Parking Kitty vs Smooth Roots
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.
Smooth Roots
Access exclusive offers, discounts, and promotions from this Oregon-based company. Connect with like-minded individuals and businesses on its integrated social networking platform.
- Exclusive offers and discounts
- Promotions and product drops
- Social networking platform
- Connect with individuals and businesses
- Mobile access to company updates
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Welcome to the Smooth Roots family! Download our mobile application to get access to exclusive offers, discounts, promotions, product drops and much more.
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Verdict
Parking Kitty and Smooth Roots both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Smooth Roots's written reviews are positive against 60% of Parking Kitty's. Smooth Roots also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 35 months). Parking Kitty's advantage is ratings volume (9.3K vs 6). 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 4.8 for Smooth Roots. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Parking Kitty has 9.3K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 60% of Parking Kitty's written reviews are positive against 100% of Smooth Roots's.
Parking Kitty ships an update every 35 months, Smooth Roots every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Parking Kitty | Smooth Roots |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (9.3K ratings) — better | 4.8 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9.3K — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 35 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 14.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 97 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | City of Portland | Liminal Labs LLC |
Customer experience
Parking Kitty
Smooth Roots
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
Smooth Roots
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Parking Kitty
No in-app purchases
Smooth Roots
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Parking Kitty free?
Is Smooth Roots free?
Which has better reviews, Parking Kitty or Smooth Roots?
Do Parking Kitty or Smooth Roots have ads?
Which is updated more often, Parking Kitty or Smooth Roots?
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