Know if the trip pays before you accept
Bolt offers disappear in seconds and petrol takes a big bite of every fare. Trip Verdict reads the offer on your screen and shows a green, amber or red box, worked out with your petrol, your distance and your costs.
Example offers. The box is drawn over the offer and never taps it.
From sign-up to your first verdict
Create an account
Email and a password. You get your licence code straight away.
Install the app
Download it to your Android phone from this website and switch on Accessibility.
Type in your code
Open Bolt and go online. The box appears over every offer.
A fare is not what you keep
On one test day of 13 trips, petrol and running costs took about 60% of the fares: R546 in fares, about R221 left. That is an estimate from the app's own numbers.
An offer does not wait for you. There is no time to work out kilometres and litres in your head.
On that day about one offer in four was clearly poor, and the app marked it red. That is 24 of 104 offers.
Test day figures come from one driver's offer history, with the app's default petrol and tyre costs. Your car and your day will be different, which is why every number in the app can be changed.
One box on the offer. A whole day behind it.
On every offer
GOOD, OK or BAD with rand per km, rand left and rand per hour, counting the drive to the passenger.
Your petrol
Add each pour with the odometer and the app works out your real litres per 100 km.
Your day and week
See what you kept after petrol against your weekly target, and what you must keep per hour to reach it.
Built not to mislead
It only reads. It never taps. An unclear reading gives a grey warning, never a confident colour.
Start in about ten minutes
Create your account, install the app and see your first verdict. Everything happens on your phone, wherever in South Africa you drive.