What is ParkSwiz?↓
ParkSwiz is the theme park community's best-kept secret — a planning platform for serious park fans. It combines Swiz, your personal concierge, with answers from thousands of real visitors, a community wiki, crowd strategy guides, and trip planning tools.
Is ParkSwiz free to use?↓
Our accessibility guides are free to read, on every plan. They include DAS Program guides, sensory accommodation tips, queue alternatives, and accessibility planning resources. Anyone can start asking Swiz for free, with no account needed, within daily limits. A paid pass raises those limits; see the Pricing page. Questions to Swiz about accessibility have limits too, explained in the FAQ answer on accessibility questions.
Which theme parks does ParkSwiz cover?↓
ParkSwiz currently covers all four Walt Disney World theme parks: Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom.
How does Swiz work?↓
Swiz draws from a community-sourced knowledge base of guides, tips, and real visitor experiences, enhanced by AI. In the full chat, an answer lists the sources it cites, so you can check where the information comes from.
How do ride alerts near me work in the iPhone app?↓
ParkSwiz can buzz your phone when you walk up to one of the next two stops in your plan, or a nearby ride with an unusually short wait, even with the app closed, but only if location is set to Always. Say yes to Always when the app asks, or set it in iPhone Settings under ParkSwiz, then Location. With While Using, your iPhone won't let ParkSwiz watch for rides in the background. The app can't look up waits while it's closed, so ride alerts work for up to 15 minutes after you last had your plan open. After that, ParkSwiz stays quiet instead of guessing. So open your plan before you head to your next ride.
Does ParkSwiz send or store my location?↓
The background check that decides whether to buzz you near a ride runs on your phone, and it doesn't send your location to us. ParkSwiz does send your position when you ask it to update your plan. When you mark a ride done, skip or undo a step, tap In line or Not in line, or rebuild your day, your position and where you are in or near the park go to our servers with that request, so your plan can time your walk from where you're standing. It's used for that request and isn't stored.
Do accessibility questions count against my daily limit with Swiz?↓
It depends on your account. Without an account, every question counts toward the free preview's limit. On a free account, Swiz questions are limited to 10 a day, but questions about accessibility (DAS, wheelchairs and ECVs, sensory needs, service animals, and similar) don't count toward those 10. They have their own ceiling of 50 in any 24 hours. With a pass, accessibility questions count like any other question against the pass's limit of 200 a day. Swiz picks out accessibility questions by the words in them, so a question that doesn't use those terms counts as an ordinary question. The accessibility guides are free to read on every plan.