One app for everything essential in Rwanda
Rwandans rely on multiple apps to manage their digital lives with services such as applying for government services, settling traffic fines, paying for utilities, accessing healthcare, ordering food, reading news, and accessing other essential services usually means navigating a fragmented digital landscape.
Each service requires a separate app or platform, leading to cluttered devices, wasted storage, and a frustrating user experience. Difficulty juggling multiple accounts, remembering passwords, and managing security settings across different apps also increases the risk of data breaches.
IremboApp aims to solve these challenges by bringing the most essential services into a single, secure platform. Instead of switching between different apps, users can manage key services in one place, saving time while ensuring their data remains protected.
Starting with the most requested services
The first version of IremboApp, which is available in Kinyarwanda, English and French, focuses on high-demand government services that affect millions of people.
Citizens can apply for birth, celibacy, and marriage certificates or access them securely and easily in the app's safe box, protected by the phone's PIN, fingerprint, or Face ID.
Additionally, citizens can easily check and pay for community-based health insurance (mutuelle de santé) in just a few taps.
Finally, most people only realize they have traffic fines when checking manually or getting stopped by the police. With IremboApp, citizens receive an in-app notification when a fine is issued, and they can pay with one tap to avoid late penalties.
IremboApp 1.0 also comes with time-saving personalization and convenience features such as saving their MTN MoMo or Airtel Money number in the app and use it whenever they need to make a payment without repeatedly entering their payment details. They can also save their car details in the app to never miss a traffic fine again.
"IremboApp is a vision for a simplified, personalized, and localized digital future for Rwanda's consumers," said Israel BIMPE, CEO of Irembo.
"We are starting with the most popular government services because they impact everyone's life. But this is just the beginning. We aim to create a comprehensive super app that delivers breakthrough convenience and safety in consumers' digital lives by putting essential services they need right in the palm of their hands," he added.
Early users are already feeling the impact
For example, motorcycle taxi riders can use the IremboApp to manage some essential services. With it, everything comes through effortlessly. You can get notified whenever there's a fine and can pay it easily and at any time.
The good thing is that the app is available in Kinyarwanda, unlike most phone apps, which are commonly either in English or French.
How to get started
IremboApp is available now on Google Play and the App Store. After downloading the app, getting started is quick and easy;
Begin by logging in with your Irembo account or create one using your phone number and National ID. Add your car details (license plate and TIN) to receive real-time traffic fine notifications and pay with one tap. Easily access your certificates or apply for one in a few taps.
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