Parket vs Bïndo Birding
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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 The parking industry uses outdated solutions to provide users access to parking lots.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 Not only is the current ticketing system clunky and outdated but it is not sustainable.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.
Bïndo Birding
Record bird sightings anywhere, even offline, and share them with friends. Explore an interactive map, document observations with photos, and connect with a community of birders.
- Offline sighting tracking
- Interactive sighting map
- Photo documentation
- Social feed and groups
- Leaderboards and challenges
- Conservation atlassing tools
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Bïndo is the bird listing app built for Southern African birding: fast in the field, rich at home, and made to be shared. LOG EVERY BIRD, ANYWHERE Bïndo is offline-first: log sightings deep in the bush with no signal, and everything syncs when you're back in range. Start a quicklist in seconds, run a full trip list on holiday, or keep a custom list for your garden, your patch, or your year. • Quick, trip, custom and collaborative lists • GPS-stamped sightings with photos (upload several at once) • Add notes to a sighting: the story behind the bird • Not sure what you saw? Log an Unknown Bird and resolve it later • Lifers tracked automatically across your whole history ATLAS WITH CONFIDENCE Full support for atlassing: run timed cards, follow the protocol, and submit straight from your phone. A COMMUNITY OF BIRDERS Follow friends and local legends, and see their birding come alive in your feed: lifers, rare finds, trip lists, photos and the stories behind them. • Comment on sightings and join the conversation • Likes, follows and birder profiles • Find birders with people search and activity status • Groups, private challenges and collaborative lists for clubs, trips and mates EXPLORE THE MAP See what's being seen right now. The Explore map shows community sightings, lists and photos. Filter by species, time and place, then tap a pin and dive in. FIND YOUR NEXT BIRD • Nearby species suggestions based on where you're standing • Filter birds by traits to narrow down an ID • A beautiful gallery of your birding photos • The bird guide at your fingertips COMPETE (GENTLY) Areas and leaderboards for your region: day, week, month, year and all-time. Your row sticks while you scroll, and you can filter to just the birders you follow. Seasonal events and challenges keep it interesting. MADE FOR THE FIELD • Works fully offline and syncs when you're back in signal • Battery-friendly adaptive GPS • A clean, full-screen design that gets out of your way Whether you're a lister chasing a big year, an atlasser doing the real work, or you simply want to remember every bird you've seen, Bïndo keeps your birding in one place and makes it better with friends. Grab your bins. The flock is waiting.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bïndo Birding at 5.0 against Parket's 4.1. Bïndo Birding also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 68%) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 15.0). Parket's advantage is ratings volume (21 vs 2). On price, update cadence, 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.
Bïndo Birding holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Parket has 21 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of Parket's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bïndo Birding's.
Parket ships an update fortnightly, Bïndo Birding every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Parket | Bïndo Birding |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (21 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | PARKET (PTY) LTD | Bindo Group (PTY) LTD |
Customer experience
Parket
Bïndo Birding
In-app purchases
Parket
No in-app purchases
Bïndo Birding
No in-app purchases








