Uber · Lyft · rideshare cockpit
SURGEDRIVER sits beside Uber and Lyft and tells you where to wait, where to drive, and when to take the next trip. Plans use live GPS and street feeds. Trip setup sits on Drive and Plan: pick a direction, city, hunt, tolls, and wrap, then tap Apply trip setup. Ask, this-trip math, History, and a phone dock that stays tappable after that tap.
Better than driving blind on a surge map. Human drivers beat Waymo, Tesla, and other robotaxis when the shift is run like a business, not a lottery.
3 days free. Cancel anytime. You still take trips in Uber and Lyft. This sits beside them.
SURGEDRIVER does not replace Uber, Lyft, or any rideshare app. You still accept rides there. This app reads live GPS and street feeds, follows the radius, direction, and market you set in trip setup, and points you toward better places to wait and drive so more of the hour pays.
Live plan
A path instead of a surge map: wait, drive, trip, wrap
Through go-home
Every live card from now until wrap
Realtime
GPS plus live feeds. Cards update when the street changes
Uber and Lyft drivers using SURGEDRIVER beside the apps. Same cockpit: live feeds, live cards, a day grid.
★★★★★
Marcus J.
Atlanta · Uber and Lyft
Fewer empty miles on event nights
“I used to chase the red blob to Midtown and sit in traffic for a zone that was already gone. SURGEDRIVER told me to wait by a grocery lot, then take the next trip toward the arena let-out. That Friday I kept the apps on and still ended closer to home.”
★★★★★
Priya S.
Dallas · Uber
Airport runs only when they pay
“The live cards are what I actually look at at a light. Wait, drive, take the trip, or wrap. I stopped arguing with myself about DFW every hour. If my notes say skip the airport, the plan skips it.”
★★★★★
Andre W.
Chicago · Lyft
Better waits when it rains
“Rain used to mean I guessed. Now weather and traffic hit the same plan as density. When the Loop jammed, it sat me in a dense grid instead of sending me empty to a surge color on the lake.”
★★★★★
Elena R.
Phoenix · Uber and Lyft
Wraps that end near home
“I set a go-home time for 10. The last blocks steered trips toward my side of town instead of another outbound airport. I actually pulled into the driveway near the time I asked for.”
★★★★★
Jamal K.
Miami · Uber
Real event start times
“Concerts and games finally show up with real start times, not a rumor in the driver chat. I wait before doors and after let-out. The day plan crime stats keep me out of dead pockets that look busy on the surge map.”
★★★★★
Sofia M.
Seattle · Lyft
Clearer calls on the next trip
“Ask surprised me. I typed should I take this airport and it used my GPS, empty miles so far, and the notes in Settings. Just a yes or no for this hour.”
★★★★★
Chris T.
Denver · Uber and Lyft
A full-shift picture, not one ping
“The day grid is the whole shift from where I am now. I used to only think about the ping on the screen. Now I see the next six hours, including cities farther out that still pay after the empty drive.”
★★★★★
Keisha P.
Houston · Uber
Empty miles counted, then cut
“Paid vs empty labeling changed how I drive. Empty miles used to feel like work. SURGEDRIVER treats them as a tax and tells me to sit. History after End shift is the day I actually drove.”
SURGEDRIVER sits beside Uber and Lyft with a live plan, street feeds those apps do not show you, and trip setup that sticks after you apply it. Create an account and Drive opens. Cancel anytime.
A plan you can check at a light
Live cards through go-home and a one-line bar instead of a surge color that is already gone when you arrive. Wait, drive, take the trip, or wrap.
Rules that stick
North means leave this neighborhood north. A city, a hunt, an empty-mile cap, avoid tolls, wrap near home. Tap Apply or Rebuild, then those rules hold.
Street data Uber will not show you
Weather, traffic, Census density and income, Ticketmaster start times, landing banks, cities in your radius, and FBI crime on the day plan. No fake 2.4x.
Built for the phone in the cup holder
The dock stays tappable. More is Account, Settings, About, and Log out. Speak this move. The whole route in one Maps session.
This hour, this ping
Ask in plain words. Paste a pickup and drop for this-trip math. Paid vs empty miles feed the next cards and stay in History.
Free to start, still your apps
The trial starts when you create an account. Invite a driver and they get an extra day. You still accept rides in Uber and Lyft. Cancel anytime.
GPS, clock, Settings notes, go-home time, and the trip setup you applied go to the server with the street feeds. Your controls come first: radius, direction, target city, and empty-mile cap filter the board before anything is scored. Changing a knob does nothing until you tap Apply trip setup or Refresh plan on Drive, or Rebuild with these on Plan. Then each remaining pin is priced on empty miles, fuel, time, leftover-shift net vs sitting, live traffic, density, and real event start times. Thin tracts get hunted out of, not sat in. That shortlist is ranked advice. The plan still picks every dest, wait, and wrap. On Drive the live cards only rebuild when you start a shift, apply trip setup, refresh the plan, or start from Best start - not on every GPS tick, and not from the day plan grid. Plan and Best start own the full-shift window. If a feed is missing, it says so instead of inventing a fake surge number. Uber and Lyft never publish a live surge multiplier to third parties, so SURGEDRIVER never fakes a 2.4x.
FBI crime stats
FBI Crime Data Explorer UCR rates, violent and property per 100k for the state and city the Census geocoder names. Used on the full-shift day plan so waits land in well-lit, busy public lots, not a high-crime dead pocket sold as surge. Drive skips the yearly crime pull so live cards stay fast. If the feed is missing, the plan says so. It never invents a crime number.
City and tract density
US Census ACS tract population and people per square mile. Drive uses the tract at your GPS. The day plan also samples density at the top dests. Dense grids favor wait-plus-short-trip. Sparse tracts need a reason to sit.
Household income
ACS median household income and home value for the tract. Affluent edges often mean airport, hotel, and dinner trips. That gets used with density, not as a stereotype of a whole city.
Airport landing banks
OpenSky counts aircraft descending near catalog airports inside your radius. Arrivals beat departures. If the feed is quiet or blocked, the cards say so. SURGEDRIVER never invents a landing bank.
Live events in cities
Ticketmaster concerts and sports inside your Settings radius, with venue, city, and real start times. Waits aim before doors and after let-out. Far venues never reach the prompt. Drive looks up events near you. The day plan can cover a wider disk with extra venue rings.
Cities inside your radius
A GeoNames worldwide city catalog filtered by live GPS and the miles you set in Settings (up to 500), then narrowed by the trip setup you apply on Drive or Plan: a direction of travel, a city to head toward, a cap on empty miles per hop. SURGEDRIVER hunts airports, events, and denser cities inside what is left. Sitting in a thin suburb hoping for a trip is not the plan.
Live traffic flow
TomTom speed vs free-flow on the street you are on. A jammed road makes a long empty expensive, so waiting or a shorter hop often wins. Incident details (closures, crashes) show on Drive when the TomTom key is set. The day plan also samples traffic at dest areas.
Open-Meteo weather
Rain, cloud, and temperature at your GPS. Wet streets change wait vs empty-drive math. When rain flips on, Drive can rewrite the live cards.
Street wait lots
Real public pins from nearby search: cafes, fuel, grocery, hotels, malls, restaurants. Home businesses and private event houses are dropped so Maps does not drop you on a driveway.
Not a heat map. A live path through go-home. Apps on until it is time to head home.
Now
Hunt the market
Thin tracts do not pay by sitting. Drive to airports, events, and dense downtowns inside your radius, apps on.
Next 1
22 min drive · trips on the way
When this pocket cools, the next window is a real dest. If nothing comes, wait there 10 minutes.
Next 2
Wait 15 min here
Events with real start times. The plan updates as GPS, clock, weather, traffic, and density change.
Next 3
Only trips toward home
Last window steers you toward home so the shift ends near your driveway, not across town.
Trip setup sits at the top of Drive and Plan. It shows what you picked: miles, direction, what to hunt, pace. Change the knobs, then tap Apply trip setup on Drive (or Refresh plan) or Rebuild with these on Plan. Nothing changes until that tap. After you apply, SURGEDRIVER has to follow those rules.
Hunt radius
Override your Settings radius for right now. Fifteen miles on a slow Tuesday, three hundred when you are willing to travel.
Direction of travel
North, east, south, or west. The next plan has to leave this neighborhood that way. Waiting the whole path in the town you are already in does not count. Hops over eight miles stay in that quadrant.
Head toward a city
Name where you want to end up working. Stops in that city, or on the way to it, get picked first. If nothing there pays this window, the plan says so.
What to hunt
Airports, events, nightlife, downtown, or stay local. It favors that kind of market and only leaves when nothing in it pays.
Pace
Chill keeps empty drives short. Grind accepts a longer empty for a better market. Balanced is the default.
Max empty miles
A hard cap per hop. No plan will send you farther than that on one empty drive.
Trip floor
Say you skip trips under a dollar amount and it picks spots where the typical fare clears it.
Break and wrap
Save a break for the softest hour. End near home keeps the last blocks on your side of town. Turn it off if you want to chase money to the last minute.
Avoid tolls
Skip toll roads and bridges when picking stops and the Maps route. Same rule as the rest of trip setup: nothing applies until Apply or Rebuild.
You flip between Uber and this app all shift. The layout is for the two seconds after you come back.
Glance line above the dock
While a shift is live, one line sits just above Drive, Plan, History, and More: the move, the countdown, the hourly, and a Go button into Maps. It stays clear of those taps, including after Apply trip setup or Refresh plan.
Tabs at the bottom
Drive, Plan, History, and More sit in a solid bar at the bottom, clear of the home indicator. More opens Account, Settings, About, and Log out.
One status line
When SURGEDRIVER is working, you get one message on screen, not a banner and a card both yelling at you.
The route in one tap
Open full route sends every stop to Apple Maps as a multi-stop drive, so you set navigation once. Speak this move reads the current card aloud.
Same GPS loop on phone and desktop. Trip setup sits at the top of Drive and Plan. On Drive, Apply trip setup or Refresh plan rebuilds cards; on Plan, Rebuild with these.
01
Drive
Trip setup at the top. Start now or Best start (2-8h). Live cards cover now through go-home from GPS, trip setup, and street feeds - separate from the day plan. Refresh plan when you want a new set for the time left. Speak this move. Open full route in one Maps session. Label paid vs empty as you roll.
02
Plan
Best start ranks today and tomorrow for a shift length you pick (2-8h), then Build this plan writes that window. Or build from now with go-home. Drive still follows live GPS on its own.
03
Ask
Type should I take this airport. The answer uses GPS, weather, traffic, density, events, paid vs empty, and your Settings notes - for this hour, not a long essay.
04
This-trip math
Paste pickup and drop. Empty miles to the ping and after the drop are priced with your MPG and hourly opportunity. Take, skip, or take-homeward.
05
History
Every ended shift: paid vs empty, the trace, and how it compared to the plan. Your hours heatmap, not someone else's surge blob.
06
Settings
Vehicle, MPG, gas, hourly opportunity, platforms, skip airports, hunt radius, notes, go-home time. One save. Drive, Ask, and this-trip math all read it.
07
Account
Name, email, plan, billing, invite link. One extra trial day for a driver who signs up with your code. Log out from here or from More on the phone.
Drive, Plan, Ask, this-trip math, History, and Settings share the same GPS loop. Trip setup sits at the top: tap Apply trip setup or Refresh plan on Drive, or Rebuild with these on Plan, before it counts. Phone dock at the bottom. Speak this move. Invite extra trial day.
Drive
Live cards through go-home
Wait here, drive there, take this trip, or head home. Built from GPS and street feeds. Glance at a light. Tap Maps when there is a dest.
Quick-glance line
While a shift is live, one line sits just above the phone dock: the move, the countdown, the hourly, and a Go button into Maps. Come back from Uber, read one line, drive. It never covers Drive, Plan, History, or More.
The route, not separate taps
The live cards are one chain. See each leg with miles from the previous stop, the compass heading, and time worked there. Open full route puts every stop in one Apple Maps session as a multi-stop drive.
Speak this move
One tap reads the current card aloud so you keep your eyes on the road. Same words as the card, not a second script.
Ask in plain language
Questions like should I take this airport use live GPS, weather, traffic, density, events, paid vs empty miles, and your Settings notes. One answer for this hour.
This-trip math
Paste a pickup and drop. Empty miles to the ping and after the drop are priced with your MPG and hourly opportunity. Take, skip, or take-homeward. Not a fake multiplier.
Paid vs empty miles
When the car moves, you label the miles. Empty is treated as a tax. That log feeds the next cards and stays in History after End shift.
Plan
Full-shift grid
One table from where you are now until go-home time, or a chosen start and length. Each block has area, strategy, demand, traffic, dollars per hour, expected earnings, empty miles, and Maps.
Best start today & tomorrow
Pick a shift length (2-8 hours). SURGEDRIVER ranks remaining today and all of tomorrow from your personal paid-mix hours, clock demand, and trip setup, then Build this plan writes that window.
Hop economics
Farther cities, airports, and events are priced against leftover hours: drive time, time on scene, empty cost, and whether hunting still beats sitting. Sitting idle in a low-density city is the miss. Empty miles cost money; they are not an automatic no.
Drive and Plan do different jobs
Drive's live cards follow live GPS while you are on shift. Plan is the full-shift grid and the Best start tool for today and tomorrow. Change trip setup and tap Apply or Rebuild when you want those knobs applied.
You
Trip setup you apply
Hunt radius, a city to head toward, direction of travel, what to hunt (airports, events, nightlife, downtown, or stay local), a cap on empty miles per hop, a trip floor, a break, pace, avoid tolls, and wrap near home. On Drive, tap Apply trip setup while live (or Refresh plan) to rebuild the live cards. On Plan, tap Rebuild with these. Then those settings apply on both screens.
Notes, radius, wrap time
Freeform notes (airports you refuse, neighborhoods you like). A hard radius ceiling. A go-home time that steers the last blocks toward home.
History
The shift you actually drove: pings, paid vs empty, a map of the trace, and an autopsy vs the plan you followed. Your own hours heatmap, not someone else's surge blob.
Invite a driver, they get an extra day
Share the invite link from Account. A new driver who uses your code gets one extra free trial day. You still take trips in Uber and Lyft.
Phone
Bottom dock that stays tappable
Drive, Plan, History, and More sit in a solid bar at the bottom of the phone, clear of the home indicator. After Apply trip setup or Refresh plan, those taps still work. More opens Account, Settings, About, and Log out.
Stay awake, keep GPS
Install to the home screen. Stay awake keeps the fix streaming when you flip to Uber. iPhones pause location in the background unless the app is installed.
Reliability
Backup plan, never blank cards
If the plan times out, the same cost math fills Drive and Plan from real pins, labelled as a backup. You are not staring at empty cards in the car.
GPS that keeps streaming
Wake lock, keepalive, and a service worker so the fix can continue when the tab is backgrounded. GPS, rain, and paid vs empty still update Drive. Trip setup waits until you tap Apply or Rebuild.
Account
3 days free, then weekly billing
You still take trips in Uber and Lyft. SURGEDRIVER sits beside them. Cancel anytime. Manage billing from Account.
Ordinary drivers open Uber and Lyft, see a colored area, and drive empty toward it. By the time you arrive the surge has often stopped. The ride you accept there may take you away from that area. Turning down every other trip to protect the chase can hurt your ranking. SURGEDRIVER gives you a loop that updates while you drive: wait, drive, or take the next trip instead of circling a color on the map.
Plans written for this street
Drive cards, Ask, and the day plan come from the server using your GPS and live feeds. There is no scoring engine on the phone. Pins in your radius get priced, then you get dests, waits, and a wrap. Local ranking is a shortlist, not the final word.
Updates while you drive
GPS keeps streaming. Weather, traffic, density, income, events, nearby cities, and (on Plan) crime stats feed the next move. When you move, rain starts, or you label paid vs empty, the cards can change.
Hunt the market, not the surge blob
Empty miles cost money. SURGEDRIVER sends you toward airports, events, and dense downtowns inside your radius. Sitting in a thin suburb hoping for a ping is usually the miss.
You set the rules
Pick radius, direction, a city to head toward, what to hunt, empty-mile cap, pace, avoid tolls, and wrap near home. On Drive, Apply trip setup or Refresh plan rebuilds the cards. On Plan, Rebuild with these. After that tap, those settings stick.
Without SURGEDRIVER
With SURGEDRIVER
Robotaxis do not get tired and they do not chase a color on a phone. They take the easy, repeatable trips. A human still wins on judgment: airports you skip, neighborhoods you know, a wrap time that actually pulls you home. SURGEDRIVER turns that judgment into a screen you can glance at at a light.
1
Create an account
3 days free. Open Drive as soon as you create an account.
2
Share location on Drive
Realtime GPS is how the plan follows the street you are on.
3
Keep the apps on
Take the next Uber or Lyft trip. SURGEDRIVER helps you decide where to be - it does not dispatch rides.
If you are going to drive Uber or Lyft tonight, drive it with a live plan and a shot at better hours - not a surge map and a hope.