Scenic navigation for everyday drives — Uncover the places you’d drive past.

WanderWay uses Apple Maps for turn-by-turn routing, so you get the same reliable routing engine that powers Apple Maps. What WanderWay adds is the discovery layer: 24 place categories, Curated Routes, and spoken directional narration that Apple Maps does not provide.

Standard navigation apps are built for speed and efficiency—getting you from A to B as fast as possible on highways. WanderWay is built for the journey: discovering hidden historic sites, covered bridges, scenic overlooks, and state parks along your route, complete with spoken directional narration and Curated Routes.

Walking Tours: plan a 30-, 60-, or 90-minute walk from stop to stop and follow it on foot, with the places along the way.; Sunset Drives: pick a viewpoint, park, lake, or beach, and WanderWay tells you when to leave so you arrive before sunset.; Photo Recap: when a drive or a walk ends, see the route, visit stamps, and photos from along the way. The photos stay on your device.; More places: Zoo & Aquarium, Military History, Sports Courts, Waterfall, Lighthouse, Orchard & Farm Market, and Cemetery. Orchards, cemeteries, and sports courts start off; turn them on in the category menu.; Show on Map: in Where to? and Add a Stop, see search results as pins on the map.; A tidier guidance screen: your arrival time, the weather at your destination, and a rain heads-up share one card, beside a small End button.; Apple Watch: see your next turn on your wrist during navigation.; Cleaner place pages with an easier-to-tap Done button.; Curated Routes: the new home for your Sunday drive. Build a loop or a drive to a destination, from 30 minutes to 5 hours.; Saved When You Start: when a drive or a walk starts, WanderWay can download the route so the sights and descriptions stay with you. On cellular data, it asks first.; Fresher places: places you've already loaded refresh in the background once they're a week old, or when newer place data is out.; Choose your map: Standard, Satellite, or Hybrid. CarPlay uses the same choice.; A new Liquid Glass look for pins, routes, and controls, in light and dark.; Steadier GPS: a brief gap no longer counts as a lost signal, and WanderWay tells you if Precise Location is off.; Now in Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, and Ukrainian.

No. WanderWay has zero ads, zero recurring subscriptions, and zero selling or tracking of personal data. It’s free to download with a 14-day free trial. After that, a one-time purchase keeps these unlocked: navigation on iPhone and CarPlay, Story Mode while you drive, Narrate Without a Route, Scenic Detours, curated drives, offline downloads, and searches up to 40 miles. Nearby places within 5 miles, place details and photos, destination search, and route previews are always free.

WanderWay monitors your vehicle’s real-time heading and speed. When you approach an interesting site, it announces its position relative to your vehicle: “Ahead on your right, Roberts Covered Bridge” so you never have to look down at your screen while driving.

As you approach a place, WanderWay reads a short story about it. Turn it on in Settings › Points of Interest › Narration Length › Story, or tap “Listen to the story” on a place page to hear it right away. With Apple Intelligence, stories are written on your iPhone from the place’s description. Other iPhone models read a shortened description.

Yes, on your iPhone. Each drive you navigate is saved to your Road Trip Journal with the roads you drove, its distance and time, the places you passed, and the states or provinces it crossed. You can show the photos you took along the way, which stay in your photo library, and Share Drive turns any drive into a picture card. WanderWay keeps no location history or routes on a server.

Yes, for the places along your route. You can download the places and descriptions along your planned route before heading into river valleys or remote hills where cellular reception is spotty. Maps and routing may still need a connection, so set up your route before you lose signal.

Yes, on iPhone. WanderWay runs on Apple CarPlay with turn-by-turn guidance, nearby sights with detour times, and drives you can start from search, a saved trip, a favorite, or by voice. CarPlay includes a WanderWay map card on CarPlay Dashboard with Nearby Sights and Where to? shortcuts, Show Route Overview, Hear the Story, a map and turn details in the instrument cluster in cars that support it, and Resume if the car’s built-in navigation takes over. In 2.2, Just Passed and Add a Stop are on CarPlay too. iPad doesn’t include CarPlay.

Yes. On iPhone, press and hold anywhere on the map to drop a pin, named from the nearest address. Tap Search Here to list tourist sites within your chosen radius around the pin instead of around you, use the directions button to route there, or close the pin to return the list to your surroundings. Dropping a pin isn’t available during active navigation.

Try everything free for 14 days first. The trial ends on its own and never charges you. If you buy the unlock and change your mind, refunds go through Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com; Apple reviews each request, and customers in some regions, such as the EU and UK, can cancel within 14 days of purchase.