We tried the new app that thinks it can beat Uber to take over New York

Kif Leswing

Jun 9, 2016, 22:10 IST

Kif Leswing

New Yorkers now have another way to call a taxi from their phone: Juno, a new ride-hailing app that is looking to poach drivers and passengers away from Uber.

Juno was founded by Talmon Marco, an entrepreneur who made a fortune when Viber, the messaging app he founded, was sold to Rakuten for $900 million.

Basically, Juno says that it's much friendlier to drivers than Uber and Lyft - it pays them more, for example. But to riders, that doesn't matter as much as whether the app works as advertised.

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The new app was quietly launched in beta earlier this month, and we took a ride. Here's what it's like:

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