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.

Screenshots

Screenshots from the app

Captured on the iOS Simulator, July and September 2026.

Tsamaya over Sandton, Johannesburg, showing risk zones, checked 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 fastest one on a Kempton Park to Mall of Africa drive, each option graded and showing how many high-risk areas it passes — **Compare before you drive**. Kempton Park to Mall of Africa: the same 25 minutes, half a kilometre shorter, and half the high-risk areas, with an honest warning about the ones it could not avoid

Tsamaya mid-drive on Monument Road in Kempton Park, the route ribbon coloured orange for risk, showing the next turn with lane guidance, the current speed against the limit, and the road rated Use caution — **Turn-by-turn, in the app**. The route coloured by risk as you drive, the next turn with its lanes, and the road you are on named and rated

Annotated walkthrough

What you’re looking at

The Tsamaya app over Sandton, Johannesburg, with risk zones shaded on the live map, checked 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 two routes from Kempton Park to Mall of Africa: a combined balanced and lower-risk option at 25 minutes and 17.4 km, graded D, passing two high-risk areas and carrying 68 per cent less risk, against the fastest at 25 minutes and 18.0 km, graded E, passing four. Above them a warning says two high-risk areas could not be avoided

Compare, then choose

You get up to three routes side by side, lower-risk, balanced and standard, 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 on Monument Road in Kempton Park at night. The road ahead is drawn in orange where the route carries risk, the next instruction is a left turn onto Highveld Road in 140 metres with lane guidance underneath, the speed reads 54 km/h against a 60 limit, and the road the car is on is labelled Monument Road, use caution. The trip has 38 minutes and 37.8 km left

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 through 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 app, taken against the live database: real map tiles, real risk zones, real search, real routing. 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 rates low in the daytime. The risk data is reviewed and re-scored as new statistics land. Routes weigh known risk. They do not guarantee safety, and you should stay aware on the road regardless.

Try it yourself.

Tsamaya is in open beta: TestFlight on iPhone, Google Play on Android.

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