Live in Both Stores · Salamah Drivers

Taxi & Chauffeur App Development Company in Dubai

Passenger app, driver app and dispatch console — with live tracking, a fare engine that handles UAE realities, and Arabic built in from day one. We have shipped this before: Salamah Drivers is live and downloadable today.

Live driver tracking
UAE payments + cash
Arabic + English
100% code ownership
Salamah Drivers chauffeur booking app built by Control Shift — customer and driver apps live in the UAE

Get Your Booking App Scoped in 24 Hours.

Tell us how your fleet operates today. A senior engineer — not a salesperson — reviews it and returns a scoped, fixed-price proposal within one business day.

  • Passenger, driver and dispatch surfaces scoped together
  • Fare engine built for UAE fares, surcharges and cash
  • Arabic / RTL driver screens designed in from day one
  • 100% source code and store-account ownership

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Three Surfaces, One System

Driver Booking App Development for UAE Fleets

A ride-booking product is never one app. It is a passenger app, a driver app and a dispatch console that have to agree with each other in real time — and most projects fail at the seams between them rather than inside any one screen.

Passenger App

Book now or schedule ahead, pick vehicle class, watch the driver approach live, pay in-app and rate the trip. iOS and Android from one codebase.

Driver App

Job offers with accept/decline timers, turn-by-turn navigation handoff, trip status, earnings and shift control — built to stay usable on a windscreen mount.

Dispatch Console

Live map of every vehicle, manual and auto-assignment, exception handling for no-shows and cancellations, and the operator overrides real dispatchers ask for on day one.

Fare & Payments

Distance and time fare engine, waiting charges, airport surcharges, corporate accounts and cash reconciliation — with Apple Pay, Telr, PayTabs and card-on-file.

Corporate & B2B Booking

Company accounts, cost centres, approved passenger lists, monthly invoicing and usage reporting — usually where the margin actually is in UAE chauffeur work.

Driver Onboarding & Compliance

Licence, visa, permit and vehicle-document capture with expiry reminders, so an out-of-date document takes a driver offline before a regulator does.

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Salamah Drivers — A Chauffeur Booking App We Built

Salamah runs an unusual model: rather than sending a car, it sends a professional chauffeur to drive the customer's own vehicle. That changes the software in ways a generic ride-hailing template does not handle — the "vehicle" belongs to the passenger, driver matching is about licence class and trust rather than fleet availability, and bookings skew toward scheduled and recurring rather than instant hail.

We built the customer app, the driver app and the operations dashboard behind them, covering booking and scheduling, real-time journey tracking, driver assignment, and fare and service management. Both apps are live on the App Store and Google Play — you can download them, book a trip and see the product working before you ever speak to us.

That is the point of this page. Most agencies bidding on taxi app development in Dubai can describe a dispatch algorithm. Far fewer can point at a UAE mobility product in the stores with real drivers on it. Read the Salamah case study for the stack and delivery detail.

Built for How the UAE Actually Moves

Ride-booking software written for a European or US market quietly assumes things that are not true here. Fares need Salik tolls and airport surcharges attributed to the right trip. A meaningful share of rides still settle in cash, so driver float and end-of-shift reconciliation have to be first-class features rather than an afterthought. Peak demand follows prayer times, Friday patterns and Ramadan hours rather than a generic commuter curve.

Corporate accounts matter more than most founders expect. In UAE chauffeur and limousine work the durable revenue tends to sit with companies, hotels and event operators booking on account — which means cost centres, approved passenger lists, monthly consolidated invoicing and usage reporting are not enterprise extras, they are the reason a fleet becomes profitable.

Moving parcels rather than people? Our on-demand delivery app development work shares the same dispatch and tracking core, and for whole-operation systems see logistics software development in Dubai.

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FAQ

Taxi & Chauffeur App Development — FAQs

Yes — Salamah Drivers is a Control Shift build. It is a private chauffeur service in the UAE where customers book a driver to drive their own car, and it runs a customer app, a driver app and an operations dashboard behind it. Both apps are live on the App Store and Google Play, so you can download them and judge the work rather than take our word for it.

It depends on how much of the stack you need. A focused booking app with one vehicle class and card payments is a very different build from a multi-fleet platform with surge pricing, corporate accounts and airport integrations. We scope it on a free call and send a fixed, itemised quote within one business day — no hourly billing and no scope surprises afterwards.

Yes. Passenger transport in Dubai is regulated by the RTA, and taxi, limousine and chauffeur operations each sit under different permit categories with their own vehicle and driver requirements. Other emirates have their own authorities. We are engineers rather than licensing consultants, so confirm your category with the regulator — once your operating model is settled, we build the software around it.

Yes, and in practice this decides whether a driver app gets used properly. We build full right-to-left Arabic alongside English, with the driver-side screens designed for glanceable use — large tap targets, minimal text and states readable at arm's length on a mounted phone.

Trip state is held on the device and reconciled when the connection returns, so a driver entering a basement car park or a tunnel does not lose the job or the fare record. Location history buffers and uploads rather than silently dropping — which matters when a customer disputes a route.

Usually yes. Most operators already run something for invoicing or fleet records, and replacing everything at once is rarely the right first move. We integrate with what you have, then consolidate later if it earns its keep.

100% — source code, documentation, repositories and your own App Store and Google Play accounts transfer to you on completion. No licence fees, no per-ride revenue share, no lock-in.

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