Sesame Place vs Qafla
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sesame Place
Enhance your theme park visit with this essential companion app. Plan your day, discover attractions, access tickets and passes, and navigate the park with interactive maps. Optimize your experience with in-park upgrades and dining information.
- In-park planning and scheduling
- Discover rides, events, and dining
- Digital tickets and season passes
- Interactive park maps with directions
- Purchase in-park add-ons
- Locate amenities like restrooms
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The Sesame Place App is your must-have in-park companion for your trip to the nation’s only theme park based entirely on the award winning show Sesame Street. It’s free and easy to use. GUIDE • Plan your day in the park! • Discover park amenities including rides, events, and dining • View today's schedule so you can plan your next move • Upgrade your in-park experience with a Magic Queue®, character dining experience, and more • View park hours for the day MY VISIT • Turn your phone into your ticket! • Access your Season Passes and barcodes to use your discount in the park • Access your Pass Member benefits and information • View your purchases and barcodes for easy redemption BUY • Purchase in-park add-ons and upgrades to optimize your day MAPS • Get to the fun faster! • Explore our new interactive maps to see your location and nearby attractions • Find your way in the park with directions to nearby points of interest • Filter points of interest by type, including rides, dining, and shops • Locate the closest restroom, including family restrooms • Search the name of an attraction or point of interest to find exactly what you are looking for
Qafla
Simplify group trip planning by centralizing decisions and communication. Collaborate on destinations, dates, and budgets, with an optional AI assistant to build itineraries.
- Collaborative trip planning
- Group voting and decision making
- Centralized group chat
- AI itinerary generation
- Place discovery and saving
- Invite-only trips
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Group trips, finally simple. Every trip starts the same way: a hundred messages, a dozen screenshots, and still no plan. Qafla is where planning actually turns into committing. Start a trip, a solo escape or the whole crew, and share one invite code. The big questions get decided together: destination, dates, budget, stay, vibe. Anyone can suggest, everyone votes, the group swipes, and the trip locks in. The group chat keeps everyone in one thread, the planning, the decisions, the hype, so nothing lives in screenshots again. And when you want a hand, Qafla AI is there. Entirely optional, always yours to invite: it can turn the group's votes into a day-by-day itinerary of verified places, swap anything, fill a quiet day, or jump into the group chat with a local's answer. Anything you've booked stays fixed, it plans around your commitments, never over them. Prefer to build every day yourself? The plan is yours either way. Explore rounds it out: find places near you or wherever you're headed, save favorites, and add anything straight to the plan. Trips are private and invite-only. From the first idea to the locked itinerary, it's planning and committing, together.
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Verdict
Sesame Place and Qafla both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Qafla's written reviews are positive against 32% of Sesame Place's. Sesame Place's advantage is ratings volume (7.7K vs 2). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Sesame Place against 5.0 for Qafla. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sesame Place has 7.7K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 32% of Sesame Place's written reviews are positive against 100% of Qafla's.
Sesame Place ships an update every 3 weeks, Qafla every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sesame Place | Qafla |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (7.7K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 31.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7.7K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment Inc. | QAFLA LLC |
Customer experience
Sesame Place
Qafla
Bugs and requests
Sesame Place
Reported bugs
5 issues- Constant login errors
- Inability to link or access passes
- Crashes and freezes
- Inaccurate ride and event information
- Broken or non-functioning features
Requested features
5 requests- Add passes to Apple Wallet
- Improve map and navigation features
- Integrate with season pass benefits
- Enhance purchasing and checkout process
- Provide more reliable and up-to-date information
Qafla
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sesame Place
No in-app purchases
Qafla
No in-app purchases









