Coastermate vs Ride Wait Times
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Coastermate
Log every roller coaster you ride and view your total statistics. Discover coaster details like speed and height, and share your experiences with others through ratings, reviews, and photos. Find nearby coasters to enhance your vacation time.
- Track roller coaster rides
- View coaster statistics
- Share ratings and reviews
- Upload photos
- Find nearby coasters
- Log total ride stats
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Track Your Laps: Keep track of every coaster you ride. Review your total stats in your account. Check Coaster Stats: Look up a coaster’s speed, height, length, and other stats. Perfect for a long line. Tell the World: Share ratings, reviews, photos, and lists with other enthusiasts (or just your friends). Find a Coaster: Fill your extra vacation time the best way: by finding and riding the nearest coaster.
Ride Wait Times
This minimalist app quickly displays current wait times for your favorite theme park rides. It allows you to add favorite parks and rides, and automatically refreshes queue times without any bloat or advertisements.
- Favorite parks and rides
- Nearby park discovery
- Automatic queue time refresh
- Minimalist design
- Ad-free experience
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Are you tired of waiting for bloated apps to see your favorite rides' current wait times? No more. This minimalist app is fast and gives you the information you really want immediately. - Add your favorite parks - Add your favorite rides - See nearby parks - No bloat - No ads *ever* - Auto refreshes queue times. By default, fetches queue times every 1 minute from queue-times.com. Currently, queue-times.com updates every 5 minutes, so there will be some delay. Note: All data is provided by https://queue-times.com. This app is not responsible for any incorrect or missing data. Feel like supporting the cause? Buy me a coffee from inside the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ride Wait Times at 5.0 against Coastermate's 4.2. Ride Wait Times also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). Coastermate's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price and ratings volume 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. Ride Wait Times sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Coastermate asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ride Wait Times holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively.
Coastermate ships an update every 5 months, Ride Wait Times every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Coastermate | Ride Wait Times |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chiseled Pixel | Nathan Stoddart |
Customer experience
Coastermate
Ride Wait Times
In-app purchases
Coastermate
No in-app purchases
Ride Wait Times
- Buy me a coffee$0.99
- Buy me a large coffee$2.99
Questions
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