Civic Dollars

Moai Digital Ltd

About this app

What if there was a way you could be rewarded for being more active and help local community groups at the same time?

Now you can with Civic Dollars.

You can earn Civic Dollars by just spending time in a park (designated earn zone) and then you can get rewards for yourself or you can donate your Civic Dollars to a local community group or charity who can pool them together and get access to unique rewards from local businesses.

To start earning Civic Dollars just:
Download the app and register,
Visit a Park or Open Space (designated earn zone)
Start earning Civic Dollars
Select a reward for yourself
Choose a community group or charity and donate to them

You can also report problems like anti-social behaviour and litter by using the (!) button while in a park.

We will be updating our social media accounts with details of any new parks that have been added to the platform.

Parks will be assigned different earn values so make sure to check the app for your nearest parks and how many Civic Dollars you can earn while there.
Each park will have a real time symbol indicating how busy the parks are and will help you with social distancing (Red, Amber, Green).

The app will only be using your GPS while inside a participating park and will only start when a user clicks the green “GO” button. If you forget to stop your visit your session will automatically stop when you walk out of the park.

Ratings and reviews

Interface is fine but it doesn't work for what it's meant to do. I spent 4 hours in a local park where I normally get good signal. It seemed to have trouble connecting for a long time. Finally connected but it doesn't run in the background. So if the app closes, you lose any time you've wracked up, even when it's over 30 mins. I started all over again, left the app open and minimised the window. That seemed to work but then when I checked in after an hour it had frozen. So 4 hours = 0 dollars.

Great idea, poor execution. This is a great idea but unfortunately I will be deleting the app. It isnt very clear how dollars are earned. There is a green and black circle that fill as you spend time in parks but it is never stated what they mean. The app is a bit buggy. The "list by" and "filter" options in the spend section don't work properly. The is also not very many ways to spend your civic dollars around Buncrana. I hope that the app is further developed as it has great potential.

Update: it's working now. However, no parks near me like orangefield are included. Rewards are very limited, just 5 in Belfast and nothing worth getting, eg to get a Translink day pass I need to buy a day pass to travel to turf lodge to collect it. Needs a lot of work to make it worth using.

What’s new

Ability to view rewards history.
Updates to location tracking.