legal
Street legality, by the minute
Every block, color-coded. Free vs. metered, scheduled-illegal vs. tow-anytime. The slider lets you peek 48 hours ahead — no more fishtailing into a Tuesday street-clean.
Today · E 12 Stnow → +6h
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Launching NYC / expanding US-wide 2026
The map that reads parking signs for you.
Every block. Every sign. Every garage. SpotTrove turns a city’s parking maze into a single, honest answer: can I park here right now, and for how long? Starting with New York’s 320,000 signs — then every American city that double-parks.
Download on theApp StoreComing soonGoogle Play
↳ Free · iPhone first · then every American city that double-parks
No standing
8am – 6pm
Mon thru Fri
No parking
Street cleaning
11:30am – 1pm
Tues & Fri
1 hour metered
$1.25 / hr
9am – 7pm
incl. Sundays
SpotTrove · live
Park here.
Until 4:24 pm.
Until 4:24 pm.
Free until next street-cleaning window · 2h 11m
§01 · The problem
“The sign on the pole says four things at once. The one above it contradicts the one below it. A ticket costs more than dinner. Nobody’s reading them — and that’s the business.”
§02 · What it does
Three answers, one map.
Built on real data — not crowd guesses, not screenshots, not someone’s old PDF.
$ / hr
Garage prices, with the receipts
269 priced facilities and counting — iPark prepaid, GMC and GGMC walk-in, NYC DOT's municipal lots, ProPark. We show $/hr, $/day, and monthly where the operator posts it, plus the booking link, with the actual rate card. And when a block says no, the map hands you the nearest ones, price-sorted.
Edison ParkFast · 14 Stvia iPark
$11
/ 1 hr
$38
/ 24 hr
$425
/ mo
alert
Soon-illegal pings, before the meter does
Park, save the spot, and we watch the rules so you don't have to — 30 minutes before street cleaning, before the No-Standing window, before the DOT permit kicks in. Quietly, by push. Or loudly, by alarm.
Push · 4:11 pm
Heads up — your spot turns illegal in 30 min.
E 12 St & 1 Av · No Standing 4:30p–7p · Tow Truck operates here
§03 · The scanner
Stumped at the pole? Scan it.
Point your camera at any NYC sign. The same parser that read all 320,000 of them reads this one on the spot — hours, exceptions, tow risk. And when the answer is “you can’t park here”, it hands you the nearest garage, price first.
Scan a signAI · live
No standing
4pm – 7pm
except Sunday
Can’t park · until 7:00p
No Standing now — tow-away in effect.
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Nearest garage · from $11/hr
Edison ParkFast · 3 min walk
§04 · The alarmPremium
Everyone else sends a push. We ring.
Set it on the spot you parked in and it goes off 60 and 30 minutes before your block turns illegal — through Silent mode, through Focus, the way your Clock app does. Not one more banner you swipe away half-asleep and remember at 8:04, two minutes after the sweeper.
a notification you can ignorean alarm you can’t
Real alarm on iOS 26 and later. Earlier versions get a time-sensitive alert instead.
Tue 12 NovSilent · on
7:32
◉ Alarmin 30 min
Move your car.
E 12 St & 1 Av · street cleaning 8:00a–9:30a
slide to stop
§05 · It already works
Open the live demo. No login.
The parser, the rule engine, the legality split, the soon-illegal slider, the garage price pins — all running, on real city data, right now.
spottrove.com / demo
Free · until 4:24p
E 12 St — north side
No Standing 4:30p–7p · NYC signs
Manhattan · Lower East SideNow → +3h 24m
From the app
Real screens, real data.
Not renders — captures from the live app, on real NYC blocks.
§06 · By the numbers
The dataset is the moat.
Phase 1 numbers, sourced from NYC Open Data, NYC DOT permits, Yelp, and direct operator scrapes. Same engine ingests every U.S. city with open sign data — Boston, Chicago, SF, LA next.
- 320K
- NYC parking signs parsed
- 635K
- rules in the engine
- 1,836
- licensed garages indexed
- 269
- with real posted rates
§07 · The next move
Park like a New Yorker.
Without the ticket.
Download on theApp StoreComing soonGoogle Play
iOS out now · Android coming soon · free · NYC first