Kapten has become FREE NOW!
FREE NOW is a licensed ride-hailing app for black cabs and PHVs in 10 European countries. Take control, choose how you roll. Book easily, pay in-app quickly and get there safely!
FEATURES
- Safety first, all drivers are reminded to sanitize their vehicle after every trip.
- Choose a black cab with a partition screen perfect for social distancing between driver and passenger.
- Highest quality drivers, fully licensed with all PHV drivers met and onboarded face-to-face.
- The only ride-hailing app where you can choose an electric black cab, or an electric PHV every time you take a trip! Same great service, lower environmental impact.
- Convenient prebook feature on black cabs available up to 4 days in advance making planning ahead that bit easier.
- All black cabs are wheelchair accessible for those requiring extra assistance.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Enter your destination
2. Book a car or a cab near you
3. Track your driver's arrival
4. Pay easily through the app
STREAMLINE YOUR BUSINESS TRAVEL
Automatically collect your receipt via email after each trip when you pay with the app, or skip manual expense reportings altogether by using a FREE NOW for business account.
EASY AIRPORT TRANSFER
Book a black cab last minute or up to 4 days before your flight. Need a pickup? No problem, just collect your luggage, order your vehicle of choice through the app and follow the in-app walking directions to the FREE NOW pickup point within your terminal.
FREE NOW is available for both business and holiday travel at Europe's largest airports, including Heathrow, London City, Gatwick, Stansted, Dublin, Frankfurt, Madrid-Barajas, Barcelona El-Prat, Munich, Rome Fiumicino, Manchester, Lisbon, Düsseldorf, Vienna Schwechat, Milano Malpensa, Berlin Tegel, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Nice Côte d'Azur and Malaga.
BOOK THE RIGHT VEHICLE FOR YOU
Black Cab: Iconic British taxi with high-quality knowledgeable drivers
EV Black cab: Electric iconic British black cab
Ride: Private-hire with professional drivers and the lowest fixed prices in London
EV Ride: London’s largest electric fleet of PHVs
TRAVEL ALL OVER EUROPE
The FREE NOW service is available across 10 countries in over 100 European cities, among them:
UNITED KINGDOM: Brighton, Edinburgh, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, Reading, Derby, Leicester
IRELAND: Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick, Waterford
GERMANY: Aachen, Augsburg, Berlin, Bochum, Bonn, Bremen, Cologne, Dortmund, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen, Erlangen, Frankfurt, Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg, Hannover, Ingolstadt, Leipzig, Lübeck, Mannheim, Munich, Mülheim/Ruhr, Nuremberg, Offenbach, Potsdam, Stuttgart, Westerland (Sylt), Wiesbaden
AUSTRIA: Salzburg, Vienna
POLAND: Katowice/Silesian Agglomeration, Krakow, Poznan, Tricity (Gdańsk/Sopot/Gdynia), Warsaw, Wrocław
ITALY: Milan, Rome, Turin
PORTUGAL: Lisbon, Porto
SPAIN: Barcelona, Madrid, Sevilla, Valencia
ROMANIA: Bucharest
FRANCE: Paris, Lyon, Nice
FREE NOW (formerly mytaxi) and Hailo joined forces in 2016 to keep you moving as UK's leading black cab app. Following in 2020, Kapten joined FREE NOW in the UK, adding private hire vehicles to the offering in London, together with black cabs on one platform for the first time.
SUPPORT
If you have any questions, please visit the help & contact section of the app (via your profile) to see our most frequently asked questions. Alternatively, please get in touch at
[email protected] in the UK