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Parky is the iPhone and Apple Watch companion that brings live Disney and Universal waits, open restaurant tables, real queue timing, Halloween Horror Nights, ride stamps, and every park day together in one Pass.

Press contact
Chase Van Derrick, chase@parkypass.com
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Fact sheet

App name
Parky
Current version
1.5
What it is
Parky is the iPhone and Apple Watch companion that brings live Disney and Universal waits, open restaurant tables, real queue timing, Halloween Horror Nights, ride stamps, and every park day together in one Pass.
Price
Free to download. Parky Gold is $49.99 / year with a 3-day free trial, or $6.99 / week with no trial.Gold adds hour-by-hour wait forecasts for every ride, unlimited ride and Lightning Lane alerts (one of each is free), up to ten restaurant table alerts at once (one is free), unlimited photo import for past park days (ten are free), and live wait boards on Apple Watch.
Platforms
iPhone, iOS 26 or laterApple Watch, watchOS 11 or later. Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.
Parks covered
Walt Disney World Resort, Disneyland Resort, Universal Orlando Resort, Universal Studios Hollywood. 10 parks total.Walt Disney World Resort: Magic Kingdom Park · EPCOT · Disney's Hollywood Studios · Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme ParkDisneyland Resort: Disneyland Park · Disney California Adventure ParkUniversal Orlando Resort: Universal Studios Florida · Universal Islands of Adventure · Universal Epic UniverseUniversal Studios Hollywood: Universal Studios Hollywood
Availability
Available now on the App StoreVersion 1.5, start as a guest, released October 13, 2026.
Developer
Nauta Ventures LLC
Website
parkypass.com
Press contact
Chase Van Derrick, chase@parkypass.com

Current release

Parky 1.5, start as a guest. Released October 13, 2026. Parky now opens without an account or photo access: finish setup with Not now, get a Pass right away, and save it with an account whenever you like. Ride cards load faster, rides carry their length, top speed, drop and accessibility facts, and live waits and table alerts stay as quick as they were in 1.4.

Start without an account

Finish setup with Not now and Parky opens straight to your Pass as a guest. Photo access is optional too, and you can create an account later to save the Pass.

Faster, with more on every ride

Ride cards load faster and show length, top speed, biggest drop, accessibility, setting and single-rider details, with wait times and alerts that arrive within seconds of the change.

Every table, right now

Live reservation times for restaurants across Walt Disney World and Disneyland in one place. Pick a date, party size, and meal, and Parky shows which restaurants have a table.

Booked solid? Parky watches

A table alert keeps checking for cancellations and notifies you the moment a table opens, with the time, so you can book before it is gone.

Ask Parky

Say where and when you want to eat, and Parky checks live tables for you or starts watching one.

Meals in the record

Menus and prices before you go, a dining stamp for every restaurant you visit, and meals logged on your park days.

The story behind Parky

Chase Van Derrick and his wife at Pixar Pier, Disney California Adventure
Pixar Pier

“I realized the most useful thing I gave guests wasn't an answer. It was the feeling that someone who knew the place had their back.”

Chase Van Derrick, founder · The full story

Chase Van Derrick arrived at Walt Disney World in October 2021 as a resort concierge on the Disney College Program, a few months after the program returned from its COVID shutdown. His home base was Port Orleans French Quarter, but over the next nine months he worked at more than 20 resorts, each with a new costume, a new layout to learn fast, and guests who expected him to know everything.

Genie+ and Lightning Lane launched the same month he started. Across all those resorts, the question he heard most was about the My Disney Experience app: guests didn't know how to book a Lightning Lane, what to do first, or whether they were doing it right. He spent shift after shift beside a guest, looking at their phone, walking them through a day they had spent months planning.

Parky is the app he wishes he could have handed them. It is built today for the people who know the parks best, annual passholders, DVC members, and regulars, with the goal of reaching the family on their first trip who has no idea where to start.

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One sentence

Parky is the iPhone and Apple Watch companion that brings live Disney and Universal waits, open restaurant tables, real queue timing, Halloween Horror Nights, ride stamps, and every park day together in one Pass.

One paragraph

Parky is a theme-park companion for 10 Disney and Universal parks, built for visitors who want one calm view of the day instead of a planning spreadsheet. It brings live waits, priority-access availability, full-day wait history, alerts, and a real queue timer to iPhone and Apple Watch, plus live restaurant reservation times at Walt Disney World and Disneyland with alerts that watch for a table to open. Parky covers Universal Orlando, Epic Universe, Universal Studios Hollywood, and Halloween Horror Nights, with live house waits and a shareable personal tier list. Every visit becomes a park-day timeline of rides, waits, park hops, photos, and stamps, then joins a Pass that keeps the whole history. Parky is free to download, with an optional Parky Gold subscription at $49.99 a year after a 3-day free trial, or $6.99 a week.

Full description

A theme-park app usually asks for a plan. Parky asks for the next decision: its live boards show waits across 10 parks at Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Universal Orlando, and Universal Studios Hollywood, alongside priority-access availability where each park provides it.

The number on the board is only half of it. Every attraction carries a chart of the whole day: what it is posting now, what it normally posts at this hour, and when it went down, because a 45-minute wait at ten in the morning and a 45-minute wait at four in the afternoon are not the same number, and one of them is worth walking away from.

When you do join a line, Parky times the line you actually stood in rather than the number the board guessed. The timer runs on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, so the phone can go back in a pocket, and the entry time winds back for the queue you joined five minutes before remembering to start it.

Halloween Horror Nights gets its own experience in Orlando and Hollywood: live house waits, completed-house tracking, a personal tier list, and a shareable final ranking. The live boards also run on Apple Watch, alongside alerts that watch for a wait drop or a reopening.

Version 1.5 lets anyone start as a guest. Setup finishes without an account or photo access, the Pass is ready right away, and creating an account later saves it. Ride cards load faster and carry length, top speed, biggest drop, and accessibility details.

Version 1.3 adds dining. Live reservation times for restaurants across Walt Disney World and Disneyland sit in one place, by date, party size, and meal. When a restaurant is booked solid, a table alert keeps checking for cancellations and sends the time the moment one opens, and Ask Parky takes a plain request like dinner for four at EPCOT tonight.

Afterwards, the day is kept. A timeline holds rides, real waits, park hops, photos, and stamps in order. Every visit joins a Pass that adds up across seasons: park days, hours inside the gates, favorite attractions, longest waits, and time saved. Any of those records can become a printed-style share card without posting to a feed or social graph.

Key features

Waits

Live wait times
10 parks at Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Universal Orlando and Universal Studios Hollywood.
Lightning Lane and Express
Return times wherever the park publishes them.
Ride charts
Posted now, usual for this hour, and every downtime.
Ride alerts
A ping when a wait drops to your number.
Halloween Horror Nights
Live house waits, houses done, and your tier list.

Dining

Live tables
Walt Disney World and Disneyland, by date, party size and meal.
Table alerts
Notified the moment a cancellation opens.
Ask Parky
Say where and when; it checks tables or starts watching.

Your day

Queue timer
The wait you actually stood, on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.
Rewind the start
Forgot to start the timer? Wind it back.
Park-day timeline
Rides, waits, park hops, photos and stamps, in order.
Apple Watch
Live boards and the queue you are timing.

Keepsakes

The Pass
Park days, hours inside, top rides, longest waits, time saved.
Stamps
Hand-drawn, filled in as you ride.
Photo import
Rebuilds park days you never logged. Optional, and photos stay on the phone.
Guest start
Use Parky without an account and save your Pass later.
Share cards
Printed-style cards for your Pass, park days and rankings.

Screenshots

19 captures at 1320 × 2868, full iPhone 6.9" resolution, no device bezels, no headline copy, nothing composited on top: the first 6 are the dining features from 1.3, the rest from 1.1. Click any image for the original PNG, or take the whole set from the press kit zip. Personal history is a fictional demo; posted waits shown on live boards were live provider data at capture time.

Live reservation times for every EPCOT restaurant for a date, party size, and meal, with how many have a table.
Every table, right nowLive reservation times for every EPCOT restaurant for a date, party size, and meal, with how many have a table.40-dining-live-tables-epcot.png · PNG · 1320 × 2868
Fourteen dinner times open at 'Ohana for a party of four, with booking one tap away and the menu and prices below.
Open times at 'OhanaFourteen dinner times open at 'Ohana for a party of four, with booking one tap away and the menu and prices below.41-dining-ohana-open-times.png · PNG · 1320 × 2868
When a restaurant has nothing for the chosen night, Parky offers to watch it for cancellations.
Booked solidWhen a restaurant has nothing for the chosen night, Parky offers to watch it for cancellations.42-dining-sold-out-set-alert.png · PNG · 1320 × 2868
A guest picks the days, party size, meal, and time window, and Parky watches for a table to open.
A table alertA guest picks the days, party size, meal, and time window, and Parky watches for a table to open.43-dining-table-alert.png · PNG · 1320 × 2868
A plain request (anything open at 'Ohana or EPCOT for four on October 20?) answered from live availability.
Ask ParkyA plain request (anything open at 'Ohana or EPCOT for four on October 20?) answered from live availability.44-dining-ask-parky.png · PNG · 1320 × 2868
Cinderella's Royal Table's dinner menu and prices, beside the alert for a night with no tables.
Menus and pricesCinderella's Royal Table's dinner menu and prices, beside the alert for a night with no tables.45-dining-menu-cinderellas-royal-table.png · PNG · 1320 × 2868
A Disney live board with posted waits, Lightning Lane availability, and each attraction's stamp state in one view.
Magic Kingdom live boardA Disney live board with posted waits, Lightning Lane availability, and each attraction's stamp state in one view.23-live-board-magic-kingdom.png · PNG · 1320 × 2868
Universal Epic Universe joins the same live-board experience, with current waits across the park.
Epic Universe live boardUniversal Epic Universe joins the same live-board experience, with current waits across the park.28-epic-universe-live-board.png · PNG · 1320 × 2868
Harry Potter and the Battle at the Ministry shown against its typical day, with closures preserved in the timeline.
Battle at the Ministry wait historyHarry Potter and the Battle at the Ministry shown against its typical day, with closures preserved in the timeline.32-epic-ministry-wait-graph.png · PNG · 1320 × 2868
The night's houses in one event-specific board, with live waits and completed-house state.
Halloween Horror Nights tonightThe night's houses in one event-specific board, with live waits and completed-house state.35-hhn-tonight-grid.png · PNG · 1320 × 2868
Completed houses become a personal ranking that can be rearranged as the night changes.
A personal HHN tier listCompleted houses become a personal ranking that can be rearranged as the night changes.36-hhn-tier-list.png · PNG · 1320 × 2868
The finished Halloween Horror Nights tier list rendered as a shareable Parky card.
Share the final rankingThe finished Halloween Horror Nights tier list rendered as a shareable Parky card.37-hhn-tier-list-share.png · PNG · 1320 × 2868
A completed Universal park day keeps rides, park hops, queue durations, stamps, and photos together on one timeline.
The whole park day, in orderA completed Universal park day keeps rides, park hops, queue durations, stamps, and photos together on one timeline.02-day-open-todays-stamps.png · PNG · 1320 × 2868
A guest chooses the wait worth hearing about; Parky watches the board and sends the alert.
Wait-drop alertsA guest chooses the wait worth hearing about; Parky watches the board and sends the alert.15-ride-alert-threshold.png · PNG · 1320 × 2868
The queue timer records the wait actually experienced alongside what the park posted at entry.
Time the real queueThe queue timer records the wait actually experienced alongside what the park posted at entry.33-queue-timer.png · PNG · 1320 × 2868
The running queue stays visible on the Lock Screen so the phone can go back in a pocket.
Queue Live ActivityThe running queue stays visible on the Lock Screen so the phone can go back in a pocket.38-queue-live-activity-lock-screen.png · PNG · 1320 × 2868
Collected and uncollected attraction stamps turn completion into a visual record.
The stamp collectionCollected and uncollected attraction stamps turn completion into a visual record.14-stamps-grid.png · PNG · 1320 × 2868
The Pass brings park days, time in the parks, rides, records, and collection progress together across destinations.
The PassThe Pass brings park days, time in the parks, rides, records, and collection progress together across destinations.08-pass-page.png · PNG · 1320 × 2868
A guest's top attractions rendered as a printed-style Parky card, ready to share without publishing to a social feed.
Worth sharingA guest's top attractions rendered as a printed-style Parky card, ready to share without publishing to a social feed.25-share-top-attractions.png · PNG · 1320 × 2868

Apple Watch

Three unframed Apple Watch captures at 416 × 496, covering Disney and Universal live boards. Click any image for the original PNG.

Live Disneyland waits at a glance on the Apple Watch companion.
Disneyland on Apple WatchLive Disneyland waits at a glance on the Apple Watch companion.01-disneyland-wait-times.png · PNG · 416 × 496
The EPCOT live board condensed for a quick wrist check.
EPCOT on Apple WatchThe EPCOT live board condensed for a quick wrist check.02-epcot-wait-times.png · PNG · 416 × 496
Universal Epic Universe waits in the same Watch experience.
Epic Universe on Apple WatchUniversal Epic Universe waits in the same Watch experience.03-epic-universe-wait-times.png · PNG · 416 × 496

Icon and logo

The app icon in the three sizes art desks ask for, and the wordmark as vector artwork. The wordmark is flat printed red on paper. Please do not add a shadow, gradient, or outline to it.

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About the developer

Parky is made by Chase Van Derrick, an independent developer working as Nauta Ventures LLC.

It is built for the way a park day actually goes: a few decisions that matter, a lot of walking, and a day worth remembering afterwards without having narrated it into a feed while it happened. Parky supports four destinations and 10 parks across Disney and Universal, with each destination presented in its own vocabulary and character.

Independence and trademarks

Parky is an independent companion app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or officially connected to The Walt Disney Company, Universal Destinations & Experiences, NBCUniversal, or any of their subsidiaries or affiliates. All park, attraction, and property names are trademarks of their respective owners and are used for identification only.

Wait times, hours, and availability are compiled from a variety of sources and can lag or be incorrect. Parky is a companion, not an authority.

Contact

chase@parkypass.com

Chase Van Derrick, Founder, Parky. Happy to answer questions, walk through the app on a call, or help with a review build. Just ask.

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