app review: Sally Park for iPhone

June 15, 2010 by Christine Chan

Parking a car can become a headache when it comes to remembering where you parked. But with the iPhone, there’s an app for that. Enter Sally Park. When the app is first launched, the user will be able to ‘park’ their car. Pressing the ‘Park’ button will save the geolocation of the device in the app’s memory and it will keep track of where the car is parked according to your current location. An arrow will work like the digital compass on the 3GS and point in the direction of where your car is, so it’s easy to track what direction you parked in. And as you get closer, the app will tell you approximately how many meters away you are.

If the top half of the screen is double-tapped (the blue portion of the screen), it will reveal GPS info. Included is latitude and longitude as well as the accuracy of the geolocation. This is useful to help track down the car you parked somewhere. When a car is parked, the user can also include a note or photo of the location, to make it easier to remember where the car is. There’s also a Map button that will show you your current location as well as the location of your car by a pin on the map.

To use this app for each time you park, hitting the Park button will get rid of the old information and replace it with the new information. It would be useful to get rid of any old notes and photos as well to make it easier to remember what’s what. Additionally, there’s an option in the in-app Settings that can have the app automatically get rid of old notes when a new parking spot is saved.

Sally Park provides an immeasurable necessity for those that constantly find it a hassle to find where they last parked their car in crowded parking lots. And it does it in a beautiful and gorgeous interface that is easy on the eyes. There is currently an issue where the arrow direction may be off just a tiny bit, but the developer is promising a new update soon that will fix any issues with this. Other than that, no other problems.

rating: 4.5 stars out of five • App Store link