what3words: Navigation & Maps

Loved the idea behind this, but after checking it out after a couple years I am heartbroken to see it was given the subscription model treatment. I can’t get my friends to even try it now because like me they refuse to use an app that doesn’t even offer a one time purchase to at the very least remove the ads. Gonna be reclaiming space on my phone now (because it’s getting deleted).

The Apple Watch app is not currently displaying the words. Not sure what the problem is?

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.

They’ve even shoehorned AI into this app now. Why on earth do you need AI to tell you your location?

Used to love this app, but it’s gotten greedy. The company’s lost nearly £150 million over the years with almost no revenue, so now they’re plastering the free version with ads and hiding basic features—like sending to navigation or saving locations—behind a Pro paywall. The clever idea is still there, but the desperate money grab has ruined a once-essential tool.

Parking

No more photo mode and cluttered with an ad. Such promise, flushed away.

The location system they promote was useful for non-coordinate trained people, but their system soon progressed into a standard “Corporate Suck” type of business model. I had been successfully using their system; but, if you actually want to adopt this system for more than 10 locations, be prepared for a continuous subscription fee of over $4.50 per month. I don’t need another subscription for an alternate coordinate system when I can catalog locations in Decimal Degrees from numerous other Apps for free. I need to save navigation information for way more than 10 locations. I stopped using what3words.

I come from an emergency service background and this is why too complicated. You could use the military grid and it would be much better than this. This leaves you open to confusion and misunderstanding.

I should have never upgrade the app. Now, after they’ve garnered positive reviews, they’ve went subscription. The only gps app I can use on my iPhone is Apple Maps. If I want to use Waze or Google Maps, I have pay subscription. Classic bait and switch.