Maps & Navigation
Wayline: Maps & Navigation
Maps app that paints every street you've walked and overlays real transit lines for nine US cities.
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- Developer
- Slim Geransar
- Score
- —
- Downloads
- 0 ratings
- Age
- Rated 4+
- Version
- 1.0
- Price
- Free
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About this app
Wayline is a maps app for people who like wandering as much as arriving. Its signature feature, Explored Area, paints every street you've ever walked onto a private map, built from your Apple Health history and kept entirely on the phone. Nothing is uploaded. For getting around, it offers turn-by-turn walking and driving directions with a voice that only speaks when necessary, and eight voices to choose between. Subway and rail lines for nine US metros can be overlaid in each system's real colours. Places can be found by describing them in plain words, such as a quiet Italian spot nearby, with ratings, prices and a one-line reason each fits; the keepers go into named collections. An AR beacon floats a marker over the doorway for the final stretch, and there's a 3D city view with a 2D option. The app is free, needs no account, and analytics can be switched off with one tap.
Wayline: Maps & Navigation: the full guide
What the app is
Most maps apps are about getting somewhere. Wayline, from developer Slim Geransar, is as much about where you've already been. Its Explored Area feature reads your walking history from Apple Health and paints every street you've covered onto a private map that never leaves the phone.
Around that sits a fairly complete navigator: walking and driving directions with eight voices, transit overlays for nine US metros in their real line colours, plain-language place search with a one-line reason for each result, named collections for favourites, an AR beacon for the last few metres and a 3D city view. It's free and needs no account.
How it works day to day
On a walk, the first thing to do is open the explored map and see which streets are still blank. Filling them in becomes the point of the walk. The voice stays quiet unless a turn is coming, which is the right call for pedestrians.
For errands it behaves more conventionally. You type something like a quiet place for pasta nearby, get a shortlist with ratings and prices and a short justification, save the good ones to a collection, then follow directions. In a dense block the AR beacon hovers a marker over the right doorway so you stop walking past it.
Why people look for it
The explored-streets idea has a following of its own among people who walk cities for pleasure and want proof of coverage. Most tools that do this are fitness apps that upload your tracks; Wayline keeps everything local, which is the selling point for anyone wary of location data. The transit overlays and no-account policy are secondary reasons a search leads here.
Look and feel
Five screenshots in a maps category means at least one will be the painted-street map, which is the obvious hero image. Transit lines drawn in each system's official colours suggest the developer cares about faithful cartography. The 3D view with a 2D fallback and an AR mode point to a modern, fairly graphical interface rather than a plain list-driven one.
Updates and upkeep
Version 1.0, no ratings yet, a single named developer and only the App Store linked. This is a brand-new app from an individual, and the listing gives no hint of how long it has been in development or how often it will be updated. The feature list is ambitious for a first release, which cuts both ways.
