Waze, the navigation app that got its start in Israel in 2006, now counts 590 million users around the world, according to Mobile Time. The Brazilian technology outlet reported the figures on Friday, tracing the app's growth from its origins two decades ago to its current global reach.
Mobile Time's report frames the milestone as a measure of how far the service has come since its founding in Israel in 2006. The 590 million figure covers users worldwide, the outlet states.
The report offers few additional details beyond the founding year, the country of origin, and the current user count. Mobile Time does not break the total down by region, nor does it specify how the figure was measured or over what period it was counted. It also does not address the app's ownership history or the course of its expansion over the past twenty years.
What the numbers do establish, per Mobile Time, is scale: an app that began in Israel in 2006 now reaches a user base measured in the hundreds of millions across the globe.
Questions the report leaves open include how the 590 million figure compares with earlier counts and whether the company has released any further breakdown of where those users are located. Mobile Time's article does not say whether additional figures are expected.
