ParkingPlates vs ALPR Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
ParkingPlates
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Car park management tool to allow a creature to read all of the license plates in a parking lot and upload the plates and their GPS location to a JSON server.
ALPR Pro
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A solid, focused tool for European professionals who read license plates as part of their work: private investigators, insurance loss adjusters, repossession agents, fleet managers, security officers. Built for iPhone and iPad. Fully offline. OFFLINE BY DESIGN Every scan runs on your device using Apple Neural Engine. No images ever leave the iPhone or iPad, no cloud round-trip, no API keys, no per-scan fees, no dependency on connectivity. Works in poor coverage, on private investigations, and wherever client confidentiality matters more than convenience. LIVE SCANNING THAT ACTUALLY CONFIRMS Point the camera and detection boxes appear in real time. A multi-frame stabiliser confirms a plate only after it has been read consistently across several frames, so blurred or angled plates don't produce false positives. Several plates per frame supported. BULK SCAN YOUR PHOTO LIBRARY Select photos, an album, or the entire library. The app processes everything in the background while staying responsive โ pause and resume at any time. For investigators and adjusters going through hundreds of photos from a site visit or a stake-out, this is the time-saver. EVERY SCAN IS A COMPLETE RECORD Each detection stores the original photo, the cropped plate, the detected country, GPS coordinates (when available), confidence, timestamp, and a 3D render of the plate with the correct UNECE country code on the EU band. The original photo is saved into your iPhone's Files app under "Scansioni", named by date and unique ID โ open, share, archive at any time. WATCHLIST AND ALERTS Import a list of plates from CSV. When any of them appears in your live or bulk scans, it gets flagged in History with a hit count and last-seen date. CSV AND PDF EXPORT Generate clean reports with thumbnail, plate, country, GPS, confidence and identifier โ ready for files, expert reports, or client delivery. COUNTRIES SUPPORTED Italy (current and legacy formats), Germany, France, Spain, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Portugal, Poland. Set your primary country in Settings to reduce false positives for the area where you mostly work. PRIVACY YOU CAN HOLD IN ONE SENTENCE No trackers. No third-party analytics. No account, no registration, no profile. Privacy Manifest compliant. PRO SUBSCRIPTION Free tier: live scan, single shot, personal history, country settings, manual entry. Pro: bulk scan of the photo library, watchlist, CSV/PDF export, priority support. Note: this is a professional support tool. Plate readings should always be verified by the operator before they are used in any legal or operational context. LEGAL Privacy Policy: https://marcotini.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://marcotini.com/eula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ALPR Pro at Free against ParkingPlates's $7.99. ParkingPlates's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
ALPR Pro is free to download; ParkingPlates costs $7.99 up front. ALPR Pro sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. ParkingPlates asks for nothing beyond the download.
ParkingPlates ships an update fortnightly, ALPR Pro every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | ParkingPlates | ALPR Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.99 | Free โ better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly โ better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 โ better | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Imense Ltd | Marco Tini |
In-app purchases
ParkingPlates
No in-app purchases
ALPR Pro
- ALPR Pro Monthly7 Days trial$12.991 Month
- ALPR Pro Yearly$99.991 Year
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