The spare seat in your car is the answer.
Malta is choking on its own traffic. Adding more taxis didn't fix it — and never will. We're building a friendlier idea: share the trip you were already taking.
One email when we open early access. No spam, ever.
- ✿ Built in Malta
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- Cost-sharing, not fares
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- Rider sets the chip-in
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- Drivers keep 100%
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- No taxi licence required
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- Plan ahead or hop on
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- ✿ Built in Malta
- ●
- Cost-sharing, not fares
- ●
- Rider sets the chip-in
- ●
- Drivers keep 100%
- ●
- No taxi licence required
- ●
- Plan ahead or hop on
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Malta has a
traffic problem.
More cabs won't fix it.
Every ride-hail app that launched here added supply to the road instead of taking it off. The maths only works one way: fewer cars, not more drivers.
of work commutes in Malta are made by private car.
NSO's last National Household Travel Survey: nine in ten people drive to work — most of them alone.
src · NSO NHTS 2021
licensed vehicles on Malta's roads at end of 2025.
Up from 335,249 in 2014 — that's +122,000 vehicles in 11 years. The fleet still grows by roughly 35 cars every single day.
src · NSO Motor Vehicles, Q4 2025
lost per driver, per year, to rush-hour traffic.
Almost four full days, every year, of sitting still. Malta is the second-most congested country in the world.
src · TomTom Traffic Index 2025
Sources: NSO National Household Travel Survey 2021 ; NSO Motor Vehicles Q4 2025 ; TomTom Traffic Index 2025 . Figures reflect the most recent published data at time of writing.
Two ways to share a ride.
Whether you plan your week or wing it from the kerb, tinilift fills the spare seat in a car that was going your way anyway.
Lija → Sliema, every weekday at 08:00.
Drivers post the routes they already drive. Riders going the same way book a spare seat the night before — predictable, recurring, and no surge pricing.
I need to get to Valletta — now.
Open the app, drop a destination. Drivers already heading that way see your request and pick you up on the route. No detour, no extra car on the road.
Drivers don't get
paid.
Riders chip in.
tinilift isn't a taxi. Riders offer a small contribution — say €5 — toward the cost of a trip the driver was already making. The driver keeps every cent. We never set a fare, and we never take a cut of it.
That's the whole legal premise: cost-sharing between people going the same way, not a transport service. We're working with Maltese tax and transport advisors to keep it that way.