Comparison

ParkSLC vs Drively

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ParkSLC

Easily pay for and manage your parking sessions directly from your smartphone. Avoid the hassle of meters and receive notifications before your time expires. View future rate changes and access your parking history for simple expense tracking.

Highlights
  • Pay for parking on the go
  • Extend parking sessions remotely
  • Receive end-of-session alerts
  • View future parking rate changes
  • Manage parking history
  • Receive email receipts
Features
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No more digging for coins. This is how parking should be. Pay, extend, and manage your parking session with just a few taps. It’s easy! PAY ON THE GO Pay quickly and securely with your smartphone. - Time's precious, stop wasting it feeding a meter. - 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 ParkSLC app. 2. Park where you see ParkSLC app signs. 3. Pay for your parking session from your phone. 4. Relax, welcome to parking as it should be. -------- COMING SOON The ParkSLC 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

About

Drively

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Every drive you take is data you never get to see. A racing driver ends every session with a debrief: the telemetry comes off the car, and an engineer walks them through what their hands and feet actually did. DriveSafe does that for the drive to school. Tap Start when you pull away, then put the phone down. There is no live score, on purpose — nothing on this screen is worth looking at while you are moving. When you park, the debrief is waiting. HOW SMOOTH WERE YOU, REALLY The score is built on jerk: how quickly your acceleration changes. Planned, progressive inputs score high. Sudden ones score low. It is the difference between a passenger who keeps reading their phone and one who reaches for the door handle. EVERY TIME YOU PICKED UP YOUR PHONE DriveSafe detects phone handling while the car is moving, marks each one on the timeline, and takes points off for it. It is the one thing in the score that has nothing to do with smoothness, and it is there because a phone in your hand is the habit worth breaking first. WHEN YOU DROVE LATE Drive after dark and the debrief says so. Crash risk for new drivers peaks in those hours, so the note asks for more following distance and lower speeds. It changes no number — it just makes sure you saw it. BEFORE YOU SET OFF A reaction-time check with racing start lights. Tired, or not sure you should be driving at all? Run it and see your number against your own baseline, then decide. WHAT THE DEBRIEF SHOWS YOU - Your route, drawn green through red, so you can see which corner actually cost you - Every braking, cornering, and acceleration event — tap one for the accelerometer trace behind it - Distance, driving time, and the highest g-force you pulled - Lifetime average and personal best, so you can watch yourself get better THINGS YOU START TO NOTICE That you brake harder when you are running late. That the roundabout you take every single day is your roughest ten seconds. That you reach for your phone at exactly the same junction every morning. Nobody has ever shown you this about your own driving. Everything works with no account, and trips stay on your phone. Sign in with Apple to back them up across devices. The score measures smoothness and phone handling. It is not a safety rating, it is not an assessment of you as a driver, and it is not validated against crash outcomes. A perfectly smooth drive can still be a bad one. Location is used in the background during a trip so your route keeps recording with the screen off, and is only read between tapping Start and the end of the trip.

Screenshots

ParkSLC4 screens
Drively4 screens

Verdict

The call

ParkSLC and Drively are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
ParkSLC versus Drively: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterParkSLCDrively
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (204 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews35.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings204 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size115 MB29 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperSalt Lake City CorpJesse Luo

Bugs and requests

ParkSLC

Reported bugs

15 issues
  • Blank screen upon opening
  • Payment declines
  • Cannot edit or delete payment cards
  • Apple Pay declines
  • Cannot extend parking time
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  • QR codes not scannable
  • Cannot see typing input
  • App takes payment but doesn't show parking session
  • No internet connection errors
  • PIN reset issues
  • Timer malfunction
  • App does not recognize free parking times
  • Convenience fees charged unexpectedly
  • App drains battery
  • Tracking cookies in privacy policy

Requested features

8 requests
  • Support for Apple Pay/Google Pay/PayPal
  • Biometric login (Touch ID/Face ID)
  • QR code scanner
  • Map integration/GPS for zones
  • Ability to select duration less than 1 hour
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  • Streamlined onboarding process
  • Improved UI/UX for typing
  • Dark mode

Drively

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

ParkSLC

No in-app purchases

None

Drively

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ParkSLC free?
ParkSLC is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Drively free?
Drively is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ParkSLC or Drively have ads?
Neither ParkSLC nor Drively shows ads.

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