The ride · the walk home · the night in between
Know who is driving, before you get in.
Type the plate and the driver shows a live face, then and there. Then Veriride stays with you: the walk from the rank, a run before work, the night you are late, a word that calls help when you cannot reach the phone. Most of it free.
Every night, not just the ride
Walking home counts too.
Most nights nobody gets into anything. You walk from the rank, you wait at a gate, you sell something to a stranger, you are home late. Veriride is for those nights as well, and most of it is free.
Get me home
On foot or in a car, or a run before work that ends where it started. Say by when; if you have not said you are safe, your people hear about it.
Expected home
The time you are usually in by, set once. Every night after, one tap.
Have someone call me
Your phone rings on its own, with a name on the screen. A way out of a conversation.
A word that calls help
Say it out loud and an emergency starts. It listens on the phone, with no signal.
Meeting someone
A sale, a date, somebody at your gate. A six-character code proves the account is theirs.
Photo of a car
A car you did not book, a plate you want kept. One tap, and it is on your record.
Thirty seconds at the window
Three things, then you decide.
It happens in the order it happens at the kerb. None of it needs the driver to have the app open, and none of it needs you to know anything about them.
01
You type the plate
Before you open the door. You get the name the car is registered to, and whether a person has read that driver’s licence and PDP.
02
They show their face
A photo taken at that moment, not a profile picture from a year ago. If they will not, you have your answer — and you have not got in.
03
It is on the record
Time, plate, both names. Yours to keep, and there whether the evening was ordinary or the one you need it for.
The other seat
The driver is getting into a car with a stranger too.
A driver can ask you to verify as well — before they arrive, from the chat in whatever app you booked with. You open a web page and show your face. Nobody installs anything, and the driver does not have to be on Veriride for you to check them.
It says Driver verified when one of you showed a face, and Both verified when you both did. It never says more than happened.
Getting home
Somebody is expecting you.
Say where you are going and by when. If you have not said you are safe by then — or if you stop moving — your people hear about it, whatever has happened to your phone. The deadline lives on our side, not in your pocket.
Set the night you are usually home by once, and every night after that a single tap asks: Get me home?
- ON FOOT
- Followed street by street, with the way to the nearest police station if somebody is following you.
- IN A CAR
- The plate you checked, the route, and the moment you stop moving.
- FREE
- Always. Getting home is not a plan.
When her phone goes quiet
Somebody knows where to start looking.
A phone that stops answering is a different thing from a person who stopped walking, and her people are told which. The message says where and when, with a map, whether they have Veriride or not. Where she went is kept only while the walk is open, and gone the moment she says she is home.
- Quiet
- “Her phone went quiet at 06:14, last on York Street.” Within minutes, not at the deadline.
- Stopped
- “She has not moved for 6 minutes.” Said only while she is still within her time.
- Late
- “She said she would be home by now.” With the last place she was.
If I go missing
The first hour, ready before it comes.
Families have searched hospitals and mortuaries for seventeen days with nothing in their hands. So she fills a pack in on a quiet afternoon and seals it: a recent photo, what she looks like, where she usually goes, anything a search should know. Nobody at Veriride reads it.
If a walk is overdue and her phone is quiet, her people get a page: the pack, where she was last and when, the way she went, the last car she checked, and what to do first. Which station, that there is no waiting period, what to say. They walk in with everything instead of nothing.
Tell the drivers
Eyes on the road, on her side.
Drivers are on the roads at the hours this happens, in the places it happens, and nobody has asked them. If she said they may, and her people confirm she is missing, every driver on Veriride gets her card: her face, how to recognise her, where she was last seen, and who to call. Never her number, her home or her routes.
Honestly: this is as strong as the number of drivers on Veriride. It grows as they do. It costs a driver nothing, which is why they are here.
When it goes wrong
One button. Or a word you say out loud.
Press it and your people get a message with where you are, updated until you say you are safe. The nearest police station is drawn on the map, with the way there. Sound is recorded and kept with the record.
If you cannot reach the phone, say the word you chose. It listens on the phone itself — no signal needed — and it is never shown to the person you are with. A knock followed by stillness asks first.
NEVER BEHIND A PAYWALL
Your circle
One of you pays. Four of you are covered.
Your mother, your sister, your daughter — each with their own account, their own word, their own people. You see each other’s journeys while they run, check on each other, and raise an emergency for somebody who cannot. A shared medical card, for the night it matters.
Everything it does
On one page, so nobody has to guess.
Green means free, always. Sand means it is part of the paid plan, because it costs us money every time it runs. Nothing that gets you home is ever behind a gate.
- Check the driver
Type the plate, see a live face before the door opens.
Two a month free, then paid - Every car checked
Two a month on the house; after that, every car you get into. This is what paying is for.
Paid - Scan their code
The driver holds up a code; you scan instead of typing.
Free - Get me home
On foot, in a car, or a run. Say by when; your people hear if not.
Free - Expected home
Set the time you are usually in by, once. Every night, one tap.
Free - When the phone goes quiet
Your people are told where and when, within minutes.
Free - If I go missing
A sealed pack, opened for your people only when it is needed.
Free - Tell the drivers
Drivers on Veriride get your card if your people confirm.
Free - Emergency
One press: your people, your position, the way to the police.
Free, always - A word that calls help
Say it and an emergency starts. No signal needed.
Paid - The recorder
Sound kept with the record, from thirty seconds before.
Paid - A knock, not a fall
A hard knock then stillness asks first, then calls.
Free - Have someone call me
Your phone rings on its own, with a name. A way out.
Free - Meeting someone
A sale, a date, the gate. A code proves the account is theirs.
Free - Photo of a car
A car you did not book, kept, sent with an emergency.
Free - Share me for two hours
Your circle sees where you are, then it stops on its own.
Free - Your circle
One pays, four are covered, each with their own word.
R79 p/m - Around here
What was reported near a corner, as counts, never a colour.
Free - The record
Every check and every walk, signed, yours to keep.
Free - Nightfall
Dark on purpose, so a phone at the window lights nothing.
Free - For drivers, everything
Ask the passenger, know the pickup, your record, the word.
Free, always
What it costs
Two checks a month, on the house.
Everything that gets you home is free and stays free. Paying buys every car checked, the word that calls help, and the recorder — the parts that cost us money every time they run.
EVERY MONTH
Check every car you get into.
Unlimited checks, the safe word, the recorder, the route to the police. For anyone who rides every week. Stop any time.
A YEAR
R29 a month, paid once.
SEVEN DAYS, ONCE
A weekend away, or a visitor. Nothing renews.
- Every emergency
- Get me home
- The map and the way to the police
- Have someone call me
- Two checks a month
- Drivers: everything
Plainly
What this does not do.
It cannot verify a stranger who is not here
If somebody will not show a face, the app says exactly that. It does not invent a green tick to fill the space.
It is not a background check
A verified driver is one whose documents we have seen and whose face matched tonight. That is a smaller claim than “safe”, and we will not make the bigger one.
It does not keep your face
The face shown at a check is deleted when the ride ends. A safety app has no business building a database of faces.
Built in South Africa, for getting into cars here.
Android first, on Google Play. No card to start. Your number is your account — no email needed.
Who is coming
for you, Naledi?