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Built for Aussie drivers

Read any Aussie sign in seconds.

Point your phone at the most chaotic stacked sign in Melbourne. We tell you, in one sentence, whether you can park here — and when you need to leave.

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Free, no account Works offline ~12 seconds per sign
Sign photo loaded in the ParkProof scanner ParkProof parsing the sign in five steps Verdict: you can park here, until 4:00 am Saturday, 5h 56m left Reminders flow — calendar + browser notifications before parking expires Defensible evidence PDF export Korean home screen — ParkProof works in any language
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A real stacked Melbourne CBD parking sign with six different rules on one pole
Clearway
1P meter
2P (disabled only)
EasyPark 7570
The Melbourne problem

Aussie parking signs are absurd.

Six signs on one pole. Each one overrides the last. Half the rules only apply on certain days, between certain hours, on the correct side of the post. Get it wrong and the tow truck doesn't ask.

  • Does the clearway apply right now?
  • Is "2P" two hours or two o'clock?
  • Which side does the arrow point to?
  • What happens at 4:00 pm on a Friday?
Three steps. About 12 seconds.

How it works.

Open ParkProof. Snap the sign. Get a plain-English verdict. No account. No subscription. No telling us where you live.

01

Snap

Point your phone at the pole. Include every sign in the frame, even the weather-faded ones. ParkProof works with stacked, tilted, partial and overcast shots.

~ 2 seconds
02

Read

Claude vision parses every panel, normalises Australian sign grammar, and reconciles overrides — clearway over time-limit over permit zone, the works.

~ 8 seconds
03

Verdict

One sentence: "You can park here, until 4:00 am Saturday — 5h 56m of overnight parking before the 4am tow-away." Plus the bullet-list of rules we relied on, so you can double-check before walking away.

~ 2 seconds
Legal-grade reasoning

Most OCR-only tools read the first sign.
We read every sign — then do the math.

Australian signs override each other in non-obvious ways. The "2P time-limit" says you have until 4:30 pm. But the clearway underneath says tow-away from 4:00 pm on weekdays. The real cap is 4:00 pm — not 4:30 pm. That's the kind of read most apps get wrong.

OCR-only tools surface read

  • Reads the largest text on the sign and stops.
  • Ignores secondary panels (clearway, permit zones, day-of-week shifts).
  • Treats the time-limit as the cap, full stop.
Park until 4:30 pm
2P time-limit · ignores clearway

ParkProof legal-grade

  • Parses every panel on the pole — clearway, time-limit, permit zone, disabled, motorcycle, pay-by-phone.
  • Cross-references the time-of-day, day-of-week, and which side of the post you're on.
  • Applies override precedence: clearway beats time-limit beats permit. Earliest restriction wins.
Park until 4:00 pm
Clearway kicks in at 4:00 — moved up from 4:30
Once you've parked

Parking anxiety ends when you park.

Other parking apps remind you about meters you paid through them. ParkProof reminds you about any parking session — the 2P free spot you grabbed at lunch, the permit-zone bay you scanned this morning. Layered push notifications, fired by a real scheduler the moment your bay is about to expire.

  • Layered alerts.Pick any combination of 60, 30, 15, or 5 minutes before expiry. Stack as many as you want.
  • Works in the background.Web Push fires even with the tab closed or the phone in your pocket. The browser handles dispatch.
  • One-tap re-check.Anytime you wonder "am I still good?", a tap re-verifies your parking in 2 seconds — no walking back to the sign.
  • Any parking session.Paid meter, free 2P, permit zone — all covered. Not just sessions you paid through us.
ParkProof reminders picker — checkboxes for 60, 30, 15, and 5 minutes before bay expires
Next ping in 15 min · session a4f12c8e
If you get ticketed anyway

Every check is defensible evidence.

If a council officer disagrees with our read, ParkProof exports the session as a cryptographically signed PDF — timestamped, GPS-anchored, sign-photo included. We even draft the appeal letter for you.

  • KMS-signed timestamp.Tamper-proof clock-stamp from the moment you scanned, signed by AWS KMS.
  • GPS-anchored arrival.Co-ordinates accurate to ±5 m. Reverse-geocoded to a Melbourne address.
  • Photo of the sign + your car.Both shots embedded inside the PDF, hashes signed alongside.
  • AI-drafted appeal letter.Written in plain English, citing the contemporaneous evidence. You read it, edit it, send it.
EVIDENCE.PDF
ParkProof parking evidence PDF — signed timestamp, GPS, sign rules, sign photo, car photo
Signed at 10:19 pm · session e2173cfa
Privacy by default

Anonymous-first. Local-first.

ParkProof works fully offline. There's no account, no sign-up, no telemetry. Your photos and verdicts live on your phone unless you explicitly opt into cloud sync.

No account

Open the URL, take a photo, get an answer. No email, no phone number, no Apple/Google sign-in required.

Stays on device

Sessions, photos and verdicts are persisted to your phone's local storage. The vision API call is the only thing that leaves.

Opt-in sync

Want sessions across devices? Sign in with Apple or Google and we sync via Cognito. Delete your account and every byte is gone.

Park with proof.

Free, anonymous, and faster than reading the sign yourself. The next time you're staring at six signs on one pole — let us read them.

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