“All good things must end, apparently — I’ve always loved SpotAngels and it’s saved me so much time and money due to SFs insane parking rules and street sweeping schedules. Not to mention saving my mental health by marking where in my…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 445 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.7 ★12,917 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
100 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Find parking, save money on gas and protect yourself from tickets with SpotAngels.
Take advantage of the free 7-day trial. You can cancel anytime and will be reminded 2 days before the end of the trial!
**Find free parking** Find spots where you can park for free and get their predicted availability. The information is provided by our community of millions of Angels who report open spots and take pictures of parking signs. Search and filter the map in 1 tap to find free parking and save money!
**Get parking deals** SpotAngels offers deals at more than 5,000 garages and lots in more than 100 cities. Book in advance to get a discount compared to the on-site price!
**Check street parking rules** See where to park to avoid street cleaning/alternate side parking. The map also includes time limits, meter hours and rates and no parking times.…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 12.3.5 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 12.3.5, updated 2026-09-21.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.1% of 445 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Was decent - paywall made it useless — This app has always been clunky to use, but it was a good system to avoid street sweeping days. Recently, without warning, most notification settings went behind a paywall and my notifications were…”
“Paywall, really? — Used to be one of the best parking app out there, now everything is behind the paywall, and includes the most useful part of the app - to see the park rules. Now the app is pretty much useless. On to other free, better…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 12.3.5.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown6
Lowest$2.99
Highest$49.99
SpotAngels Plus$29.99
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