ParkWise vs Solve SF
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ParkWise
Never miss a street cleaning day again. This app provides automatic reminders and tools to help you avoid parking tickets. See how long you can park and track past violations to make parking less stressful.
- Automatic reminders
- Real-time alerts and texts
- Parking duration slider
- Past ticket tracking
- Free to try
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ParkWise helps you avoid San Francisco street cleaning tickets with automatic reminders that hit before the sweeper does. We built it to make parking way less stressful, with features like: - Real-time alerts and texts so you don’t forget to move your car. - A slider to see how long you can park without getting a ticket. - And, the ability to see how many tickets you've gotten in the past. No more $97 surprises. ParkWise gives you a heads-up, helps you plan and keeps you in the clear. Try it out for free!
Solve SF
Easily report issues to the city of San Francisco. Submit requests for street cleaning, graffiti, illegal parking, and more by taking a photo. AI automatically analyzes and categorizes your reports for the 311 service.
- Report street cleaning issues
- Submit graffiti reports
- Log illegal parking
- Report damaged public property
- AI-powered report analysis
- View submitted requests
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Report any issue to the city of San Francisco! An alternative 311 app for the residents of San Francisco. Solve SF is the easiest way to submit street cleaning, graffiti, illegal parking, street and sidewalk issues, damaged public property, park issues, tree maintenance, homeless encampment reports, and more to the San Francisco 311 service. To submit a request just take a photo and click submit. AI analyzes, describes, and categorizes your reports - so you don't have to. You can view your recently submitted requests within the app or on the official 311 service. This app has the necessary approval to use the San Francisco 311 API to submit requests to the San Francisco 311 service, but it is not affiliated with the official SF 311 app or the City of San Francisco government.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Solve SF at none against ParkWise's 4. Solve SF also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (65 vs 14). ParkWise's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 79%) and rating (4.7 vs 4.5). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. ParkWise sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Solve SF asks for nothing beyond the download.
ParkWise holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 65 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of ParkWise's written reviews are positive against 79% of Solve SF's.
ParkWise ships an update every 3 weeks, Solve SF every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ParkWise | Solve SF |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (14 ratings) — better | 4.5 (65 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 78.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 65 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 179 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Product Lab | Woah Finally LLC |
Customer experience
ParkWise
Solve SF
In-app purchases
ParkWise
- $1.00$1.00
- $3.00$3.00
- $5.00$5.00
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- $10.00$10.00
Solve SF
No in-app purchases








