Ride Wait Times vs Pilot Window
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ride Wait Times
Avoid long queues at amusement parks. This app provides real-time wait times for rides at over 100,000 parks worldwide. Plan your park visits efficiently by knowing how long you'll wait for each attraction.
- Real-time ride wait times
- Global park coverage
- Plan ride schedules
- Updated every 5 minutes
- Supports major park companies
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Tired of waiting in long lines for a ride? Hate having to download multiple apps just to know the wait times for each park? With over 100,000 downloads, Ride Wait Times is an app that contains wait times for rides in parks around the world. Easily access the wait times for rides in the parks, know how long you will need to wait in line, and plan what rides you go to and when. Updated every 5 minutes, Ride Wait Times uses the information provided by queue-times.com to give you up-to-date information on parks from companies like: - Six Flags - Walt Disney - SeaWorld - Universal - PortAventura - Plopsa - Compagnie des Alpes - And more! Ride Wait Times gets all wait times from queue-times.com, which gets the wait times from the parks themselves. As such, all wait times are as accurate as the parks make them.
Pilot Window
This app helps pilots estimate cloud clearance by selecting a range in miles. It also includes a stargazer utility with fun facts for nighttime entertainment.
- Cloud clearance estimation
- Stargazer utility
- Fun facts about stars
- Range selection in miles
- Altitude calculation in feet
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Pilots, are you tired of using that water bottle to see if you will clear that cloud? This app lets you determine if you may need to deviate. Just select the range away in miles, and it will approximately tell you how many feet above or below the cloud top will be. And at night, when you are bored, wondering what that bright light in front of you is, use the built-in stargazer utility with some fun facts about what you are looking at. This app is built by a 30-year airline pilot who will just keep making it better.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pilot Window at 100% against Ride Wait Times's 48%. Pilot Window also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 months). Ride Wait Times's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and ratings volume (72 vs 5). On ads and in-app purchases 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
Ride Wait Times is free to download; Pilot Window costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pilot Window holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ride Wait Times has 72 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of Ride Wait Times's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pilot Window's.
Ride Wait Times ships an update every 5 months, Pilot Window every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ride Wait Times | Pilot Window |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.5 (72 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 72 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Logan Gill | Todd Anderson |
Customer experience
Ride Wait Times
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In-app purchases
Ride Wait Times
No in-app purchases
Pilot Window
No in-app purchases
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