Wayaroo gives turn-by-turn directions by car, bike or on foot, with lane arrows before each turn and the arrival time that updates as you go. What makes it different is what it warns you about, out loud, before you get there.
The limit for the road you're on where it's mapped, including school zones at the right times, with a quiet tone when you're over. When a limit is wrong, a passenger can tap the speedometer and choose the right one: your app shows it at that place from then on, and Wayaroo gets a report to check.
Whether the boom gates are likely to be down when you arrive, and roughly how long you'll wait, from the live trains.
Spoken before a run of humps, and before intersections with a history of crashes.
Wayaroo learns how long each light usually takes and tells you when it's a long one, so you can relax instead of guessing.
Type your height, length and mass once. Wayaroo checks the route for low bridges and limits before you start, and calls them out 2 km and 500 m ahead. More about it.
Each charger shows its power in kW, its plug types, the number of charging points and the price where it is known. Choose fast (50 kW or more) or ultra-fast (150 kW or more) and the plug of your car, and the map shows only those. In navigation, search along your route for a charger and see its power before you add the stop. Charger data: Victorian Government, Open Charge Map and OpenStreetMap.
Plan a trip and one row shows each way with its time: car, public transport, bike, walking, and a taxi's price where it is known. Tap one: its card, the Start button and its other routes show directly under it.
The bike and walking cards say whether the way is mostly flat, has some climbs or is hilly, with the metres up and down, worked out from open terrain data. The bike card also says how much of the ride is on bike paths or marked bike lanes, from OpenStreetMap. Both are estimates: the road always comes first.
Plan a trip that starts in Melbourne, Dandenong, Frankston, the Mornington Peninsula, Geelong, Ballarat or Bendigo, and Wayaroo shows about what a taxi from a rank costs for that drive: for example, Melbourne Airport to Flinders Street. The estimate uses the maximum fares that the Victorian Government sets for taxis from a rank or hailed in the street, with the day, overnight or peak rate for the time now. Tolls, an airport fee and a card fee are extra, and the taxi's meter is what applies. Booked taxis and rideshare set their own prices, so Wayaroo shows no price for those.
When a drive uses a toll road, the car card says what a car pays: the West Gate Tunnel about $4.26 (more for inbound city exits on weekday mornings), CityLink up to $12.77 for one trip, EastLink up to $8.05. The prices are the ones Linkt and EastLink publish; the toll operator's charge is what applies. Turn on "Avoid toll roads" to see a free way.
One tap sends a private link that shows where you are and when you'll arrive. It stops when you do.
Before a longer drive, Wayaroo tells you if rain is likely at your destination when you arrive. In Melbourne's CBD, tap a parking bay to see the rule in force right now ("2P until 6:30 pm", "loading zone until 4 pm") from the council's sign data; the sign at the kerb always wins, so check it. Tap Parking for car parks near you anywhere in Australia; in New South Wales, Park&Ride car parks show about how many spaces are free now (Transport for NSW, an estimate). Tap the chip again to hide them. And the fuel card says whether to fill up now or wait, from your area's price cycle.
No pop-ups, no banners, no moving weather pictures while navigation is on. The map tidies itself to just the road, the turns and the warnings. Voice prompts come in your language, and you can keep only the warnings or switch the voice off. In Settings you can choose which of your phone's voices speaks.
Wayaroo notices when you're driving and keeps a record of each drive's distance and fuel cost on your phone, so you know what your car really costs. Nothing leaves the phone.
Speed limits come from Victoria's Department of Transport and Planning and OpenStreetMap; level crossings and crashes from Victorian open data; parking rules from City of Melbourne sign data; limits for trucks from OpenStreetMap. Any of it can be out of date, missing or wrong: always follow the road signs and boom gates, and don't rely on Wayaroo at a level crossing. See the data credits.