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TuJu and Waze
The government has asked civil servants to stop using Waze for official duties, and has pointed the public toward local apps. This page compares what each product is known to do, without pretending TuJu already matches Waze turn for turn.
Why people are switching
On 20 October 2026 the Chief Secretary to the Government, Tan Sri Shamsul Azri Abu Bakar, wrote that civil servants were to stop using Waze for official duties, with immediate effect. The National Cyber Security Committee, chaired by the prime minister, had taken the decision. NACSA's public explanation, as reported by SoyaCincau, was that Waze collects location, movement, travel, and device information, and that its terms are governed by Israeli law, with disputes under the courts in Tel Aviv. NACSA also said it had no evidence that Waze had actually analysed movement patterns of its users.
The ban, as described, covers official duties. Staff were also encouraged to uninstall Waze and to consider local apps outside working hours. The prime minister, a day later, suggested the public look at TuJu. NACSA named a second local option as well, PINTAZ. This page is about TuJu and Waze, because that is the pair in the headlines. It is not a ranking of every maps app in the store.
Side by side
Who operates it
TuJu is LLM plus Prosignal Consortium, a joint effort since 2022. Waze is a Google product whose terms, NACSA said, sit under Israeli law. If your reason for moving is data sovereignty, that is the distinction the government is drawing. It is a legal and policy distinction. It does not, by itself, make the route guidance accurate.
Account
The tested iPhone build of TuJu required a login, via Google, Apple, or email, before navigation. Waze will route without an account, and keeps saved places and reporting for people who do sign in. A required account is a bigger ask, not a smaller one, if your worry is identity attached to trips.
Traffic
Waze is crowd-sourced. TuJu is supposed to be fed by the highway authority, operators, checked community reports, and roadside devices. LLM has said the point is to supply information rather than harvest driver reports. A public test on the day of the outage could not find a usable live layer in TuJu. Crowd-sourcing has its own blind spots, on roads where few people are running the app. Official feeds have blind spots where there is no sensor, and they go dark when the server does.
Highway tools
Toll estimates, R&R search, concessionaire SOS, and LLM cameras are TuJu's home ground. Waze is stronger, on the public evidence, at turn-by-turn prompts, lane guidance, and simply being usable in a car with Android Auto or CarPlay. TuJu had neither car-screen integration in the October 2026 test.
Price
Both are free to install. TuJu's hoped-for in-app toll payment was not live. You pay the plaza either way.
Which job you are hiring it for
Hire TuJu for the highway information desk, and keep your eyes on the signs. If you are a civil servant on official duty, follow the workplace instruction you were given. This guide will not tell you to break it. If you are choosing for a private drive through a stack of ramps, a vague "keep straight" is a safety problem no policy statement repairs. Follow the gantry, and use whichever legal app actually names the exit, until TuJu's own navigation catches up with its cameras and tolls.
The data argument is not one-sided either. Read the TuJu data page before you treat "local" as "collects nothing". The stores describe location sharing. The in-app notice testers saw was long.