No single app pays for street parking everywhere in Europe. EasyPark comes closest, and it says so itself: 20+ countries. But in Munich, Vienna, Barcelona, Athens, Split and Galway the city points you to its own app first. In Budapest the meters have gone altogether. So install the app the city names on its own parking page, the night before, not the one an advert names.
The table lists what each city's parking page (or its operator's) names, as collected on our city guides. Where a city lists more apps than fit, I give the first few and say so.
Check the city's own list before you download anything
| Country | City → apps the city or its operator names |
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| France | Paris: PayByPhone, EasyPark, Indigo Neo · Lyon: EasyPark, PayByPhone · Marseille: TIMO, PayByPhone, Flowbird, Prestopark · Nice: PayByPhone · Strasbourg: EasyPark, Indigo Neo |
| UK | London (Westminster): RingGo, PayByPhone, JustPark, no cash · Oxford: RingGo · York: PayByPhone |
| Ireland | Dublin: Payzone, text 53311 · Galway: Galway City Parking · Cork: Park by Phone (ParkMagic) |
| Netherlands | Amsterdam: Yellowbrick, Parkmobile, EasyPark · Maastricht: ANWB, Parkmobile, Yellowbrick · The Hague: any provider, four-digit zone code |
| Belgium | Brussels: 4411, EasyPark, Yellowbrick, Autlo, Seety · Bruges: 4411 only · Ghent: six apps or SMS 4411 · Liège: Yellowbrick, Seety, EasyPark, 4411 |
| Germany | Munich: HandyParken München (the city's own) · Nuremberg: PayByPhone |
| Austria | Vienna: HANDYPARKEN (the city's own) · Salzburg, Graz: EasyPark, Park and More, Parkster, Presto · Innsbruck: Easypark, Park and More, PRESTO |
| Italy | Rome: MooneyGo, EasyPark, Telepass · Milan: EasyPark, Telepass, MooneyGo · Naples: Tap&Park, EasyPark, Telepass · Verona: AMT3 web app, EasyPark, Telepass Pay |
| Spain | Barcelona: SMOU (the city's own) · Seville: Apparkya · Madrid: Telpark, ElParking, EasyPark and four others |
| Portugal | Lisbon: ePark, EasyPark, Telpark, Via Verde, MB WAY · Porto: Telpark, Via Verde · Coimbra: iParque, Via Verde, EasyPark |
| Denmark | Copenhagen: APCOA FLOW, EasyPark, ParkMan, OK and more on the city's list |
| Czechia | Prague: city web machine, PID Lítačka, EasyPark, Citymove, ParkSimply, SEJF · Brno: ParkSimply, EasyPark, SMS |
| Poland | Warsaw: AnyPark, CityParkApp, Flowbird, moBILET, SkyCash · Gdańsk: AnyPark, Electronic Parking, Flowbird, SkyCash, moBILET · Wrocław: SkyCash, AnyPark |
| Hungary | Budapest: national mobile payment, app, SMS or call only |
| Croatia | Zagreb: ZgPark, SMS · Split: Smart Splitparking · Zadar, Dubrovnik, Rovinj: Bmove, plus SMS |
| Slovenia | Ljubljana: Urbana, EasyPark |
| Greece | Athens: AthensWay · Thessaloniki: ParkPal or Scan & Pay · Chania: i-PARK |
Two sources in that table aren't the city. Madrid's list comes from the RACE motoring club, citing the city. Rome's and Naples' come partly from Telepass's own guides, and Telepass is one of the apps named.
Treat "works in 20+ countries" as the company's claim
EasyPark's German site claims 20+ countries and 4,400+ cities. Its Swedish help page says one account works in over 20 European countries and more than 3,700 cities. Same company, two city counts. Neither is a city telling you its kerb accepts EasyPark.
The useful part is in that help page: you keep your account and phone number abroad, and the service fee stays at your home country's rate. Coverage is still city by city, and Munich, Vienna and Barcelona all put their own app first.
Count the fee before the first hour
EasyPark publishes its pay-per-use fee country by country, and the shape repeats: 15% of the parking cost, with a floor.
- Germany: up to 15%, minimum €0 to €0.55 depending on the city.
- France: 15%, minimum €0.25, maximum €3.
- Italy: 15%, minimum €0.35.
- Netherlands: 15%, minimum €0.19, capped at €0.70 an hour and €7 a transaction.
The floor is what bites on short stops. A €2 hour in Naples is 30 cents at 15%, so you pay the €0.35 minimum: €2.35. Five stops in a day add €1.75. With EasyPark in The Hague, two hours at €7.15 is €14.30; 15% would be €2.15, but the hourly cap holds it to €1.40.
Other apps publish less. France's consumer association Que Choisir found PayByPhone adding 15% in a few towns, and charging €0.25 for SMS reminders in Paris. Westminster says its apps add up to 30p a session. Cork's Park by Phone wants a €10 minimum top-up plus a €1 fee, so the first park costs €11 up front. Budapest went the other way: its national system dropped the convenience fee on 16 March 2026.
If I'm in one country for a month, the subscription is worth a look: EasyPark Go is €2.99 a month in France and €3.99 in Germany.
Don't count on SMS with a foreign SIM
Text-to-park is cheap for locals and patchy for visitors. Zagreb's operator says its SMS numbers work on Croatian networks only. Bruges's tourist board says the 4411 text channel needs a Belgian number. Split warns that your mobile operator adds its own fee. For Rovinj, a car-hire site says local SIMs only and a German guide disagrees; the tourist board doesn't say. In Budapest and Dubrovnik nobody publishes an answer.
Vienna is the clean exception: HANDYPARKEN takes foreign mobile numbers, by app or by SMS. Everywhere else, I'd use the app over the text.
Set up the app before you reach the app-only cities
In a few places the phone isn't one option; it's the only one.
Budapest removed its last street meters on 1 July 2026. You pay by app, text or call, with the zone code from the sign: 0501 in District V. Ghent takes no cash on the street: six apps or SMS. Westminster has no cash either. Galway is digital-only and its meters are going, though a Payzone shop still takes cash. Prague's blue zones have no meters at all.
Arrive in any of these without a working app and there's no legal way to pay at the kerb.
Use finder apps to find, not to prove
Parkopedia is a finder, not a payer. It claims 70 million spaces in 89 countries; its own data page doesn't say how a listing is checked. A "free" pin is somebody's report, not the city's rule. The sign on the pole wins, and so does the street-cleaning notice under it.
Type the zone code and the plate twice
The classic loss is paying for the wrong thing. A wrong zone code is common because codes are long: Gdańsk's red zone is GDAF, York uses location 808748, The Hague a four-digit code from the machine. In Nice, the free two hours only exist if you enter code 861. In Graz, an app isn't even enough: you also need an orange vignette behind the windscreen.
A typo in the plate is the other one. The Dutch Supreme Court ruled in 2016 that a driver who had paid, under the wrong plate, could not be charged again. In 2020 an Amsterdam court still upheld one where the wrong plate went onto a visitor permit. Outside the Netherlands I found no published rule. Screenshot the confirmation; that's your appeal.
What I actually do
The night before, I open the city's own parking page and install the first app it names. I add my plate and card, and if it's a text-only town, I find out whether my number works before I'm standing at the kerb. At the car I read the zone code off the sign, not the app's guess, and check the plate on the confirmation screen.
Install the app the city names, not the one with the biggest map. Every app list and fee above was checked against the city's or the app company's own page on 12 October 2026.