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Namma Yatri
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Namma Yatri

by Moving Tech Innovations Private Limited

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Free🇮🇳89%travelBengaluru, Karnataka
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About This App

Namma Yatri is India's first open-source ride-hailing platform, built by Moving Tech Innovations Private Limited (CIN U62099KA2023PTC180900), based in Koramangala, Bengaluru and spun out of the payments company Juspay. Launched in 2022, it publishes its own live operating statistics at nammayatri.in/open — as of 9 August 2026 that dashboard showed 1,62,69,566 registered users (1.63 crore), 7,71,134 enabled drivers (7.71 lakh), 15.62 crore completed trips and ₹2,625.71 crore in cumulative driver earnings. Its own app listings put it live in seven cities: Bengaluru, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kochi, Mysuru and Tumakuru. Namma Yatri's About page states the app "is built on the common network standards defined by ONDC built on the Beckn protocol (open source)", making it a fundamentally different model from Uber and Ola — open, interoperable, and charging zero commission on rides. The core differentiator is economics. Instead of taking a per-ride commission, Namma Yatri asks drivers to subscribe to one of two plans in the driver app — "Daily Unlimited" or "Daily Per Trip" — which its own plans page describes as "a small fee that we'll be collecting from our driver partners to cover basic costs of running their beloved app" such as maps and servers. Drivers keep 100% of the fare and riders pay them directly by UPI or cash. Namma Yatri does not publish the subscription price on its website; press reporting from May 2025 put the auto plan at about ₹25 a day for unlimited rides, which is press-reported and now dated. The codebase is public at github.com/nammayatri/nammayatri under AGPL-3.0 and actively developed, and the open-data dashboard makes it one of the most transparent mobility platforms anywhere. Namma Yatri is free for riders — no convenience fee, platform fee or booking fee is published on its own site. The app supports auto-rickshaws and cabs, and its listing also advertises rentals, intercity bus booking and metro ticketing. A Priority Auto feature offers faster matching at slightly higher fares for riders willing to pay more. Best suited for daily commuters in cities where Namma Yatri operates — especially Bengaluru, where it has the deepest driver network. The zero-commission model delivers genuinely cheaper rides and happier drivers. However, availability outside Bengaluru is still thin, ride cancellation rates can be high (drivers sometimes don't show up), and the Priority Auto pricing has drawn complaints for creeping toward Ola/Uber-level fares.

Information updated 1 years ago

App Details

Company
Moving Tech Innovations Private Limited
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka
Category
travel
Pricing
Free
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89%Highly Swadeshi

Moving Tech (Namma Yatri)

Honest Review

4.7/5 on Google Play Store, India (gl=IN) — 4.75 raw average (displays as 4.7) from 4.97 lakh (496,911) ratings, package in.juspay.nammayatri, checked 2 Sep 2026. Note: the 4.9 once stored here belongs to the separate Driver Partner app (in.juspay.nammayatripartner), not the rider app. · Last verified 2026-09-02

What works well

  • +Zero commission on rides — drivers keep 100% of the fare, resulting in lower prices for riders
  • +Fully open-source codebase and open data — unprecedented transparency for a ride-hailing app
  • +Built on ONDC network — interoperable and not locked into a single platform's ecosystem
  • +No surge pricing markups by the platform — fares stay closer to government meter rates
  • +1.63 crore registered users and 7.71 lakh enabled drivers, published live on its own open-data dashboard
  • +Supports auto-rickshaws and cabs, plus rentals, intercity bus booking and metro tickets in-app

What needs improvement

  • -Availability outside Bengaluru is still limited — thin driver coverage in newer cities
  • -Ride cancellation rates are high — drivers sometimes accept and then don't show up
  • -Priority Auto pricing undermines the affordable positioning — fares creep toward Ola/Uber levels
  • -App can be slow and drains battery significantly on driver phones
  • -Customer support lacks accountability — poor resolution for issues like lost items

Common user complaints

  • !Normal Auto nearly impossible to get — Priority Auto at Rs 150-200 becomes the only option even for short rides
  • !50% chance of ride cancellation — drivers accept but don't arrive, wasting pickup time
  • !App performance issues — kilometers not calculated correctly, notifications delayed
  • !Customer support unresponsive when drivers don't pick up calls about forgotten items
  • !Driver app drains battery and causes phone heating during long shifts

Frequently Asked Questions

Which cities does Namma Yatri work in — is it available in Hyderabad, Chennai or Mysuru?

As of August 2026, seven cities: Bengaluru, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kochi, Mysuru and Tumakuru. Both of Namma Yatri's own Google Play listings say so — the rider app (updated 20 July 2026) reads “Live in Bengaluru, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kochi, Mysuru & Tumkur” and the driver app (updated 6 August 2026) reads “Available in Bengaluru, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kochi, Mysuru & Tumakuru”. So yes to Hyderabad, Chennai and Mysuru. Cities not on that list — Hubballi, Mangaluru, Pune, Mumbai and so on — are not served. Bengaluru remains by far the deepest market: Namma Yatri's own open-data dashboard splits its statistics into “Bengaluru”, “Rest of Karnataka” and “Rest of India”, which tells you where the volume sits. Coverage changes, so check the app for your actual pickup point before planning around it.

Who owns Namma Yatri, and is it a government app?

It is not a government app, and no government body owns it. Namma Yatri is built and run by Moving Tech Innovations Private Limited, an Indian company with corporate identity number U62099KA2023PTC180900, registered and operating from Girija Building, No. 817, Ganapathi Temple Road, 8th Block, Koramangala, Bengaluru 560095 — all of which the company publishes in the footer of nammayatri.in. The confusion is understandable, because Namma Yatri does sit on public infrastructure: its own About page says the app “is built on the common network standards defined by ONDC built on the Beckn protocol (open source)”, ONDC being the government-supported Open Network for Digital Commerce. Riding on a public network is not the same as being publicly owned. Moving Tech was spun out of the Bengaluru payments company Juspay, which press reports say holds a majority stake; we could not confirm that shareholding from Moving Tech's or Juspay's own material, so treat it as press-reported.

Is Namma Yatri free, and is it actually cheaper than Ola, Uber or Rapido?

It is free to download and free to use — Namma Yatri publishes no convenience fee, platform fee or booking fee for riders anywhere on its own site, and its app listing promises “no extra charges, no nonsense”. On price, the mechanism behind the cheaper-fare claim is structural rather than promotional: Namma Yatri takes zero commission on the fare, so the platform's cut is not built into what you are quoted, and you pay the driver directly by UPI or cash. Commission-based apps have historically taken 20-30% per ride, which has to come from somewhere. That said, cheaper is not guaranteed. Fares still move with distance and time of day, and the most common rider complaint is that a standard auto is hard to get at peak times, which pushes you toward the higher-priced priority option — at which point the saving narrows or disappears. Compare the quote in the app against your usual choice rather than assuming.

How much does Namma Yatri charge drivers?

Nothing per ride. Namma Yatri's driver plans page states the model directly: it maintains “our commitment to zero-commission rides and 100% direct payment”, and instead asks drivers to subscribe to a plan — described as “a small fee that we'll be collecting from our driver partners to cover basic costs of running their beloved app”, such as maps and servers. Two plan types are offered inside the driver app: “Daily Unlimited” and “Daily Per Trip”, with the page's own taglines reading “ZERO commission”, “Earn Today, Pay Tomorrow” and “Pay only if you take rides”. Namma Yatri does not publish the rupee amount anywhere on its website — the prices are shown only inside the driver app. Press reporting from May 2025 put the auto plan at roughly ₹25 a day for unlimited rides, or about ₹3.5 per trip for the first ten trips; that is press-reported and more than a year old, so treat it as indicative rather than current. What Namma Yatri does state without qualification is that the rider pays the driver directly and the fare is not cut.

Is Namma Yatri really open source?

Yes, and this one is checkable rather than a marketing line. The platform's code is public at github.com/nammayatri/nammayatri under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0, the strongest copyleft licence in common use, and it is actively developed — the repository had commits as recent as 8 August 2026. The GitHub organisation hosts 78 public repositories and describes itself as “World's first, true open-mobility platform”. Namma Yatri also publishes live operating statistics at nammayatri.in/open, updated daily, which no other Indian ride-hailing app does. Checked on 9 August 2026, that dashboard showed 15,62,21,500 completed trips (15.62 crore), 1,62,69,566 registered users (1.63 crore), 7,71,134 enabled drivers (7.71 lakh) and ₹26,25,71,46,489 (₹2,625.71 crore) in cumulative driver earnings. Note that Namma Yatri's driver-app listing quotes lower figures — “2.2 lakh+ drivers and 46 lakh+ customers” — and the company has not stated why the two sets of numbers differ.

Is Namma Yatri safe to use?

The rider app carries the safety features you would expect, listed in Namma Yatri's own app description: an SOS button that alerts your emergency contacts instantly, live trip tracking you can share with friends and family, and in-app messaging to your contacts during a ride. On the driver side, onboarding requires uploading a driving licence and a vehicle registration certificate, and a trip can only be started after the driver enters an OTP that you read out — which prevents a ride being marked as started before you are actually in the vehicle. The rider app is rated 4.7 on Google Play from 4.88 lakh ratings. What Namma Yatri does not have is a published, dedicated safety policy page on nammayatri.in — these commitments live in the app store listing rather than in a formal document. In practice the complaints riders raise most often are about cancellations and driver matching rather than safety incidents.

Namma Yatri vs Rapido, Ola and Uber — what is actually different?

The difference is where your money goes. Namma Yatri charges drivers no commission and takes a flat subscription instead, so the fare goes to the driver directly by UPI or cash rather than through the platform. Ola, Uber and Rapido were all built on per-ride commissions; press reporting credits Namma Yatri's model with pushing all three to add driver subscription options from 2025 onward. Two further differences are verifiable rather than merely claimed: Namma Yatri's code is public under AGPL-3.0, and it publishes daily operating statistics at nammayatri.in/open — neither of which any of the three do. The trade-off is reach. Namma Yatri is live in seven cities; Ola's own app listing claims 200+ cities in India, and Uber and Rapido are also far wider. If you are in Bengaluru booking an auto, Namma Yatri has the strongest case; outside its seven cities it is not an option at all.

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