Lights off at night. A wheel cap about to fly off. Someone blocked you in at the mall. Tariq turns a 10-second voice note into a polite, useful message — straight to the right car, nowhere else.
Most car apps are built to grow engagement. Tariq is built to make the road safer with the least possible drama. Three pillars hold the whole thing up.
Tariq has no public profile, no comments, no public map of "bad drivers." A message you send goes to one place — the inbox of the car you sent it to. The only reply they can give is one of four emoji.
When you record a note, Tariq reads the plate from your voice and routes it to whoever owns that car in the app. The owner stays anonymous to you. You stay anonymous to them. The only thing they see is what you actually said about the car.
No premium tier, no in-app purchase, no "verified" badge for money. The Stripe SDK is not even installed in the app. The cost of running Tariq sits with us, on purpose, so the tool stays usable for everyone who needs it.
Tariq is not a complaint platform. It's a quiet channel between two drivers who don't know each other but probably want the same thing — a small problem fixed before it becomes a big one.
Dubai roads are well-lit, so a driver with their headlights off often has no idea — until someone behind them flashes high beams in frustration. You can do better than a flash.
Hold the mic, say "your headlights are off on Sheikh Zayed Road heading north." Tariq sends a polite ping to the car. If the owner has Tariq, they see it inside five seconds and switch the lights on.
You come back from groceries and a black SUV has parked right behind you in the mall garage. Today: you wait for security, or you knock on doors, or you wait an hour.
Hold the mic and read the plate. Tariq pings the car directly. The driver gets a notification on their phone and can come move it. No phone numbers exchanged, no public shaming.
A pickup ahead of you has a mattress that's starting to slide. A trailer hitch looks loose. A wheel cap is dangling. The driver can't see it from the cabin.
A voice note describing what you saw, attached to their plate. Tariq translates and structures it. They get one message — "the load on your truck is slipping" — with enough detail to pull over safely.
You're behind a sedan whose left brake light is out. They've probably been driving like this for weeks because nobody told them, and a Salik fine for non-functioning brakes is on the way.
Tariq drops them a one-time, polite note. No follower count, no comments, no shaming — just the information they needed.
A driver pulled out of a petrol station with the fuel cap dangling. Someone else has their rear door not properly latched. Visible to everyone except them.
Five seconds of voice, and the car owner gets a heads-up. We never publish it, never put it on a map, never sell it. It's between you and them.
A wallet, a child's toy, a phone — slipped off the roof when someone drove off from a parking spot. You picked it up and want to get it back to them.
Tariq doesn't share contact info. But the owner gets your message ("something of yours fell off near Marina Walk gate 3"), and can reply with the four-emoji acknowledgement so you know they're on their way back.
Two flows: one to set up your own car so the world can ping you, and one to ping someone else when you spot something on the road. Neither needs a phone number to get started.
iOS first, Android right after. Free, no card, nothing to sign up for upfront. The app opens in under a second on a recent phone.
Open the camera, take one photo of the front (with the driver door open — we use that as proof you have the car), and one photo of the rear. Tariq reads the plate, the make, the model, and the colour from those two photos. You confirm. That's it.
Your car has a private inbox that only you can see. If anyone on the road wants to ping you about something they noticed on your car, the message lands here. We tell you when it arrives, and you can acknowledge with one of four emoji.
Headlight off, hazard, blocked-in, anything from the use-cases above. Open Tariq. Tap the big mic at the bottom of the home screen and start talking. You don't have to follow a script — say what you saw, say the plate if you can.
We transcribe the audio in any language we recognise, read the plate from what you said, structure the rest (what you saw, where, when), and turn it into a short polite message. Original audio is deleted once we're done. Only the structured message is kept.
If the car is registered in Tariq, the owner gets a push notification with your message. If the car is not registered yet, we hold the message — when someone signs up that plate later, they see it then. Either way, the message only ever goes to that one car.
The only reply they can send is one of four: 👍 (got it), ❤️ (thanks), ✅ (fixed it), 🙏 (appreciated). You see the reply on your phone. No back-and-forth chat, no phone numbers exchanged, no public comments.
If you receive a message about your car that's wrong — wrong plate, wrong car, wrong situation — there's a one-tap "this isn't my car" or "this seems off" button. Tariq routes those to a human reviewer.
Tariq does not run a public feed of bad drivers. We don't publish counts of how many messages a plate has received. We don't share location history with anyone. We don't share your phone number with the car you message, and we don't share the car owner's number with you. Messages exist between two cars, not two profiles.
What happens if someone messages your car about something that isn't true? What happens if you lose your phone? What happens if you delete the app? Here's what Tariq actually does in each of those cases.
Open Tariq, take two photos of your car, and you're in. Email is an optional Settings field used only as a fast way to recover your cars on a new phone (we verify it with a 4-digit code we email you). Phone is an optional Settings field we never verify and never SMS. Both are entirely up to you.
Tariq is a tool to send a useful message to another driver, nothing more. It is not hands-free, it is not voice-only, and using it while operating a vehicle is dangerous and on you, not us. The app shows a one-tap pull-over reminder every time you record. Driving safely is 100% the driver's responsibility.
When you record a message, we transcribe it, structure it, and delete the original audio once the pipeline finishes. Only the polite text version is stored. The raw recording does not sit on our servers.
When you send a message, we record where you were (rough location) so the receiving driver can place "ah, that was near the Marina exit." We do not publish a map of who messaged whom, and we do not show movement history to anyone.
Your data lives in AWS Europe (Milan). UAE PDPL allows cross-border processing when the destination jurisdiction provides equivalent protection — the EU does, and we collect your consent at signup as a belt-and-braces addition.
No premium tier, no in-app purchases, no card collection — ever. The Stripe SDK is not installed in the mobile app, so the option literally does not exist on your phone. The cost of running the service sits with us, by design.
Settings → Delete account removes your user record, your cars, your sent and received messages, and your push tokens. We retain only what we are legally required to (a minimal audit trail of admin moderation actions) and we name what that is in the Privacy Policy.
Authoritative details live in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
iOS first, Android shortly after. If you want to know the moment we're on the App Store — or you're a journalist, a fleet operator, a road-safety researcher, or anyone else who wants early access — just write to us.
hello@mytariq.comOne reply at launch, then nothing. We don't run a newsletter and we never sell email addresses.