Local discovery · reimagined as a compass

Your city has secrets.
Go find them.

One waypoint is a place. Two is a journey. Prefway is the local-discovery app that doesn't just drop a pin — it points you toward what's next, and glows brighter the closer you get.

4cities live & coming
600+local waypoints
1needle, always true
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Backed by local DMOs Merchant-first Runtime city config Powered byPreffinPreffin
How it works

Not a map. A bearing.

Every other app hands you a pin and wishes you luck. Prefway hands you a needle that knows where the next thing is — and a violet waypoint that charges like a watch dial the closer you get.

01 · Open

Pick up the trail

Open Prefway in any launched city. The needle acquires a fix, finds your next waypoint, and starts pointing. No feeds, no doomscroll — just a direction.

02 · Follow

Feel it get warmer

The waypoint's violet lume brightens as you close in and the needle stops trembling. You know you're nearly there before a single number changes.

03 · Arrive

Earn the gold

Check in on the mark and the waypoint turns gold — earned, never decorative. Collect badges, unlock the next stop, and let the city keep score.

The instrument

The mark reports on your journey.

Nothing here is keyframed. A magnetised needle and a charging violet waypoint mean the logo isn't decoration — it's a live read-out of how close you are. Watch it move through the four states.

01 · Seek

No field

The needle drifts. Nothing glows — it genuinely can't find anything yet.

02 · Far

Weak field

Holds the bearing but hunts around it. The violet is barely lit.

03 · Close

Rigid, burning

The tremble is gone; the violet glows hot. You're nearly there.

04 · Arrive

Gold, quietly

The waypoint goes gold and holds. The screen celebrates — not the mark.

Explore the full brand & motion system →

Cities

One app. Your whole city.

Switch the city and the code, subdomain and content change — the mark, motion and palette never do. Have Prefway from anywhere, open it here, and you're in their pocket on arrival.

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St. Louis

“Meet me under the Arch.”

Energizer Park, the Brickline, Festival of Nations, Zoofari. First deployment — the model gets proved here.

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For partners

Serious infrastructure, quietly.

Prefway reads as a compass to explorers and as dependable plumbing to the people who fund it. Same binary, three audiences.

Adventurers

Trails, badges and a needle that turns errands into expeditions. The city becomes a game you already live inside.

Merchants

Show up as a waypoint, not an ad. Check-ins, footfall you can see, and dashboards in plain Söhne — no jargon, no theatre.

DMOs & districts

A funded partner opens a whole city. Runtime config, not a rebuild — the sentence a district contract is written around.

The next stop is
always somewhere you aren't.

Download Prefway, drop into your city, and let the needle do the rest.