Fly Arik Air vs Faras
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fly Arik Air
This travel app allows users to search and book flights to over 25 domestic and regional African destinations. Users can also check in for their flights, access digital boarding passes, and check flight status directly from their mobile device.
- Search and book flights
- Manage flight itineraries
- Digital boarding passes
- Check flight status
- Arik Affinity wings program
- Promo route booking
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Personally organize your entire trip from your mobile, while on the go; • Search and book flights – explore over 25 domestic and regional (west and central African) destinations with your mobile. • Check in and view your boarding pass - check in online and have your boarding pass displayed. Right on the Arik air mobile app, you can access your boarding pass via email, or on the app, as a digital boarding pass. • Manage your flight – Make changes to your itinerary – coming soon • Look to Book – save time booking on our promo routes. • Check flight status – Use the app to find out the location of a flight, or if it’s on time. • Get the most of our Arik Affinity wings program.
Faras
This app aims to address societal challenges by offering a comprehensive platform for daily needs. It integrates services like mass transportation, courier delivery, bus booking, and e-payments to function as a super app for the continent. Users contribute to a social mission with every service utilized.
- Mass transportation services
- Courier services
- Bus booking
- E-payments
- Social mission integration
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Faras is an app with a social mission to improve our society’s daily challenges. We are expanding services across our platform to include mass transportation, courier services, Bus Booking and E-payments to become the continent’s everyday Super App. By downloading the Faras application and using our services, not only will you help our partners make running errands easier for you, you'll also help make their and their family's dreams come true. You play a part in the mission to improve the lives of the people in our continent, every time you make a booking/order and use our services!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Faras at 3.5 against Fly Arik Air's 2.4. Faras also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 26 months) and review sentiment (20% vs 0%). 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.
Faras holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Faras has 72 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Fly Arik Air's written reviews are positive against 20% of Faras's.
Fly Arik Air ships an update every 26 months, Faras fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Fly Arik Air | Faras |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (9 ratings) | 3.5 (72 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 20.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 72 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 26 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 181 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arik Air Limited | FARAS TECHNOLOGY |
Customer experience
Fly Arik Air
Faras
In-app purchases
Fly Arik Air
No in-app purchases
Faras
No in-app purchases
