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Live from drivers
Jams, crashes, potholes and water on the road, reported in two taps and confirmed by the next drivers who pass. Old reports fade on their own.
Free · Arabic · Kurdish · English
Iraq's roads, live. Reported by the people driving them.
Zarzur is a navigation app built in Erbil for the way Iraq really drives: live alerts from other drivers, directions by landmarks you can see, and arrival times that know Baghdad at 2 pm on a Thursday.
2taps
to report a flood, a crash or a fuel queue
60s
between live traffic updates on every route
3languages
Arabic, Sorani and English, right to left where it should be
300m
trimmed from both ends of every trip, so your door stays private
01 · Live rerouting
The bridge just jammed. You're already on another road.
When a faster way opens up, Zarzur shows it as a calm card with a countdown, not a pop-up. It says how much it saves and why: an accident on al-Jumhuriya bridge, a flooded underpass, a standstill near Tahrir Square. Tap Cancel if you know better.
- Up to three routes, each with a plain reason: fewer reports, avoids flooding, toll
- Switches only when it saves more than 3 minutes or 10%
- Paid placement never changes your route. Ever.
Illustrative screens. Live numbers appear in the app.
02 · Why Zarzur
Made for Iraqi roads, not adapted to them.
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Landmarks, not house numbers
“Turn right after Mansour Mall.” “Second lane after the blue mosque.” Directions the way people in Iraq actually give them.
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Arrive by, not just leave now
Tell Zarzur when you need to be there. It learns each road by the quarter hour and nudges you when it's time to go.
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Private by default
Drive without an account. Trip IDs rotate every trip, the ends of every trace are cut off, and data stays in the region.
03 · Community reports
Two taps. Then every driver behind you knows.
The report button is always under your thumb. Pick a tile, pick how bad, done. The drivers who pass next get one quiet question, only when they are slow or stopped: still there, or gone?
The thank-you loop
Every report you send comes back as a number: how many drivers it reached and how many minutes it saved them. That number is why people keep reporting.
04 · Built for here
The hazards no other map plans for.
Flooded underpasses
After the first winter rain, Baghdad's underpasses fill up. Drivers mark them, and routes steer around until someone reports them dry.
Fuel queues and prices
Open, long queue or no fuel, with the price per litre in dinars. Search “fuel on my route” and sort by detour minutes, not distance.
Arbaeen and event closures
Pilgrimage routes, Muharram processions and marathon days go on the map as official closures with start and end times.
Erbil's ring roads
Lane guidance for the 60m, 100m and 120m roads and Baghdad's big roundabouts, with a close-up before the complex junctions.
Dust storms
Low-visibility alerts pushed in your language when a storm rolls in, and slower, safer arrival times while it lasts.
Light on data
Vector maps, no autoplay photos, batched uploads. Settings shows exactly how many megabytes Zarzur used this month.
05 · Landmark directions
Directions you can see through the windscreen.
Iraq has few house numbers people use, so Zarzur speaks in landmarks: malls, mosques, roundabout monuments, the big shops everyone knows. For your own door, drop a pin and describe it once. Share it as one link.
Lane guidance on multi-lane roundabouts
06 · Arrive later
Need to be there at nine? Zarzur picks the minute you leave.
Zarzur keeps a picture of every road for every 15 minutes of every weekday. Set an arrive-by time and it checks live traffic again 45, 20 and 5 minutes before you should go.
07 · Privacy
Your trips are yours. We only need the traffic.
300m
cut from the start and end of every trace, so home and work never show
30days
then raw GPS points are deleted and only road averages remain
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personal ad profiles. Ads use the road and the time of day, never you
08 · Download
Coming to Android first.
Zarzur is being built in Erbil right now. The store buttons below switch on the day it ships.
Coming soonGoogle PlayComing soonApp Store
Android first. iPhone right after. Free, with no account needed to drive.