DVC Planner vs Disneyland Lines (TP)
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DVC Planner
Easily plan your Disney Vacation Club trips. Calculate required points, track reservation and dining call dates, and manage your points across multiple contracts. View resort maps and save vacation details.
- Calculate points required
- Track reservation call dates
- Track dining/event call dates
- Manage multiple contracts
- View resort maps
- Save and email vacation plans
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Vacation Club Planning At Your Fingertips! DVC Planner is the fast and easy way to plan your upcoming DVC vacations! Using the easy, intuitive interface, enter in your vacation information. The DVC Planner then provides you with the following: 1. Number of points required. 2. 11 month and 7 month reservation call dates 3. 180 day, 90 day and 60 day call dates for dining and events 4. Holding day date (30 day date). If you must cancel your reservation, cancel BEFORE the Holding Day Date in order to avoid having your points go into the holding account. 5. Days until vacation. 6. Reminders that you have added 7. Vacation points details (seasons, points) for each night of your stay. The DVC Planner also allows the user to save and even email their vacations for later recall and comparison. Plan multiple vacation options and save them all for later reference! Email them to a friend or loved one for planning! Planners Section The DVC Planner is the same rock solid planner. The manual planner is for those with set-week contracts. Saved Vacations Section Within the saved vacations section, you are able to view your saved vacations. View Points / Seasons details for each night of your stay. Add points that you will use for the vacation. The points manager will track your points usage. Create and edit reminders for your vacation. Points Manager Section Manage multiple contracts over multiple use years Combine points from multiple home resorts to make vacations; track points individually using the points manager Use points for vacations that span two use years. The points manager will intelligently display results in the summary. Points manager summary knows the vacations which uses your points and displays the results in an easy-to-read manner Transferring points out? No problem. The Points Manager will show those transfers in the summary in logical order. Transferring points in? No problem. The Points Manager will show the status of those points in the summary. DVC Resorts Section View resort information - wonderful descriptions, addresses and phone numbers. iPhones may dial resorts by using the touch-to-dial feature. Guide Section Enter in your guide's name and phone number for easy reference. Enter in DVC's 800 number for vacation reservations. Touch-to-dial feature allows iPhone users to quickly and easily dial your guide or DVC. Map Section View maps of every DVC Resort. Settings and Things Section Calendars, About, Messages, Apple Watch, Backup and Restore About the Apple Watch App View saved vacations and member number, handy when you are calling DVC Member Services. View added to conveniently view member number. Follow @CodeSpyder on Threads!
Disneyland Lines (TP)
This app helps you save time and money during your Disneyland Resort trip by providing unbiased information and data. It offers park recommendations, crowd calendars, customized touring plans, and real-time updates on wait times and attraction status.
- Park recommendations
- Crowd calendar
- Customized touring plans
- Real-time wait times
- Lightning Lane suggestions
- Park schedules
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LINES DLR by TouringPlans will help you save time and money during your Disneyland Resort trip. We created Lines to help you know where to go and what to do during your Disney vacation. No other app – even Disney’s official app – gives you as much unbiased information and time-tested data at your fingertips. LINES features include: · PARK RECOMMENDATIONS for the next 10 days. · CROWD CALENDAR, so you know how busy each park will be for the next 10 days. · Customized, step-by-step TOURING PLANS for each Disney park so you save time waiting in line for any attractions—or all attractions. · REAL-TIME UPDATES to show you what to ride now, what to wait to ride, and even what attractions are offline (with an estimated return time). · ACCURATE WAIT TIMES using predictive technology and crowd-sourced live data to let you know how long you really will wait in line, no matter what the posted time says. · LIGHTNING LANE suggestions, to help you make choices to save you time. · COMPLETE PARK SCHEDULES including operating hours, parades, shows, and more. · PLUS MUCH, MUCH MORE. Our Disney trip planning tools have been featured by USA Today, The New York Times, Parents Magazine, AAA, major news networks, and newspapers, magazines, television shows, and radio shows. Since 1986, we’ve helped more than 3 million families plan their Disneyland Resort Vacations. Note: Some LINES features, such as full crowd calendar access and all attraction wait times require an in-app subscription purchase for access. Other LINES features, such as customized touring plans, menus, and Lines Chat are completely free. Your in-app subscription includes 365 days of access to TouringPlans.com, the internet’s most popular subscription-based site for Disney trip planning. LINES by TouringPlans is not affiliated with or sponsored by the Walt Disney corporation or Disneyland Resort.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Disneyland Lines (TP) at Free against DVC Planner's $0.99. Disneyland Lines (TP) also leads on rating (4.2 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (295 vs 2). DVC Planner's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 8 months). On ads and device support 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
Disneyland Lines (TP) is free to download; DVC Planner costs $0.99 up front. Disneyland Lines (TP) sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. DVC Planner asks for nothing beyond the download.
Disneyland Lines (TP) holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Disneyland Lines (TP) has 295 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of DVC Planner's written reviews are positive against 68% of Disneyland Lines (TP)'s.
DVC Planner ships an update every 4 weeks, Disneyland Lines (TP) every 8 months. Both last shipped on September 23, 2026.
| Parameter | DVC Planner | Disneyland Lines (TP) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.2 (295 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.6% of reviews | 67.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 295 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 178 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hollis Ambrose | TouringPlans.com |
Customer experience
DVC Planner
Disneyland Lines (TP)
Bugs and requests
DVC Planner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Disneyland Lines (TP)
Reported bugs
14 issues- Inability to amend plan details on the app
- Inability to add show times to plan
- Inability to automatically add FastPass return times to plan
- Inability to enter Genie+ information
- Inability to plan across both Disneyland and California Adventure parks
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- Inability to optimize plans across multiple days
- Inability to pin rides to a certain order
- Inability to drag and drop steps in plan
- Inability to add real-time crowd updates
- Inability to add real-time ride downtime updates
- Inability to contribute wait time reports
- Buggy and slow UI
- Incompatible with newer devices and iOS versions
- Errors with no clear explanation
Requested features
15 requests- Ability to add Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique to plan
- Ability to amend plan details on the app
- Ability to add show times to plan
- Ability to automatically add FastPass return times to plan
- Ability to enter Genie+ information
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- Ability to plan across both Disneyland and California Adventure parks
- Ability to optimize plans across multiple days
- Ability to pin rides to a certain order
- Ability to drag and drop steps in plan
- Ability to add real-time crowd updates
- Ability to add real-time ride downtime updates
- Ability to contribute wait time reports
- Improved UI and navigation
- Apple Watch support
- Dark mode option
In-app purchases
DVC Planner
No in-app purchases
Disneyland Lines (TP)
- One Week Subscription$3.99
- One Week Subscription$4.99
- One Month Subscription$5.99
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- One Month Subscription$6.99
- One Year Subscription2 variants$12.99
Questions
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