Motion detection
Watches the camera view for human movement and uses on-device processing to help focus on meaningful changes in the scene.
Parking Guard
Turn an extra iPhone into a parked-car evidence recorder for hit-and-runs, door dings, vandalism, and break-in attempts.
Monitors your car while it is parked at restaurants, shopping centers, apartment lots, driveways, street parking, and curbside parking.
Local evidence first
No videos stored on developer servers
Motion, sound, impact
Optional Drive backup
Evidence first
Designed for the moment you wish you had proof.
Parking Guard uses a smartphone you no longer rely on every day to preserve usable clips and still frames around the incident, so you can review what happened and decide what to share with insurance, property managers, or local authorities.
3s
Video from before detection.
10/20/30s
Choose how long to record after motion, sound, or impact is detected.
720p/1080p
Practical evidence quality options for parked-car monitoring.
500MB
Oldest events rotate out only when your phone's free space falls below 500MB, starting with the oldest records.
How it works
Monitor key risk areas from inside the car.
1
Place an extra phone with a clear view.
Mount the phone on the dashboard, windshield, or an interior mount so it can watch the area where door dings, hit-and-runs, and vandalism are most likely to happen.
2
Start monitoring before you leave.
Choose motion, sound, impact, or any combination. Each detection mode also has three sensitivity levels. To reduce battery use, you can turn the camera view off or dim the entire screen.
3
Capture around the trigger.
When detection is triggered, Parking Guard captures a still frame at that moment and starts the video from 3 seconds before it happened. Recording after detection can be set to 10, 20, or 30 seconds.
4
Review, save, and back up.
Events stay available offline. Save the image or video to Photos, use optional Google Drive backup, or receive Gmail notifications.
Detection
Three ways to catch the start of the incident.
Parking lots are unpredictable. A useful parking camera app should react to more than one signal, so Parking Guard lets you tune motion, sound, and impact detection separately. It can also send an alert to your Gmail address at the moment detection is triggered.
Sound detection
Listens through the phone microphone for everything from loud contact or crash sounds to quieter sounds like voices.
Impact detection
Uses the phone's motion sensors to detect jolts, shakes, or contact that may happen before a person notices the damage. If you use it like a dash cam, you can set sensitivity to weak so normal driving vibration is less likely to trigger detection.
Flashing light deterrent
When any selected detection mode is triggered, Parking Guard can blink the phone flashlight at maximum brightness. You can choose which detection modes are allowed to trigger the flashlight.
Privacy by design
Your parking evidence belongs to you.
Parking Guard is built around local evidence storage, so it can be used offline. Parking videos can be saved on your phone or automatically backed up to Google Drive. They are not sent anywhere else.
Local first
Video, trigger frame, and metadata are saved on the device for offline review.
Cloud backup is optional
Backup to your own Google Drive uses limited file access for files the app creates or opens.
Gmail alerts are optional
Email notification can be enabled only after the user grants the required Google permission.
Clear limits
Know the limits before you rely on it.
The best parking lot evidence app is one you can trust. That means explaining the boundaries clearly instead of overpromising.
iOS cannot monitor while the app is in the background.
Because of iOS rules, monitoring on iPhone works only while the app remains open. Going back to the Home screen or locking the screen stops monitoring.
Recommended for shorter parking sessions.
The recommended use case is shorter monitoring while eating, shopping, running errands, or parking at an apartment lot. Long use in a hot car during summer is not recommended.
Older phones adapt.
On low-memory devices (2GB or less), Parking Guard automatically reduces recording load, including shorter pre-trigger capture and standard quality.
FAQ
Questions people ask before trusting a parked car camera app.
Short answers for U.S. drivers comparing Parking Guard with dash cam parking mode, spare-phone camera apps, and general car security apps.
Is Parking Guard a dash cam replacement?
No. Parking Guard is focused on parked-car evidence using a spare phone. A dedicated dash cam may still be better for always-on driving and overnight parking.
What incidents is Parking Guard designed for?
It is designed for parking lot hit-and-runs, door dings, vandalism, suspicious contact, and break-in attempts where a video clip or still frame may help establish what happened.
Does the app work without internet?
Yes. Evidence is saved locally first. Internet is only needed for optional Google Drive backup or Gmail email notification.
Is Parking Guard multilingual?
Parking Guard supports English, German, Spanish, and Japanese.
Pricing
$6.99/month
Parking Guard is available for $6.99 per month.