Google Maps is a consumer application and web mapping platform developed by Google. Satellite images, aerial photos, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for walking, driving, flying (in beta), and taking public transit are all available.

Google Maps is a surprisingly good way to locate your vehicle. You may designate your location as your parking space and return to it as needed using the app. Of course, it also functions as a navigation app, complete with all of its capabilities. It's not tough to save your location as your parking space. The popularity of Google Maps is one of its greatest assets. Google Maps is pre-installed on most Android handsets, along with a slew of other Google apps. Google Maps is accessible for both iOS and iPadOS devices, and the experience is the same on both.

On both Android and iOS, narrated turn-by-turn navigation is available, as well as a variety of useful map features. If you don't have a smartphone, you can use any web browser to view Google Maps (something you can't do with Apple Maps unless you use a search engine like Duckduckgo that uses Apple's MapKit JS framework). Google Maps is available for free on all platforms.

Detailed information:
Cost: Free
Device: iOS / Android
Link: https://www.google.com/maps/

Waze is a subsidiary of Google that provides satellite navigation software. It works on smartphones and other computers that have GPS support. It provides turn-by-turn navigation information and user-submitted travel times and route details while downloading location-dependent information over a mobile telephone network. Waze describes its app as a community-driven GPS navigation app, which is free to download and use.

The software is available for free on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, with comparable functionality in both versions. I mostly used Waze on an Android phone, but the service also includes a web-based version called Livemap that provides a birds-eye perspective of traffic.

Small, charming figures represent you and other Wazers, and they travel around the map in real-time. Each character has a unique appearance that changes depending on the user's attitude in the app, ranging from the cheerful Sunny to the ninja-like Sneaky. Waze has a more personal and social sense because you may alter your mood at any time. This is further strengthened by the option to message a Wazer or "Beep" them—a welcome to other Wazers on your commute—just clicking on their symbol.

Detailed information:
Cost: Free
Device: iOS / Android
Website: https://www.waze.com/

Parkify is a good way to locate your vehicle. It detects when you move away from your automobile via a Bluetooth connection and saves your position for future reference. If the Bluetooth feature does not function for you, you can manually set the location. It allows you to save as many parking places as you need and even share the position of your car with a buddy in case you need someone to fetch it for you. According to the evaluations, there are a few problems here and there, but nothing major.

You don't have Bluetooth in your car? Don't be concerned! It detects when you step out of a moving car using motion detection. This is handled by the operating system, which employs low-power sensors, resulting in no additional battery drain! When riding in someone else's automobile, this function comes in handy as well. When an event like this is recognized, you have the option of receiving a notification or disabling it.

Detailed information:
Cost: Free, in-app purchases
Device: Android
Website: www.parkify.co.uk

Discover my Car Smarter is a hybrid iPhone software and Bluetooth 4.0 equipment whose basic goal is to keep track of your car automatically when you've parked it somewhere difficult to find on your own. Find my Car Smarter's little USB Bluetooth 4.0 dongle will fire up and drop a GPS beacon wherever you park, and the Find my Car Smarter app will take you directly back, whether it's a congested mall parking lot, event venue spill-over, or as near as you could go on a city street.

The fact that most people don't require assistance identifying their automobiles is Find My Car Smarter's largest intellectual hurdle: this type of accessory is beneficial primarily when you park your car in frighteningly strange regions or if you're absent-minded. There's also the issue of Find My Car Smarter requiring you to give up a charging port in your car for something as easy as this. Then there's the asking price of $25-$30. It's reasonable to argue, as several of our editors have, that on the few occasions when you'll need this assistance, you can just open a free app like iOS Maps, put a pin on your present position, and return to it without the cost or hassle of an accessory-based solution.

Detailed information:

Cost: Free
Device: iOS

Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/find-my-car-smarter/id547090457

Honk is the leading supplier of secure, contactless parking payments in North America. Honk has been developing touchless solutions to help parking operators collect income and make paying for parking easier, faster, and safer for drivers since 2013. Drivers may use the HonkAPP to identify, pay for, and extend parking straight from their phone, or they can utilize HonkTAP contactless smart stations to safely pay for parking with a single touch or scan of their phone – no app download or pricey pay station necessary. Honk provides a solution for you whether you run a gated garage or a surface lot and sell daily, monthly, prepaid parking passes, long-term permits, event parking, promo coupons, or merchant validations.

With breakthrough technology that allows you to pay with a single touch and without hardware, TAP makes payment easier and safer for both operators and customers. This software-based approach makes it easier and less expensive to update and solve any faults, as well as safer and speedier entry and exit for consumers. And when it comes to parking, Honk makes it easy to find a spot almost anyplace in North America.

Detailed information:
Cost: Free
Device: iOS / Android
Website: https://www.honkmobile.com/find-parking/