HIA Qatar vs Loop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HIA Qatar
Navigate Hamad International Airport with an interactive map and access live flight updates. Discover airport services, shops, and restaurants to enhance your travel experience.
- Interactive airport map
- Live flight information
- Flight notifications
- Services and facilities directory
- Shops and restaurants directory
- Promotion notifications
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Hamad International Airport (HIA) is pleased to announce our new HIA Qatar mobile app, your travel companion for a unique experience through our airport. Find your way around the airport with its state of the art map; access live information about your flight; learn about our services and facilities; and find your favourite shops and restaurants. Key features · Airport navigation and interactive map · Live flight information and notifications · Airport services and facilities directory · Shops, cafés, restaurants directory, with promotion notificationsxNote: Continued use of GPS (Location services) running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. HIA Qatar app will automatically shut down its location services if you are not in Hamad International Airport region.
Loop
This app provides electric scooter sharing services in Doha, aiming to improve public transport accessibility and offer a green commuting option. Users can locate, scan, ride, and park scooters easily through the mobile interface.
- Locate nearby scooters
- Scan to activate scooters
- Ride electric scooters
- Park scooters safely
- Green commuting option
- Intelligent network system
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Loop Mobility is considering a move to create and provide a scooter sharing service for the residents in Doha. Until now there is no such service in Doha, which limited the development of public transport. By offering this kind of solution in Doha, it helps to solve the first-and last-mile problems, which will extend the accessibility of public transport across the country. Through the scooter sharing service, Loop Mobility aims to enter an entirely new market, increase revenue, create social benefits, and allow customers to use green method for commuting. Our vision is to play a positive role in your lifestyle, and from that we attend to spread blue and light transportation to serve the environment in Qatar and reduce carbon air floods while at the same time easy to access and use, and encourage you to motivate your health by riding the scooter and linked to an intelligent network system, measure your experiment and continue to benefit from one person to another and so on an amazing experiment. How to Loop - Locate - Open the mobile app and just find a Loop near by you. Scan - Scan the Loop Scooter with your mobile or type in your code to activate. Ride - Fasten your helmet, hop on your scooter and start your journey. Park - Avoid blocking the road. Park the Scooter in safe area and end the ride.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HIA Qatar at 4.2 against Loop's 3.6. HIA Qatar also leads on review sentiment (22% vs 8%). Loop's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (158 vs 31). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HIA Qatar holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Loop has 158 ratings behind it against 31, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of HIA Qatar's written reviews are positive against 8% of Loop's.
HIA Qatar ships an update every 3 months, Loop every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HIA Qatar | Loop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (31 ratings) — better | 3.6 (158 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 21.9% of reviews — better | 7.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 31 | 158 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 103 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hamad International Airport | Loop Mobility |
Customer experience
HIA Qatar
Loop
Bugs and requests
HIA Qatar
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Loop
Reported bugs
8 issues- OTP not working/not received
- App crashes after update (black screen)
- Scooters not working properly
- App fails to display scooters on map
- Inaccurate GPS marking/no-go zones
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- App crashes when resetting password
- Unable to end ride
- App crashing
Requested features
2 requests- Add car sharing service
- Correct app to calculate only ride time or per kilometers
In-app purchases
HIA Qatar
No in-app purchases
Loop
No in-app purchases









