Build Your Own Lyft Clone
Ride booking for a campus, a care service or a town, built from your description
Riders book a ride now or for later, drivers you approve accept it, and both see its status change. On Pro and Max, riders can pay through Stripe Checkout into your own Stripe account. Live maps and paying drivers their share are not built in.
- No coding required
- Database included
- Publish on Pro
- A Lyft-style ride booking app with rides booked now or ahead, driver sign-in, ride status, ratings and a dispatch page can be built from a plain-English description
- On Pro and Max, riders can pay through Stripe Checkout into your own Stripe account
- Live maps, directions, paying drivers their share and notifications about new rides are not built in
- Features a build includes
- 6Features a build includes
- Not built in
- 2Not built in
- Fabricate's share of your sales
- 0%Fabricate's share of your sales
- Opens in any browser
- WebOpens in any browser
What is Lyft?
Lyft is an app for booking rides from nearby drivers in cities across the United States and Canada.
Why Build Your Own Lyft Clone?
Rides for one group, such as students, patients or staff
Drivers you check and approve yourself
Fares and rules you set
Your own list of riders and drivers
What a Build Includes
Ask for the features marked Included and Fabricate builds them into your Lyft-style app. The ones marked Not built in are here so you know before you start.
Book Now or Later
Riders enter a pickup, a drop-off, a time and the number of seats, and see the fare from the zones you set before they confirm.
IncludedDriver Sign-In
Approved drivers see open rides, accept one and mark it on the way, picked up and done.
IncludedRide Status
Riders see each change of status on their ride. Ask for live updates and new messages and posts appear on open screens without a refresh, over a connection to the app's own server.
IncludedDispatch Page
You see every ride, assign a driver to a booked ride, approve new drivers and set the fares.
IncludedRatings and Notes
Riders rate each ride and leave a note, and you see every driver's ratings.
IncludedFares to You
On Pro and Max, riders can pay through Stripe Checkout into your own Stripe account.
IncludedLive Map
Showing where a driver is on a live map is not built in, and neither are directions.
Not built inDriver Earnings
Paying drivers their share of each fare is not built in, so you pay drivers yourself, or riders pay drivers directly.
Not built inBuild Your Lyft Clone in 3 Steps
- 1
Describe It
Tell Fabricate what features you want in your Lyft clone. Be as specific or general as you like.
- 2
Generate It
Fabricate builds it as a web app with its own database and sign-in, and on Pro and Max card payments into your own Stripe account. Try it in the preview and ask for changes in the same chat.
- 3
Launch It
Publish your clone with one click on Pro, and share its link with your first users.
What goes into a Lyft clone built with Fabricate
A Lyft clone is a ride booking app: a rider asks for a ride, a driver accepts it, and the ride moves from booked to done. Built with Fabricate, it is one web app made from your description, with a side for riders, a side for drivers and a dispatch page for you, all sharing one database.
Rides and drivers: riders book now or for a set time and see the fare from your zones. Drivers you approve see open rides and accept them, and you can assign booked rides yourself. Each change of status reaches the rider's open screen without a refresh when you ask for live updates.
Money: On Pro and Max, the app can take card payments through Stripe Checkout, paid into your own Stripe account, which you connect under More > Payments. Paying drivers their share of each fare is not built in, which suits volunteer drivers, staff drivers, or a firm that pays its drivers itself. Fabricate takes no share of what you are paid; Stripe charges its own card fees.
What is not built in: live maps, the driver's position, directions, text messages, notifications about new rides and phone apps from the App Store or Google Play. Riders and drivers use the app in their phone's browser.
Who Builds Lyft Clones?
Entrepreneurs and businesses building in these spaces
Campus Rides
Night rides for students, open only to a campus email address.
Rides to Appointments
Booked rides for older people or patients, with volunteer drivers.
A Town Car Service
A local taxi or car firm taking bookings online.
Carpools
Staff or parents sharing rides to the same place.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How is this different from an Uber clone?
- It is the same kind of app. This guide leans toward rides for one group, booked ahead, with drivers you approve; describe whichever fits your service.
- Can riders see the driver on a map?
- No. A live map, the driver's position and directions are not built in. Riders see each change of status, such as accepted, on the way and picked up, as soon as the driver sets it.
- How do fares work?
- You set fares by zone, a fixed price or a price per seat, and riders see it before they confirm. On Pro and Max, the app can take card payments through Stripe Checkout, paid into your own Stripe account, which you connect under More > Payments. Fabricate takes no share of what you are paid; Stripe charges its own card fees.
- How do drivers get paid?
- On Pro and Max, the app can take card payments through Stripe Checkout, paid into your own Stripe account, which you connect under More > Payments. That money goes to you: paying drivers their share of each fare is not built in, so it suits a platform where drivers pay you a fee to join, or where riders pay drivers directly. Fabricate takes no share of what you are paid; Stripe charges its own card fees.
- Does it work on phones?
- Yes, in the phone's browser. It is a web app: it opens from its link in any phone or computer browser, and anyone can add it to their home screen from the browser. It is not an App Store or Google Play app. Published as a phone app on Pro and Max, it can remind each person on their own phone at a time they set; notifications about new activity, such as a new message, are not built in.
- Is it legal to build a Lyft clone?
- Building an app that works in a similar way is common, but do not use Lyft's name, logo, design or content. Fabricate writes your app's code from your description and does not copy Lyft's code. Pick a name of your own, and ask a lawyer if you are unsure.
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Read guideReady to Build Your Lyft Clone?
Describe the Lyft-style app you want and watch Fabricate build it in the preview. Build free, go live on Pro.