Is Parking safe to use?

Parking integrates 34 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and messaging. It collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info and Identifiers. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Parking need?

Parking requests 10 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), Speech Recognition, Face ID, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Peripheral, and NFC.

What data does Parking collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Parking collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info and Identifiers. It collects Usage Data and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does Parking have?

Parking integrates 34 third-party SDKs. 5 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 13 for infrastructure, and 12 for other. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does Parking use Google SDKs?

Yes. Parking includes 10 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase Cloud Messaging, Firebase Core, Firebase Remote Config Interop, Firebase Sessions, Google Data Transport, Firebase Crashlytics, Firebase Core Extension, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, and Google Utilities. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does Parking access your location?

Yes. Parking requests location access. The developer states: "Parking.com would like to use location services to locate parking near you.".

Does Parking access your camera or microphone?

Parking requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Parking.com would like to use the camera to scan codes and capture your card information". Microphone access is for "Parking.com would like to use your microphone to record your voice". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Parking run in the background?

Yes. Parking registers 1 background mode, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Parking?

Other navigation apps include ABRP , 高德地图 , Shell , SpotAngels , Avenza Maps , and 10-4 by WEX . Each app takes a different approach to navigation and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Navigation · Privacy report

Parking.com - Find Parking Now

Free · ★4.5 · Metropolis Technologies, Inc.

Is Parking safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Parking is built with more third-party tracking code than 58% of the navigation we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 89 navigationModerate

Trackers from other companies5 · some

typical navigation: 3

Data the app links to you2 types · little

typical navigation: 4 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Parking links 2 categories of your data to you.

From the developer's own App Store privacy label. These are the kinds of data Parking ties to your identity.

Contact InfoIdentifiers

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 2 companies.

Third-party SDKs found in the app, matched to the company that publishes each. Present in the code; we do not observe what they transmit.

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

Firebase, AdMob and Google analytics SDKs, built to record how you use the app and serve ads.

SDKs

🏢Monitoring SDKAnalytics

Crash and performance monitoring.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among navigation.

Every one of these apps we have scanned, on the two measures above: third-party trackers it carries (across) and data it links to you on its own label (up). Toward the top right is more invasive.

Each dot is one navigation app. Parking sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 34 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 5 are third-party trackers.

5analytics

1crash reporting

1push & messaging

27standard libraries

5 of the 34 are third-party trackers. One is a push-notification SDK that delivers notifications, rather than tracking you across apps. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase Core · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

Monitoring SDKAnalytics

Datadog

Push & messaging1 · notifications

Standard libraries27 · on-device

The app's own code plus open-source interface, storage and networking libraries.

How we know this

Counterspy downloads the app from the App Store and statically analyzes its compiled binary. Embedded SDKs are matched against a signature database and resolved to the company that operates each. We also read the developer's App Store privacy label, which lists the data the app says it collects and links to you. We do not run the app or intercept its traffic, so we report capabilities present in the code and the developer's own disclosures, not proven transmission. We assess privacy and data collection, not malware, security flaws, or developer intent. Reports are automated and never edited for payment. Scan v3.63.0, 2026-04-03.

Third-party trackers are advertising, analytics and attribution SDKs detected by static signature matching. Presence shows a capability is compiled in, not that it ran or transmitted data.
"Data the app links to you" is the count of data categories the developer declares as Data Linked To You in its App Store privacy label. Labels are self-reported and not verified by Apple.
Comparison across the 89 navigation in our corpus. Trackers: median 3. Data linked to you: median 4.