Single-driver dispatch, mobile-only workflow, route-of-day prep — built for one person and one phone.
If you're one person with one vehicle doing 8–25 stops a day, you don't need fleet-management software — you need a fast multi-stop route planner that fits in your pocket. SortDrops Free gives you 15 stops per route and 3 routes per day at zero cost, no card, no app install. SortDrops Pro at $9.99/mo raises the limit to 200 stops and unlimited routes, still mobile-first, still no app. Solo drivers are our most-served segment.
A solo driver IS the dispatcher. There is no separate person taking orders, planning routes, and sending drivers out — it's all one person, usually on a phone, often between deliveries. The right tool has to work in 30-second windows, on a 6-inch screen, with a paste-from-WhatsApp address list. SortDrops is built around exactly this workflow: paste addresses, tap optimize, tap navigate, drive. The Free plan is enough for most solo days.
The biggest mistake solo drivers make is planning the day at the start and never re-planning. Customers cancel, new pickups come in, traffic changes — and a solo driver typically just keeps driving the original order, eating the inefficiency. SortDrops makes it cheap to re-plan: paste the updated stop list, tap optimize, get a new route in under 2 seconds. Re-planning twice a day is normal in our solo-driver usage data.
Mobile-only is not a limitation, it's the design centre. SortDrops driver-link works on iPhone Safari and Android Chrome with no app install. The dispatcher app (where you paste addresses) works the same. Most solo drivers never touch a desktop in their working day — and they don't have to.
A typical solo-courier morning: 07:30, you grab coffee and check WhatsApp / Telegram / SMS for the morning's pickup roster. Customers send addresses in mixed formats — landmark, plot number, Google Pin URL, free text. You paste the addresses into SortDrops on your phone, tap optimize, and in under 2 seconds the app shows you a route ordering. Tap navigate, your phone hands off to Google Maps with all stops pre-loaded in the optimized order. Drive.
Mid-morning a customer cancels. You delete the stop in SortDrops, tap optimize again, the route updates. A new pickup comes in at 10:30 — paste the address into SortDrops, tap optimize, route updates. The whole flow takes 15 seconds per change.
End of day: you've done 20 stops across 95 km. Without optimization that same load would have been 110–115 km — about a 15-km saving, or roughly 25 minutes of driving time and AED 8–12 of fuel. Multiply by 22 working days a month, that's 550 km saved and AED 175–260/month. SortDrops Pro at $9.99/mo pays for itself within the first week of any reasonably busy solo month.
The free plan covers most solo-driver days: 15 stops per route, 3 routes per day, Google Maps navigation, 7-day route history, share-link for any route. Most solo couriers in the GCC do 8–18 stops per day on a single loop — fully covered.
Pro at $9.99/mo unlocks 200 stops per route, unlimited routes per day, Waze and Apple Maps as navigation targets, Excel/CSV upload, permanent share-links, and 30-day history. It's the right upgrade for any solo courier who occasionally exceeds 15 stops, runs more than 3 loops per day, or wants persistent route history for invoicing.
Solo drivers do not need the Team plan. Team is for multi-driver dispatch with the live-tracking, proof-of-delivery, and dispatcher-screen workflow described in our by-fleet-size/small and by-fleet-size/medium pages.
No. The free plan is permanent — no card, no trial expiry, no time limit. 15 stops per route, 3 routes per day, forever. You only pay if you upgrade to Pro for higher limits.
Yes. SortDrops is a Progressive Web App — it runs in your phone browser. You can optionally 'add to home screen' for an app-like icon, but no App Store or Google Play install is required. This is one of our biggest wins for drivers in markets with mixed phone hardware.
Sub-2 seconds for 15 stops, sub-5 seconds for 100 stops. The math runs server-side; your phone just sends the stop list and gets the optimized order back. Mobile data over a normal LTE connection is enough.
Yes. We use OpenStreetMap road data, which has comprehensive coverage in all four target markets. Geocoding accepts addresses in English, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, and most local language scripts.