Free Now (service)
| Formerly | mytaxi |
|---|---|
| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Mobility as a service |
| Predecessors | mytaxi, Hailo, Clever Taxi, Beat, Kapten |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Founders | Niclaus Mewes Sven Külper |
| Headquarters | , Germany |
Area served | Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom |
Key people | Thomas Zimmermann (CEO) Lennart Zipfel (CFO) |
| Services | Vehicle for hire, taxi, carsharing, e-scooter, electric bicycle, e-moped |
| Owner | Lyft |
Number of employees | ~1,000 (2025) |
| Divisions | Freenow for Business |
| Website | www |
Freenow, stylized as freenow, a division of Lyft, is a mobility-as-a-service provider headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. It operates a mobile app that allows users to book taxis, private hire vehicles and various micromobility options such as e-scooters, e-bikes, e-mopeds and carsharing services. Freenow operates in over 150 cities in nine European countries.
The mobile app can be used to book e-scooters from scooter-sharing systems including Dott, Tier and Voi, e-mopeds from Emmy, Felyx and Cooltra, and e-bikes. The platform also offers access to carsharing services through partners such as Share Now and Sixt.