The myTaxi app lets you see which cabs are nearby.

If you want to hail a cab but want to avoid the uncertainty inherent in holding up your hand on the side of the street, all you need is a smart phone.

Today myTaxi, a new taxi-hailing app, arrives in D.C., joining the likes of Taxi Magic in the competitive marketplace of innovative solutions to daily taxi-related problems.

Much like Hailo, which is planning on coming to D.C. next year, myTaxi got its start in Europe and uses the city’s traditional taxicabs. Riders download the app for free, hail a cab and pay with their credit card; a 99-cent charge for the service’s use is charged to drivers.

There are currently 18,000 drivers and 1.7 million riders that use the app in Europe, and company representatives expect that number to grow with D.C.’s addition—the first U.S. market it has jumped into.

So will myTaxi suffer the same regulatory fate at high-end livery service Uber, which has been hounded by the D.C. Taxicab Commission? Likely not, because like Taxi Magic and Hailo, myTaxi merely dispatches cabs that are already on the road. According to Taxicab Commissioner Ron Linton, private dispatch services that use the existing taxicab fleet are perfectly fine.