Parking Kitty vs Community Plus
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.
Community Plus
Discover local events, news, jobs, and alerts sourced exclusively from your community. Connect with local businesses and residents to foster a thriving local economy. Stay informed and engaged with everything happening in your area.
- Locally sourced events and news
- Job listings
- Alerts and notifications
- Support local businesses
- Proximity-based beacon technology
- Community engagement
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The Community Plus app is more than just supporting our local businesses and the owners themselves. It's been completely dedicated and built for the Oregon all the way down to a local scale. For all the residents in it that make Oregon a special place to call home! Anything from events, news, jobs, alerts, and notification messages are all 100% locally sourced by only local members will keep you fully informed about everything going on in our beautiful Oregon. All in one, easy-to-use app on your phone at absolutely no cost. Our passion and purpose is not only about supporting Roanoke's locally-owned businesses, we also encourage you not only download our app but to locate and support the men and women who own them! By working together, we can keep the local Oregon community's revenue in the community by using our patented proximity-based beacon technology. Watch the lives of our residents thrive and flourish and staying engaged with our growing community and download today! Join us in making Oregon a smarter community to live in, all while establishing and growing closer relationships with the people of our city. Our mobile app is proudly owned and operated right here in Oregon!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Community Plus at monthly against Parking Kitty's every 35 months. Parking Kitty's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (61% vs 33%). 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 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Parking Kitty has 8.8K ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Parking Kitty's written reviews are positive against 33% of Community Plus's.
Parking Kitty ships an update every 35 months, Community Plus monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Parking Kitty | Community Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (8.8K ratings) — better | 4.5 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8.8K — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Every 35 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | City of Portland | EPUERTO, LLC. |
Customer experience
Parking Kitty
Community Plus
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
Community Plus
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Parking Kitty
No in-app purchases
Community Plus
No in-app purchases
