MagicWait for Disney World vs Starlit Magic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MagicWait for Disney World
Get real-time theme park wait times, park hours, and show schedules for Disney parks. Plan your day with interactive maps, food finders, and personalized alerts. Offers offline access and a conversational AI assistant for planning.
- Real-time wait times
- Park hours and event schedules
- Interactive park maps
- Food and menu finder
- Customizable wait alerts
- Offline access
- Conversational AI assistant
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Real-time wait times for all six theme parks across Walt Disney World and Disneyland Resort, plus a trip planner and every park menu for the days you want to plan ahead. Built for the moment you are standing in the park, deciding what to do next. FREE AND STAYING FREE • Live wait times for Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom, Disneyland and Disney California Adventure, refreshed every minute during park hours • Lightning Lane Multi Pass return times and Single Pass pricing at a glance • Park hours, including Early Entry, Extended Evening and special events • Show and parade times, with reminders before they start • Wait alerts: get a notification the moment a ride drops below your number • Ride history with trip grouping, personal stats and manual entry • Favorites grouped by park for a fast morning check • Crowd levels and current weather at each park • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets that keep wait times fresh, and a full Apple Watch app • Side by side on iPad and iPhone Duo: wait times next to the map, Today next to the list • Works offline with cached data when the network does not ASK MAGICWAIT Ask a question the way you would ask a friend: "what's worth doing right now?", "is this wait actually dropping?", "what should we do before the parade?" Answers come from live wait times, today's schedule and real trends. Included free, with a daily allowance. THE MAP Every attraction on a real park map, with wait times color coded so you can read a whole land at a glance. Tap any pin for details. Parade routes animate along their actual path. MAGICWAIT+ An optional subscription for people who are in the parks often. Plan your trip • Plan one day or a whole trip, the night before or months ahead • Say what you want in your own words and each day starts with those rides plus a few good picks • Early entry and party nights get their own sections, with each day's park hours and event times • Keep several trips and add days as plans change • Reminders before reservations, shows and Lightning Lane windows, and a heads-up when a ride on your list goes down • Ask MagicWait to change a day; you see every change first and can undo it Food Finder • Search every menu at both resorts by dish, restaurant or craving • Festival booths and party-only treats are labeled • Keep a list of restaurants and a list of snacks to try, and check them off as you go • Add a place to eat to your plan in one tap Also with MagicWait+ • Walk there: turn-by-turn walking directions to any attraction • Extended wait history: the full day's pattern, not just the last hour • Up to 20 active wait alerts instead of 3 • Seasonal themes and app icons • No ads • A much higher daily allowance for Ask MagicWait $3.99/month or $24.99/year. Cancel anytime in Settings. WHY MAGICWAIT No account and no sign-up screen. Open it and it works. Wait times come from ThemeParks.wiki, a free public community API, and the app is built to be fast on park Wi-Fi, which is to say on bad Wi-Fi. MagicWait is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by The Walt Disney Company or any theme park operator. Disney, Walt Disney World, Disneyland, park, and attraction names are used solely as factual identifiers for the real-world destinations the app supports. All MagicWait branding, icons, screenshots, and graphics are original. Weather data provided by Apple Weather. Privacy Policy: https://magicwait.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://magicwait.com/terms
Starlit Magic
This Walt Disney World companion app offers real-time wait times, park maps, and planning tools. Discover dining options, resort recommendations, and trip deadlines. Explore attractions, hidden gems, and create lasting memories with a digital scrapbook.
- Live wait times
- Dining and resort search
- Trip deadline reminders
- Park maps with custom pins
- Hidden Mickey and Golden 50 guides
- Digital trip scrapbook
- Dish and drink search
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The Walt Disney World companion app built by a fan, for fans. Pay once, own it forever. No subscription, no ads, no account needed. NEW • Drink search: in Dining, search any drink by name to see every place that pours it. • Dish Search: search 20,000+ verified Walt Disney World menu items, with prices. Allergy searches match the items Disney itself labels allergy-friendly. • Your Trip Deadlines: every date your trip has to hit, from dining reservations and Lightning Lane to package payments and MagicBand+ orders, worked out from your dates and hotel. Starlit Magic reminds you; it never books. • A new light look, with refreshed art throughout. PLAN THE TRIP • Dining Oracle: narrow 355+ restaurants to your best 3, with prices. • Resort Oracle: answer five questions and narrow all 33 resorts to your best 3. • The Essentials: how Walt Disney World works, explained plainly and kept current. 48 articles in 9 chapters, each checked against Disney's official site and dated. • Today's Plan: your whole park day, time-stamped, with the reasoning behind every pick. • When to Go: a month-by-month guide to which weeks win, which weeks bite, and why. • Top Picks: 2,000+ ranked picks. • Trip countdowns and booking-window reminders. IN THE PARKS • Live wait times for all four parks. • Park maps that show where you are, with custom pins. • The Golden 50: find Disney's 36 golden character sculptures, grouped into stops across the four parks, and check them off as you go. • Hundreds of Hidden Mickeys, with directions. • 10 self-guided bar crawls. Drinking Around the World is free for everyone. • Pin trading boards, park trivia, and the 10 best spots to watch Luminous. REMEMBER IT • Storybook: a page for every day of your trip, with your mood, a note and up to 10 photos, synced through your own iCloud. Share any day as a Story card, and keep every past trip in Your Stories. FREE FOR EVERYONE Live wait times, park maps, Storybook, Your Trip Deadlines and booking-window reminders, The Golden 50 list and check-offs, a free preview on every Dish Search, Drinking Around the World, the top 3 picks on every Top Picks list, and The Essentials chapters on families, dining needs and accessibility. PREMIUM: $12.99, ONE TIME Dining Oracle, Today's Plan, all 33 Resorts, every Dish Search match, every pick on every Top Picks list, all of The Essentials, Hidden Mickey directions, all 10 bar crawls, exactly where to find each of The Golden 50, and every future Premium feature. No subscription, ever. Starlit Magic is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by The Walt Disney Company.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Starlit Magic at none against MagicWait for Disney World's shown. Starlit Magic also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). MagicWait for Disney World's advantage is ratings volume (17 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. MagicWait for Disney World sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Starlit Magic sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Starlit Magic holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MagicWait for Disney World has 17 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
MagicWait for Disney World ships an update every 2 weeks, Starlit Magic every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MagicWait for Disney World | Starlit Magic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (17 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 124 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Casey Scull | Daniel Schieferstein |
Customer experience
MagicWait for Disney World
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In-app purchases
MagicWait for Disney World
- MagicWait+ Monthly$3.991 Month
- MagicWait+ Annual$24.991 Year
- Remove Ads$2.99
Starlit Magic
- Starlit Magic Premium$12.99
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