GoTucsonParking vs Pin and Plot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GoTucsonParking
Manage your parking sessions conveniently from your smartphone. Pay for parking, extend your time, and avoid meter feeding. Get alerts before your session ends and view future rate changes.
- Pay for parking on the go
- Extend parking sessions remotely
- Stop parking sessions early to save money
- View future parking rate changes
- Receive parking session alerts
- Manage parking history and expenses
Read full descriptionHide full description
No more digging for coins. This is how parking should be. Pay, extend, and manage your parking session with Tucson's official parking app. It’s easy! PAY ON THE GO Pay quickly and securely with your smartphone. - Didn't need as much time as you thought? Stop your parking session early and only pay for the time you need. - Forget refilling the meter in the rain or braving the cold. NO PRICE SURPRISES See when parking rates will change in the future – even when there’s free parking! - Receive email receipts at the end of your parking session. - Expenses made easy, manage your parking history through the mobile app. STRESS-FREE PARKING Get alerts when your parking session is about to end. - Stop worrying about how much time is left on the meter, we have you covered. NO NEED TO RUSH Add time to your parking session directly from your phone.* - Your plans change, your parking spot shouldn't. Simply extend your parking session via our app. -------- GET STARTED TODAY 1. Download the GoTucsonParking app. 2. Park where you see GoTucsonParking app signs. 3. Pay for your parking session from your phone. 4. Relax, welcome to parking as it should be. -------- COMING SOON The GoTucsonParking app is not done yet! We're constantly updating the app based on your feedback. -------- APP PERMISSIONS - Location Services (optional): Used to quickly provide nearby parking zones. * where applicable
Pin and Plot
Read full descriptionHide full description
Pin and Plot is a complete travel planner. Every part of a trip lives in one app: the places you want to see, the plan for each day, every flight, train and ferry, how you'll get between stops, what to pack, and who paid for what. It works on iPhone, iPad and Mac. YOUR WHOLE TRIP, DAY BY DAY • A timeline for every day: where you're sleeping, how you're getting there, what's booked and what's still open • Weather for each day at each stop, with hourly forecasts • A trip assistant that spots what's missing, like a night with no hotel or a connection with no plan, and asks one clear question at a time • To-dos before you leave and on the day they're due • Summarize any day: a brief of what's coming before it, a journal of how it went after EVERY FLIGHT, TRAIN AND TRANSFER • Flights, trains, buses, ferries, cable cars and drives, leg by leg, with local times at both ends • Layovers and connections worked out, and gaps in your route flagged before you travel • Flight numbers, terminals, gates and confirmation codes in one place • A Live Activity keeps each trip day on the Lock Screen, always on what's next • Pick a train straight from the Apple Maps timetable FIND AND SAVE PLACES • Search Apple Maps and save restaurants, sights, hikes and hotels to your trip • Favorite places you return to and choose them quickly when starting another trip • Look Around, details and directions for every saved place • Every stop and saved place on one map, grouped by where you're staying • Keep ideas unplanned until you're ready, then give them a day PLAN HOW YOU'LL GET AROUND • See each day's route with walking, driving and public transport times between stops • Reorder a day's stops into the shortest route • Open any leg in Apple Maps for turn-by-turn directions PACKING THAT LEARNS • A packing library that remembers what you own and how many you usually bring • Suggestions from the forecast, the destination, the kind of trip and who's coming, kids included • Set up your family once: children's profiles and packing follow them onto every trip • Lists sorted the way you pack, with progress as you go SHARED EXPENSES, SETTLED FAIRLY • Log expenses in any currency and photograph receipts • Split equally, by exact amounts, percentages or shares, or item by item from a receipt with tax and tip shared out • Running balances for everyone, and the fewest payments needed to settle up • Group the people who pay together into households, and settle up between them • Estimate costs before you go and see where the money went • Export expenses to a spreadsheet BRING IT IN, DON'T TYPE IT • Paste a booking confirmation, pick a screenshot, photograph a ticket or just say what you've planned, and Apple Intelligence reads it into your trip • Review everything before it's added TRAVEL TOGETHER • Share a trip through iCloud; everyone sees the same plan and can add to it • Personal packing items and receipt photos stay private to you • Syncs across iPhone, iPad and Mac • Siri and Shortcuts can log an expense, save a place, set a day's plan or start a travel day PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No accounts, no ads, no tracking • Your trips live on your devices and in your own iCloud • Apple Intelligence works on your device by default • If you turn on Private Cloud Compute, Apple's larger model can read whole trips and documents for the assistant, overviews, day summaries and imports; the data is not stored or accessible to Apple Without iCloud, your trips stay on your device; sign in to sync and share them. Reading bookings and documents into a trip, and the trip assistant, use Apple Intelligence and need a supported device with it turned on. Optional Private Cloud Compute needs iOS 27 or later and an internet connection on a supported device. Everything else works on any device running iOS 26 or later.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Pin and Plot at weekly against GoTucsonParking's every 5 months. GoTucsonParking's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
GoTucsonParking ships an update every 5 months, Pin and Plot weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GoTucsonParking | Pin and Plot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (182 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 23.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 182 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 119 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | City of Tucson | Paul DeSalvo |
In-app purchases
GoTucsonParking
No in-app purchases
Pin and Plot
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is GoTucsonParking free?
Is Pin and Plot free?
Do GoTucsonParking or Pin and Plot have ads?
Which is updated more often, GoTucsonParking or Pin and Plot?
Other comparisons















