Parking Kitty vs SmartTrips
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
SmartTrips
Easily log your daily commutes and travel methods, including walking, biking, ride-sharing, and public transit. Make a positive impact on your community by tracking your journeys.
- Log walking trips
- Log biking trips
- Log ride-share trips
- Log bus trips
- Track journeys in Whatcom County
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Walk, bike, share a ride or ride the bus. Make a difference anywhere you go. Track your SmartTrips in Whatcom County using the new SmartTrips mobile app! The app allows you to quickly and easily log your trips while you're out and about.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Parking Kitty at 8.8K against SmartTrips's 1. SmartTrips's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Parking Kitty against 5.0 for SmartTrips. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Parking Kitty has 8.8K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Parking Kitty | SmartTrips |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (8.8K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8.8K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 35 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | City of Portland | Whatcom Council of Governments |
Customer experience
Parking Kitty
SmartTrips
Bugs and 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
SmartTrips
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Parking Kitty
No in-app purchases
SmartTrips
No in-app purchases
