Crossroads Trading vs Parking Kitty
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crossroads Trading
Discover fashionable, eco-conscious resale clothing. Sell gently used items for cash or trade, and shop name-brand and designer pieces at great prices. Find stores, check hours, and reserve your spot in line.
- Find nearby stores
- Check store hours and services
- View seller queue
- Reserve a spot in line
- Receive turn notifications
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With more than 100 “Best of” awards, Crossroads has been leading the resale fashion industry for over 25 years. Our fashionable and eco-conscious customers sell gently used clothing for cash or trade; shop for name-brand and designer clothing at amazing prices and help keep clothing out of landfill. The Crossroads app lets you: - Find a store near you. - Check store hours, services, and number of sellers in line. - Reserve a spot in line. - Receive a notification when it is your turn.
Parking Kitty
Manage your entire parking experience directly from your smartphone. Pay for parking, extend your session, and receive notifications about your remaining time. This official city app simplifies street parking.
- Pay for parking sessions
- Extend parking time remotely
- Receive low time notifications
- Manage parking history
- Get email receipts
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Parking just got easier in Portland! Parking Kitty, the City of Portland’s official mobile parking app, provides users with the convenience of handling the entire parking experience from their smartphone. Park, pay, extend and manage your parking session from your fingertips. It’s the cat’s meow! Get Started Today: Download the free Parking Kitty app Park where you see the Parking Kitty signs Pay for your parking session from your phone The Perks of Parking Kitty: - Receive “meow” notifications when your parking session time is low - Extend your parking session through the app - Receive email receipts at the end of your parking session - Manage your parking history through the mobile app Parking Kitty mobile parking app is making Portland meow! Make your parking experience as simple as possible -- download Parking Kitty today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Parking Kitty at 4.9 against Crossroads Trading's 2.2. Parking Kitty also leads on review sentiment (60% vs 18%) and ratings volume (9.4K vs 30). Crossroads Trading's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 35 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Parking Kitty holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Parking Kitty has 9.4K ratings behind it against 30, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 18% of Crossroads Trading's written reviews are positive against 60% of Parking Kitty's.
Crossroads Trading ships an update every 6 weeks, Parking Kitty every 35 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Crossroads Trading | Parking Kitty |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (30 ratings) | 4.9 (9.4K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 17.8% of reviews | 60.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 30 | 9.4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 35 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 13 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Crossroads Trading Co. | City of Portland |
Customer experience
Crossroads Trading
Parking Kitty
User reviews
Crossroads Trading
From 30 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple app for selling
- 👍 Works great for me
- 👍 Wait-list function worked as expected
- 👍 App works for me
- 👍 Worked and it was fast
Room to improve
- 🐛 UI is absolutely awful
- 🐛 No map view option
- 🐛 Pixelated share button thumbnail
- 🐛 Poor user experience
- 🐛 App doesn’t function
Parking Kitty
From 9.4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Convenient
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 👍 Simplicity
- 👍 Intuitive interface
- 👍 Saves time
Room to improve
- 🐛 Doesn't work with UK debit cards
- 💰 Excessive fees/surcharges
- 🚫 Can't cancel/end sessions early
- 🚫 Doesn't recognize UK mobile numbers
- 🚫 Predatory monopoly practices
Bugs and requests
Crossroads Trading
Reported bugs
10 issues- App did not populate with all locations nearby upon first launch
- Waitlist function sometimes fails to add user
- App kicks users off waitlist randomly
- App adds names multiple times or not at all to waitlist
- App removes users from waitlist without notification
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- App sometimes shows store as closed when it's not
- App doesn't work without WiFi
- Sign in tab disappears intermittently
- App doesn't allow adding to waitlist
- App doesn't work on latest iteration of iPad
Requested features
12 requests- Map view option
- Invest in a quality app
- Enable location sharing
- Improve app design
- Add check-in option
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- Fix waitlist functionality
- Ensure app works for all locations
- Add support for all US states
- Make sign-in tab consistently available
- Enable waitlist sign-up
- Improve app reliability
- Add dark mode option
Parking Kitty
Reported bugs
2 issues- Glitches causing multiple simultaneous charges
- Inconsistent parking enforcement despite app payment
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to pay and extend time from Apple Watch
- Provide option to rollover unused parking time
- Add ability to end parking sessions early
- Improve notification system to better alert users of expiring time
- Integrate zone identification based on geolocation
In-app purchases
Crossroads Trading
No in-app purchases
Parking Kitty
No in-app purchases
Questions
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