Karl ParksKarl Parks
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Stop circling.
Start parking.

Karl analyzed 206 million SF parking sessions to predict where you'll find a spot — block by block, hour by hour.

Coming to iOS soon. Be the first to know.

Karl Parks heatmap of San Francisco showing parking availability
206M+
Parking sessions analyzed
28,000+
SF blocks mapped
168
Hours of weekly patterns

Features

Everything you need to park smarter

See the Full Picture

A color-coded heatmap of every metered block in SF. Green means go. Red means keep driving.

Search Any Address

Type any SF address and instantly see parking conditions on surrounding blocks.

Scrub Through Time

Slide through 168 hours of the week. Find the sweet spot when your destination block clears up.

Get Block Details

Tap any block for meter count, occupancy trends, and enforcement schedules.

Save Your Spots

Favorite the blocks you park on most. Get push notifications when they open up.

One-Tap Directions

Found your block? Open directions in Apple Maps and go.

How it works

How Karl knows where to park

STEP 01

We crunch the data

206 million real meter transactions from SF Open Data, refreshed continuously.

STEP 02

We model the patterns

Our pipeline builds a typical-week occupancy profile for every metered block.

STEP 03

You see the result

A living heatmap that predicts parking before you even leave home.

Wide openFilling upForget it

Karl Parks shows typical weekly patterns, not real-time availability. Based on a 90-day rolling average of metered blocks.

The app

See every block, every hour

Karl Parks heatmap of San Francisco showing parking availability
Block-by-block heatmap
Karl Parks finding open parking blocks
Find open blocks fast
Karl Parks 168-hour week time scrubber
Scrub 168 hours ahead
Karl Parks saved blocks and alerts
Save blocks, get alerts
Karl Parks address search in San Francisco
Search any SF address
Karl Parks one-tap directions in Apple Maps
One-tap directions

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Free to use. Premium unlocks the full experience.

FAQ

Questions Karl gets a lot