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Community‑powered route map.
Every fare confirmed, every stop pinned, every detour reported makes the next person's trip easier. The map gets smarter the more the city rides it.
Accra · Lagos · Nairobi · Soon
Know your city.
Get there cheaply.
TrotroWays is the first map built for informal transit. Find the right trotro, bus or okada in seconds — and pay an eighth of what a ride‑hail costs. Built with the people who actually ride.
₵5
Average trotro fare vs ₵40 ride‑hail
2.5M
Daily trotro trips in Accra alone
0
Apps that map them — until now
100M+
Daily informal transit users across SSA
01 — The problem
The map ends
where the city begins.
Trotro routes are unsigned, unscheduled, and passed down through street knowledge. There is no official map. No app. No timetable. Millions rely on asking strangers — or paying eight times the fare for a ride‑hail they could not really afford.
- —Asking station mastersThe current default — slow, unreliable, intimidating for newcomers.
- —WhatsApp route groupsHalf-true, out of date, scattered across a hundred chats.
- —Paying for Bolt₵40 instead of ₵5. A real dent in a ₵2,000 monthly income.
02 — How it works
Four taps from lost to landed.
Designed for a 2GB Android, a weekly data bundle, and a city that doesn't sit still.
01
Tell us where
Type a destination — a market, a campus, a friend's neighbourhood. We understand local names, not just GPS pins.
02
We piece the route
TrotroWays stitches together trotros, buses, walking legs and okadas — ranked by price, time, and how often the route actually runs.
03
Ride with confidence
Step-by-step prompts: which station, which mate to call, what to pay, where to get off. Works offline once loaded.
04
Make the map better
Drop a fare correction, confirm a stop, or unlock a new corridor — earn rewards as the city's map gets sharper.
03 — Beyond routing
A quieter, richer way to read the city.
WORKS OFFLINE
Keep moving without a signal.
Routes cache on first load and stay usable in tunnels, basements, and dead zones.
Lightweight
fast on any phone
REWARDS
Explore. Earn. Discover.
Unlock neighbourhoods, collect stamps, and turn your daily commute into something worth doing twice.
EVENTS & POI
What's on, what's near, what's worth it.
Concerts, jollof spots, weekend markets — surfaced along the routes you already take.
FARE COMPARE
Trotro, bus, Bolt — side by side.
Make the trade-off in your head visible. Save your money on purpose.
04 — The rollout
One corridor at a time. One city at a time.
We start with Circle–Madina. Then Accra–Tema. Then Kaneshie–Dansoman. No vapourware launches across a continent. Just trustworthy maps, earned street by street.
- 01AccraMapping now
- 02KumasiQ3 2026
- 03LagosQ4 2026
- 04Abidjan2027
- 05Nairobi2027
- 06Dakar2027
- 07Douala2027
- 08Kampala2027
05 — Manifesto
The cities of West Africa deserve software built for the way they actually move — not the way a planner in another continent imagines they should.
— TrotroWays, Accra · 2026
06 — Early access
Be on the first trotro out.
Beta opens with University of Ghana, Legon. Drop your email — we'll send one note when the app is in your hands.