flySEA vs Cureight
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Cureight
Discover and share curated lists of top places in any city. Focuses on personal recommendations from people you follow, not generic ratings. Create and send personalized travel guides to friends.
- Create personalized lists of 8 top places
- Follow friends for curated recommendations
- Discover must-visit spots in cities
- Add notes to recommendations
- Share lists with friends
- No ratings or reviews
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Cureight is where you list and share the eight places you'd actually send a friend to in a city, and see the eight from people you follow. Not a star rating. Just the top places you must go. HOW IT WORKS • Pick a city and add your eight: the restaurant, the bar, the walk, the shop you always tell people about. • Eight is a hard limit. When you find something better, it has to knock something off. That's the point. • Follow friends and see a city ranked by their eights, not by strangers. • Text your list to a friend who's about to travel. No account needed to read it. • Add a short note to any place: why it's on the list, what to order, when to go. WHAT IT ISN'T No ratings. No reviews. No ads. A place is on someone's list or it isn't. Private accounts, blocking, and account deletion are built in.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cureight at 100% against flySEA's 8%. Cureight also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.6) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 months). 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.
Cureight 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: 8% of flySEA's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cureight's.
flySEA ships an update every 3 months, Cureight every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | flySEA | Cureight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (162 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 162 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Port of Seattle | KEVIN RICHARD CARTER |
Customer experience
flySEA
Cureight
Bugs and 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
Cureight
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
flySEA
No in-app purchases
Cureight
No in-app purchases
