Waze offers a nice alternative to Google Maps, in fact it is now owned by Google. The difference, besides interface, is that Waze works on crowd sourced information. That means if other drivers in front of you are using Waze, their traffic experience will update your route with any backups.

Waze is just one of our favorite navigation apps for iPhone and iPad. We’ve collected all of our favorites here. And if you’d like to see more of our top app selections in different categories, just head on over to our Best Apps Series.

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Here are a couple of our other picks of the best navigation apps for iPhone and iPad:

ETA – The quickest way to navigate to your favorite places

Short for Estimated Time of Arrival, ETA puts the drive time to your favorite places in Notification Center and on your Apple Watch. You can add places you visit often from within the ETA app on your iPhone. Then once the widget is enabled you'll have these shown for quick ...

HERE Offline Navigation – iPhone GPS without the internet

HERE Offline Navigation offers a great solution to downloading maps for navigating to places when you don't have an Internet connection. This is one of the biggest let downs of Apple maps and Google maps, since they do not allow navigation when you don't have a connection. This might be ...