Lines Universal Orlando vs RideWaitZ
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lines Universal Orlando
Optimize your Universal Orlando vacation with real-time wait times, crowd predictions, and customized touring plans. Discover actual wait times, find the least crowded park, and access extensive restaurant menus and prices. Get expert advice from a large online community to save time and money.
- Actual attraction wait times
- Real-time 'Ride Now'/'Wait to Ride' recommendations
- Customized step-by-step touring plans
- 10-day crowd calendar
- Wait times for more attractions than official app
- Searchable restaurant menus and prices
- Online community for expert advice
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LINES will help you save time and money during your Universal Orlando trip. Because we’re independent travel writers, we can tell you what Universal can’t, from actual waits in line, to which park will be less crowded every day of your trip. LINES features include: -Both Universal’s currently posted wait time at every attraction and how long you’ll REALLY wait in line, based on our experience and that of thousands of families on the same ride. -New “Ride Now” and “Wait to Ride” recommendations to show whether waits are going up or down at your favorite rides. -Customized step-by-step touring plans for both Universal Studios Florida and Islands of Adventure parks, including The Wizarding World of Harry Potter areas. You tell LINES which rides you want to see, and LINES will create a step-by-step itinerary showing when to go to each ride to avoid long lines. You can even change your plans while you’re in the park! -A Crowd Calendar showing you how busy each park will be over the next ten days. -Universal’s official app doesn’t show you the waits for many attractions or character greetings. LINES has wait times for more rides, shows, and character greetings than even Universal’s own app. -Ask questions and get fast answers from our online community of 120,000 theme park experts. -Menus and prices for every restaurant, kiosk, food stand, and cart in all of Universal Orlando Resort – more than 4,500 things to eat! Every menu is searchable – you can find every steak in Islands of Adventure or throughout the parks, CityWalk, and the official Universal Orlando Resort Hotels! Our theme park trip planning tools have been featured in USA Today, the New York Times, FOX News and dozens of other newspapers, magazines, television and radio shows. Since 1986, we’ve helped more than 3 million families plan their vacations. Note: Some LINES features, such as the crowd calendar and wait times, require an in-app subscription purchase to access. Other LINES features, such as customized touring plans, menus, and viewing chat forums, are completely free. Your in-app subscription includes 365 days of access to TouringPlans.com, the Web’s most popular subscription-based site for theme park trip planning.
RideWaitZ
This app provides real-time wait times for theme park rides in the Orlando area. It uses an API to fetch data for various attractions, with plans to expand its coverage.
- Real-time wait time checks
- Orlando area theme parks
- Themparks.wiki API integration
- Expanding ride coverage
- Apple Watch support
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Check out the wait timez for a few of the theme parks in the Orlando area. We utilize the themeparks.wiki API to return the wait time for several rides and will be adding more shortly!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: RideWaitZ at 5.0 against Lines Universal Orlando's 4.5. RideWaitZ also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 8 months). Lines Universal Orlando's advantage is ratings volume (135 vs 5) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Lines Universal Orlando sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. RideWaitZ asks for nothing beyond the download.
RideWaitZ holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lines Universal Orlando has 135 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Lines Universal Orlando's written reviews are positive against 100% of RideWaitZ's.
Lines Universal Orlando ships an update every 8 months, RideWaitZ every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lines Universal Orlando | RideWaitZ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (135 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 135 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TouringPlans.com | Marcus De La Garza |
Customer experience
Lines Universal Orlando
RideWaitZ
Bugs and requests
Lines Universal Orlando
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes when updating plans
- Custom tour plans do not work
- App crashes a few times
- Hard to report times and start timer
- Universal app not updated for iPhone 11 Pro Max screen size
Requested features
9 requests- Update Universal app to match Disney app style
- Allow park-to-park touring plans for Harry Potter attractions
- Improve navigation for custom 2-park guides
- Make custom plans allow park changes
- Better integration of WDW and US/IOA plans
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- Add ride details from Touring Plan
- Add a tab for selected/current day's plan
- Include one-sentence ride descriptions
- Display forecasts higher on the page
RideWaitZ
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Lines Universal Orlando
- One Year Subscription$12.99
- One Year Subscription$14.99
RideWaitZ
No in-app purchases
Questions
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