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 440,000 signs — then every American city that double-parks.
Download on theApp StoreComing soonGoogle Play
↳ Free · No account needed · iPhone first
No standing
8am – 6pm
Mon thru Fri
No parking
Street cleaning
11:30am – 1pm
Tues & Fri
1 hour metered
$5.00 1st 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.
rates
Garage prices, with the receipts
263 priced facilities and counting — iPark prepaid, GMC and GGMC walk-in, NYC DOT's municipal lots, ProPark. Garages don't bill by the hour: we show what the first hour costs, what two hours cost, and what all day costs, exactly as the operator posted it — plus monthly and the booking link. 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 · Meter prices
Green doesn’t mean free.
Every other NYC map paints a metered block the same green as a free one — one Midtown screen had 424 of them. Ours prints the price on the block, and only while the meter is actually running.
Posted NYC DOT rate for that block face — first hour, full stay, and how long you’re allowed to stay. Free, and not behind an account: knowing what a block costs is the point, so it isn’t the part we charge for.
$5+
$5.50+
$5+
Meter running · until 7 PM
$5.00for 1 hour
30 min1 hr2 hr
ParkNYC zone
105791
tap to copy
§04 · The scanner
Stumped at the pole? Scan it.
Point your camera at any NYC sign. The same parser that read the city’s 440,000 sign panels 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
Edison ParkFast · 3 min walk
§05 · 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
§06 · 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.
§07 · 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.
- 79,650
- block faces with parsed signs
- 561,642
- rules in the engine
- 1,837
- licensed garages indexed
- 263
- with real posted rates
§08 · The next move
Park like a New Yorker.
Without the ticket.
Download on theApp StoreComing soonGoogle Play
iOS out now · free · no account needed · Android coming soon