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The smart way.

Book verified driving instructors near you, track every skill you've mastered, and pay safely online. Built for South African learners.

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12k+
Lessons booked
TM
Thabo Mokoena
Code B · Manual + Auto · Sandton
R280/hr
Verified Top rated 10 yrs exp
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How it works

From learner's licence to K53 pass. All in one app.

Tiro brings everything together. Find an instructor, book lessons, track progress, and pay. All in one place.

Not sure where to start?

Where are you in your driving journey?

Step 1

Learner's licence

Brand new to driving. Start with K53 seminars and free practice quizzes to ace the written test.

See seminars & quizzes Step 2

Driver's licence

Got your learner's. Now book a verified instructor and track every skill until you're K53 test-ready.

Find an instructor
1

Find your instructor

Filter by location, price, vehicle type, and rating. Browse verified profiles.

2

Book a lesson

Pick a time that suits you. Pay safely with card, EFT, or mobile wallet.

3

Track your progress

Your instructor logs every skill, clutch control, parallel parking, K53.

4

Pass with confidence

Mock driving tests, learner's-test practice quizzes, and real-time feedback get you test-ready.

For learners

Everything you need to pass.

One app, six tools, zero faff. Built around the way South Africans actually learn to drive, from your first lesson to your K53 pass.

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All verified

The top-rated instructors, first.

Every Tiro instructor is fully vetted — Government ID, SAPS clearance, K53 accreditation, all checked before they take a single booking. Star ratings from real learners tell you the rest.

1 TM
Thabo Mokoena
Sandton · 4.2 km away
5.0 ★
Rating
2 NN
Nomsa Ndlovu
Rosebank · 5.8 km away
4.9 ★
Rating
3 SP
Sipho Phiri
Midrand · 7.1 km away
4.8 ★
Rating
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One-tap booking.

Real-time availability with instant SMS confirmation. Reschedule in two taps, no phone tag, no awkward voicenotes.

47 instructors free this week

Skill-by-skill progress.

Three-point turn, hill start, parallel, track every checkpoint and see exactly when you're test-ready.

Three-point turn
Hill start
Parallel parking

Pay safely.

Card, EFT, or wallet, encrypted end-to-end. Bundle lesson packages and save up to 15%.

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Included free

Learner's-test prep, built in.

Adaptive practice quizzes and full mock learner's tests, modelled on the official K53 question bank. Free with every Tiro account — pass your written test before you book your first lesson.

Q · Stopping distance at 60 km/h? ✓
Q · Right-of-way at 4-way stop? ✓
Q · Distance from a fire hydrant? …
Mock test · 87%

Chat your instructor.

In-app messaging plus optional WhatsApp, the way South Africa actually communicates.

See you at 14:00, bring your learner's licence.
Sharp, Thabo!
For instructors

Run your driving school. Without the spreadsheets.

Tiro handles bookings, payments, lesson records, and student progress so you can focus on what you do best, teaching.

  • ✓ Earn more. List your services, set your rates, and fill empty slots automatically.
  • ✓ Get paid weekly. EFT every Monday for the previous week's lessons. No chasing students for cash.
  • ✓ Grow your reputation. Verified profile, reviews, and a top-rated badge that gets you more bookings.
  • ✓ Sync your calendar. Google Calendar integration. No double bookings, ever.
Become an instructor See the dashboard
This Month
↑ 22%
R 28,400
Earnings · 47 lessons
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
For driving schools

Built for an industry that runs on cash and trust.

South African driving schools are unregulated. Payments happen in envelopes, between WhatsApp messages, on EFTs that never get reconciled. Tiro turns every lesson into a tracked, paid, recorded transaction. The opposite of how you run it now.

  • ✓ Every payment on the record. Card or Instant EFT through Tiro. Weekly reconciliation. SARS-ready exports.
  • ✓ Every instructor's documents on file. Identity, certifications, vehicle insurance. Stored, dated, alerted before expiry.
  • ✓ Every Rand traceable. Down to the lesson, instructor, learner. End-of-month, the books match the dashboard.
  • ✓ Instructor payouts on autopilot. Tiro pays your team straight from learner payments, every Monday. You stop chasing. They stop arguing.
Set up your school See the dashboard

South African SMEs lose an estimated 5% of revenue to internal fraud (Allianz Commercial, 2024). In an unregulated, cash-heavy industry like ours, the real number runs higher.

Tracked this month
R 184,200
Reconciled
100%
Recent lessons
Naledi K. with Thabo M.
21 May · 14:00 · R 420
PAID
James M. with Sandile D.
21 May · 12:30 · R 380
PAID
Aisha P. with Aisha N.
21 May · 11:00 · R 400
PAID
Refilwe P. with Lerato K.
21 May · 09:30 · R 360
PAID
Auto-paid Monday: R 44,450 ↗ 18% vs Apr
Stories

Learners and instructors love Tiro.

★★★★★

"Passed first try. The skills tracker showed me exactly what I needed to practice. My instructor was amazing."

NK
Naledi K.
Pretoria · Code 8
★★★★★

"Finally an app that fits how we actually do things in SA. WhatsApp integration is a game changer."

JV
Johan v.d. Merwe
Driving instructor · 15 yrs
★★★★★

"My bookings tripled in the first month. The dashboard tells me everything I need at a glance."

SP
Sipho P.
Driving school owner · DBN
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