Someone's trying your door handle in a parkade. Your trunk is flapping open at 110 on Deerfoot. Your lights are killing the battery at −30. Right now nobody can reach you. The Parking Idiot fixes that — any passerby pings your phone through your plate, anonymously, in seconds. And yes — it'll also let you know, politely, when you've parked like a muppet.
Free beta · iPhone via TestFlight · Built in Calgary, AB
No banners, no pop-ups, and your plate stays yours alone. Safety shouldn't have a sponsor — the app stays free and ad-free, kept alive by optional tips and our B2B partners, never by your data.
Your car spends 95% of its life parked, alone, in public. These are the minutes that cost you thousands — and the strangers walking past are the only ones who see them.
A passerby spots someone working handles or a freshly smashed window. You get pinged while it's happening — not four hours later in an empty lot.
The driver behind you on Deerfoot watches your gear inch toward the lip. They flag your plate before your hockey bag becomes a road hazard.
Bylaw is chalking tires and a flatbed is backing toward your bumper. A two-minute warning is the difference between a quick jog and a $300 impound trip.
Headlights at noon, dome light at midnight. One ping saves you the dead-battery-at-minus-30 Calgary special.
You left a window cracked and the sky just turned green over the foothills. Someone warns you before your seats become a swimming pool.
Sun's out, windows up, pup inside. Concerned passersby reach the owner in seconds instead of escalating to broken glass.
You see a car with its lights on, a door ajar, a window down — or something far worse happening to it.
Type the licence plate, pick the alert, send. No account lookup, no soggy windshield note, no confrontation.
If the owner is registered, their phone buzzes instantly with what's wrong and roughly where. Crisis averted.
Anonymous both ways, by design. Senders never see who owns a plate. Owners never see who pinged them. No phone numbers, no profiles, no parking-lot standoffs — just the information, exactly when it matters.
Every alert travels down one of two rails. We keep the parking nudges light and the real threats loud — so each message lands with exactly the weight it deserves.
Across two stalls, blocking a driveway, sitting in someone's reserved spot. A light, private nudge — fix it before it becomes a keyed door or a viral post. No shaming, no confrontation, never insulting.
Attempted break-in, a tow truck moving in, lights left on, a window open before hail, a pet inside. Routed loud and fast. For an emergency in progress, call 911 first — we're the heads-up, not a replacement for it.
Let's be honest: everyone is the parking idiot eventually. Two stalls at Costco. Boxed someone in outside the grocery store. Zero memory of which parkade level your car lives on.
This app doesn't shame you — it saves you. A quiet, anonymous heads-up beats a keyed door, a furious note, or going viral on a Calgary parking-shame page.
"Hey — you're parked across two stalls and the lot's filling up. No hard feelings, just a heads-up before someone less polite finds you."
Sent anonymously. Fixed in 90 seconds. Nobody got keyed, towed, or posted.
The first time someone tries your door handle and your phone buzzes, this app pays for itself forever. It's free — you just have to be in before it happens.
You're on the list — watch for the TestFlight invite.
iPhone first via TestFlight. Android next. Your plate and email are never shown to other users.