Point your camera at any sign. CurbAlarm reads the rules, drops the pin, and alarms you before street cleaning, meters, or permit windows can write you up.
CurbAlarm is an iPhone app that reads parking signs, tracks your parked spot, and reminds you before street cleaning, meter limits, tow-away hours, permit windows, or other curb rules can turn into a ticket.
Open the camera. Frame any parking sign — even the absurd six-line ones with conflicting time windows. CurbAlarm reads it on-device in under a second, then parses every rule into a structured timeline.
CurbAlarm watches the clock for you. Lock-screen alerts, Live Activities, Apple Watch buzz, Siri reminders — whatever wakes you up fastest. The window before you’d get ticketed becomes the window you’re already gone.
206,000 parking rules across 5 cities, refreshed nightly. See every street-cleaning window, meter zone, and permit boundary before you turn the key.
Every layer of the iPhone, working in your favor.
Six-line signs, hand-painted addendums, faded time windows. If a human can squint and figure it out, CurbAlarm already has.
Lock screen. Watch. Siri. Live Activities. The alarm hits every surface you actually look at — early enough to move, late enough to not be annoying.
206,000 parking rules across SF, NYC, Chicago, LA, and San Diego. Refreshed every night, color-coded so you can read it like a weather map.
Siri Shortcuts, widgets, recurring alarms, CarPlay. Set it once for the spot you always park in. Forget the app exists. Stop getting tickets.
On-device Vision framework + a tuned OCR pipeline for the weird stuff (faded ink, vertical stickers, hand-painted addendums). For genuinely ambiguous signs, an optional cloud parse runs in under a second.
San Francisco, New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Diego. We're adding cities as fast as we can clean their open-data feeds. If your city isn't live, the camera scanning still works anywhere — you just don't get the city-wide map yet.
Yes. That's the whole point. CurbAlarm tracks the parking spot, not the phone. You can be in a meeting across town and it'll still hit your watch when it's time to move.
You can also create alarms manually — pick a time, drop a pin, done. The camera flow is the fast path; manual is the always-works path.
Yes. The free tier covers one active alarm at a time, which is enough for most people most of the time. If you park in multiple spots a day or want city-wide map access, the paid tier is $39.99/year with a 7-day free trial.
Yes — Android is coming soon. The APK is built and we're finalizing the Play Store submission. Drop your email in the footer and we'll ping you the moment it's live.
Sign images are processed on-device and discarded. Locations are used only to fire your alarms — no ad networks, no third-party sharing. Full privacy details at curbalarm.com/privacy.
That shouldn't happen if you respond to the alarm. If it does — email us with the ticket photo and we'll refund your subscription. Once.
Download CurbAlarm. Park anywhere. Never guess again.
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