Park Smarter

With Park Smarter™, just park and walk away as you pay!

"Park Smarter" is an innovative Android app that simplifies your parking experience. With just a few taps, you can find available spots, pay seamlessly, and extend your session remotely. Say goodbye to parking tickets and towing worries with real-time notifications. Manage multiple vehicles and payment methods all in one place, making it perfect for both personal and business parking needs. Developed by IPS Group, Inc., it offers advanced and affordable smart parking solutions.

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By:: IPS Group Inc
Downloads:: 443,075+ 1.04K
Rating:: 1.72
(1,441) 3 new ratings
Version:: 4.1.6 (Last updated: 2025-03-06)
Version code:: 144
Creation date:: 2017-05-18
Permissions:: FOREGROUND_SERVICE_TYPE_MEDIA_PROJECTION
android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION
android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION
android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE
android.permission.BLUETOOTH_CONNECT
android.permission.BLUETOOTH_SCAN
android.permission.CAMERA
android.permission.DETECT_SCREEN_CAPTURE
android.permission.FLASHLIGHT
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Size:: 46.70M
Email:: Mo*****@ipsgroupinc.com
URLs:: Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Google Play Store
Updated:: a day ago

Ranking

# 94,247 ▲ 136

User reviews

Users find Park Smarter conceptually convenient for mobile parking payment and checking time remaining. However, persistent problems ruin the experience: app crashes, login and payment failures, unreliable notifications causing tickets, complicated sign-up processes, and exclusion of some phone numbers. Many mention slow or unsuccessful zone and meter detection. Additional fees and poor integration with parking infrastructure further frustrate users. Overall, the app is seen as unreliable, inconvenient, and a source of parking penalties, with multiple users advising against it.

Pros

Allows payment for parking via phone, which can be convenient.
Enables users to check remaining parking time remotely.
Receives occasional positive remarks for initial concept and convenience potential.

Cons

Frequent app crashes and freezes, causing inability to pay or login.
Unreliable payment processing leading to no active session despite payment and resulting in tickets.
Notifications about parking time expiry often do not work, leading to parking violations.
Complex and frustrating user experience including cumbersome sign-up, multiple authentications, and repeated input of personal info.
Dependence on certain mobile phone carriers for registration excludes users with unsupported numbers.
Extra fees charged by the app that are higher than meter fees.
Inability to extend parking time once expired or add partial time increments.
Poor communication with parking systems leading to false error messages or failure to load zones.
App searching/loading zones or meters often fails or takes excessive time.

Recent reviews

Need to create a password for your account(which is only tied to a phone number, which is rather stupid itself). No big deal, whatever. In spite of meeting prerequisites for password the app insists that you didn't meet the final requirement of adding a special character(!@#$%^ etc). Waste of time and space on my phone.

Carlos De La Fuente, 2025-01-04

Tried it for the first time today. I don't know if it worked when I scanned or not, it just went back to the map. Left there almost 2 hours ago, still no notification or anything that it is not charging us or how much the charge was. Finally decided to check the app and it says it is having difficulties and to try again.