Park ATX 4+

I see people dissing this app because of the convenience fee. For all of them, try this. Put three hours on a meter and see if you get a refund for your last unused hour. Didn’t think so!

With this app, you set it to maximum when you park and then when you return, just click “end parking”. You only pay for what you use plus 25 cents. I literally parked for 41 cents yesterday. Meter has a one hour minimum.

If you can manage to make it past all the crashing, you will find yourself in a situation in which you must add 10 USD to the account, which will certainly be more than you need for parking today. I have had 2 USD in my account that I have not been able to use for a year or so because I need to add 10 USD to my account to be able to use the existing money I have in there. I don’t live in Austin so that’s a complete waste. Even if I did live in Austin, it’s still annoying and results in you spending more money than you need to on parking. I’ve lived in many major cities and used many parking apps but never experienced anything quite as aggravating as Park ATX.

In summary, just use the parking meters. You will save time and money.

The original Park ATX app was wonderful. The zones were easy to understand and the app was simple to use. Now, the zones are random slews of numbers that have no pattern. With the combination of poor signage for what zone you’re in and even different zones on different sides of the SAME street, leaves you aimlessly wandering around looking for a tiny sticker that shows your zone (which if you walked more than ~8 parking spots, you’re probably not in the right zone anymore!) To add to the confusion, EVERYTIME you use the app you’re forced to verify your account by getting another random slew of numbers texted to you. Then to annoy you one last time, the app always says you have a notification. However, once you go into the app, there’s no notification to be found... And the notification will not go away!