Disney World Wait Times Apps, Which is Best??

[jeegyar]

Do any of you use the smartphone apps for checking wait times? If so, which ones do you use and which did you find most accurate?? I've downloaded My Disney Experience, Mobile Magic, Undercover Tourist, and MouseWait, and they all seem to show drastically different wait times.

Some people rave about MouseWait, but just now I saw that it shows a wait time for Splash Mountain which is actually closed for refurbishment, so I'm not sure why I should trust it. I'd want to trust the actual Disney apps the most (such as My Disney Experience) but the times are much longer than MouseWait so there's just a lot of inconsistency.

Just wondering which would be most reliable to use in the parks. I don't want to pay for an app such as Lines. I'd really rather use one of the free apps if possible. I really appreciate your insight!!

 

[erionm]

The My Disney Experience and Mobile Magic apps get their wait times direct from Disney's database so they should match the signs at the attractions. All other apps will rely on user submitted data and possibly a developer created formula that tries to calculate wait times based on current and prior data.

 

[jeegyar]

Thank you! That's what I figured. I know some of the user generated stuff COULD be accurate because they are posting exactly what they are experiencing in the park, but overall I feel like the actual Disney apps would and should be my "go to."

 

[ktlm]

The past 2 years we have used the free WDW wait times app. We have found it to consistently be very accurate. Based on experience, that is our go to wait times app while in the parks. I have mousewait too, and we have not found that one to be accurate at all. If you look, under the wait time, it shows that time of day it was at that wait time, and in our experience it is rarely current. We would be looking at times from 2 hours earlier. I have mobile magic too and it locked up on us a lot in the parks.

 

[Hootch]

Blackberry so UT is about the only thing I can get. That's even a lite version of their android and ios apps.

It worked well when we used it. They start with historical data and take inputs from guestson site. They check GPS to ensure the input is coming from the parks.

Last trip I sent in a few wait times. One, Star Tours, was well off the listed app wait time. Three of the transports were down. The shown wait time changed somewhat immediately. It took several minutes before it reflected the actual time. That indicated to me that a person or two playing with the system will not have a great deal of impact.

It does not use the official wait times. That is not a big issue for me. Disney periodically gives a guest a card. That card is habded off before boarding and scanned. That time is the official wait time. I don't know the frequency that this is done, but the nature of ebbs and flows adds some uncertainty to the actual wait times. My experience is that often the official Disney time is well off the actual wait time.