Build an app like Uber

An Uber-style
ride-hailing app
branded for your market

If you have ever needed Uber but for your city, your colour, your language, your gateway, your driver agreements — that is Waslni. A real ride-hailing product, white-labelled and configured per tenant, live in the App Store and Play Store under your name in about four weeks.

A Waslni-branded ride-hailing app in a Middle-Eastern city at dusk
4 wks
From kickoff to a branded app in the stores
8
Languages bundled, including full Arabic RTL
4
Regional payment gateways live in production
2
Countries running Waslni in production today
Last updated · May 20269 min readWhite-label ride-hailing

Uber is not a product. It is a category. If you want to compete in your city, you do not need to write the dispatch logic, the geocoder, the surge formula, the driver payout calendar, or the Arabic localization for the receipt PDF. You need the same product shipped under your name with the parts that matter locally already configured.

Waslni is the white-label ride-hailing platform we built because the alternatives kept making MENA operators choose between three bad options: a generic Indian clone script that does not speak Arabic, a global incumbent that takes 25% and forbids competition with its own brand, or a $400,000 custom build that takes 18 months and is already obsolete by week eight. We picked a fourth path: ship one production-grade ride-hailing system, run it as a hosted SaaS, and let every operator configure it as if it had been built for them.

Today, Waslni runs two production ride-hailing services in two countries with two different brand identities, two payment-gateway stacks, and two regulatory regimes — on one codebase. The next tenant is configuration work, not a fork.

What you actually get

A full
ride-hailing system
under your name

Uber is not one app. It is five products that have to agree with each other in real time. Waslni ships all five, integrated, on day one.

01 / Rider

Rider app — iOS + Android

Native Expo build with phone-OTP signup, address search, fare quoting, scheduled rides, in-app chat, SOS, ratings, multiple saved payment methods, referrals, promo codes, and Arabic-first UI. Released to your developer accounts under your bundle ID.

02 / Driver

Driver app

Online/offline toggle, intelligent assignment, in-app navigation, earnings dashboard, weekly payouts, document upload flow with admin review, and a heatmap of demand. Driver document checklist is admin-editable per tenant — not hardcoded.

03 / Operator

Dispatch + admin panel

Web operator console: live map of drivers and active orders, manual reassignment, phone-booking shortcut, ride history, finance reports, role-based permissions, and a service-type editor so admins reshape pricing without a code deploy.

Why Waslni

Built where you operate.
Not retrofitted to it.

Most ride-hailing platforms started somewhere else and added Arabic and regional payments later. Waslni started in Palestine and Egypt and only goes outward from there.

01

Arabic-first by default

Every app, every screen, every email, every SMS is bilingual EN/AR out of the box. The admin panel ships with full Arabic. We did not bolt RTL on; we shipped on it.

02

Regional payments, not Stripe-only

Lahza for Palestine. Fawry, Kashier, Paymob, and Lahza for Egypt. Adding mada and STC Pay for Saudi Arabia is configuration, not a quarter of engineering. Cards, wallets, and cash settle to your accounts.

03

Real white-label, not a re-skin

Your colour palette, logo, app name, bundle ID, store listing, push-notification sound, deep-link host, and splash screen are per-tenant variables. The same codebase runs Palestine and Egypt today with completely different identities.

04

Operator control, not vendor lock

Service types, pricing rules, peak-hour windows, driver document lists, registration form fields, even the content of the policy pages — your admins edit them from the dashboard. You do not file a ticket every time you want to change a fare.

Honest comparison

A clone script vs.
a real platform

There is a market for $4,999 'Uber clone scripts'. They are a different product. The honest table looks like this.

Feature
Uber-clone script
One-time purchase, you maintain the rest
Waslni
Hosted, configurable, MENA-first
Native rider app (iOS + Android)
Native driver app (iOS + Android)
Operator dispatch + admin panel
Arabic UI + RTL out of the box
Partial
Full, app + admin + emails
MENA payment gateways (Lahza, Fawry, Paymob, Kashier)
Per-tenant configuration without code deploy
Admin-editable driver registration forms
Admin-editable service types & peak-hour rules
Role-based permissions (Super Admin / Admin / Manager / CS)
Limited
Multi-tenant ready (run multiple brands)
Source-code escrow / vendor lock-in risk
High
Low — SaaS with data export
Time to a branded build in the stores
3–6 months
4 weeks
The four-week launch

From kickoff to
apps in the stores

01 /
Week 1

Brand intake & tenant provisioning

Send us your logo, brand colours, store metadata, and the country you are launching in. We provision your tenant on Waslni multi-tenant infrastructure, set up your subdomain, and configure currency, language defaults, and the payment gateways you want live.

  • Custom colour palette applied to app + admin + web booking
  • Bundle ID + app name reserved with Apple / Google
  • First admin account created on the panel
02 /
Week 2

Operations setup

Your team configures the operational side from the admin panel: service types (sedan, SUV, van, motorcycle), pricing per kilometre and per minute, peak-hour multipliers, driver registration documents, and the cities you are launching in.

  • Service types, fare formulas, peak-hour windows
  • Driver document checklist (admin-editable)
  • City geofences and base locations
03 /
Week 3

Compliance & payments

Payment gateways are integrated under your merchant accounts. KYC and driver document workflows are reviewed against local regulations. We wire SMS / WhatsApp OTP through your provider, and the privacy + terms pages are localized for your jurisdiction.

  • Live mode keys for Lahza, Fawry, Paymob, Kashier — or whatever your country uses
  • Driver background check workflow
  • Localized privacy + terms + AML disclosures
04 /
Week 4

Store submission & soft launch

We build and submit the rider + driver apps under your developer accounts. While Apple and Google review, your operators run a 50-driver pilot on TestFlight + APK to validate dispatch and payouts. Public launch goes out within 24 hours of approval.

  • EAS production builds submitted to App Store + Play Console
  • 50-driver TestFlight pilot before public launch
  • Soft-launch monitoring dashboard live for the first 14 days
Frequently asked

Honest answers.
Not sales answers.

01 /

What does "build an app like Uber" mean with Waslni?

It means we ship you a fully branded ride-hailing system — rider app, driver app, dispatch panel, admin panel — under your name, in your stores, on your domain. The product behaviour matches what users expect from Uber, Careem, or Bolt, but the brand, the data, the pricing, and the configuration are yours. Waslni hosts the backend, so you do not maintain servers.

02 /

How long does it take to launch?

Four weeks from kickoff to a branded build sitting in the App Store and Play Store, assuming your developer accounts are ready and your payment gateways are signed up for. The fourth week is mostly Apple and Google review. Egypt and Palestine both went live on this timeline.

03 /

Is Waslni the source code I can self-host?

No. Waslni is a hosted, multi-tenant SaaS. You get branded apps and a dedicated admin panel, plus a documented data-export path so you are never locked in. The benefit of the hosted model is that every new feature ships to all tenants — you do not fall behind because you are busy operating the business.

04 /

Which countries and payment gateways are supported?

Palestine and Egypt are live in production today. Lahza is live in both. Fawry, Kashier, and Paymob are live in Egypt. Saudi Arabia (mada, STC Pay), the UAE, Jordan, Morocco, and Iraq are configuration work on the existing stack, not greenfield builds. If your country is not listed, talk to us — the platform was designed for fast geographic expansion.

05 /

How much of the product can my admins change without code?

A lot. Service types and fares, peak-hour multipliers, driver document requirements, registration form fields, permissions and roles, branding (logo + colours), policy + terms + rules pages, banners, OTP providers — all of it edits live from the admin panel. Code deploys are reserved for genuine product evolution, not routine business changes.

06 /

How does pricing work?

Monthly platform fee plus a small per-completed-trip fee. Payment processing fees are passed through from the gateway. There is a 14-day free demo on shared infrastructure so you can test the apps and dispatch panel before committing.

Ready to see it?

Have your branded ride-hailing
app live in 4 weeks

Free 14-day demo on shared infrastructure. No card. No commitment. You drive a real rider + driver + admin panel.

Build an app like Uber — Waslni white-label ride-hailing platform