What’s new in ParkMana

Street parking

• Tap Street parking on the map to swap car parks for council street parking in 30 towns and cities, from KL and Petaling Jaya to Johor Bahru, George Town and Kuching. The map moves to the nearest council.
• Tap a purple pin or road for the council’s rate, the days and hours you pay (such as Monday to Friday, 8 am to 6:30 pm) and whether public holidays are free.
• A badge says whether you pay right now, or when paying starts again.
• Pay with lists the apps that take payment there, the council’s own app first, and opens them in one tap. Sibu, Kota Kinabalu, Donggongon and Tawau get their own apps.
• Roads with council bays are drawn in purple where we’ve mapped them, starting with Klang. More towns will follow.
• Council listings no longer show Navigate or Google details, since their pin is the town centre, not a car park.

Park by the road

• Parked shows a purple Street parking card with the nearest council and the road you’re on.
• Park by the road asks how long you’re paying for and which app you pay with, then opens it. Your stay is named after the road beside you.
• While parked, Time paid for shows the time left, and Top up opens your payment app. A reminder comes before your paid time runs out.
• Parked while it’s free? ParkMana reminds you 10 minutes before paying starts, then asks how long you paid for.

Favourites

• Any car park on the map can be a favourite now, including ones that only come from Google, and you can park at them too. Favourites sit below the Street parking card on Parked.

App tour

• A new tour in four short parts: find parking, park, My Car and History. Each card plays a short preview of the real screen, with a finger showing every tap.
• Jump to any part from the start, or replay it any time from App tour in Profile.

My car and Settings

• Road tax, insurance and service dates open ParkMana’s own calendar, with year chips to jump ahead.
• Move to a new phone in Settings saves your cars, parking history, favourites, reminders, notification settings and Auto-detect places to one file. Import it on your new phone to carry on. Edited files are refused, and old My car files still import.

Profile and website

• Profile has a Roadmap row above What’s new.
• Every car park has its own page at parkmana.app/car-parks, with search.

Look and feel

• Underlined text buttons such as Not now, Retry and Show more are now soft rounded buttons that are easier to tap.

Bug fixes

• The map no longer freezes after you close a car park’s details.
• Fixed the Google map sometimes showing pins but no streets on Android. If it still happens, the FAQ explains what to try.

Map

• Zoom in and out with the + and − buttons below Locate me.
• Add a missing car park has a new pin icon and sits at the top beside the ParkMana logo, so it no longer gets in the way of the Parked button.
• 100 more car parks in Putrajaya and around KLCC.

Roadmap

• See what we’re building next at parkmana.app/roadmap. Sign in to upvote features and request your own.

Feedback

• Sending feedback now needs you to sign in, so we can reply and you can follow what happens to it on Feedback & Reports.

Electric cars

• Car parks with EV charging have a green lightning badge on their map pin and an EV tag on their card.
• The EV chip on the map switches between all car parks, car parks with EV charging and Charging stations. Stations are listed nearest first.
• At an EV car park, the Cost estimate shows Parking + charging: the parking fee plus what charging costs for the same visit, and when the car is done. Enter the price the charger or its app shows. ParkMana estimates the charging time, the energy billed and any idle fees.
• A charging station’s page estimates the cost of charging there now.
• Pick your electric car from a list of 233 variants sold in Malaysia, and its battery and charging speeds are filled in. You can still type them in if your car isn’t listed.

Cost estimate

• The price calculator is now one Cost estimate card with the total first, in orange.
• Each setting is its own button (arrival, stay, car, battery, charger price, tariff day) that opens just that setting.
• On the map, Arrival Date & Time and Parking Duration pop now and then until you first tap them.

My car

• Changing phones? Tap Export on My car to save a file with your cars and photos, then tap Import on your new phone. Your car details still stay on your phone and are never uploaded to ParkMana.
• An electric car’s card shows its model, battery and charging limits.

Parked

• Quick select starts with nothing picked. Tap B, L or CP, a level and a lot to fill in your spot, and tap one again to take it back out.

Look and feel

• Pages slide in from the side of the tab you tap, and car park details grow out of the map card and shrink back into it when closed.
• Sheets and dialogs slide up smoothly, and buttons give a little when pressed. Phones set to reduce motion get none of it.
• When you’ve used today’s Google searches, ParkMana says so, when they come back (8 am) and how to get more.

Bug fixes

• Without a connection, ParkMana says you may be offline instead of showing a technical error.
• Sign in and ParkMana Premium no longer get stuck offline, and work again once you reconnect.

iPhone

• ParkMana now works on iPhone at parkmana.app/app. Open it in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen to open it full screen with the ParkMana icon. The first visit shows you how.
• Sign in with Google to use it, and you stay signed in after closing it.
• The iPhone version has fewer features than the Android app.
• Search suggestions work on the first tap, and Safari no longer zooms in on small fields.

Website

• On a computer, parkmana.app shows the web app in a phone-sized frame, so every page looks as it does on a phone. The panel beside it shows the iPhone install steps.
• Your location waits a moment for the most accurate reading. My location on the map is off. Why? in the FAQ covers iPhone Precise Location and computers.
• The map fills the screen at every text size, and the parking card sits above the ad.

Android

• Locate me re-centres at street level every time instead of zooming out.
• The bottom bar tabs are evenly centred on wide phones.

Fixes

• Closing a sheet on the map page, such as Arrival Date & Time, now properly lets go of the page behind it. The map page itself still stays put when you swipe.

Custom reminders

• If Android’s Alarms & reminders permission is off, ParkMana explains why it matters after you save a reminder and offers Turn on. Without it, Android can hold a reminder back for up to an hour while the app is closed.
• Turning it on sets your waiting reminders again, so they come at the time you chose.
• ParkMana no longer opens Android settings by itself when it starts.
• Reminder didn’t show? on the Custom reminders page opens the new FAQ, with the phone settings to check on Xiaomi, Samsung, OPPO, vivo, HUAWEI and other phones.

Auto-detect parking

• After you turn it on, a last screen helps you add places that aren’t parking, such as home and work.
• End parking when I leave now comes on with Auto-detect. Turn it off on the same screen or in Settings.

Look and feel

• The ParkMana header with the notification bell stays at the top while you scroll Parked, History, Profile and other pages.
• New notifications are easier to spot: the bell rings and shows how many are waiting.
• The ParkMana Premium card in Profile has a glowing orange border.

Fixes

• On the map, swiping up or down on the search and filter cards no longer stops the filters (All types, Nearest…) from sliding sideways.
• A swipe that started on the cards or the ad and ended on the map could leave ParkMana unable to scroll on any page until it was restarted. Fixed.

Premium

• Subscribe to ParkMana Premium through Google Play from Profile → Premium. Cancel any time in Google Play.
• Custom reminders (Premium): up to 10 reminders for a car service, car wash, detailing or anything you name, with your own message, hours, days or months before. Select several to delete them together.
• Each Premium benefit has a short animation, and the button shows the monthly price.
• Messages about a purchase or Restore purchase now show inside the Premium page, and Restore says when it is checking Google Play.
• Every 5 approved contributions earn 1 month of Premium, added after any Premium you already have.

Profile

• ParkMana Premium is now at the top of Profile.
• Fuel prices, Check summonses and Custom reminders have their own pages under My car. My car has the road tax, insurance and service reminder switches too.
• Features & help has moved above Settings, with a New badge on anything you haven’t opened yet.
• In Notifications, “Notify me before” and “First reminder” now sit in the same box as the switch they belong to.
• Every notification is now on, and text uses the smallest size. Change either in Settings.

Auto-detect parking

• Save several places that aren’t parking (home, work…): search or use your location, move the map under the pin and choose the radius.
• When a stay was saved automatically, Not parked is a clear button in case it guessed wrong.

Search

• Searching for a chain such as a gym or café lists the nearest branches first, with how far each one is.

Community and My car

• One-tap answers to “Is parking here free?” show in Community updates as a Quick report, with Free or Paid in orange.
• Adding a car has a Check in MyJPJ button for your road tax expiry and other details.

Fixes

• The parking popup closes straight away, even while it is still loading the car park’s rates.
• Tapping Next and Back quickly through the Premium benefits no longer lands on the wrong card.
• Add a place in Auto-detect parking shows that it is finding your location instead of seeming stuck.
• On the Maps page, the Google logo is no longer hidden behind the parking cards.

Languages

• Clearer Chinese wording on the Premium page.

Parked

• End parking now plays a short animation, then opens the stay in History so you can check the time and fare.

Widget

• The ParkMana widget has an End parking button.
• Make the widget tall enough and it shows the photo of your parking spot (Android 12 and later).

Maps

• Arrival date and time, parking duration and the search box are outlined in orange, and the search box suggests a few places until you tap it.

Getting around

• Android’s back button goes back one page. Press it again and ParkMana asks you to press once more to close the app.
• The note that active parking and local photos stay on your phone has moved from Profile to History.

Premium

• Swipe between the Premium benefits. Each card is only as tall as it needs to be, and the last one fits without scrolling.

Fixes

• Fixed: the map said Location unavailable even with location allowed, so nearby parking didn’t load. Finding your location works again.

Location and permissions

• If location is off when you open ParkMana on Maps, it asks again, and takes you to the right setting if Android won’t ask.
• New Profile → Settings → Permissions shows what ParkMana may use, from location to Bluetooth, with Allow next to anything that’s off.

My Car

• Choose how early road tax, insurance and service reminders start, from 60 days to 1 day before, in Profile → Settings → Notifications.
• Once you add a car, Profile shows its name under My Car.

Parked

• A new Auto-detect button at the top of Parked shows whether it’s on. Tap it to open its settings.

Premium

• ParkMana Premium now shows one benefit at a time. Tap Next to see the next one.
• Profile shows how many of your contributions were approved, and how many more earn 2 months of free Premium.
• Free accounts keep their latest 10 stays, so Insights only counts those. Insights and the Premium page now say so.

Updates

• When a new version is out, ParkMana asks you to update before you continue.

My car

• Sign in, then add your cars in Profile → My car. Only a nickname is needed. A photo (cropped to fit), the plate number, road tax and insurance expiry, and next service date or mileage are optional, and they stay on your phone.
• ParkMana reminds you 30 days, 7 days and 1 day before road tax or insurance expires, and 7 days before a service. Once a date passes, it asks you for the new one. Turn each reminder off in Profile → Settings → Notifications.
• Check summonses opens the official MyBayar PDRM and MyJPJ apps, or their websites if the apps aren’t installed. A monthly reminder to check is available, off unless you turn it on.
• See this week’s RON95, RON97 and diesel prices from data.gov.my, with the date they take effect. You can also turn on a notification for when they change.

Notifications

• Tap the bell next to the ParkMana logo on Parked, History or Profile to see the notifications ParkMana sent in the last 30 days. A red dot means there’s something new. Tap one to go straight to it.

Car park types

• Every car park now shows its type: Mall, Office / commercial, Park & ride (LRT, MRT, KTM), Hospital, Airport or Other.
• Tap the type chip on the map, or a chip at the top of the nearby list, to see one type only.
• Parking details show the station a park & ride serves, the terminal an airport car park is for, and how a hospital’s patient rates differ from the visitor rate, wherever we have them.
• Missing a car park? Tap + on the map to suggest one, now including offices, park & ride, hospitals and airports, with its station, terminal or patient rates. We check every suggestion before it appears for everyone.

Auto-end parking

• Turn on Profile → Settings → Auto-detect parking → End parking when I leave and your stay ends by itself once you’re 300 m, 500 m or 1 km from your car, even with ParkMana closed.

Auto-detect parking

• Fixed: Auto-detect could stop noticing new stops until you opened the app. A stay you didn’t end now ends when you drive off, and detection finishes even when ParkMana is closed.
• If your phone’s battery saving could stop it in the background, Auto-detect settings now say so and open the right setting.
• If Bluetooth is off when you choose your car, ParkMana now says so and offers Turn on Bluetooth, instead of showing no devices. Your car appears as soon as Bluetooth is on, even if you turn it on from Quick Settings.

Search

• Fixed: choosing a search result, such as University Malaya Medical Centre, could open a different car park nearby instead, and its pin couldn’t be tapped. The place you choose now opens, and tapping its pin works.

History

• What each stay cost is now shown in orange.
• Press and hold a stay to select it, then tap others to add them. Delete them together, or tap Mark as paid to confirm their fare estimates.
• The list scrolls in its own box and loads older stays as you go.

Settings

• Settings are now in two groups: Display, Parking preferences, Notifications, Camera & privacy and Storage first, then Auto-detect parking, Widget & Quick Settings and the app tour under Features & help.
• Insights and My car have a back button.
• Profile is tidier: your account with Edit and Sign out at the top, then My car, Premium, Settings, Feedback & Reports and Legal.
• New Text size in Settings → Display: Small, Default, Large or Largest.

Feedback & Reports

• Send feedback and follow everything you’ve sent on one page: your parking reports and your feedback, each with its status and what it means.
• Tap a report for the full details, including when you sent it and a reference number to quote to support.

Auto-detect parking

• Turn on Profile → Settings → Auto-detect parking and ParkMana saves your spot when you leave the car: when your phone disconnects from your car’s Bluetooth, or when you go from driving to walking.
• It finds the nearest car park and asks Parked at …? Tap to add level/pillar. Tap Snap pillar to scan the pillar, or Not parked to throw it away.
• It’s off unless you turn it on. Save a home location so parking at home is ignored. Turn it off and nothing runs in the background.

Quick access

• A new home screen widget shows where you parked, your level and pillar, a big timer, the fare so far and a Walk to car button, or Save spot and Snap pillar when you haven’t parked. Make it one row tall for a slimmer version.
• Add the widget, and the Save parking spot tile for Quick Settings, from Profile → Settings → Widget & Quick Settings.

Share your spot

• Tap Share spot on the Parked screen to send where you parked through WhatsApp, Telegram or any app: the car park, your level and pillar, a Google Maps pin, and where to get ParkMana.
• Share a past stay too, from its details in History.
• Anything you didn’t save is left out, and the message is in the app’s language.

History

• Stays are now a short list. Tap one to see its details in a panel that slides up, with no long scrolling.

Parking spend insights

• A new Insights screen in History shows what you spent this month compared with last month, how many times you parked, the hours parked, your average cost per stay and the car parks you spend most at.
• A bar chart shows your spend for each of the last 6 months, and a Calendar shows what you spent each day. Tap a day to see its stays.
• Totals use the fare estimate from the rates saved when you parked, labelled as estimates. If the estimate was right, tap Mark as paid on the stay, or Mark all as paid for the whole month in the calendar. Otherwise, enter what you actually paid.
• On the 1st of each month, a notification tells you what you spent on parking the month before. Turn it off in Profile → Settings → Notifications.

Pillar scanning

• Signs that spell out the zone, like ZONE C / ROW 8, are now read in full, top to bottom.

Premium

• When your subscription renews on Google Play, ParkMana picks it up automatically. No need to tap Restore purchase.

中文

• The whole app is now available in Simplified Chinese. Choose 中文 (简体) in Profile → Settings → Display → Language.
• Phones set to Chinese start in Chinese the first time ParkMana opens.

App tour

• The first time you sign in, a guided tour walks through a pretend trip to Sunway Pyramid: set your arrival and duration, search, check the price calculator and rates, save your pillar with I parked here, then watch the fare, walk back to your car and end parking.
• It finishes with tips on Quick snap, History and Profile. It’s only a demo, so nothing is searched or saved.
• Replay it any time from Profile → Settings → App tour.

Updates

• When a new version is on Google Play, ParkMana asks if you’d like to update. Tap Update now to install it without leaving the app, or Later to be reminded in a few days.

History and cloud

• History is now one list. Each stay shows a phone and a cloud icon, crossed out where it isn’t saved.
• Cloud copies now keep everything your phone does: notes, photo, rates, fare and location, so “Show in map” works on another phone too.
• The upload button now says Upload to Cloud.
• Premium: Only upload to Cloud (Profile → Settings → Storage) keeps finished stays in the cloud instead of on your phone to save space.

Settings

• Settings are grouped into Display, Parking preferences, Notifications, Camera & privacy and Storage, each opening in its own panel.
• Submit feedback now opens in its own panel too.

Premium

• Premium members now see the benefits they’re enjoying, with what’s on, a shortcut to Storage and a link to manage the subscription.

Quick snap

• The quick snap button has a new look: a viewfinder around a big “P”.

Photos from drivers

• Add up to 4 photos to your review: the entrance, the rate sign, where the good bays are.
• The newest photo now tops the parking page. Tap it to see it full screen, then go back to browse every driver’s photos.
• Each enlarged photo shows who took it, their rating, the date and their review.
• Tap a photo in a review to flip through that review’s photos; back takes you straight back to the reviews.
• Photos are public, so please avoid faces and number plates. Report anything that shouldn’t be there.

More places

• 53 new car parks in Sabah: Kota Kinabalu malls, hotels and offices, Sandakan and Tawau airports, town street parking and Sabah Parks.
• 83 more in KL and Selangor, including AEON BiG, Giant, Lotus’s, Mydin and NSK hypermarkets.
• No fares for a place yet? Answer “Is parking free here?” in one tap.
• Rates that change by time of day, like Suria Sabah’s early-morning rates, are now included in the fare estimate.

Search and map

• Searching a place now puts the exact match first, and words can be in any order: “damansara lotus” finds Lotus’s Mutiara Damansara.
• Picking a search result keeps its card open on the map instead of closing it a moment later.
• Places that only differ by spelling from Google, like Menara Jubili and Menara Jubilee, show as one pin.
• Places added by the community now show their town under the name in search.

Getting started

• New installs ask for location and notifications together on one screen, with a line on what each is for, instead of separate pop-ups later on.

Bahasa Melayu

• Much more of the app now switches to Bahasa Melayu: reviews, fares and rate cards, Premium, sign-in, your parked spot and error messages.

Your profile

• Profile photo: add one from your gallery, then drag and zoom to crop it. It shows next to your reviews.
• A new Edit profile screen for your name and photo, with a “Profile saved” confirmation.
• Sign out now asks before signing you out.

Reviews

• Reviews load 10 at a time, with more as you scroll.
• Filter by star rating, and sort by most recent, highest or lowest.
• Report a review or fare update that’s offensive, hateful, wrong or spam. We check every report.
• Reviews with offensive words are checked by the ParkMana team before they appear.

Getting started

• New drivers see what a free account adds: more map searches each day, favourites, reviews and history backup. You can still continue as a guest.
• The page behind the sign-in screen no longer scrolls.

Fixes

• Fixed a crash when an ad failed to load.
• Coming back to Maps reuses recent nearby results instead of searching again.
• Sharper pillar reading from photos: a small zone letter above a number, like F over 13, now reads as F13.

While you’re parked

• Big live timer that counts up every second.
• Fare countdown: see when the price next goes up and by how much, e.g. “in 14 min 59 s · RM 0.00 → RM 3.00”. It turns red in the last 5 minutes.
• Show in map: your spot on a map with your parking photo as the pin, plus when and where the photo was taken.
• Walk to my car opens Google Maps walking directions straight to your spot.
• Parking photos now remember when and where they were taken. Gallery photos keep the date and location saved in the photo, when your phone includes them.
• Tap a photo to view it full screen.

Finding and parking

• Home is now Maps.
• Add a missing car park: tap + on the map to pin parking that isn’t on Google Maps, like council street parking. We check every pin before it appears for everyone.
• Clearer map cards: the fare stands out, the walking button now says “Walking”, and there’s a red Park button.
• Places open 24 hours now show “Daily · Open 24 hours”.
• Fixed: “I parked here” works again after closing the popup, and closing it takes you back to the details page.

Parked tab

• Pick where you parked in one tap: Nearest mall and Nearest parking cards, each with a Park here button.
• Up to 5 more nearby options, each with a Park button.
• Faster: nearby results are kept for a few minutes, so switching tabs doesn’t search again.
• Already parked? If you try to park somewhere else, ParkMana asks whether to end the current stay or keep it.

History

• Each stay now shows when you parked and left, how long you stayed, the final fare, and the photo’s time and location.
• Show in map and Walk to my car work for past stays too.

Account and settings

• Messages from the ParkMana team appear in the app until you tap “I understand”.
• Delete account is now in a clearly marked red section with an “it cannot be undone” warning.
• Vibration now confirms every settings change, as long as vibration is turned on.

Find parking

• Map of nearby malls and car parks, with walking time, verified rates and a recommended pick.
• Choose your arrival time and how long you’ll stay to compare estimated fares, including weekday, weekend and holiday rates.
• Parking details in one page: opening hours, parking options, contact and rates.

Remember your spot

• Point your camera at the pillar sign and ParkMana reads the level and bay for you, on your phone.
• Save your spot with a photo and see a running fare estimate, with a reminder before the price goes up.
• Every stay is saved in your parking history.

Community and Premium

• Share rate signs and corrections to help other drivers. 5 approved contributions earn 2 months of ParkMana Premium.
• Sign in with email or Google to keep favourites and sync history.
• Available in English and Bahasa Melayu.