bank & borrow vs Theme Park Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
bank & borrow
Plan your Disney Vacation Club trips with ease. Search and compare resort and room options, check availability, and set alerts for desired dates. Track upcoming trips and calculate dues for your contracts.
- Search and compare resort/room point costs
- Check resort availability
- Availability alerts for specific dates
- Trip countdown timer
- Dues calculator for contracts
- Home screen widgets
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Welcome Home! The bank & borrow app is your home for planning your next trip! SEARCH AND COMPARE Quickly browse multiple resort and room combinations to see the point cost for your planned dates. You can also limit your results to the maximum number of points you want to use! COUNTDOWN View your upcoming trips and count down the days until your next Welcome Home! DUES CALCULATOR Quickly calculate the dues for your current contracts or a future contract! WIDGETS Countdown to your next trip from the Home Screen of your iOS device! SHARE Share your upcoming trips so you can plan with your friends and family!
Theme Park Planner
Plan your visit to theme parks by selecting rides you want to experience and those you wish to avoid. The app then generates an optimized route to ensure you hit all your must-do attractions.
- Select desired rides
- Exclude unwanted rides
- Optimized route generation
- Restaurant planning
- Hidden secrets discovery
- Memory book
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Welcome to the unofficial Disney parks and Universal parks planning app! (More theme parks coming soon!) Pick the theme park you are going to, Pick when you are going, Choose which rides you definitely want to ride that day, Choose the rides you don't want to ride, Then the app will automatically optimize the best route to take so you are guaranteed to ride every ride you want to ride! NEW IN VERSION 1.5: Introducing, Advanced Routes! You now have the option to make a route with live and historically accurate wait times! Free users get 5 free Advanced routes. Premium users get unlimited. Removed Memory Book. NEW IN VERSION 1.4.1: Fixed Premium Subscriptions/In App Purchases Fixed Bugs NEW IN VERSION 1.4: You can now buy Theme Park Planner Premium and gain access to new features. Also added in this update are Stats and the Memory Book. NEW IN VERSION 1.3: You can now add restaurants to your route and view and suggest hidden secrets! (View the What's New section on this page for more information) More features coming soon! EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: bank & borrow at none against Theme Park Planner's shown. bank & borrow also leads on ratings volume (117 vs 1). Theme Park Planner's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. bank & borrow sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Theme Park Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Theme Park Planner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: bank & borrow has 117 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
bank & borrow ships an update every 6 weeks, Theme Park Planner weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | bank & borrow | Theme Park Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (117 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 117 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Austin Kirk | Addison Mattox |
Customer experience
bank & borrow
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In-app purchases
bank & borrow
- Plus Monthly$2.991 Month
- Plus Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Theme Park Planner
- Theme Park Planner Premium 1 Month$2.991 Month
- Theme Park Planner Premium 6 Months$5.996 Months
- Theme Park Planner Premium Lifetime$7.99
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