What’s new
Updates
Roughly weekly notes on what shipped in ParQwish Pal and ParQwish Planner — features, fixes, and the occasional detour. Written the same informal way the apps get built. Curious how this started? Read the story →
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New Home Art, and Room for Everyone
New hand-made illustrations and a Ferris wheel banner on the planner's Home page, wishes and packing that more than one person can share, everyone's GPS trail on its own line in Publish, and a few fixes.
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Next Stop: Knott's and Universal
The groundwork for parks beyond Disneyland has started, with Knott's Berry Farm and Universal Studios Hollywood. Wait times for both are now being recorded, so the history will be ready when the apps are. Plus a fix for rides that change their names at Halloween.
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A New Home Page, and One List of Categories
Original mid-century illustrations on the planner's Home page, a two-column Prepare page, one list of sub-categories shared with the mobile app (Accessories finally gets its own), and fixes for sync, loading, and the iPhone home screen icon.
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A Heat Map for Wait Times, and a Better Home for It
A color-coded map of every ride's wait time by day and hour, built on the same pipeline as the last two posts. It also just moved off the post-trip Publish page and onto Preview, where you're actually deciding what time to do things.
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The Odds of a Breakdown
Which rides break down most, when it happens by day and hour, and whether the weather makes it worse. One ride is down 40% of the time. It's not the one you'd guess.
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The Walk-Off Effect
Three months of wait-time data, 1.3 million readings, and one clear pattern: when a ride goes down, the line gets shorter once it's back. Except for one ride, which does the opposite.
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It's on TestFlight
Build 68 cleared Apple's processing and is now on a real device. First time this app has run anywhere but a simulator or a phone plugged into Xcode.
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The Planner gets a Photo Gallery, and Pal heads to TestFlight
ParQwish Pal build 68 is in Apple's queue, a date-formatting bug that was quietly breaking the Ready Now list and park hours, plus a catch-up on what shipped on the web planner: a real Photo Gallery, a proper Story intro, and some navigation fixes.
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Trip maps, photo imports, and a smarter Preview sidebar
GPS trails you can correct by hand, an AI-assisted trip recap, pulling photos straight from your camera roll, and a Preview page that finally shows everything you can schedule.