Vacay Countdown vs flySEA
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vacay Countdown
Track the days until your next vacation with a personalized countdown. Choose your destination and departure date to see how long until you can relax. Enjoy beautiful, high-resolution destination photos with every use.
- Vacation countdown timer
- Destination selection
- High-res destination photos
- iOS Today Widget
- Weekly notifications
- Apple Watch Glance & Complications
- Social media sharing
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Countdown to your vacation – you deserve it. Pick your destination and departure date and get a countdown of the days until you get to vacay. Includes high-res photos pulled from Flickr every time you open the app. iOS support includes a Today Widget, weekly notifications to let you know how many days remain, and sharing to your favorite social media networks. Apple Watch support includes a Glance view and all available Complications.
flySEA
Navigate your airport experience with ease. Find the shortest security lines, locate dining and shopping, and discover amenities. Get real-time flight updates and ground transportation information to make your journey smooth.
- TSA security checkpoint wait times
- Parking spot reminder
- Airport directory and map
- Explore amenities
- Find your flight and gate
- Ground transportation information
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The Sea-Tac app will help you get to your gate calm, cool and collected! Whether you’re looking for the fastest TSA security checkpoint line, the closest dining options to your gate or the fastest transportation to get you to downtown Seattle, the Sea-Tac app can help. Take advantage of Sea-Tac’s free Wi-Fi and download the official Sea-Tac Airport app for terminal maps, flight information and transportation tips. Features: * TSA security checkpoint wait times: Find the most convenient line with up-to-date wait time information * Parking spot reminder: Snap a photo of your parking spot to skip post-flight wandering * Shopping, dining and relaxing: Look at the airport directory and map to see all of our dining and retail options throughout the airport * Explore our amenities: Get the most comfortable visit with our water bottle filling stations, nursing suites, pet relief areas, cell phone charging stations, children’s play area and more * Find your flight: Enter your flight number to get your gate location and alert notifications * Ground transportation: Find information on airporters, courtesy shuttles, limos, public transit (buses or Link light rail), rental cars, taxis, app-based rideshare (Lyft, Uber, Wingz) and more
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Vacay Countdown at 100% against flySEA's 8%. Vacay Countdown also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.6) and device support (4 vs 1). flySEA's advantage is ratings volume (162 vs 1). 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.
Vacay Countdown holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: flySEA has 162 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Vacay Countdown's written reviews are positive against 8% of flySEA's.
| Parameter | Vacay Countdown | flySEA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 2.6 (162 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 8.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 162 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 9.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Charlie Schliesser | Port of Seattle |
Customer experience
Vacay Countdown
flySEA
Bugs and requests
Vacay Countdown
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
flySEA
Reported bugs
13 issues- Security wait times not displaying or updating
- App crashes when selecting retail shops
- Flight search returns 'Not Found' errors
- Map resets zoom level unexpectedly
- Blank white screens on multiple tabs
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- Flight information tabs non-functional
- Unresponsive refresh button
- Incorrect gate and terminal information
- Persistent flight alerts despite disabling
- Notification toggle not working
- Crashes with iOS 12 and iPhone X
- Clunky navigation requiring excessive taps
- Incorrect parking rate information
Requested features
12 requests- Direct turn-by-turn navigation between specific gates
- TSA PreCheck checkpoint identification on map
- Multiple location viewing on single map
- Real-time train and light rail status
- Traffic and parking lot availability information
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- Centralized dining hours display with filtering
- Web-based security wait times access
- International flight departure information
- Searchable location finder on map
- Pet relief area locations
- Flight number and destination search functionality
- Accurate travel time estimates between locations
In-app purchases
Vacay Countdown
No in-app purchases
flySEA
No in-app purchases
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