RingGo vs Newbury & District
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RingGo
Easily pay for parking using your mobile device. Secure payment options and real-time space availability indicators help you find and pay for parking quickly and conveniently across the UK. Ideal for both personal and business use.
- Cashless parking payments
- Secure debit/credit card and Apple Pay options
- Space availability indicator
- Supports over 500 UK towns and cities
- Business parking solutions
- VAT receipt downloads
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Pay to park in seconds. With secure methods such as debit or credit cards available for payment and Apple Pay available in most locations, RingGo is the safe, cashless, flexible, and easy solution for your parking needs. You can pay with RingGo in more than 500 towns and cities across the UK. Our space availability solution, with its traffic light indicator, shows where spaces are most likely to be found, so you don’t need to circle the block multiple times. If you want to use RingGo for business parking, check out our RingGo Corporate service or download your VAT receipts from within the app if you want to pay and claim. Use the RingGo app to pay to park across London in Westminster, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, City of London, Croydon, Fulham, Hackney, Hammersmith, Haringey, Islington, Kingston, Merton, Redbridge, Richmond, Sutton, Tower Hamlets, and Wandsworth, as well as Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Guildford, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth, and Winchester, plus a host of other towns and cities across the UK. For more information and to see the 500 towns and cities where RingGo is offered for parking, please see our website at www.RingGo.co.uk Searched for Ringo but looking for RingGo? You’ve reached the right place.
Newbury & District
Plan your bus journeys, view live departures, and purchase mobile tickets securely. Access timetables, save favorite routes, and stay updated on service disruptions.
- Mobile ticket purchase
- Live departure times
- Bus stop map view
- Route planning
- Digital timetables
- Favorite routes
- Service disruption alerts
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Our new app has everything you need to travel with Newbury & District from Reading Buses. Mobile Tickets: Purchase mobile tickets securely with a debit/credit card and scan when boarding - no more searching for cash! Live Departures: Browse and view bus stops on the map, explore upcoming departures, or check out the routes from a stop to see where you could travel next. Journey Planning: It’s now even easier to plan ahead with Newbury & District. Timetables: We’ve squeezed the whole timetable into the palm of your hand. Favourites: You can quickly save your favourite Departure Boards, Timetables and Journeys, with quick access from one convenient menu. Service Updates: You’ll be able to keep up to date with disruption information inside the app. As always, we welcome your feedback. You can send it to us via the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Newbury & District at 50% against RingGo's 13%. Newbury & District also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). RingGo's advantage is ratings volume (3.7K vs 1). 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.
Newbury & District holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RingGo has 3.7K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of RingGo's written reviews are positive against 50% of Newbury & District's.
RingGo ships an update monthly, Newbury & District fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RingGo | Newbury & District |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (3.7K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 13.1% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.7K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 173 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RingGo Ltd | Reading Buses |
Customer experience
RingGo
Newbury & District
Bugs and requests
RingGo
Reported bugs
5 issues- Verification codes not arriving
- Inability to change parking duration
- Inconsistent location detection
- Repeated login issues
- App freezing and crashing
Requested features
5 requests- Option to cancel parking sessions
- Ability to update vehicle details
- Support for international phone numbers
- Improved customer support channels
- Simpler registration and login process
Newbury & District
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
RingGo
No in-app purchases
Newbury & District
No in-app purchases
Questions
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