ParkChicago®Map vs BOYO.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ParkChicago®Map
Find affordable on-street parking in Chicago with an interactive map. View real-time availability, rates, and get directions to your chosen spot. This free service complements a payment app for a seamless parking experience.
- Interactive parking map
- Search for parking spots
- View parking availability
- Get directions to parking
- See parking rates and restrictions
- Predictive availability feature
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The ParkChicago® team introduces ParkChicago®Map, the official on-street parking map app. ParkChicago®Map gives you access to over 36,000 competitively priced parking spaces and helps you find your ideal parking spot. Use the app’s interactive map and search features to find parking at the lowest prices in Chicago city limits so you can skip the garage fees and reservations. ParkChicago®Map is a free service which complements the ParkChicago® app, where you have the convenience of paying for parking (and extending time) with your phone. Get Started Today: - Download the free ParkChicago®Map app - No sign up, no email, no commitments, No hassle - Search for and view parking with the interactive map – use the intuitive pinch-to-zoom feature to view details - Click on the metered spot to view hours of operation and availability - Get directions to the parking spot - Select ParkChicago® to pay for parking The Perks of ParkChicago®Map: - Effortlessly find the most convenient and affordable parking spots in Chicago - Use the predictive availability feature to see when a parking spot will be available over the next week - View metered parking space information such as rates, limits and restrictions - Keep it all mobile! Pay for metered parking via the linked ParkChicago® app Make your parking experience as convenient as possible - download ParkChicago®Map today!
BOYO.
Discover travel recommendations from people you trust. Log your trips with photos and ratings, follow friends' adventures, and explore destinations through personalized maps and curated lists.
- Log trips with spots, ratings, and media
- Follow friends and travelers
- Interactive trip maps
- Search destinations and filter by interest
- Bookmark and save spots/trips
- Share trips via link or story image
- Plan future trips
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Boyo is the social alternative to trip planning. Instead of scrolling anonymous top-10 lists, you see where the people you actually know and trust have stayed, eaten and explored — logged spot by spot, rated honestly, and mapped. LOG YOUR TRIP AS IT HAPPENS Start a trip, then add spots as you go: the hotel, the restaurant, the hike, the bar you stumbled into. Give each one a star rating, a straight answer on whether you'd recommend it, a note, and your photos or a short video. Your spots group themselves by day or by city. FOLLOW PEOPLE, NOT ALGORITHMS Follow friends and travellers you trust and watch their trips fill in live. Like and comment on a whole trip or on a single spot. When someone you follow shares a finished trip, you'll know. EVERYTHING ON A MAP Every spot lands on a map with its own photo pin. Browse a trip as a gallery, a grid, a list, or a map. See every place you've ever logged on one personal map — and open any spot in Apple Maps, Google Maps, Waze or Citymapper when you're standing outside it. SEARCH BY DESTINATION Search a city and get the trips, the spots and the people who've been there. Filter to stays, food or activities. See it as a list or straight on the map. SAVE WHAT YOU WANT TO STEAL Bookmark a whole trip or a single spot, and file them into your own lists. Someone's Lisbon dinner spot goes straight into your next trip. SHARE IT ANYWHERE Turn a trip into a link anyone can open, or a story image ready for your Story or a text message — cover photo, spot count and dates included. PLAN THE NEXT ONE Planned trips are for the ideas stage: collect the spots you want to hit, no ratings or dates required, and turn it into a real trip when you go. YOUR TRIPS, YOUR CALL Trips stay private until you publish them. Pin your best four to your profile, archive the ones you're done with, and delete or deactivate your account from inside the app whenever you like. Free. No ads. iPhone. Privacy Policy: https://share.boyo.inc/privacy Terms of Use: https://share.boyo.inc/terms Support: https://share.boyo.inc/support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: BOYO. at 100% against ParkChicago®Map's 8%. BOYO. also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.1) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 7 months). ParkChicago®Map's advantage is ratings volume (121 vs 8) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.2). 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.
BOYO. holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ParkChicago®Map has 121 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 8% of ParkChicago®Map's written reviews are positive against 100% of BOYO.'s.
ParkChicago®Map ships an update every 7 months, BOYO. every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | ParkChicago®Map | BOYO. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (121 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 121 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chicago Parking Meters, LLC | BOYO INC |
Customer experience
ParkChicago®Map
BOYO.
Bugs and requests
ParkChicago®Map
Reported bugs
13 issues- App crashes on opening
- App does not open
- Cannot change card on file
- Parking availability is inaccurate
- Meter locations are not accurate
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- Zoom in & out function doesn't work well
- Most buttons don't do anything
- Cannot sign in
- App is not formatted properly on iPhone X
- Search box does not bring up keyboard
- Green box displayed on map with no meter info
- Return to meter view button not functional
- Color scheme not accessible for colorblind users
Requested features
12 requests- Integrate into the main ParkChicago app
- Fix app crashing issues
- Improve parking availability accuracy
- Fix meter location accuracy
- Fix zoom functionality
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- Fix non-functional buttons
- Allow card changes
- Fix sign-in issues
- Improve formatting for iPhone X
- Address colorblind accessibility
- Update for iPhone 14 Pro
- Allow searching by location, not just meter number
BOYO.
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ParkChicago®Map
No in-app purchases
BOYO.
No in-app purchases









