Bicycle Parking vs PPL2GO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bicycle Parking
Easily find and add bicycle parking locations in your city. Mark your own parking spot, discover existing racks on a map, and contribute new spots with photos and notes. Helps cyclists safely lock their bikes.
- Mark your current bike parking spot
- Discover bicycle parking on a map
- Add new parking spots with photos
- Upload parking spots later (offline)
- View user-generated and external data
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Free bike parking app. Features: - Tap "Park Here" to mark where you park your bike. - Tap the button on the bottom right to toggle between your parking spot and your current location. - Select the "Add" tab to add bicycle parking spots to the public map. Pinpoint the bicycle parking location with drag and drop feature. - Select the "Map" tab to view bicycle parking in your area. -- Parking spots are only loaded for the area that you are viewing! If your city has a lot of bicycle parking, zoom in to where you want to park for the best experience. - Select the "Manage" tab to enable special features such as the "Upload Later" feature. -- Upload Later lets you save parking spots to your phone and upload them later. Ideal if you want to wait for a WiFi connection to send the images or for bicycle parking in locations with weak cell signals. Ever wonder where the nearest bicycle parking is or have trouble finding a bike rack when you are in a rush? The bicycle parking project is taking advantage of modern technologies to help solve that problem for good. All green markers are user generated data with an image of the bicycle parking area and optional notes. All purple dots are from external data sources such as city data, department of transportation or other bicycle parking projects. External data has not been confirmed. It is pretty simple. If you are looking for bike parking, open the app and look at the map in the area where you want to park. If there isn't anything yet you can help by snapping a quick picture and sending it in when you find a bike rack or any other bicycle parking that isn't on the map yet! With this app, and help from cyclists all around, we will never have trouble finding a place to safely lock our bikes again.
PPL2GO
Manage your library account on the go. Search the catalog, renew borrowed items, and place holds for books and other materials from your mobile device.
- Manage library account
- Search catalog
- Renew books
- Place holds
- Access from iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch
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Access PPL2GO from your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Manage your account, search the catalog, renew and reserve books.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PPL2GO at 5.0 against Bicycle Parking's 4.0. PPL2GO also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months). Bicycle Parking's advantage is ratings volume (24 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, 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.
PPL2GO holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bicycle Parking has 24 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of Bicycle Parking's written reviews are positive against 67% of PPL2GO's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Bicycle Parking ships an update every 6 months, PPL2GO every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bicycle Parking | PPL2GO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (24 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Nathaniel Burnett | City of Pasadena, CA |
Customer experience
Bicycle Parking
PPL2GO
In-app purchases
Bicycle Parking
No in-app purchases
PPL2GO
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Bicycle Parking free?
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