Best Free iPhone App for wait times?

[WDWviaBuffalo]

What in everyone's opinions is the best Free iPhone App for wait times?

 

[zaccaglin]

My Disney experience. It's the only thing linked directly with Disneys wait time servers. The others are third party relying on people to submit the wait times lie,the gas price apps.

 

[uccats97]

My Disney Experience

 

[ArielSRL]

Most people report that the Lines app is more accurate than MDE BECAUSE actual people are submitting the times. But I don't think it's free. Every thing I've read said its a great app and worth the cost. I have it because I have a subscription to touring plans but I haven't used it in the parks yet.

 

[finnster77]

My Disney experience. It's the only thing linked directly with Disneys wait time servers. The others are third party relying on people to submit the wait times lie,the gas price apps.

.......but is being linked to the wait time servers really the most accurate info?
How often does Disney manipulate crowd behavior with "doctored" wait times?

 

[NYTIGRE]

Disney does that all the tme

 

[Farps]

We have used several different apps, and they all seem to work well sometimes and not so well other times. So we just stick with MDE.

 

[ArielSRL]

.......but is being linked to the wait time servers really the most accurate info?
How often does Disney manipulate crowd behavior with "doctored" wait times?

Exactly.

 

[JimmyV]

Lines from Touring Plans. Users can actually time their waits and submit those times back to the app so that the info is incorporated into the calculations in real time. In addition, users can upload the "posted" wait times. Granted, the posted wait times are no better (or no worse) than what MDE gives you. But the addition of actual wait times submitted to Lines makes it the superior product.

 

[BethR9]

Where does Lines get the "expected" times that they post? Is that based on in park users?

 

[cdnjason]

Most people report that the Lines app is more accurate than MDE BECAUSE actual people are submitting the times. But I don't think it's free. Every thing I've read said its a great app and worth the cost. I have it because I have a subscription to touring plans but I haven't used it in the parks yet.

You'll be really glad you have the Lines app. I use it the whole time we're there.

 

[finnster77]

Another vote for the Lines app.
It's the best one.

 

[JimmyV]

Where does Lines get the "expected" times that they post? Is that based on in park users?

Years and years of data fed into their database. From that, they extrapolate. So if the wait at Space Mountain has been consistently 40-45 minutes at 10:00 a.m. on the second Tuesday of June for 8 straight years, they "expect" that the wait on the second Tuesday of June in 2016 will be 43 minutes. That is a simplistic way of describing what they post as "expected". Then, on the day you are there, they tweak those estimates based on the real time data that is being fed to them from their users, as well as personal observations from inside the park by Touring Plans employees.

 

[BethR9]

Years and years of data fed into their database. From that, they extrapolate. So if the wait at Space Mountain has been consistently 40-45 minutes at 10:00 a.m. on the second Tuesday of June for 8 straight years, they "expect" that the wait on the second Tuesday of June in 2016 will be 43 minutes. That is a simplistic way of describing what they post as "expected". Then, on the day you are there, they tweak those estimates based on the real time data that is being fed to them from their users, as well as personal observations from inside the park by Touring Plans employees.

Excellent! Thank you for explaining so well, JimmyV!

 

[ArielSRL]

You'll be really glad you have the Lines app. I use it the whole time we're there.

Thanks! I can't wait! Still planning to look for you guys during the trip, specifically at Chef Mickey's....you guys still have your Thursday dinner planned there?

 

[cdnjason]

Thanks! I can't wait! Still planning to look for you guys during the trip, specifically at Chef Mickey's....you guys still have your Thursday dinner planned there?

Yes, Thursday CM. 6pm, I believe.

 

[ArielSRL]

Yes, Thursday CM. 6pm, I believe.

We are there at 5!

 

[Micca]

I've been using MDE for a while, but just got Lines. It's not free, but in WDW terms, a one year subscription costs about the same as a Disney QS burger . In my brief experience with Lines it's more comprehensive and navigable than MDE.

 

[Dan Murphy]

TP's Lines is by far the best. But it does cost a few dollars (about 3 bottles of Disney water). Along with it comes a host of additional information and tools. But the OP wants free.

In that case, Josh's wait times link (not an app) . Uses the same feed and information as MDE, but much faster. Same result, much less aggravating.

http://www.easywdw.com/waits/

I use Android but I'm sure it works with Apple also.

 

[c.mouse]

Get the Lines app. I Just renewed my subscription for our upcoming trip in July. I use MDE and Lines for different features. If you use both, you'll realize very quickly how Disney uses their times for crowd manipulation.