Navu

Every maps app asks what’s fastest.
This one asks what’s calmer.

Navu compares walking routes, ride pickup spots and subway exits using police reports that cities already publish. Then it tells you why it chose what it chose.

2.2M NYPD reports,
2022–2025
294,700 SFPD reports,
2022–2026
2 Cities
Choose a route 4 routes
21 min1.2 km · 10% less exposure than the fastest
Safest
20 min1.2 km · the quickest way
Fastest
21 min1.3 km · 5% less exposure than the fastest
Similar

Why this route. Takes Lafayette St instead of Broadway: 296 reported incidents nearby at night, compared with 440. Adds 1 min.

The bar shows exposure: reports weighted by how close they are to your path, how recent they are and how serious. A route can have more reports and still have lower exposure.

One trip, three moments nobody covers

Getting somewhere at night isn’t one decision. It’s where you stand waiting, which way you walk, and which exit you come up from.

  1. Before the ride

    Where to stand

    Before you book an Uber, Lyft or Waymo, Navu compares every street corner and stretch of curb within a two-minute walk, then recommends three. One tap opens Uber with the pickup pin already placed.

    • Open businesses, checked at the hour you’re standing there
    • Subway entrances and corners a driver can actually find
    • Reported incidents near the spot, and along the walk to it

    Pickup spots near you

    • 1 On East 12th Street, between Avenue A and Avenue B 65 m walk, about 1 min · fewer reported incidents than where you are now · 5+ places open nearby
    • 2 Corner of Avenue A & East 13th Street 24 m walk, about 1 min · 2 places open nearby · subway entrance
    • 3 Where you are now No walk needed
  2. The walk

    Which way to go

    Up to four genuinely different walking routes, drawn together so you can see the trade-off rather than being handed one answer. Turn-by-turn voice directions follow, built to keep working when phone GPS gets patchy.

    • Every route scored on reported incidents near the path
    • A plain-language reason for the recommendation
    • The map turns dark after sunset where you are

    Also on the walk

    • · Take me home Save your address once, then one tap routes you back. It never leaves your phone.
    • · 911 Opens your dialer with the number filled in, so an accidental tap never places a call.
  3. Coming out the other end

    Which exit to take

    Big stations have exits on completely different corners, and nothing tells you which one to use. Search any station and Navu shows every entrance, named by the exact corner it sits on.

    • Ranked by what’s around each entrance right now
    • Which are exit only, which have elevators
    • Best exit for where you’re heading, or best entrance from here

    14 St–Union Sq entrances

    • 1 Northeast corner of Union Square East & East 16th Street Entry and exit · fewest reported incidents around it
    • 2 Southwest corner of Broadway & East 14th Street Entry and exit · elevator
    • 3 East 14th Street, between 4th Avenue and Irving Place Exit only

Watch it work

A real recording, no edits. One minute, start to finish, on a phone in New York and then the same app in San Francisco.

  1. The walk. Four routes between the same two points, and the reason the top one won.
  2. The pickup. Three curbs compared within a two-minute walk, with Uber one tap away.
  3. The station. Every entrance at Union Square, ranked by what is around each one.
  4. The second city. One tap moves the whole app to San Francisco.