Compare · SupaPark vs Rope Drop Planner · checked Oct 12, 2026
Rope Drop Planner focuses on building your own day itinerary; its page does not list dining reservation alerts and an AI planner to ask questions. SupaPark puts live waits, a crowd calendar, dining and Lightning Lane alerts and the Merlin AI planner in one Walt Disney World app: free with email alerts, or $19/month for Silver with push.
Rope Drop Planner: A free itinerary app with live waits updated every 5 minutes, a drag-and-drop itinerary with optimization suggestions, Lightning Lane return-window tracking and historical crowd insights. We describe it only by what its own page says (App Store: Rope Drop Planner, checked Oct 12, 2026); if something has changed, that page is the authority. Anything its page does not mention is marked "not listed", not "no".
| Rope Drop Planner | SupaPark | |
|---|---|---|
| Live wait times | ✓ Yes — Live waits, updated every 5 minutes | ✓ Yes — Free: live posted waits for every ride at all four parks, plus a Real Wait estimate of the actual wait |
| Crowd calendar | ◐ Partly — Historical crowd insights from past weeks | ✓ Yes — Free: per-park crowd level; a detailed forecast for about a month, then a labelled seasonal outlook; forecast error published at /accuracy |
| Touring plan / itinerary | ✓ Yes — Drag-and-drop itinerary with optimization suggestions | ◐ Partly — Free Smart Day Plan: each must-do ride placed near its quietest forecast hour (no route optimizer); Park-Day Builder on Silver |
| Dining reservation alerts | Not listed on the page we checked | ✓ Yes — Drop Watch on every plan. Free: by email, 10 alert emails a day; push on Silver and Gold |
| Ride wait alerts | Not listed on the page we checked | ✓ Yes — Wait-drop watches, delivered the same way as dining alerts |
| Lightning Lane availability | ✓ Yes — Lightning Lane return-window tracking | ✓ Yes — Free: live availability and sold-out status, measured sellout times per ride; Lightning Lane refill watches |
| Lightning Lane prices | Not listed on the page we checked | ✓ Yes — Free: Multi Pass prices by park, Single Pass prices for the five Single Pass headliners we track, and "worth it" verdicts; Lightning Lane Pricing Advisor on Silver |
| Text (SMS) alerts | Not listed on the page we checked | ✓ Yes — On Gold |
| AI questions | Not listed on the page we checked | ✓ Yes — Merlin: 3 questions a day on Free, 10 questions a day on Silver, unlimited on Gold |
| Wait-time history | ◐ Partly — Historical crowd insights | ◐ Partly — Posted waits archived every few minutes since July 2026 |
| Destinations | ✓ Yes — All six Disney resorts worldwide | ✓ Yes — Walt Disney World only |
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| App | Free; "No credit card required", no in-app purchases listed |
SupaPark: Free $0; Silver $19/month or $125/year; Gold $29/month or $199/year. Free: by email, 10 alert emails a day. Silver: push (5 push alerts a day) and unlimited email. Gold: unlimited push, plus SMS. Full details on supapark.com/pricing.
Its page does not list dining reservation alerts and an AI planner to ask questions. Families who want those usually buy or download another app for each one. SupaPark covers them in the same app.
Rope Drop Planner does one part of the job. Many families end up paying for several apps: one for dining alerts, one for the crowd calendar and touring plans, one for ride and Lightning Lane alerts. Using published prices we checked on Oct 12, 2026, the cheapest paid option for each of those jobs adds up to $37.96 for one trip or $139.96 a year. SupaPark does those jobs in one app: free with email alerts, or $19/month for Silver with push alerts. See the whole stack, priced and sourced.
Rope Drop Planner focuses on building your own day itinerary; its page does not list dining reservation alerts and an AI planner to ask questions. SupaPark puts live waits, a crowd calendar, dining and Lightning Lane alerts and the Merlin AI planner in one Walt Disney World app: free with email alerts, or $19/month for Silver with push.
As listed on its own page on Oct 12, 2026: App: Free; "No credit card required", no in-app purchases listed. Prices change; Rope Drop Planner's page is the authority.
Free $0; Silver $19/month or $125/year; Gold $29/month or $199/year. Free: by email, 10 alert emails a day. Silver: push (5 push alerts a day) and unlimited email. Gold: unlimited push, plus SMS. Merlin: 3 questions a day on Free, 10 questions a day on Silver, unlimited on Gold.
Free, with no in-app purchases listed. A drag-and-drop itinerary builder. All six Disney resorts worldwide.
No. SupaPark watches dining reservations, Lightning Lane return times and waits and alerts you; you book in My Disney Experience.
No. SupaPark is an independent planning service, not affiliated with Rope Drop Planner or The Walt Disney Company.
Rope Drop Planner facts and prices come only from App Store: Rope Drop Planner, read on Oct 12, 2026. We make no claims about its accuracy, speed or data. SupaPark prices come from our live pricing page. Rope Drop Planner is a trademark of its owner, used here only to identify the product. If something is out of date, tell us at our contact page (support@help.supapark.com) and we will fix it.