Imagined Earth vs Parket
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Imagined Earth
Turn your recycling into rewards! Earn money, coupons, and loyalty points by recycling at partner machines. Track your transactions, discover nearby recycling locations, and learn about product packaging.
- Earn money and rewards for recycling
- Transfer earnings to loyalty partners
- Find nearby recycling locations
- Scan barcodes to learn about packaging
- Track recycling transaction history
- Digital rewards for a paperless experience
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YOUR PERSONAL RECYCLING COMPANION Register a new Imagined Earth Profile and start recycling! Enter your cell phone number at your nearest Reverse Vending Machine (RVM) when you recycle and start your journey toward a better world. Download the app and create your Imagined Earth profile. Your profile allows you to earn money, coupons, link to selected loyalty partners and get rewarded. Access a full history of your transactions and track your recycling. You can also transfer money earned from your recycling to selected loyalty partners. Use the app to identify and learn about product packaging and share in community successes with partner visibility. LOYALTY PARTNERS Recycle and earn. Transfer your money earned from recycling to our selected loyalty partners. Purchase shares on the JSE, New York Stock Exchange and more through EasyEquities, transfer your funds into you Shell V+ loyalty card and enjoy the additional benefits of being a member or transfer your funds into your Spar’s Loyalty Card to use on your next shop. COUPONS Our Circular Coupon drives sustainability and rewards you with a future purchase with selected brands and retailers. DISCOVER YOUR CLOSEST LOCATION Use the map feature to find your nearest recycling point. Check opening hours, RVM type, accepted materials for recycling and location specific information and notices. EDUCATE YOURSELF AROUND PACKAGING Scan the barcode on a product to see what material the product is made of, whether it is recyclable, where you can recycle it, who the product was manufactured by and its recent recovery stats GO PAPERLESS WITH YOUR RECYCLING Rewards are administered digitally for a truly paperless recycling experience. GET FULL CONTROL OF YOUR TRANSACTIONS Check your recycling history and view the status of all your transactions. WHERE IS OUR APP AVAILABLE Imagined Earth is located and offers its services in South Africa. We required you to operate off a South African cell phone number to complete the sign up process.
Parket
This app offers a seamless and automated parking experience. It allows for license plate recognition for entry and exit, QR code scanning for access, and automatic payments via a linked card. Users can also book parking in advance at reduced rates for daily or monthly needs.
- Automated access via license plate recognition
- QR code scanning for entry
- Automatic payments with linked cards
- Advance parking booking (daily/monthly)
- Hourly parking tracking and rate breakdown
- Direct customer support via app
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Parket is committed to providing its users seamless automated access to parking lots as well as making payment as easy as possible. The parking industry uses outdated solutions to provide users access to parking lots. This results in unnecessary inconvenience in the form of waiting in lines to pay for tickets, waiting in queues when there is an issue exiting and lengthy waits when there is an issue with payment. Not only is the current ticketing system clunky and outdated but it is not sustainable. Get Automated Access With our licence plate reader all you have to do is load your licence plate onto your account via the app and our advanced imaging technology will automatically open for your vehicle when you approach the entry or exit boom. Scan For Access If the parking lot does not have licence plate recognition installed you can scan a QR code at the entry boom of the parking lot to gain access. No more tickets needed, just the power of your phone. Automatic Payments Load a card onto your account via the app. This card will allow you to make automatic payments when you exit the parking lot. Cheaper Parking Not only is our solution more seamless but it is cheaper for everyone involved as our system requires less hardware, which means we can offer cheaper parking compared to other parking lots, especially in and around Cape Town's CBD. Park As Long As You Want Need to park your car somewhere long term or need to make use of a parking lot on a daily basis but don't want to pay hourly rates that cost an arm and a leg? We offer the ability to book parking in advance at much lower rates. You can reserve a bay on a daily or monthly basis as you need. Hourly Parking Only need to park for an hour or two? Get access to any parking lot by scanning the QR code. Once inside you will be able to track your parking session via the app. We give you a detailed breakdown of how long you've stayed and the upcoming rates for the next hours. No longer will you need to keep track of where your ticket is! Full Customer Support If ever you need assistance, have questions or just want to give your feedback, Parket gives you the ability to get in touch with our support team directly via the app. This is part of our commitment to making parking for you as seamless as possible.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Parket at 68% against Imagined Earth's 0%. Parket also leads on rating (4.1 vs 3.0) and ads (none vs shown). Imagined Earth's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Parket holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Parket has 21 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Imagined Earth's written reviews are positive against 68% of Parket's.
Imagined Earth ships an update every 2 months, Parket fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Imagined Earth | Parket |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (3 ratings) | 4.1 (21 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 68.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 21 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Imagined Earth (Pty) Ltd | PARKET (PTY) LTD |
Customer experience
Imagined Earth
Parket
In-app purchases
Imagined Earth
No in-app purchases
Parket
No in-app purchases









