Drive with it
Every trip you plan is a signal that the mapping in your metro is worth keeping fresh. The safety side of the app is free and stays that way, and the route you get doesn’t change based on whether you’ve given us anything.
Support Tsamaya
Plenty of ways to help.
Most of them are free.
Tsamaya is free to use, carries no ads, and sells nothing about you. If you’d like to give something back, this page is the list. Money is one item on it, and it isn’t the first.
Costs you nothing
Four things that genuinely help
These matter more right now than money does. Tsamaya is early, and what it needs most is drivers using it and telling us where it’s wrong.
Tell one other driver
One person who drives the same roads you do. That’s the whole ask. There’s no marketing budget behind this, so word of mouth is how anyone finds out it exists at all.
tsamayaapp.co.za
Tell us about a corner we got wrong
A road we’ve flagged that’s perfectly fine these days, or a bad one we’ve missed completely. Local knowledge sits inside the routing model on purpose, and it can only come from people who drive there.
Tell us when it annoys you
A detour that made no sense, a voice prompt at the wrong moment, a screen you couldn’t read at night. Complaints are more useful to us than compliments, and we’d rather hear it than have you quietly stop opening the app.
In case you’re wondering
What money actually pays for
Worth knowing before you decide anything. These are the four things that cost real rands.
Map another metro
Each new city means fetching OpenStreetMap data, scoring crime density, and running a Claude-assisted review pass before anything goes live. Sponsorship funds the next metro.
Keep the lights on
Map tiles, geocoding, routing and the database all sit on metered services. Steady running costs keep the app responsive and the data fresh.
Refresh the risk data
Crime patterns shift. Regular re-scoring and local-knowledge review keep the routes meaningful rather than stale.
Ship to more people
Developer accounts, store submission and device testing get Tsamaya out of beta and into the hands of everyday drivers.
If you’d like to chip in
Any amount is fine, including none
No minimum, no membership, no monthly plan to cancel later. A once-off EFT is the entire system. If you’d rather keep your money, please do, and please carry on using the app.
R 100
Goes into the running costs. Map tiles, geocoding and the database are all metered, and they tick over every month whether anyone gives anything or not.
R 1 000
Enough to be felt. It’s also the point at which we’d ask you which metro you want mapped next, if there’s one you keep waiting for.
R 2 500
Sponsors a whole new city: the OpenStreetMap and crime data, the scoring, and the review pass that happens before any of it goes near a driver.
Nedbank
Current account
Account holder
TSAMAYA (PTY) LTD
Account number
1347984453
Branch code
198765
SWIFT / BIC
NEDSZAJJXXX
Payments go to Tsamaya (Pty) Ltd. We’re not a registered public-benefit organisation, so nothing here is tax-deductible, and we’d rather say that plainly than have you find out at year end. Staying anonymous is completely fine. So is sending nothing.
If you’re asking on behalf of a company
Sponsoring a metro is the one arrangement here with any structure to it: your name on the city you fund, on this site and on its coverage page. There’s no rate card and no tier you have to fit into. Tell us the city and the budget and we’ll work out something that suits both of us.
No pressure either way.
Give nothing and the app stays free, the routes stay the same, and you keep every feature. If you’d just like to talk, email reaches Kyle, who reads all of it.