WayBeam

See your way there.

Point your camera at the horizon, and a beacon of light marks the direction and distance of a place you can't see — anchored in the real world, at the real height of the land.

Coming soon to the App Store

WayBeam's AR view: a column of light descending to a gold beacon over a Los Angeles valley, marked 133 W Avenue 45, 0.8 miles away.

WayBeam · 133 W Avenue 45 · 0.8 mi

Why it exists

"Where down there is my house?"

You know the moment. You're standing somewhere high — a trail, a lookout, a rooftop — with a whole city or valley spread out below, and you catch yourself searching the landscape for one particular spot. Home. A friend's place across the valley, hidden behind the trees. The feeling that if you both had flashlights, you might just find each other.

WayBeam is that flashlight. Type an address, pick a contact, choose a saved spot, or drop in raw coordinates, and a column of light appears in your camera view, planted on the exact bearing — and at the true elevation — of the place you're looking for. Not turn-by-turn directions. Just the honest answer to "it's over there."

What it does

beacon
A beam anchored in the world Hold steady for a moment and the beacon locks into place in 3D space — stable, not jittery, pointed exactly where it should be.
terrain
True-to-the-land elevation WayBeam pulls real elevation data, so a spot down in the valley reads as down in the valley. Looking down actually feels like looking down.
offline
Works where signal doesn't Saved places keep their coordinates and terrain height on your phone — beam home from a ridgeline with zero bars.
capture
Photos worth sending Snap the view, beam and all, with a subtle watermark — the name and distance included, or kept private. Your call.

Get in touch

Questions, ideas, or a valley you pointed across?

WayBeam is built by one person in Los Angeles who wanted to know where, down there, his house was. He reads everything.

Say hello