ParkBoston

City of Boston Digital Service

About this app

This is how parking should be.

Pay, extend, and manage your parking session with Boston's official parking app. It’s easy!

PAY ON THE GO
Pay quickly and securely with your smartphone.
- Time's precious, stop wasting it feeding a meter.
- Forget refilling the meter in the rain or braving the cold.

NO PRICE SURPRISES
See when parking rates will change in the future – even when there’s free parking!
- Receive email receipts at the end of your parking session.
- Expenses made easy, manage your parking history through the mobile app.

STRESS-FREE PARKING
Get alerts when your parking session is about to end.
- Stop worrying about how much time is left on the meter, we have you covered.

NO NEED TO RUSH
Add time to your parking session directly from your phone.*
- Your plans change, your parking spot shouldn't. Simply extend your parking session via our app.

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GET STARTED TODAY
1. Download the ParkBoston app.
2. Park where you see ParkBoston app signs.
3. Pay for your parking session from your phone.
4. Relax, welcome to parking as it should be.

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COMING SOON
The ParkBoston app is not done yet! We're constantly updating the app based on your feedback.

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APP PERMISSIONS
- Location Services (optional): Used to quickly provide nearby parking zones.

* where applicable

Ratings and reviews

Doesn't keep you logged in. They probably figured out that if they force logged people out that it leads to an increase in revenue. I got logged out and tried to reset my password and the email didn't come. I had to go to a quick appointment and came back to a ticket. I just tried again, weeks later. It accepts my email address and says "reset email sent." It is not in my inbox or spam folder. Whether calculated or due to incompetence, the result is the same.

Better to just slide a card in the meter if possible. Tried to use the app. Entered an email address to check out. The app said the address was already attached to an account. Tried to sign in, but the email with the sign in link didn't arrive right away. Then it didn't open the app properly. This app adds a lot of extra steps that are unnecessary to park at a city meter for an hour. The new tap to pay readers on the T work well. Should've taken the subway. This app was miserable.

New app sucks. One day I paid and I got a ticket for non payment. I disputed the ticket with a screenshot from the app. Next day, same thing. But when I went to take a screenshot of the app, it acted like I had no parking history, and I park at the meter EVERY DAY! I think I'll take up smoking because I will be walking out to pay the meter 3 times a day now!

What’s new

Pay, extend, and manage your parking session with Boston's official parking app. It’s easy!