About HOOP
Built for how Kenya
actually moves.
Kenya doesn’t need another app that only works in Nairobi. HOOP is a carpooling network for all 47 counties — matatu-grade prices, hail-grade reliability, and drivers who keep most of what they earn.
Why we exist
The road was already there. We just organise it.
Every morning, millions of Kenyans share the same road in half-empty cars: a driver in Rongai with four free seats, three neighbours heading to the same Westlands office block. Nobody knows about each other, so everyone crowds into a matatu or pays four times more to hail privately.
HOOP matches those seats to those riders before the engine starts. Same road, same driver, real schedule — and a price the country can actually live on. It is not a taxi app with matatu paint. It is public transport that leaves when you do.
Say where and when
Type it, or tell HOOP Brain in plain language — English, Kiswahili or Sheng. “Seat from Rongai to Westlands, Tuesday 7 AM” fills the whole ride form: both ends, the day and the time.
Pick your ride
Four products on every route: shared seat, direct, a recurring Crew pass, or the autonomous shuttle. Every price sits 30% above the matatu — never Uber-style surge roulette.
Confirm on a call
No payment happens on this site. The HOOP team calls to confirm your driver, the pickup point and the fare; the M-PESA request then lands on your own phone for you to approve.
Ride with SOS
Your trip code travels with you, and one tap sends your GPS position to the HOOP team. In immediate danger, call 999 or 112.
What we will not compromise on
30% above the matatu — on purpose
A matatu fare is a stranger subsidising your commute with their own risk. HOOP pays drivers a real share, carries insurance and tracks every trip. The 30% is what reliability costs, and it is fixed — the same maths on every route, at 7 AM or midnight.
Drivers keep 80%
The platform takes 20 cents of every shilling — the rest goes to the person holding the wheel. No hidden commissions that change after you sign up.
All 47 counties, not six corridors
Most ride apps launch in Nairobi and stop there. HOOP starts point-to-point across every county, because the trips that matter most — Lodwar to Malindi, Rongai to an upcountry market day — are the ones nobody builds for.
See it on a real route.
Enter any pickup and drop-off — Rongai to Westlands, Lodwar to Kitale — and watch the fare engine price all four products.