About WAY
WAY (WhereAreYou) helps you find your friends in crowded places like festivals, concerts, and city nights out. Add friends with a QR code or share link, see each other on a live map, and never lose your crew again — all without ads, trackers, or selling your data.
Key Features
- Real-time friend locations on a live map
- Find function with private pings — always free, for everyone
- Festival Mode — continuous background sharing for a set duration, up to 4 hours on the free tier
- Ghost Mode — instantly stop all sharing with one tap
- QR code and share-link friend adding, connecting you both ways instantly
- Per-friend privacy controls (sharing toggle, auto-approve)
- Share-code rotation — cut off anyone you no longer trust
- Stranger request inbox — see, add, ignore, or block unknown pings, now showing the sender's name rather than a bare code
- Pin notes, custom emoji pins, custom pin colours, and a 24-hour location trail
- Saved Festival Mode presets and battery presets
- No ads, no third-party tracking, no analytics SDKs
- No account required — just a display name and a random share code
WAY+ (Optional)
WAY is free, and the free tier covers a crew of up to 5 friends with Festival Mode sessions up to 4 hours. WAY+ is a single $4.99 purchase — no subscription, no auto-renew — and unlocks:
- Unlimited crew — no cap on how many friends you add
- All-day Festival Mode — sessions up to 24 hours instead of 4
Everything else in WAY stays free, and safety never sits behind the paywall — locating a lost friend, Ghost Mode, blocking, and every privacy control work the same whether or not you buy it. Already had a bigger crew before WAY+ existed? It's yours to keep — the cap only applies going forward.
There's also an optional $0.99 tip if you'd like to support development. It unlocks nothing — it's just a thank you.
App Information
- Developer: muddermis
- Price: Free (with optional WAY+ one-time purchase, $4.99, and an optional $0.99 tip)
- Category: Social Networking
- Compatibility: iOS 18.6+, iPadOS 18.6+, macOS 15.6+ on Apple silicon Macs, visionOS 2.6+
- Languages: English