Stranger Things to Do Seattle vs Parking Kitty
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stranger Things to Do Seattle
Discover curated local events like live music, theater, and food. Get event details, buy tickets, and save favorites. Never have a boring weekend again with suggestions for last-minute activities.
- Curated local event calendar
- Event details and reviews
- Ticket purchasing
- Save favorite events
- Last-minute suggestions
- Event sharing
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The easiest way to decide what to do tonight or this weekend. Pick from events curated by local experts—including live music, theater, concerts, art, movies, food, and drink—or search our calendar. Get tickets, too! With Stranger Things To Do, you can: • Get easy access to Seattle’s most comprehensive events calendar, curated and edited daily by local experts who live, work, and go out in Seattle (we really know what we’re talking about). • Browse upcoming events individually or see filtered lists of daily suggestions. • See recommendations and read reviews from trusted arts critics at The Stranger, Seattle’s Pulitzer Prize–winning newspaper. • Discover quirky, offbeat, and unusual events. • Never have a boring weekend again, with suggestions for last-minute things to do for weekends and holidays. • View details about events all in one place, including price, time, maps, and directions, plus real descriptions written by Stranger Things To Do editors. • Buy tickets for the hottest upcoming events before they sell out. • Save favorite events in the app and get reminders, or save events to your phone calendar. • Easily share events with e-mail, messages, Facebook, Twitter, and more, because events are better with friends. • Search every event on our extensive online calendar to find exactly what you’re looking for. Stranger Things To Do: Going out made easy.
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 Stranger Things to Do Seattle's 2.2. Parking Kitty also leads on ratings volume (9.4K vs 14) and review sentiment (60% vs 47%). Stranger Things to Do Seattle's advantage is update cadence (every 5 months vs every 35 months) and iOS requirement (8.1 vs 13). 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 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Stranger Things to Do Seattle's written reviews are positive against 60% of Parking Kitty's.
Stranger Things to Do Seattle ships an update every 5 months, Parking Kitty every 35 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stranger Things to Do Seattle | Parking Kitty |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (14 ratings) | 4.9 (9.4K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.4% of reviews | 59.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 9.4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 35 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.1 — better | 13 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Noisy Creek, Inc. | City of Portland |
Customer experience
Stranger Things to Do Seattle
Parking Kitty
Bugs and requests
Stranger Things to Do Seattle
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Stranger Things to Do Seattle
No in-app purchases
Parking Kitty
No in-app purchases
Questions
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