Free parking, honest math.

Find free parking near where you're going, and see whether a free spot plus a short walk beats paying for a garage or taking an Uber.

Get it on the App Store See the Ryman example
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02 / Nobody referees

Parking apps sell garages. Rideshare apps sell rides.

Spotless referees. It puts free parking and walking, a paid garage, and a rideshare estimate side by side in dollars, including what your time is worth. It sells none of them, so it has no side to take.

"Typically the two rides with tip cost less than the $30 parking."

A driver on r/concerts · sometimes they're right
  • FREE

    A free lot or street spot, plus the walk from it to the door.

  • PAID

    The garage or the meter, at the rate you'd actually pay.

  • RIDE

    An Uber or Lyft estimate for the trip. An estimate, never a quote.

03 / A real answer

Ryman Auditorium. Free won.

Search a show at the Ryman in Nashville and the card comes back with three prices. This is what it said.

  1. Free spot and a 4 minute walkwon in 99% of simulated scenarios ~$1
  2. Paid garageparking for the visit~$36
  3. Rideshareestimate, not a quote~$47

Park free and walk 4 minutes. That saves about $26 versus paying. Every number on the card opens up to show the math behind it.

Spotless app showing Ryman Auditorium: park free and walk 4 minutes, saves about $26 versus paying, free wins in 99% of simulated scenarios. The customer parking option costs about $1, with the trip math below.
fig. 1 · The Ryman card, opened. Expected cost, your time and the door-to-door total sit under the answer.
04 / How it works

Three taps, then the math.

  1. 1

    Search where you're going.

    Type a venue, an address or a business. The map flies there and lights up free, paid and street parking around it.

  2. 2

    Read the card.

    Free spot plus walk, paid garage, or rideshare estimate, in dollars, with the best one on top and how often it won.

  3. 3

    Open it.

    The math is right there: what it should cost, what the walk costs you in time, and the total door to door.

Spotless card for Bryant Park News in New York with the time slider set to $60 an hour. A free lot with a 16 minute walk shows its time cost and door-to-door total.
fig. 2 · At $60 an hour, a 16 minute walk shows up on the bill.

Your time counts. Literally.

There's a slider for what an hour of your life is worth. Slide it up and a long walk from a free spot starts to cost real money, so the answer can change.

Traffic is factored in too. When it's heavy near your destination, free spots are likelier to be taken, and that risk is priced into the card instead of left for you to find out.

05 / Covered, and not

A map you can check, with the gaps marked.

Every spot on the map is marked free, customer-only, paid or unknown. When a fee isn't known yet, the app says so instead of guessing.

1,193SF public lots, launch
2,234SF street segments, launch
32 KBengine, on the phone
Spotless map of San Francisco at night, dotted with green free and customer-only parking markers, pink paid lots and grey unknown ones.
fig. 3 · San Francisco from the app. Free, customer-only, paid and unknown.
  • a

    iPhone only, for now.

    There's no Android version yet.

  • b

    Rideshare prices are estimates.

    They're modeled for the trip so you can compare. They are never quotes, and the ride app will have the final number.

  • c

    Many lots have unknown fees.

    Community reports fill these in: one tap marks a spot as free or paid for the next driver.

  • d

    Check the posted signs.

    Spotless never promises a spot is legal or guaranteed free. The sign on the pole wins.

Spotless 'Your car' panel: a parking session running for 47 minutes, time-limit reminder buttons, a weekly street sweeping reminder set for Tuesday at 8 AM, and a Walk me back button.
fig. 4 · Parked. Time limit and street sweeping reminders, and a walk back to the car.
06 / After you park

It remembers the car. Not you.

Tap "I parked here" and Spotless keeps an eye on the clock, including the weekly street sweeping that turns a free spot into a ticket.

  • No accountNothing to sign up for. Open it and search.
  • No adsThe recommendation is the whole product. Nobody pays to be on top.
  • No trackingThe decision engine runs on your phone, so the math about where you're going stays there.
  • One tapReport a spot as free or paid. That's how unknown lots get known.
07 / Get it

Your time counts. Literally.

Free on the App Store. No ads, no account. Check it before you leave for the show, not while you're circling the block.

Download on the App Store Free parking by city iPhone

I built Spotless. It's free, with no ads and no account. Questions or a wrong pin: contact@fantasylab.tech.