ZipBy vs X
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ZipBy
This app allows you to enter and exit enabled car parks without a ticket. It automatically charges your credit card upon exit, eliminating the need to wait in line to pay. You can also pre-book parking spots for added convenience.
- Ticketless entry and exit
- Automatic credit card payment
- Pre-book parking spots
- Secure credit card payment
- Emailed parking receipts
- Monthly statements
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What is ZipBy? When you download and register ZipBy on your phone you can drive in and out of any ZipBy enable car park without needing a ticket. If payment is required it automatically charges your credit card when you exit the car park. Why ZipBy? • Ease of registration • User friendly • Pre-book your parking spot • Ticketless entry and exit • Secure credit card payment • No standing in line to pay for your parking • Emailed parking receipts • Emailed monthly statement • Work expense claims • Register using your contact and credit card details • Once registered no need to interact with the App • Apple Pay available for Zoned Parking payments Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
X
This app automatically tracks your daily travel and activities to help transportation agencies improve infrastructure. Review and edit your timeline to ensure your mobility needs are accurately represented for research and planning.
- Automated travel tracking
- Daily travel and activity timeline
- Editable timeline
- Mobility pattern summary
- Research and planning data collection
- Minimized battery consumption
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X-ING is an automated travel survey that is used by transportation and urban planning agencies to understand human mobility patterns and to enable them to make better informed decisions to improve the transportation systems and networks that you use every day. Your participation helps ensure that your mobility needs are represented. You’ll see a detailed daily travel and activity timeline that you can edit and a summary of your mobility and activity patterns. All collected information is used for research and planning purposes only. We have developed our app to minimize battery consumption, but please keep in mind that continued use of GPS running in the background can decrease battery life more than usual.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: X at 5.0 against ZipBy's 4.0. X also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 14.0). ZipBy's advantage is ratings volume (548 vs 5). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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.
X holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ZipBy has 548 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 18% of ZipBy's written reviews are positive against 14% of X's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
ZipBy ships an update every 5 weeks, X every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and June 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ZipBy | X |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (548 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 18.3% of reviews — better | 14.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 548 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ZipBy | Mobile Market Monitor |
Customer experience
ZipBy
X
In-app purchases
ZipBy
No in-app purchases
X
No in-app purchases
