HotSpot Parking Reviews: Is It Legit?
Customer Experience
~ Based on 287 written reviews from the US App Store.
What users say about HotSpot Parking
Reviews of HotSpot Parking are mostly negative: the Navigation app is rated 4.3/5 from 482 App Store ratings. What users like most: convenient, easy to use. Top complaints: crashes frequently, glitchy and unreliable. Summarized from real user reviews.
Positive things
- 🚀Convenient
- 🚀Easy to use
- 🚀Instantaneous refunds
- 🚀Exceptional customer service
Negative things
- 🐛Crashes frequently
- 🐛Glitchy and unreliable
- 🤑Expensive with hidden fees
- 🤔Confusing and unintuitive UI
- 🤔Requires mandatory membership
- 🤔Minimum wallet balance requirement
- 🤔Difficult to manage account and vehicles
Is HotSpot Parking Safe?
HotSpot Parking appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for HotSpot Parking is 85/100.
This assessment is based on 482 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.3/5.
Safety Analysis
~ Based on 477 App Store ratings for HotSpot Parking.
Is HotSpot Parking Legit?
HotSpot Parking appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for HotSpot Parking is 95/100.
Based on 95 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.
Top reviews
Couldn’t even get started with this app. Just kept giving me a message to make sure my license plate number was correct when trying to add a vehicle. Apparently it doesn’t recognize vanity plates as valid.
App is so slow wants tons of information and I can’t have multiple parking sessions at once. Feature poor info taker
It just crashes when I click into manage my plan!! That’s something wrong with the app. And when I try to use the webpage to do that, it doesn’t have a cancel function!!!
Doesn’t always register your money at the metre
I have to deposit $10 for a one time parking in a town that I visit once in a blue moon. Moon. That’s ridiculous. So many better apps that other towns use. I need to get this town to switch over. Passport Parking is way better. You want your town to be friendly to visitors don’t use this app.
This parking app, is the best app to use in Vancouver, much easier than the other common app in the Lower Mainland and no surcharge!
I purchased the monthly membership, but when I tried to cancel it there is no way through the app or browser to do so. I had to contact support and I am still waiting for their help. Not having an option to cancel a membership is criminal.
Just awful. Looks like it was made in the early 2000s and nobody tested it. Won’t let you add your car until you close and reopen the app several times. No error messages, the “add car” button just blinks and does nothing. Can’t use Apple Pay. A bunch of other stuff doesn’t work well. Avoid if possible but unfortunately my stupid city forces us to use it for all city parking. Brutal.
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The app tricks you into signing up for a monthly membership when your just trying to pay for parking. They are counting on you not noticing the $3-$6 charge. When you go to cancel the membership there is no option to cancel only upgrade. Do not use you will be scammed. This app should be banned from Apple Store until they correct it.
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There is a convenience fee but it really is not convenient. So many features are not available unless you pay extra for membership. If you’re paying for parking, use the kiosk as there is no fee and it takes credit card.
Hard to use. I paid and can’t access my account.
This app and company are garbage. A scam to steel money from people. We were far better off without. More than half the features do not work on iPhone and even the web browser version get stuck cycling through the same page over and over.
Hope you’re never forced to use this app.
The app is full of upsells and requires things like a $10 minimum payment with no refunds. Is parking $3? If you avoid the upsells, it’s a $7 donation to the company. It’s shocking that universities would partner with this company—what a way to leave a bad first impression on a campus tour.
Complicated and make you add money in 10s
The rates are obnoxious and hard to book more than a set limit without having to pay for 12 hours. Surely there has got to be a better functionality.
I like the refund option.
Super frustrated with this app. Local transit agency phased out a perfectly functional app that alerted you when your meter was about to expire and gave you the opportunity to extend. The agency promised that HotSpot would provide the same feature, but I get zero alerts of any kind (text, notification, banner, call, nothing) in spite of notifications being enabled. There is no setting or option within the app itself that relates to notifications. What is the point of a parking meter app (and what is the point of paying an extra fee on every transaction) if the one useful feature we were promised doesn’t exist?? Better off just paying the meter with a debit card.
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This app is awful. Has crashed multiple times and also won’t let you cancel a membership plan within the app. It does let you upgrade and pay more.
Why I need all of this functions?? Just let me add plate nr and spot location. That’s all! Also it’s not working, I can’t add a vehicle!
