Comparison

DVC Planner vs PixieWire

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Calculate points required
  • Track reservation call dates
  • Track dining/event call dates
  • Manage multiple contracts
  • View resort maps
  • Save and email vacation plans
Features
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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 our intuitive interface, simply enter your vacation details to instantly calculate required points, track key reservation dates (11-month, 7-month), and monitor dining and event windows. Key Features: • Comprehensive Planning: View point requirements, season details, and days remaining until your trip. • Points Manager: Seamlessly manage multiple contracts across use years, combine points from different home resorts, and track transfers with an easy-to-read summary. • Saved Vacations: Save multiple vacation options for easy comparison and email them directly to friends and family. • Resort Information: Access detailed descriptions, maps, and touch-to-dial phone numbers for every DVC resort. • Apple Watch Support: Conveniently view your saved vacations and member number right from your wrist. Whether you are planning a single getaway or managing multiple set-week contracts, DVC Planner has everything you need to make the most of your membership. Follow @CodeSpyder on Threads!

About

PixieWire

This app monitors Walt Disney World and Disneyland for dining reservations and ride availability, sending instant notifications for openings. It also helps plan your entire trip, track park day activities, and view wait times.

Highlights
  • Table-service dining alerts
  • Ride availability notifications
  • Live wait times
  • Comprehensive trip planner
  • Park day activity tracking
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
Features
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PixieWire watches for table-service openings at Walt Disney World and Disneyland restaurants, and tells you the moment one appears. Tables get released constantly - cancellations, party-size changes, inventory drops. They also get taken within minutes. PixieWire keeps an eye on the restaurants you care about so you don't have to keep checking. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick a restaurant, your dates, your party size, and the time window that actually works for you. 2. We monitor availability around the clock. 3. When a table opens inside your window, you get a push notification with a direct link to book it. WHAT'S INSIDE Dining alerts Set alerts for any table-service restaurant at either resort. Choose exact times, a meal period, or any time of day. Live availability Browse restaurants at both resorts, pick your party size, and see real openings by day with direct booking links. Here Now Already in the parks? See which restaurants have tables in the next two hours, the next four, or the rest of the day. Ride alerts Watch a ride and get a push notification when it goes down, reopens, or the wait drops to your number. Ride Now Live wait times across every park, sorted so the best use of your next hour is at the top. Park hours Seven days ahead, including early entry and extended evening hours. Record your park day Your walking route, the rides you logged and your steps on one map at the end of the day, ready to share. Optional - your route stays on your iPhone. Apple Health With your permission, PixieWire reads your steps and walking distance from the Apple Health app to show them on your park-day recap. It never writes to Apple Health, and that data never leaves your iPhone. Widgets Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for your trip countdown, ride watches, today's park hours, dining watches and your park day. Trip planner Plan the whole trip, not just the park days. Flights with the right terminal at MCO, rental car pick-up and return, your hotel with check-in and check-out times, plus dining, rides, shows and notes. Every item sits at a real time and falls into morning, afternoon, evening or night, in the order the day actually happens. It knows what is open Park hours, closures and refurbishments appear inside your plan, so a water park that is shut for the season will not let you book it. Attach a dining alert to any meal and PixieWire watches that restaurant for you. Take it anywhere Export the trip as a PDF, a spreadsheet or a Word document. Subscribe to it as a calendar and every plan lands in your phone's calendar, updating on its own when you change something. Share one link with the people coming with you - they do not need an account to open it. Either resort Pick your resort when you start and the parks, restaurants, rides and shows all follow. The trip planner is free, with no limits and no account needed to begin. Your group Add the people you travel with. In the app they see your alerts and get the same push notifications, and admins can change them. Anyone without the app can get text copies of your dining alerts. FREE AND PASSES Browsing availability, Here Now, wait times, park hours and the trip planner are free. Dining and ride alerts come with a pass, bought in this app or on pixiewire.com - one account unlocks both. ABOUT PixieWire is an independent service. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by The Walt Disney Company or any of its subsidiaries. Restaurant, park and attraction names are used only to describe where the information applies. Questions: pixiewire.com/contact Privacy: pixiewire.com/privacy Terms: pixiewire.com/terms

Screenshots

DVC Planner4 screens
PixieWire4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: PixieWire at Free against DVC Planner's $0.99. PixieWire also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.6). DVC Planner's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and device support (4 vs 2). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

PixieWire is free to download; DVC Planner costs $0.99 up front. PixieWire sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. DVC Planner asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PixieWire holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DVC Planner ships an update every 4 weeks, PixieWire monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
DVC Planner versus PixieWire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDVC PlannerPixieWire
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews47.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS26.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size178 MB46 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperHollis AmbrosePixieWire Media LLC

In-app purchases

None

DVC Planner

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

PixieWire

One-time4
  • Single Watch$4.99
  • Month Pass$14.99
  • Trip Pass$24.99
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  • Annual Pass$69.99

Questions

Is DVC Planner free?
DVC Planner costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is PixieWire free?
PixieWire is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, DVC Planner or PixieWire?
PixieWire is rated higher. DVC Planner averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while PixieWire averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do DVC Planner or PixieWire have ads?
Neither DVC Planner nor PixieWire shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DVC Planner or PixieWire?
DVC Planner ships an update every 4 weeks, and PixieWire monthly. Most recently, DVC Planner was updated on November 6, 2026 and PixieWire on October 29, 2026.

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