See it in action

Two taps from “Where to?” to a lower-risk route.

A walk through the real app: set a destination, compare the routes, and see which areas Tsamaya kept you out of.

From the latest build

Screenshots from the app

Captured on the iOS Simulator from the current Tsamaya build.

Tsamaya over Sandton, Johannesburg, showing risk zones, safe corridors and a flagged hijacking hotspot on the live map — **The live risk map**. Sandton and Illovo, with zones, corridors and hotspots rated for the current time of day

Tsamaya over the Cape Town city centre with risk overlays across District Six, Vredehoek and the Foreshore — **Multi-metro**. Cape Town, the largest map we run

Tsamaya comparing a lower-risk route against the standard one, showing the time and distance each costs — **Compare before you drive**. Three routes, the real trade-off in minutes, and an honest warning when risk cannot be avoided

Tsamaya mid-drive with the route overview open, showing the safety-coloured route and the full list of turns ahead — **Turn-by-turn, in the app**. The route coloured by risk end to end, with every turn ahead listed by name

Annotated walkthrough

What you’re looking at

The Tsamaya app over Sandton, Johannesburg, with risk zones shaded on the live map, safe corridors in green, and a flagged hijacking hotspot

The live risk map

Open the app and every active hotspot is on the map, colour-coded by severity for the current time of day. Tap the eye to toggle the overlay; tap “Where to?” to begin.

High risk
Elevated
Caution

Tsamaya with the start set to the driver’s location and the destination set to Maboneng Precinct, ready to plan the route

Set From / To, then Go

Your start defaults to your live location; the destination is whatever you searched, tapped or pinned. Swap them in one tap with the ⇅ button, then press Go.

Tsamaya comparing three routes to the same destination: lower-risk at 23 minutes, balanced at 21, standard at 20, with a warning that three high-risk areas could not be avoided

Compare, then choose

You get the lower-risk route next to the direct one, with what each costs in minutes and kilometres. If risk can’t be avoided entirely, it says so rather than pretending otherwise. Drive it in the app, or hand off to Google Maps with the detour points baked in so it follows the same line.

Tsamaya navigating from Sandton to Maboneng with the route overview open. The route is drawn across Johannesburg and coloured by risk, hotspots are marked along it, and the turn list below reads: turn right, bear right onto Maude Street, turn left toward the M9, right onto Grayston Drive, then the M1 ramp and exit 10A onto the M2

Drive it

Turn-by-turn works the way you’d expect: the next turn up top, your speed and the time left. Pull up the route overview and you get the whole drive at once, coloured by risk from start to finish, with every turn listed by name and the flagged spots marked along the way. Voice guidance cycles between spoken directions, alerts only, and silence. There’s an SOS button, and a flag for telling us an area looks wrong.

Honest note on this build

Every screen on this page is a real capture from the current build, taken against the live database. Real map tiles, real risk zones, real search, real routing. Nothing here is a mock-up or a rendering. The map screens wear their night colours on purpose. Ratings climb after dark, so that is when the overlays actually show you the risk data; shot at breakfast the same map is nearly empty, because Sandton genuinely rates low in the daytime. Risk data is curated and improves constantly. Routes weigh known risk, they don’t guarantee safety, and you should stay aware on the road regardless.

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