Parking Kitty vs Dogs Dig It
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.
Dogs Dig It
Manage your pet's care with ease. Schedule appointments, receive real-time updates including photos, communicate directly with staff, and handle payments conveniently. Experience top-tier pet services.
- Schedule appointments
- Receive status updates
- View pet pictures
- Chat with staff
- Contactless payments
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The Dogs Dig It offers the very best in pet care! Use our app to schedule appointments, receive status updates & pet pictures, chat with us, make contactless payments, and much more! Come see us at Dogs Dig It where we delight you and your pets!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Dogs Dig It at every 6 weeks against Parking Kitty's every 35 months. Parking Kitty's advantage is ratings volume (9.3K vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). 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 Dogs Dig It. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Parking Kitty has 9.3K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Parking Kitty ships an update every 35 months, Dogs Dig It every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Parking Kitty | Dogs Dig It |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (9.3K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9.3K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 35 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 140 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | City of Portland | iTrust Ventures LLC |
Customer experience
Parking Kitty
Dogs Dig It
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
Dogs Dig It
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Parking Kitty
No in-app purchases
Dogs Dig It
No in-app purchases
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