GlideNav
Least-stressful route selection — optimizes for driver friction, not just speed.
How it works
Enter where you're starting, where you're going, and how you like to drive.
GlideNav takes your route options from Google Maps and picks the one that's easiest to drive.
Open the winning route in Google Maps or Apple Maps, or download it as a GPX file for the navigation app of your choice.
Why GlideNav?
GlideNav started with a simple frustration: the "best" route on a map app is almost always the fastest one — even when it routes you through a nightmare of unprotected left turns, lane-change gauntlets, and complicated intersections to save two minutes.
The idea came from one of our co-founders' daily commute, where he found himself manually comparing three route options every day and picking the one that just felt easier to drive — not necessarily the quickest one. GlideNav automates that judgment call.
We built GlideNav to re-rank the route alternatives Google Maps already gives you and more — not just by speed, but also by driving friction: turns and difficult intersections. We then guide you along the winning route with checkpoints in a Google Maps or Apple Maps link, so you actually end up on the low-friction route instead of getting rerouted back to the fastest one the moment you make a wrong turn.
What we believe
The fastest route and the easiest route to drive are often two different routes, and drivers should get to choose which one they want — not just default to whichever saves the most time.
Who builds it
GlideNav is built by automation engineers with deep backgrounds in software, systems validation, and process control — the same rigor applied to designing systems that have to work reliably, every time, now applied to how you drive home.
Contact us
Questions, problems, or feedback — email us at support@glidenav.com and a real person will get back to you.
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