what3words

Name: what3words
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.5 (46089 reviews)
Author: what3words

4.5

46.1K reviews

10M+

Downloads

Rated for 3+

About this app

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 entrance.
- 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:
- Compatible with navigation apps including Google Maps
- Save your favorite locations and categorize them into lists
- AutoSuggest prompts you with intelligent suggestions
- Available in over 40 languages
- Navigate offline with compass mode
- Dark Mode support
- Add a what3words address to a photo
- Wear OS support

If you experience any problems or have any questions, email us at support@what3words.com

Updated on

Feb 18, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.

No data shared with third parties

Learn more about how developers declare sharing

This app may collect these data types

Location, Personal info and 3 others

Data is encrypted in transit

You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.5

44.7K reviews

Neil Young

March 29, 2025

Confusing to use. There is no refresh icon. So if you are moving it shows where you were when you opened the app. To refresh, you have to close the app and reopen it! If you save a location, then when you later select it, it should offer an option to navigate there. It doesn't! It opens an edit name screen!!! If you selecte "navigate" you'd think it would offer a way to say where you want to navigate to, so you could select the saved location, but it doesn't. It's just so user unfriendly.

16 people found this review helpful

Oliver Cox

December 6, 2024

It's fine, it works and does the job. But as the top comment says, there's too many notifications. This isn't exactly an app you need to use often, so why do I need a random useless notification every few days? It just results in people blocking all notifications from the app every time.

26 people found this review helpful

Olga Fondrillon

May 8, 2020

This is a good enough concept (though Google already does something similar with plus codes). This feels like it would be better in comparison, but the app is clunky, buggy (search does nothing half the time for no reason) and not very useful, you just end up being sent to Google Maps in the end anyway. The fact that words in one language do not at all correspond to those in others is also annoying and makes the addresses far less useful for memorization.

25 people found this review helpful

what3words

May 11, 2020

what3words is different from Google maps. Google Maps is a tool for navigation, public transport, and looking up POIs meanwhile, what3words is an easy and precise way to communicate exact location. Your feedback on the what3words app will be passed onto our Product team. For more detailed information, please reach us at support@what3words.com.