Virgin Australia vs Travalet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Virgin Australia
Your essential travel companion for managing flights. Book trips, select seats, check in, and track your luggage. Access your boarding pass and flight updates directly from your lock screen.
- Search and book trips
- Manage trip details
- Select seats
- Check in for flights
- Track luggage
- View boarding pass
- Flight updates
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The Virgin Australia app is your perfect travel companion. Check into your flight, view your boarding pass, watch movies, and track your bags all from your phone. Use the Virgin Australia app to: • Search and book trips, Search and book your next holiday or business trip with a few taps. • Manage trips with ease, You can select a seat, amend your trip details and check in for domestic flights. • Track whatever you pack, Get updates on the whereabouts of your bags when travelling. • Use Journey Tracker, View flight updates and grab your boarding pass from your lock screen. We're working on so much more to make your next trip with Virgin Australia even more wonderful. Love our app? Leave us a rating on the app store. Any questions or feedback? Reach out using the App feedback form on the More screen.
Travalet
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Travel planning should feel like the fun part. Travalet turns the chaos of confirmation emails, boarding passes, and booking links into one calm, beautiful timeline, automatically. Forward and forget Forward any booking confirmation to trips@travalet.app and Travalet builds your itinerary for you. Flights, hotels, car hire, trains, ferries, cruises, activities, and restaurant reservations from hundreds of providers worldwide, parsed and organised in seconds. Every trip, perfectly organised Bookings group into trips automatically by date, so your whole journey lines up in a clean, chronological timeline. Tap any item for the details that matter: flight numbers and gates, hotel check-in notes, pickup locations, meeting points, and more. Everything in one place See each day on an inline map, attach tickets and PDFs to any booking, and keep every reference close at hand. Prefer to add something yourself? Manual entry is quick and just as tidy. Private by design No account. No sign-up. No server-side database. Your itinerary lives on your device and syncs privately across iPhone, iPad, and Mac through iCloud. No ads, no trackers, no selling your data. Your trips are yours alone. Share the journey Travelling with others? Share a trip through iCloud and everyone sees the same live itinerary. Add a booking and it appears for the whole group. Choose view-only or full editing, and no one needs a Travalet account to join. Agent-curated trips Booked through a travel agent? Travalet connects to your agent's platform, so professionally curated itineraries arrive complete with hero images, maps, recommendations, and agency branding. Beautifully presented, and still completely private to you. Designed for Apple A native app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Calm, refined, and fast, designed so you can scan what matters at a glance. Download Travalet free and turn your next trip from a pile of emails into one calm place.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Travalet at none against Virgin Australia's shown. Virgin Australia's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Virgin Australia ships an update fortnightly, Travalet monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Virgin Australia | Travalet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.5K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 41.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 461 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | VIRGIN AUSTRALIA HOLDINGS PTY LIMITED | Brendan McKenzie |
Bugs and requests
Virgin Australia
Reported bugs
6 issues- Screen freezes when trying to upgrade or amend booking
- Flight notifications show wrong timezone
- Inability to check in through app
- Seat selection issues
- Booking issues
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- Login failures
Requested features
4 requests- Liquid Glass support for modern design
- Integrate hotel and car bookings
- Show state credit points in app
- Dark mode option
Travalet
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Virgin Australia
No in-app purchases
Travalet
No in-app purchases






