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.
Press kit
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.
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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.

“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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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.
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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.
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.



















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



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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.
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.
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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