Seriously, in hindsight, I would pay $296 for this app, because thats what I would have saved in parking tickets and towing fees. This is such a smart app, and long overdue in the App Store. Stop worrying about the 2.99 price tag and buy it. You'll be kicking yourself the next time you get a ticket if you don't. The iPhone alarm clock is clunky and requires way too many clicks. This ParkingApp requires one slide and you're done, like magic. How many times have you forgotten that the city was doing street cleaning or snow removal on Wednesdays at 11PM???? It reminds you with the parking zone feature. Genius! Buy it already! -Matt

This is going to save me bank. I work in Boston and NYC and have to drive to both. I have paid hundreds of dollars a year in tickets because I "forgot" to feed the meter. For $3 bucks this app is going to pay dividends. Thanks to the creators of such a great app that has great purpose to me.

Great app and easy to use, meter alert and pop-up is great, should save on tickets and burning my dinner!

Parking App is really easy to use. I set it up to remind me about street sweeping and it helped me avoid a big parking ticket this morning!

A great app, I especially like being able to enter the street sweeping times near my house! The single gesture timer is much faster than setting an alarm, I have been using it for cooking as well!

As long as I remember to pop this little utility on once I park, for 3 bucks, this will save me hundreds in tickets, and towing. Just try and give me the boot now! One of the apps stores little utilities, that makes my life run a little smoother.

I really enjoy this application. But, two suggestions: (1) Because background processes are not yet allowed, would it be possible to have an option to evoke Apple's clock/time app? Because Apple's timer is able to run in the background, this would eliminate the 'meter countdown' issue all together. (2) Although I know it's forthcoming, location-based services that's *accurate* (unlike other dedicated apps) would be a God-send.

Bought the app. Tested it. Guess what? The "meter expired" alarm doesn't sound if you exit the app to do something else, e.g. use the phone, check your calendar, etc. etc. When you do remember to reopen the app, the little beep/vibrate then goes off, telling you the time has expired by whatever number of minutes. Come on, guys... this thing is worthless until the alarm goes off no matter what you're doing with the phone.

This application was obviously reviewed by its developers or it wouldn't have inititially gotten so many stars in the beginning. This application is not accurate in tracking exactly where your car is. Also, it must be running in the foreground in order for the alarm to alert you to when your time is up on your meter. It's not worth it, at least for me.

I agree with Gary0. There is NO alert if you don't keep the app open all the time rendering it useless for me. Too many calls and emails to keep it open. They should add call/text alerts and it would be better. I can set a timer with the clock and it alerts me when time is up no matter what I am doing which works much better. I also thought this had a GPS car locator which it does not. If they added that, and got it right, maybe I could use it and give it more than 1 star.

While you wait for Apple to allow background processes you can add SMS/text notification of meter expiration or zone violation like the ParkingMeter app.

This application is great, it's definitely saved me from a few parking tickets already!

This works perfectly. The only thing I would like to see is an ability to add a note to the calander. I have street sweeping at my house and the ability to ad an event to the calander for the marked weeks and days would just be awesome. But this app works just as stated and has saved me a street sweep ticket already.

Now that I get a text message when my meter is up, this is hands down the best parking application.

Okay, I'm getting ahead of myself, but prior to purchasing, I experimented with trying to do all the tasks that this app does, which would require me to visit at least three (and possibly five) different apps on the iPhone: Maps, Clock/Timer, and Camera. In looking for your car, you might have to access Photos, Maps, and possible Notes. This app compacts those tasks down into one app, cuts the time and steps (always an aggravation with the iPhone and any computer), and alerts you with SMS via Google Calendar. Nice! Exceedingly easy to set up, works like a charm, simple but elegant UI.

I went to use this app for very first time in. And wouldn't you know it. The dame thing wouldn't even start. Click the icon and the app would try to start up and crash right away. Great app would really recomended to people I don't like!