Comparison

Parklink vs SMART Chief GO

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Parklink

This app simplifies parking and EV charging payments across Norway. It offers seamless navigation to find parking, manage your sessions, and view your history. It also provides a business account option for consolidated employee parking invoices.

Highlights
  • Parking payments
  • EV charging payments
  • Seamless navigation
  • Manage parking sessions
  • Parking history
  • Business accounts
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Parklink is one of Norway's most widely used parking apps - giving access to extra benefits - Parklink is available as a payment method at hundreds of parking locations and camera facilities across Norway. The number of places offering Parklink is growing steadily. - Seamless navigation makes it easy to find the right parking location and start parking with the correct vehicle and duration. You can easily extend, shorten and end your parkings. - When several people share the same car, Parklink makes it easy for each person to pay for their own parkings. - Pay for your parking via Parklink and see your parking history in the app. - At a growing number of charging stations, you can use Parklink to pay for EV charging. For companies that want consolidated invoices for employee's parkings, Parklink Business Account is an excellent option.

About

SMART Chief GO

Features
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SMART Chief GO connects to your vessel's SMART Spider automation server, giving marine engineers live access to alarms, equipment and system status from an iPhone or iPad — on board over the ship's Wi-Fi, or from ashore over the internet. Features: • Real-time alarm monitoring with category filtering (Unacknowledged, Acknowledged, Blocked, Auto-Blocked) • Equipment control — pumps, valves, fans and compressors, with live status • Vessel data pages — tanks, engines, power management and GPS position, laid out from your vessel's own configuration • Favourites — search every tag on the vessel and organise them into your own folders • Trending — pinch to zoom and pan, ranges from 5 minutes to 7 days, with Now, Min, Max and Average • Connections — browse serial lines and I/O channels • Dashboard with ship info, alarm summary and quick navigation • Role-based access (User, Crew, Chief, Smart Automation) • Secure HTTPS communication via stunnel • Dark and light theme support • Multi-language support (English, Norwegian) • Built-in demo mode — explore the app without a server connection Safety: Equipment control and alarm silencing are available only while your device is connected on the vessel's own network. A connection from ashore is read-only, so machinery cannot be operated from off board. Requirements: • SMART Spider automation server on board the vessel (or use demo mode to explore) • Network connection to the Spider server (Wi-Fi / LAN on board, or internet from ashore) • Vessel data pages and tag search require Spider v2 on board This app is designed for professional use by marine engineers and crew operating SMART Automation control systems. It requires an active SMART Spider server to function in live mode. Try demo mode instantly — no server needed. Developed by SMART Automation AS — smartautomation.no

Screenshots

Parklink4 screens
SMART Chief GO4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: SMART Chief GO at every 2 weeks against Parklink's monthly. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Parklink ships an update monthly, SMART Chief GO every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Parklink versus SMART Chief GO: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterParklinkSMART Chief GO
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB77 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBember ASSMART Automation AS

In-app purchases

None

Parklink

No in-app purchases

None

SMART Chief GO

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Parklink free?
Parklink is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SMART Chief GO free?
SMART Chief GO is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Parklink or SMART Chief GO have ads?
Neither Parklink nor SMART Chief GO shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Parklink or SMART Chief GO?
Parklink ships an update monthly, and SMART Chief GO every 2 weeks. Most recently, Parklink was updated on October 11, 2026 and SMART Chief GO on October 6, 2026.

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