Stop circling. Stop guessing.
One block can carry four different rules — time limit, permit zone, meter hours, street cleaning. Read one wrong and it's a ticket. CurbScout reads them all for you and ranks the blocks where you can actually park, right now.
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Free to download · $4.99/month after the free trial · Android coming soon
The last 400 feet, in the app — it puts you on the block and tells you which side to look.
City records first — meter inventories, sign data, cleaning schedules and permit maps from open-data portals and our own public-records requests — filled in with open map data where a city publishes nothing.
How it works
Three steps. No circling.
Set your destination
Type an address or tap Park Now. Tell it how long you'll stay — rules and prices change by the hour, so the answer does too.
CurbScout ranks the best blocks along your route
Numbered spots ❶–❻ strung into one smart driving loop — each with the real rule, the real price, and how many spaces the block holds.
Park and go
"Look right" callouts guide you down each block. Park, start your timer, and get a heads-up before the meter or the street sweeper gets you.
What you get
Every block, decoded.
Block-level rules
Green, yellow, or red for the exact block you're looking at — with the reason in plain English, not sign-speak.
Meter prices & time caps
Real rates for right now — including meters that change price during the day and go free at night.
Street cleaning schedules
Sweeping windows for the blocks cities publish them for — flagged before you park, with an alert to move before the sweeper comes.
Residential permit zones
Set your permit and zone — matching blocks open up for you, and visitors never see a residents-only curb as parkable.
Route-aware ranking
Spots are sequenced along an efficient driving path — not scattered dots — so checking spot 2 never means doubling back past spot 1.
Ticket-trap warnings
Millions of public citation records teach CurbScout where enforcement actually bites — like which block's #1 ticket is an expired meter.
Coverage
29 cities, mapped block by block.
We only claim a city once its curbs are actually mapped — every block face, side by side, with rules, meters, cleaning and permits. That's San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and 21 more.
San Francisco Bay Area 13
Greater Los Angeles 8
Greater Boston 3
And 5
Don't see your city? Tell us where to go next — new cities arrive as data updates, with no app update needed.
Privacy
Parking intelligence, not ad tracking.
A parking app needs your location to find you parking. That's the only reason we use it.
Pricing
$4.99 a month. Cheaper than one ticket.
Download free and try everything with a 14-day trial — no card required, nothing auto-charges. After that it's $4.99/month (or $39.99/year), billed through the App Store, cancel anytime in your iPhone settings. The free plan keeps 3 Quick Parks a week. One avoided street-cleaning ticket pays for about a year.
Questions
Fair questions, straight answers.
Which cities are covered?
29 cities are mapped block by block — San Francisco and much of the Bay Area, New York, Los Angeles and the LA metro, Chicago, Boston and its neighbors, Seattle, Philadelphia, and Washington DC. We list a city only once its curbs are actually mapped, so the map above is the whole list. The app always shows exactly what's covered where you are, and new cities arrive as data updates — no app update needed.
Where does the data come from?
Official public sources: city open-data portals, public-records requests we file ourselves (meter inventories, sign data, cleaning schedules, permit maps), municipal codes, and millions of anonymized public citation records that teach the app how enforcement really behaves.
How accurate is it?
We build from the same records cities use and audit against the street, and errors are designed to land on the cautious side. But cities change signs faster than any dataset — construction, events, temporary tow zones — so the posted sign always wins. If the app and the street disagree, trust the street and tell us; fixes ship to everyone without an app update.
What does it cost, and how do I cancel?
$4.99/month or $39.99/year after a 14-day free trial (no card needed to start; the trial simply ends if you do nothing). Billing is handled by Apple — cancel anytime in iPhone Settings → your Apple ID → Subscriptions. The free plan keeps 3 Quick Parks a week.
Is it on Android?
Not yet — CurbScout launches iPhone-first. Android is on the roadmap: email us and we'll notify you the day it lands.
What about battery and location use?
CurbScout uses your location while you're using the app to find parking near you. With your permission it can also detect when you've parked and warn you before street cleaning — that "Always" access is optional, tuned to sip battery, and everything core works without it. You control both in iOS Settings at any time.
Stop circling. Start parking.
Get CurbScout on your iPhone and know where to park before you get there.