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 automated access to parking lots using license plate recognition or QR code scanning. It simplifies payments, allows for advance booking of daily or monthly parking at reduced rates, and provides hourly parking tracking with detailed cost breakdowns.
- Automated access via license plate recognition
- QR code scanning for entry
- Automatic payment loading
- Advance booking for daily/monthly parking
- Hourly parking tracking and cost breakdown
- In-app customer support
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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 The parking industry uses outdated solutions to provide users access to parking lots.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 Not only is the current ticketing system clunky and outdated but it is not sustainable.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
This app helps users log bird sightings offline, create custom lists, and participate in community challenges. It supports bird atlasing and allows users to explore local sightings on a map. Enhance your birding experience with social features and detailed tracking.
- Offline bird sighting logging
- Quick, trip, and custom lists
- SABAP2 atlassing support
- Community feed and interaction
- Explore map of local sightings
- Private and collaborative lists
- Built-in bird guide
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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 • Add Sighting opens on Regional: the birds most often recorded around you, even offline • GPS-stamped sightings with photos (upload several at once) and calls • Add notes to a sighting: the story behind the bird • Not sure what you saw? Log an Unknown Bird and ask your followers "What bird is this?" • Lifers tracked automatically across your whole history, with milestones to celebrate ATLAS WITH CONFIDENCE Full support for SABAP2 atlassing: run timed cards on one pentad or several, follow the protocol, and submit straight from your phone. Every ended card shows where it stands. 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 • Search the whole app for birds, birders, lists, areas and places • 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. Search for a park, reserve or town, filter by species and time, then tap a pin and dive in. AREAS AND LEADERBOARDS Leaderboards for every area: day, week, month, year and all time. Areas are grouped by where you're standing, what's nearby and everything else. Draw a Private Area of your own for your garden or your patch and track every bird inside it. Seasonal events and challenges keep it interesting. MADE FOR THE FIELD • Works fully offline and syncs when you're back in signal • Your own recent sightings stay on your phone, ready with no signal • Sync on WiFi only, if you'd rather save data • Battery-friendly adaptive GPS • A clean, full-screen design that gets out of your way • The Bïndo Guide, built in 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. BÏNDO MEMBERSHIP Logging sightings, keeping lists, atlassing, your life list and the Explore map stay free for everyone. Bïndo Membership adds: • Bird Call ID: identify birds by their call • Voice Add: log hands-free and keep your eyes on the bird • Next: the birds you're most likely to see next • Nearby and list targets, plus Your Radar and Recent Highlights on every area • The Bird Trait Filter and species distribution maps • More of the map: Latest Species, extra filters, longer timeframes, full zoom and the community's photos • Your full history and full birder profiles • Photo and call life lists • Pinned lists at the top of your Feed • More and larger Private Areas, starred areas, and leaderboards narrowed to the birders you follow • Unlimited private challenges and collaborative lists • Bïndo Web: import, export, bulk photo upload and trip planning on a bigger screen Try Bïndo Membership free for 14 days. No card needed, and nothing is charged. Membership is an auto-renewing monthly or annual subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and you can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://www.bindo.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://www.bindo.app/privacy-policy Grab your bins. Happy birding!
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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%). Parket's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (21 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Bïndo Birding sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Parket asks for nothing beyond the download.
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 weekly, Bïndo Birding every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 12, 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 | Weekly — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 110 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
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Annual$34.991 Year








