Comparison

Parket vs Listen Now

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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 The parking industry uses outdated solutions to provide users access to parking lots.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 Not only is the current ticketing system clunky and outdated but it is not sustainable.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.

About

Listen Now

Features
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Listen Now is a calm place to find podcasts and live radio — and to remember what you heard — without an account, without tracking, and without the endless feed. You open it, see a small, considered set of things to play, and press start. It begins with a simple question: what could I listen to now? Instead of a wall of thumbnails, Listen Now suggests a few good options that fit the time you actually have. PICKS FOR THE TIME YOU HAVE Three time chips — 15 minutes, 45 minutes, or 60+ — tailor each suggestion to your moment. A quick gap before a meeting or a long walk home, the picks fit. WHAT'S IN THE AIR RIGHT NOW A short, honest read on the specific stories your unplayed episodes are actually talking about — surfaced on-device, and biased towards what more than one show is covering. Tap one to start the episode behind it. A JOURNAL OF WHAT YOU HEAR Every episode you finish is quietly distilled into a private journal: a short summary, the key ideas worth keeping, and a searchable record of what you listened to. Ask it in plain language — "that thing about interest rates" — and it finds the moment. It's the opposite of a feed you forget. ON-DEVICE AI, NOT A PROFILE ON A SERVER The picks, the summaries and the transcripts are computed on your phone — using Apple's on-device Foundation Models and a bundled on-device model. Podcasts can be transcribed and summarised locally; live radio is transcribed as it streams. Your taste, your history and what you heard never leave your device. PODCASTS, YOUR WAY Search the Apple catalogue, follow the shows you love, or add any podcast by pasting its RSS feed. Each show has its own "how to listen" strategy — play in order, newest first, or latest only — so narrative series catch up in sequence while news shows surface the latest episode. LIVE RADIO FROM AROUND THE WORLD Search a global station directory, or start with curated UK defaults including BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. Add your own custom streams whenever you like. LISTEN ANYWHERE, EVEN OFFLINE Background downloads keep episodes ready for the tube, a flight or a dead spot. Intelligent auto-download stays ahead of you, and downloaded-episode cleanup keeps things tidy. A PROPER PLAYER AirPlay, lock-screen and Now Playing controls, a sleep timer, variable speed, and resume exactly where you left off. A home and lock-screen widget puts your next listen one glance away. YOUR PRIVACY, BY DESIGN Privacy here isn't a setting — it's how the app is built. • No account, no sign-in, no password. Just open it and listen. • No analytics, no tracking, no advertising SDKs, and no third-party SDKs at all. There's no App Tracking Transparency prompt because there's nothing to track. • On-device AI. Recommendations, summaries and transcripts run locally, so your history stays on your phone. • Local-first. Your library, journal, history and progress live on your device. • Optional private sync — through your own iCloud, using Apple's end-to-end private CloudKit. Never a third-party server. • The only network requests fetch the content you ask for: podcast search, the station directory, and the actual audio. No behavioural data is collected or sold. That's why Listen Now maps cleanly to an App Store "Data Not Collected" privacy label. Open it. Find something for right now. Listen — and remember what you heard.

Screenshots

Parket4 screens
Listen Now4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Parket at weekly against Listen Now's every 6 weeks. Parket also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). 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

Parket ships an update weekly, Listen Now every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Parket versus Listen Now: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterParketListen Now
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (21 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews68.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings21 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB3.1 GB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPARKET (PTY) LTDMatthew MILLAR

In-app purchases

None

Parket

No in-app purchases

None

Listen Now

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Parket free?
Parket is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Listen Now free?
Listen Now is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Parket or Listen Now have ads?
Neither Parket nor Listen Now shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Parket or Listen Now?
Parket ships an update weekly, and Listen Now every 6 weeks. Most recently, Parket was updated on November 3, 2026 and Listen Now on October 31, 2026.

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