JourneyNote vs Seat 12A
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
JourneyNote
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JourneyNote is an app that automatically creates a map of your trip by simply inputting your travel destinations. You can share the map on SNS with your photo or video, and you can also document all your journeys to display it on a single map of the world. ■Recommended for ◎When sharing a trip on SNS ◎When organizing photos from past trips ◎When planning for future trips ■How to use it ①Enter the destinations of your trip in order ②Select a background image and adjust the transparency ③Add transportations and some text ④Adjust formatting and other options ⑤Save and share! ■Features ◎Automatically create a map with routes and modes of transportation ◎Choose from two sizes of the map: large map or mini map ◎Adjust colors, transparency and scale of the map ◎Adjust opacity of the photo ◎Add a title and a memo as well as adjust the text size. ◎Automatically generate recommended tags and captions for SNSs ◎Easy to share to Instagram stories and feeds ■For questions and requests Please send a DM to JourneyNote's official Twitter and Instagram (@journey_note). We are looking forward to your feedback. ■Development Team We are a group of travel-loving app developers: Whiplus, Sae Nuruki, Misaki Agata, Yuka Nakajima, Yuta Yasuda and Koyuki Shiota ■Credit Part of the geographical database by GeoNames (http://www.geonames.org/) is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Seat 12A
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Seat 12A is a personal flight log. Add the flights you have taken and watch them draw themselves across a 3D globe you can spin, tilt and zoom. It is yours, and it stays yours. Your flight history is free and unlimited — every flight you log, for as long as you keep the app, with no account to create. No advertising. No analytics. Your flights live on your device and, if you want them on more than one, in your own private iCloud — an area of your Apple account that not even the developer can read. ADD A FLIGHT IN SECONDS - Scan a boarding pass — the barcode is read on your device - Import flight reservations already sitting in your calendar - Or just type it: search over 6,000 airports offline A GLOBE, NOT A LIST - Every route drawn as an arc between real airports - Watch a single flight fly its own path, start to finish - Five hand-built globe styles: Night, Daylight, Satellite, Midnight, Ember - Countries you have visited, lit up WHAT IT ADDS UP TO - Distance flown, hours airborne, countries and airports visited - A passport that fills with country stamps as you travel - Achievements worth actually earning — including the distance to the Moon - Your busiest routes, favourite airlines and year-by-year history WORKS ANYWHERE The airport database, the airline marks and the globe itself are all built into the app. It works at 30,000 feet with the Wi-Fi off. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION There is no server to send your data to, because there isn't one. The camera is used only to scan a boarding pass, on your device. Your calendar is read only on your device, only to find flights. Neither leaves your phone. No paywall around your own history. Not now, not later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Seat 12A at every 4 days against JourneyNote's every 6 weeks. JourneyNote's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, 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.
JourneyNote ships an update every 6 weeks, Seat 12A every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | JourneyNote | Seat 12A |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 93 MB | 166 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hui Wang | Attila Kupec |
In-app purchases
JourneyNote
No in-app purchases
Seat 12A
No in-app purchases






