Spotless, for iPhone

Find the free spot. Then check it's worth the walk.

For nights out and trips downtown. Search where you're going and Spotless puts a free spot plus the walk, a paid garage and a rideshare estimate side by side, in dollars, with your time counted.

Download Spotless on the App Store See how it decides

Free, with no ads and no account. iPhone only, for now.

Free4 min walk~$1
GarageParking for the visit~$36
RideshareEstimate, not a quote~$47

Ryman Auditorium, Nashville. The app's answer: park free and walk 4 minutes, about $26 less than paying. Free won in 99% of simulated scenarios.

A night out, in four screens.

Parking apps sell garages. Rideshare apps sell rides. Spotless sells neither, so it can tell you which one wins tonight.

  1. Before you leave

    Search the venue.

    The map flies there and lights up free, paid and street parking around it.

    Spotless at Millennium Park, Chicago: park free at Field Harbor and walk 10 minutes, saves about $27 versus paying. Free wins in 89% of simulated scenarios.
  2. On the card

    Read three prices.

    Free spot plus walk, garage, or rideshare estimate, best one on top with how often it won.

    The Ryman Auditorium card, opened: park free and walk 4 minutes, saves about $26. The customer parking option costs about $1, with the trip math below.
  3. Your call

    Say what an hour is worth.

    Slide it up and a long walk starts to cost real money. Traffic near the venue is priced in too.

    Spotless card for Bryant Park News in New York with the time slider at $60 an hour. A free lot with a 16 minute walk shows its time cost and door-to-door total.
  4. After you park

    It watches the clock.

    Tap "I parked here" for time-limit and street sweeping reminders, then a walk back to the car.

    Spotless 'Your car' panel: a parking session running for 47 minutes, time-limit reminder buttons, a weekly street sweeping reminder set for Tuesday at 8 AM, and a Walk me back button.

Free doesn't always win.

Two answers straight from the app's screens. One's an easy call. The other is close, and the card says so.

Ryman Auditorium

Nashville, a show. Four minute walk from the free spot.

  1. Free spot and the walkwon in 99% of simulated scenarios~$1
  2. Paid garageparking for the visit~$36
  3. Ridesharean estimate, never a quote~$47

Park free and walk. About $26 less than paying.

Ferry Building

San Francisco, a Friday at 9 AM. Twenty-six minute walk, at $20 an hour.

  1. Expected cost of the free lotwhat parking there should cost you~$2
  2. Your timeabout 54 minutes, at $20 an hour~$18
  3. Door to door~$20

Still free, barely. It saves about $15, and free won in only 53% of simulated scenarios. Slide your hour up and it can flip.

How the card decides

The decision engine is a 32 KB module that runs on your phone. Where you're going stays on it.

Dollars, all three ways
The free spot, the garage at the rate you'd pay, and a rideshare estimate for the trip.
Your time is a cost
Minutes walking, times what you said an hour is worth.
Risk is priced in
When traffic is heavy, free spots are likelier to be taken. The card counts that instead of leaving it for you to find out.
Simulated, then ranked
It plays the trip out many ways and tells you how often the winner won, so a close call looks close.

A map you can check, with the gaps marked.

Every spot is marked free, customer-only, paid or unknown. When a fee isn't known yet, the app says so instead of guessing.

  • Free or customer-only
  • Paid
  • Unknown
1,193public lots in San Francisco at launch
2,234street segments in San Francisco at launch
Spotless map of San Francisco at night, dotted with green free and customer-only parking markers, pink paid lots and grey unknown ones.
San Francisco in the app. Map data from OpenStreetMap contributors and city open data.

The sign on the pole wins

  • Check the posted signsSpotless never promises a spot is legal or guaranteed free.
  • Rideshare is an estimateIt's modeled so you can compare. The ride app has the final number.
  • Some fees are unknownMany lots don't publish them yet. One tap marks a spot free or paid for the next driver.
  • iPhone only, for nowThere's no Android version yet.

It remembers the car. Not you.

  • No accountNothing to sign up for. Open it and search.
  • No adsThe recommendation is the whole product. Nobody pays to be on top.
  • No trackingThe math about where you're going runs on the phone and stays there.
Why is it free?

FantasyLab made Spotless, and it's free on purpose. There are no ads, no account and no paid tier. It's how people find out what FantasyLab makes. If it saves you a garage fee, tell one friend.

Free parking, city by city.

Short guides to free lots in 24 cities, from the same open data the app uses.

Check it before you leave for the show.

Not while you're circling the block. Free on the App Store, no ads, no account.

Download Spotless on the App Store Free parking by city

Spotless is made by FantasyLab. It's free, with no ads and no account. A wrong pin or a question: contact@fantasylab.tech.

Spotless 'Plan your commute' screen: set your workplace with Set Work and Spotless plans your morning parking.