WDW Food&Wine

Review by eFreeware

WDW Food&Wine is a free companion app from Small World Code, LLC, built for the food festivals at Epcot. The pitch is straightforward: instead of wandering the World Showcase trying to remember which booth had the dish you wanted, you carry the menus, prices and your own notes in one place.

What makes it worth a look is the combination of browsing and personal tracking. You can read booth menus, mark items you want to try, record what you have tasted and keep favorites, all while filters and color-coded map locations help you decide where to head next. For anyone who treats a festival day as a series of food stops rather than a casual stroll, that structure is the main draw.

It has been around since March 2018 and was updated in August 2026, which suggests the developer keeps it in step with the festivals as they change. The recent update adds support for the 30th anniversary, so the app is being adjusted for current events rather than left as a static menu archive.

Planning what to eat before you go

The core of the app is the booth catalog. Each festival's food booths are listed with their menus, the prices of individual items and ratings, so you can get a sense of what a dish costs before you commit to it. That matters at Epcot, where small plates add up quickly and a few stops can turn into a real expense.

The wish list is where planning gets practical. Rather than trying to memorize a handful of dishes across a dozen booths, you mark the ones you want and let the app hold the list for you. Filters then narrow things down: vegetarian, gluten-free, Disney Dining Plan and other options are available, which is useful when part of your group has dietary restrictions and you need to know which booths are worth a stop.

Filters also surface festival-specific specialties, such as the Cookie Stroll. If you are the type who likes to complete a festival's themed food trail, that is a faster way to find the participating items than scanning every menu by hand.

Keeping track on the day itself

Once you are at the festival, the app shifts from planner to logbook. You can mark items as tasted, rate them and add them to favorites, so your impressions are recorded while they are fresh rather than reconstructed later. Over a long festival day with several small plates, that record is more useful than it sounds.

The color-coded map locations are meant to help you find booths as you move around. Combined with the wish list, that gives you a way to work through your priorities in roughly the order you will encounter them, instead of doubling back across the park.

The Event Summary tracks your budget and spending. If you set a limit before you arrive, logging purchases as you go keeps a running total in view. It is a small feature, but it is the kind of thing that turns a vague intention to spend less into something you can actually watch.

Currency conversion for international visitors

One feature that stands out for anyone traveling from outside the United States is the currency conversion. The app includes over 80 exchange rates, refreshed twice a day, which means you can look at a menu price and get a rough sense of what it costs in your own currency without opening a separate converter.

The twice-daily refresh is a reasonable cadence for this purpose. It will not match a live trading rate, but for deciding whether a dish is worth its price in your home currency, that level of precision is more than enough.

What you need before the festival

There is nothing complicated to arrange here. The app is free, carries no ads and offers no in-app purchases, so there is no tier to choose or upgrade to consider. You install it and start browsing the festival you are attending.

The practical requirement is simply that you are going to one of the four Epcot festivals the app supports. The menus, prices and booth information are tied to those events, so the app is at its most useful in the weeks before a visit and during the festival itself. It also helps to have a rough idea of which festival you are planning around, since the content is organized by event.

The app carries an Everyone content rating and has been installed more than 50,000 times, with a 4.6 average from 115 ratings.

Who gets the most from it

This app suits Epcot visitors who plan their festival days around food. If you like to research menus ahead of time, decide which booths are worth the walk and keep a record of what you have tried across multiple visits, the wish list, tasted list and ratings give you a place to keep all of that.

It also fits groups with dietary needs. The vegetarian, gluten-free and dining plan filters mean you can check which booths have something suitable before you are standing in line, which is easier than reading a menu board with a crowd behind you.

Budget-conscious visitors get something too. The Event Summary is aimed at people who want to enjoy the festival without losing track of what they have spent, and the currency conversion serves international guests who think in another currency.

The app is narrower than a general Walt Disney World planning tool. It is built around the Epcot festivals and their food booths, and that is the job it does.

A focused companion for Epcot festival days

WDW Food&Wine does one thing and does it in detail: it puts the Epcot festival menus, prices and your own tasting notes in one place, with filters, a map and a budget tracker on top. The free price, the absence of ads and the lack of in-app purchases make it easy to try before a trip.

The caveats are modest. It is tied to the four Epcot festivals, so its value depends on your plans lining up with one of them. The currency rates update twice a day rather than continuously, and the app is a companion rather than a replacement for anything else you use to plan a park day.

If your Epcot visits are not built around the festivals, there is little here for you.

What's new in version 1.1.7

Add 30th Anniversary support