Likeways

Name: Likeways
Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Author: Likeways Ltd.

By: Likeways Ltd.

Its how you get there

Features & Capabilities

Tired of walking the same boring routes? Recognised worldwide (FastCo, Wired, The Atlantic, Citylab) as an innovative pedestrian navigation app that gives users control over route selection by recommending more pleasant alternative routes (compared to shortest path). Try Likeways and explore the city in ways you haven’t thought about, it’s not about when you get there, it’s how you get there.

The Likeways application offers a novel approach towards wayfinding to its users. Instead of suggesting the quickest (and often most boring) routes between a point A and B, Likeways generates exciting routes through interesting places instead, respecting the built environment and its venues. Interesting places, such as a cozy coffee shop or a neat art gallery, can be very close by (…like in a side road for instance!) but stay usually in the dark, as long as they are not on the shortest route. With the aim to support the pleasure of walking and exploration, Likeways offers an alternative to its users to discover such hidden gems, so that their paths rather than the destination becomes the reward!

Likeways defines interesting places by their presence on social media. The number of Facebook likes indicates public popularity of a venue, that influences the route generation: The more Likes a venue generates, the more the route gets pulled towards it, hence the more likely it is that the user will discover it!

How it works:

Select what you want to see on you walk: Swipe in the menu (red swipe-button at the right edge of the screen) and select the type of place you are interested in. Types include: 1. restaurants, 2. pubs, 3. shops, 4. museums and 5. art galleries. After selection, confirm and go back to the map.
Define where you want to go: Write your destination in the input box on the top end of the screen and confirm your choice.
Route generation begins (this can take up to 30 seconds, so chill…)
TATA! There you go! The map shows two route options - in grey the shortest route and in blue the Likeway, leading through areas with high density of interesting venues. These venues are marked as pin which can be switched on/off in the menu. (if there are too many venues please reduce your walking distance)
Enjoy the Walk!

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

Likeways Ltd.

Rating:

3.00

(2)

Version:

2.0.0 Last updated: 2023-08-16

Version code:

851757500

Creation date:

2015-11-13

Compatible devices:

Size:

25.54MB

URLs:

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-01

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 828,231 ▼ 5,696

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Developed by:

Likeways Ltd.

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/likeways/id1054718491

User Reviews

All routes report "whoops, too many items," even when the destination is one block from my house. Not nearly ready for prime time. Delete.

by Jo*****, 2016-03-10

What the title says - it just doesn't work. Either too many hits/too long a route or no hits at all. And doing the same search using exactly the same setting actually yields different results (how do you even manage that?). No. If you want to get deliciously, helplessly lost in a big city, just do it the old-fashioned way for now.

by an*****, 2016-03-04

I like to explore cities on foot, and as the premise of the app states, often map apps like Google and Apple show me the fastest route (which is great) but sometimes I want to take it slow and see interesting stuff. I tried it for my neighborhood and it does a decent job. However, there's much room for improvement: 1) the destination you key in can only be fairly close by. Perhaps due to the algorithm crunching a lot of data, it wasn't able to find me a route if the destination is something like 15 minutes away or more. This needs to increase; 2) in the pull out menu, you can only select one type of interest you want to see. You can't select more than one, so if you are interested in shops and galleries, you have to choose which is more important. Or run the algorithm twice. Options are also somewhat limited, should include things like architecture, historical places, greenery, etc; 3) there's an option to add pins of interest, but doesn't let you click on those pins to find out what they are. The pins are overlaid on Apple Map, which doesn't always have a corresponding label underneath it, so you're none the wiser; 4) calculating the route should be faster, or show a progress bar, so impatient users (aren't we all?) won't think the app is broken and quit before calculations can be completed (I would have if I had not read the instructions on the App Store); 5) instead of relying wholly on 'likes' to generate routes, consider also having an input or rating system in your app? I would think the creator would value highly the views and opinions of users of his app; 6) have an estimated walking time based on the route calculated. I know this will be inaccurate as the whole point of the detour is for you to explore new stuff (who knows how long you'll be stuck staring at the shop window you just discovered?) but it's always nice to know how long this detour will take. Sometimes we really just want to take a new route, and don't mind a longer indirect one, but we also don't want to be late for our next appointment.