<Tr> <Th> License </Th> <Td> Commercial proprietary software </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> waze.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Waze (/ weɪz /; formerly FreeMap Israel) is a GPS navigation software that works on smartphones and tablets with GPS support . It provides turn - by - turn navigation information and user - submitted travel times and route details, while downloading location - dependent information over a mobile telephone network . Waze describes its app as a community - driven GPS navigation app, which is free to download and use . </P> <P> The app was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company Waze Mobile that was founded by Ehud Shabtai, Amir Shinar and Uri Levine, funded by two Israeli venture capital firms, Magma and Vertex, and an early - stage American venture capital firm, Bluerun Ventures . Waze Mobile was acquired in 2013 by Google . </P>

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