HOOP.

Carpooling and scheduled ride sharing in Nairobi
HOOP moves with it.

Point-to-point carpooling — a shared seat, a direct trip, a crew pass or an autonomous shuttle. Every fare is 40% over the matatu, capped at KES 200 above it, a fraction of a private hail.

Request a rideDrive with HOOP — keep 80% of every fare
Three commuters in the back of a car, Nairobi traffic through the rear window
Shared seat
Commuters boarding a van at a roadside stop at sunrise
Crew pass
Rider stepping out of a car on a wet Nairobi street at night
Direct trip
Nairobi street scene at dusk with matatu and traffic
Nairobi, 7am

Ready to travel?

Book a HOOP ride

Say where you are going. HOOP prices every product on that road.

Pick both ends of the trip to see fares — type a town, county or landmark.

Fares stay the same all day — peak traffic only changes the ETA.

Enter your pickup and drop-off — or ask HOOP Brain in a sentence — to see estimates for all four products.

HOOP Crew

Drive your road. Earn on it.

You already make the trip. HOOP fills the empty seats, and 80% of every fare is recorded against your name and paid to your M-PESA number.

  • 80%of every fare is yours. HOOP keeps 20%.
  • Recordedper completed trip, so your share is always traceable.
  • VerifiedID, licence and log book checked before your first trip.
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Kenyan driver at the wheel of his own car on a Nairobi road at sunrise, empty seats behind him
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Explore what you can do with HOOP

Rongai → Westlands, priced by the fare engine right now: seat KES 240, direct KES 335.

All services
Kenyan woman driver with a woman passenger in the back of her car in Nairobi

Lady HOOP

Women riders matched with women drivers — the HOOP team confirms it on every Lady HOOP request.

On every requestSee how
Commuters boarding a van at a roadside stop at sunrise

HOOP Crew

One pass, one seat each, the same van every working morning.

KES 180 /daySee how
Driverless HOOP shuttle on a highway at dusk

Autonomous shuttle

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Driverless shuttles on fixed corridors, priced between seat and direct.

KES 205Details

HOOP Brain

Ask for a ride in a sentence. It reads place, time and who is travelling — in English or Kiswahili.

English · KiswahiliTry it

Safety, built in

Trip PIN, SOS and a verified driver on every HOOP trip — checked before their first fare.

Checked before the first fareStandard kit

Engine estimates for one route, off-peak. HOOP confirms the fare on your call before any M-PESA request.

How a HOOP ride works

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  1. 1

    Request a ride

    Type any place in Kenya. HOOP Brain reads plain text and Kiswahili, then prices every product on that route.

  2. 2

    Get matched with a driver

    The HOOP team calls to confirm a driver, the exact pickup point and the fare, then shares your trip PIN.

  3. 3

    Meet your driver

    Give your driver the trip PIN at pickup, travel, then approve the M-PESA prompt on your own phone.

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Towns priced in the engine
+40%
Above the matatu, capped at KES 200
80%
Of every fare to drivers
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Ride products per route

HOOP is built for all 47 counties. The fare engine currently prices 31 reference towns end to end; every seat fare is 40% above the matatu fare for that road, capped at KES 200 above it.

Built to be trusted on every trip

What HOOP actually does on a trip — not a promise about what might happen.

Talk to the safety team

Lady HOOP

Women riders match with women drivers. Confirm it with the HOOP team on your call.

County by county

Built for all 47 counties, not six corridors — 31 reference towns priced end to end today.

Live map

Every route is planned and priced on a real street map of Kenya.

Trip PIN

Every request gets a 4-digit PIN. The team reads it to you on the confirmation call; you give it to your driver at pickup.

SOS

One tap sends your name, trip code and GPS position to the HOOP team. In immediate danger, call 999 or 112.

M-PESA

You approve the M-PESA prompt on your own phone. Nothing is charged on this site.

Fare breakdown

Same road, three prices.

Ongata Rongai → Westlands, off-peak, priced by the HOOP fare engine.

A seat costs KES 70 more than the matatu and KES 450 less than a private hail on this route.

Matatu
KES 170

Public transport, same route

HOOP Seat
KES 240

Shared carpool seat

Private hail
KES 690

A car to yourself

Engine estimate for this route: 40% over the matatu benchmark, and on a long run the uplift stops at KES 200 above it — the gap never widens with distance. HOOP confirms the fare on your confirmation call before any M-PESA request. No booking is implied by these figures.

What’s moving

All updates
HOOP BrainOct 2026

HOOP Brain now understands Kiswahili

Say it the way you say it on the road — “Nafasi 2 kutoka Githurai hadi CBD saa 7 asubuhi” — and HOOP Brain fills the ride form for you: pickup, drop-off, day and time. English and Kiswahili both parse the same way, on your own device.

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SafetySep 2026

Trip PIN rolls out to every matched ride

Every request saved by HOOP gets a 4-digit PIN. The team reads it to you on the confirmation call, and you give it to your driver at pickup — the hand-shake that ends a wrong-car pickup before it starts.

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CrewAug 2026

Crew Pass: one van, same seats, every morning

Offices of three to six colleagues can lock a recurring morning van with a seat for each person. When someone is sick, their seat stays on the run — no one loses the ride, nobody pays double.

Read in newsroom

What a HOOP week can look like.

Illustrative rider and driver examples — not customer records. Earnings depend on the trips a driver actually completes.

Grace
Nurse, Karen
4:10
new leave time, was 5:20
“I used to leave home at 5:20 for two matatu stages. Now a verified driver picks me on the way past — I sleep thirty minutes more and still reach Westlands before the ward round.”
Nairobi skyline at night with traffic light trails

The road is already happening. Get in it.

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