voice recognition is useless. I set 3 words to US English and it never locates the correct address. It always finds addresses that aren’t even in the US and the street numbers and names aren’t even close to what I am saying. One other small thing is when I copy an address from Contacts that includes an apartment number or suite number, 3words isn’t smart enough to parse out the apt or suite info so it can’t find the address. I have to edit it out myself manually. Since voice recognition doesn’t work, the app is kind of useless if you are in a hurry. It will also be much more useful if Apple and others add support to recognize the /// as a link so you don’t have to copy and paste the location.
Aviris 2025-09-17
★★★★★
★★★★★

Glad to see it die

Essentially a man-in-the-middle exploit marketed as an app by taking freely available and globally understood location data and turning it into 3Words that you ...Essentially a man-in-the-middle exploit marketed as an app by taking freely available and globally understood location data and turning it into 3Words that you must use their database to decode back into geographic location. No wonder that since it’s launch in 2015 it has been spending about £50 for every £1 they make. Who is bankrolling their losses of £230 million? People who know location data is valuable and hoped users wouldn’t see that What3Words is worthless without relying on accurate map data (whether Google Maps, Apple Maps, Open Street Maps, HERE, etc) and device location (usually assisted GNSS). Either way, it relies on first identifying a location based on geographic coordinates or place name/address. If you have that, you can share that with ANYBODY, not just other What3Words users. I just realized that there might be a market for this method if you want to deliberately obfuscate your location. Otherwise just an attempt to grab money from people who don’t understand how it works.
0011010000110010 2022-07-20
★★★★★
★★★★★

Great product poor marketing

What3words is a great product, super helpful in many situations but, this will not save your life in the wrong situation. If you are in the middle of the Moab d...What3words is a great product, super helpful in many situations but, this will not save your life in the wrong situation. If you are in the middle of the Moab dessert or some other remote location that doesn’t have data services then it’s useless. The marketing claims it will safe your life, but only in the right conditions. Do you have data or voice service, great, you can tell someone, but if you have mobile and data service, then your Google maps works, and you walking directions work and you 911 works. This app is great for non-emergency situations to a point. I think it’s greatest potential is for deliveries, I want my DoorDash delivered to me on the beach where there is no address. That would be great. But stuck somewhere with no data or voice, this app is useless… in these instances, Spot or some other pocket sat com system is the only real option.
whaeveruytres 2022-07-02
★★★★★
★★★★★

Can’t get it to work and no instructions

I installed it on iPhone because of a local news story that local 911 is using it. I can’t get it to work. There are no instructions. It asked me to pick a lan...I installed it on iPhone because of a local news story that local 911 is using it. I can’t get it to work. There are no instructions. It asked me to pick a language, and then I get a blank white screen that says What Three Words. In perfect English. If it isn’t actually supposed to do anything for me it hardly tells me that since there ARE no instructions. What idiots. I sure can’t give 911 3 words if it doesn’t give them to me. ////////////////////////:///// I followed link from news article to what 3 words web site and got a screen that said click on search bar to get three words, unclear which space they mean, I clicked all over the page and nothing happened. /////////////////////////// My guess is this app run by high tech engineers who can’t think and don’t care. Developer any response that doesn’t include a link to the instruction page will be nonresponsive. That’s instructions not a video demoing how blocks on a map correspond to 3 words. You need to grow heads.
lofidelityrockr 2026-05-10
★★★★★
★★★★★

Went from Fave to Nay

Why must everyone put their apps behind a paywall to be anywhere adjacent to useful. In order for me to save favorites anymore, in an app I’ve used for years, I...Why must everyone put their apps behind a paywall to be anywhere adjacent to useful. In order for me to save favorites anymore, in an app I’ve used for years, I have to get a subscription to this map app… what?! It’s bad enough it shows me ads for clearly no reason if I can’t save a favorite place locally on my phone! So this app just lost all usefulness as I can use better free apps that aren’t Google or stuck behind a paywall. This seemed promising with the 3 word navigation, but seeing how no one I’ve ever worked with or met uses this app (probably because basic services like a local storage of locations is free everywhere else and no adverts crashing in for unrelated services) I guess I am over this. I need reliable apps for traveling that don’t put basic functions behind a subscription.
Reitveld 2019-08-21
★★★★★
★★★★★

Needs improvements

This is a very good idea and concept. The app though needs some improvements: 1) A way to actually copy the three words without all the extra text copied with i...This is a very good idea and concept. The app though needs some improvements: 1) A way to actually copy the three words without all the extra text copied with it. Maybe this is in the settings maybe this is a separate ‘copy’ selection. 2) A way to pronounce the three words. Yes there’s a microphone to listen for input but there is no output. 3) selecting neighboring squares around your Geo location is very clunky. The app should have accessed all of the neighboring square data. It should be much quicker than it is. 4) when absolute precision is not necessary, it would be great to have a list of the three words surrounding you. That way it would be easy to find an easy, pronounceable, & fun three word combination. This would be useful for finding a word selection for your house or business when it is acceptable to be off a little bit.
Fitness galore 2023-12-06
★★★★★
★★★★★

Question to the developer

I’m been long searching for an app that routes me back to my home when I’m stuck somewhere while walking/hiking/running. The other day I was running and lost my...I’m been long searching for an app that routes me back to my home when I’m stuck somewhere while walking/hiking/running. The other day I was running and lost my way while going back home. Had to use Apple Maps app on my iPhone to track back home. Will your watch app allow me tell or choose from my favorites and reroute me to my home from where I’m? Also, I wanted to connect this step as part of my workout activity. If these two features are available, I’m sold. For example, Garmin Forerunner 965 does this. Appreciate your input.

Technical Analysis

Package Overview Package analysis available
Bundle ID com.what3words.ios.what3words
Current Version 5.10.5
Minimum iOS 16.1
Package Size App Store Size
Package Metadata 53 / 191 version records
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v2.41.0iOS 12.0+2.11 MB
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v1.0iOS 12.0+38.15 KB
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v1.0iOS 12.0+38.27 KB
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v10.28.0iOS 100.0+38.97 KB
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v1.62.1iOS 100.0+40.95 KB
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v1.5.5iOS 11.0+333.33 KB
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v0.0.32iOS 100.0+41.1 KB
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v1.0iOS 12.0+10.2 MB
UserMessagingPlatform com.google.UserMessagingPlatform
v3.1.0iOS 100.0+40.88 KB
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v3iOS 4.0+4.41 MB
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v1.0iOS 10.0+6.37 MB
Architectures
arm64 arm64_32 armv7k
✓ Swift ✓ Objective C ✓ PIE ✓ Stack Canary ✗ Bitcode
Tracking: Yes
Accessed API Types (4)
UserDefaults FileTimestamp SystemBootTime DiskSpace
Tracking Domains (2)
api-safetrack.branch.io api-safetrack-eu.branch.io
Collected Data Types (14)
ProductInteraction OtherDataTypes UserID DeviceID PerformanceData OtherDiagnosticData CrashData CoarseLocation AdvertisingData Name EmailAddress PhoneNumber OtherUsageData PurchaseHistory
Encryption Exempt: Exempt (No Export Compliance Needed)
Permission Requests (8)
Location Always Camera UserTracking PhotoLibraryAdd Microphone Location When In Use Location AlwaysAnd When In Use PhotoLibrary
URL Schemes
w3w:// fb355132448231992:// com.what3words.ios.what3words:// com.googleusercontent.apps.396367073490-2mj7kb4ro1aobrrmnbik6vlvougrju95://
SKAdNetwork Items: 50
Required Capabilities
arm64
✗ Analytics ✗ Ads ✓ Sign In ✓ App Invite
Project ID: what3words-b1cb8
Bundle ID: com.what3words.ios.what3words
GCM Sender ID: 396367073490
API Key: Client configuration identifier present; value not published.

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248.28 MB 		v5.10.5
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250.37 MB 		v5.10.2
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247.57 MB 		v5.10.1
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246.33 MB 		v5.10.0
App Store ID: 889938968Build: 2 		2026-08-26 06:26:38 Get Version
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223.99 MB 		v5.9.0
App Store ID: 888264686Build: 5 		2026-08-18 08:22:55 Get Version
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194.05 MB 		v5.8.2
App Store ID: 887397384Build: 2 		2026-06-25 04:18:27 Get Version
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194.2 MB 		v5.8.1
App Store ID: 886713092Build: 7 		2026-06-12 06:36:30 Get Version
what3words: Navigation & Maps icon
193.82 MB 		v5.8.0
App Store ID: 886418677Build: 10 		2026-06-02 11:28:04 Package date Get Version
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193.82 MB 		v5.8.0
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193.82 MB 		v5.8.0
App Store ID: 886135831Build: 10 		2026-06-02 11:28:04 Package date Get Version
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193.82 MB 		v5.8.0
App Store ID: 885846051Build: 10 		2026-06-04 09:17:22 Get Version
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179.97 MB 		v5.7.3
App Store ID: 885698518Build: 2 		2026-05-18 04:30:03 Get Version
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179.98 MB 		v5.7.2
App Store ID: 885600625Build: 2 		2026-05-14 06:40:32 Get Version
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179.97 MB 		v5.7.1
App Store ID: 885515579Build: 2 		2026-05-12 10:57:50 Get Version
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180.43 MB 		v5.7.0
App Store ID: 884758502Build: 5 		2026-04-23 08:27:35 Get Version
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205.97 MB 		v5.6.2
App Store ID: 884311397Build: 2 		2026-04-10 08:28:18 Get Version
what3words: Navigation & Maps icon
205.97 MB 		v5.6.1
App Store ID: 884184252Build: 3 		2026-04-08 07:35:06 Get Version
what3words: Navigation & Maps icon
203.9 MB 		v5.6.0
App Store ID: 882435465Build: 10 		2026-04-01 08:20:48 Get Version
what3words: Navigation & Maps icon
189.97 MB 		v5.5.0
App Store ID: 882371064Build: 6 		2026-02-13 03:06:22 Get Version
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189.87 MB 		v5.4.1
App Store ID: 882147115Build: 2 		2026-02-05 05:00:01 Get Version
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189.76 MB 		v5.4.0
App Store ID: 881551541Build: 3 		2026-02-04 04:55:07 Get Version
what3words: Navigation & Maps icon
181.83 MB 		v5.3.0
App Store ID: 880229175Build: 7 		2025-12-08 10:17:35 Get Version
what3words: Navigation & Maps icon
180.34 MB 		v5.2.1
App Store ID: 879284586Build: 3 		2025-10-30 16:44:54 Get Version
what3words: Navigation & Maps icon
180.33 MB 		v5.2.0
App Store ID: 879174112Build: 3 		2025-10-23 15:48:22 Package date Get Version
what3words: Navigation & Maps icon
180.33 MB 		v5.2.0
App Store ID: 878791410Build: 3 		2025-10-24 13:24:34 Get Version
what3words: Navigation & Maps icon
178.84 MB 		v5.1.0
App Store ID: 878317445Build: 4 		2025-09-23 07:09:42 Get Version
what3words: Navigation & Maps icon
178.8 MB 		v5.0.5
App Store ID: 877957968Build: 2 		2025-09-15 11:34:13 Get Version
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178.77 MB 		v5.0.4
App Store ID: 877705204Build: 2 		2025-08-30 16:10:06 Package date Get Version
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178.69 MB 		v5.0.3
App Store ID: 877370177Build: 2 		2025-08-18 09:09:10 Package date Get Version
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178.7 MB 		v5.0.2
App Store ID: 877252241Build: 3 		2025-08-14 11:33:08 Package date Get Version
what3words: Navigation & Maps icon
178.59 MB 		v5.0.1
App Store ID: 876976536Build: 2 		2025-08-05 00:27:24 Package date Get Version
what3words: Navigation & Maps icon
178.61 MB 		v5.0.0
App Store ID: 876680775Build: 14 		2025-08-01 17:25:46 Package date Get Version
what3words: Navigation & Maps icon
178.61 MB 		v5.0.0
App Store ID: 876619798Build: 14 		2025-08-01 17:25:46 Package date Get Version
what3words: Navigation & Maps icon
178.61 MB 		v5.0.0
App Store ID: 876274821Build: 14 		2025-08-01 17:25:46 Package date Get Version
what3words: Navigation & Maps icon
178.61 MB 		v5.0.0
App Store ID: 875877715Build: 14 		2025-08-01 17:25:46 Package date Get Version
what3words: Navigation & Maps icon
163.87 MB 		v4.37.0
App Store ID: 873203606Build: 3 		2025-04-28 12:30:34 Package date Get Version
what3words: Navigation & Maps icon
166.97 MB 		v4.36.2
App Store ID: 872590271Build: 2 		2025-02-18 13:41:42 Package date Get Version
what3words: Navigation & Maps icon
166.94 MB 		v4.36.1
App Store ID: 871918786Build: 2 		2025-01-21 14:37:06 Package date Get Version