Comparison

Daydream vs seats.aero

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Daydream

Discover new cities, save favorite places to a wishlist, and organize all your trip details in one place. Find flights, sights, and eateries for your next adventure.

Highlights
  • Discover cities worldwide
  • Save favorite places to Wishlist
  • Organize trip details
  • Add flight information
  • Offline airport search
  • Browse photos and reviews
Features
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Daydream is a fun and easy way to explore cities around the world and plan your dream trips. Discover your next destination, save favorite cities and places to your Wishlist, and keep your trip details together in one app. Discover Search for a city, let the shuffle button choose one, or explore around your current location. Browse photos of top sights and eateries, open places on a map, and read reviews. City summaries powered by Apple Intelligence help you get to know each destination on supported devices. Wishlist Save cities, sights, and eateries with the heart button. Browse saved destinations by country or filter them by continent. Revisit a favorite place or turn a wishlist city into a trip. Trips Create a trip from your Wishlist or search for a city. Give it a name and start date, with an optional end date. Keep flight information, favorite sights, and eateries together for easy reference. - Add flights with a flight number and departure date - Find departure and arrival airport codes with offline airport search - Choose suggested airports near your destination or use your current location to find nearby airports - Open date-specific flight status in FlightStats, with a Google search option when needed - Bring saved sights and eateries into your trip, or add your own names - Edit trip details and flights as your plans take shape Discover, Wishlist, and Trips each have their own tab. Wishlist favorites and trip plans are stored on your device. Exploring places, maps, reviews, and flight status requires an internet connection. Get lost exploring your next destination!

About

seats.aero

Discover domestic and international award flights using your points and miles. This app aggregates availability across major airline alliances, allowing you to find and book flights that are often missed on traditional airline websites. Plan spontaneous trips or snag hard-to-get premium cabin seats.

Highlights
  • Discover award flights with points and miles
  • Supports Star Alliance, OneWorld, and SkyTeam
  • Global flight coverage
  • Search by desired airport
  • Advanced filtering options
  • Create flight availability alerts
Features
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seats.aero® is a new way to book flights with your points and miles. Stop searching on outdated airline websites and immediately discover domestic and international award flights that you can book with your points. Take advantage of credit card points and frequent flyer miles to travel more for less. --- ALL MAJOR AIRLINE ALLIANCES --- We support Star Alliance, OneWorld, and SkyTeam flights, and they can all be discovered immediately out of the box. Global coverage means you can discover flights to/from any region of the world. --- EXPLORE YOUR OPTIONS --- We're the only award search tool that can show you every flight from your desired airport. Find availability on every direct route to book where you want to go -- even if it departs tomorrow. --- ADVANCED FILTERING --- Filter your searches to arrive or depart from specific airports or regions, cabin classes, on specific carriers, or just discover anywhere you can go from your home airport. --- CREATE ALERTS --- Create alerts to discover when the best flights become available. Airlines release seats for booking at all hours of the day; snag the hardest business and first awards without repetitive searching. Seats.aero supports most direct routes served by mileage programs. We are not affiliated with any airlines or mileage programs. This app uses the Apple standard EULA, available at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/.

Screenshots

Daydream4 screens
seats.aero3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Daydream at 100% against seats.aero's 12%. Daydream also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 6 days vs fortnightly). seats.aero's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (5.9K vs 6). On price, ads, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. seats.aero sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $20.00 per month. Daydream asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

seats.aero holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: seats.aero has 5.9K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Daydream's written reviews are positive against 12% of seats.aero's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daydream ships an update every 6 days, seats.aero fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Daydream versus seats.aero: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaydreamseats.aero
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (6 ratings)4.7 (5.9K ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better12.4% of reviews
Number of ratings65.9K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank—#72 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB73 MB
Age rating9++4
DeveloperRaymond Kimseats.aero

Customer experience

Daydream

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

seats.aero

All ratings5,909 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral1.8%
Negative6.2%
Written reviews153 reviews
Positive12.4%
Neutral9.2%
Negative78.4%

Bugs and requests

Daydream

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

seats.aero

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Search results show nothing
  • Date selection issues
  • Incorrect seat availability information

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more airline options
  • Allow filtering by number of travelers
  • Improve search accuracy and availability
  • Provide better login/subscription management

In-app purchases

None

Daydream

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

seats.aero

Subscriptions1
  • Pro$20.001 Month

Questions

Is Daydream free?
Daydream is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is seats.aero free?
seats.aero is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Daydream or seats.aero?
seats.aero is rated higher. Daydream averages 4.3 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while seats.aero averages 4.7 from 5.9K ratings.
Do Daydream or seats.aero have ads?
Neither Daydream nor seats.aero shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Daydream or seats.aero?
Daydream ships an update every 6 days, and seats.aero fortnightly. Most recently, Daydream was updated on November 6, 2026 and seats.aero on November 11, 2026.

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