Comparison

Alti vs Flightglobe

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

Head to head
About

Alti

Track your mountain climbs with this app that uses GPS and your device's barometer to measure altitude gain. It provides daily, monthly, and yearly summaries, and allows you to save and share route profiles. Audio cues can alert you to elevation changes.

Highlights
  • Altitude tracking via GPS and barometer
  • Daily, monthly, and yearly climb summaries
  • Route profile recording and saving
  • Configurable audio alerts for elevation changes
  • Compass with sunrise/sunset indicator
  • Adjustable recording duration
Features
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Alti-Watcher is designed to count the meters climbed when hiking in the mountains. The application reads the initial location and altitude from the GPS module, and after approx. 30 sec. switches to altitude reading based on the built-in barometer. The location is also used during route recording when the phone has the screen off. When prevent sleep mode is active, GPS is turned off and only the barometer is active. The compass dial shows the sun's position at sunrise and sunset as a yellow and red dot and a level marker as two concentric circles. The results are presented on a daily, monthly and total basis. The month graph shows the results for all days in the current month and the previous months. The best daily result for the month is marked in red. The second graph shows the results for the current and previous years. The number of years presented can be set up to 10 years. On each graph, the total result (Σ) for the month or year is displayed in red. The chart of the current route profile will be shown on the profiles charts tab when the current recording ends. Charts can be sorted by date, elevation or trip time in descending order. The Description button allows you to name the selected route profile chart and the Delete button allows you to permanently delete it. Route profile charts can be saved to disk. This way you can share them with your friends. The files are saved in jpg format in the Alti-watcher/charts directory (run the Files application and go to On My iPhone->Alti-watcher->charts). The application allows you to play the sound every 20 m up or down by default. You can change this value or turn off the sound. Playing audio is useful when hiking in the mountains with your phone in your backpack. Recording allows you to record the meters climbed and the trail profile. You can pause the recording at any time during longer rests and then resume it when you start walking. Recording also stops automatically after 8 hours, but this value can be changed between 4 and 48 hours. Dim screen and prevent sleep improves the accuracy of the altitude readings. This will only slightly increase the energy consumption. High refresh rate allows you to record a profile chart with a time period of 1 second. In this mode, the results are not saved. Selected temperature range allows the barometer to be accurately calibrated in the range. This setting corrects the altitude readings that are dependent on the air temperature. The selected temperature range is presented in the form of a thermometer with the appropriate color in the altimeter view. The application does not collect or transfer any data. The database backup is stored on the phone, so it can be restored in case of failure and is not transferred anywhere. This appliacation requires the Fitness Tracking option to be enabled for the barometer to work: 1. Head to the 'Settings' app. 2. Scroll to 'Privacy & Security' and open. 3. Scroll to 'Motion & Fitness' and open. 4. Turn on 'Fitness Tracking' toggle.

About

Flightglobe

Features
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Flying is incredible: one of the few experiences that allow us intuitively feel the massive scale of the globe we call home. Many flight trackers show the flight path, but they miss the best part of this astrological dance: the chase between your flight, the earth's rotation, the sun, and the lightshows of sunrise/sunset/auroral activity. Flightpath helps put that chase into perspective with simple, beautiful visualizations. Type your flight number, then see your aircraft on a photoreal 3D Earth, with the real-time day/night terminator, your home time zone, the destination time zone, and a glowing sun out in space. Drag the timeline scrubber to fast-forward through the flight and see exactly when sunset will catch you over your flightpath. • Real flight data: schedules, waypoints, and altitude covering 800+ airlines. • Photoreal globe: actual NASA Blue Marble imagery, with a custom shader blending day and night based on the real subsolar position. • Aurora forecast: when the northern or southern lights are active, you'll see them painted on the globe. • Time-zone clarity: three clocks at the top: where you came from, where you are right now, where you're going. • Time scrubber: drag to see where your plane and the sun will be at any point in your trip. • Works offline: once you've armed your flight, FlightGlobe runs without internet. Perfect for in-flight Wi-Fi blackouts. • No tracking: no ads, no analytics, no servers collecting your data. Built for travelers, aviation enthusiasts, and anyone who's ever wanted to understand exactly what's happening outside the window at 35,000 feet. Privacy: FlightGlobe stores all flight data locally on your device. The only data sent over the network is the flight number you type (to AeroDataBox) and anonymous aurora-grid requests to NOAA. See the in-app privacy policy for full details.

Screenshots

Alti4 screens
Flightglobe3 screens

Verdict

The call

Alti and Flightglobe are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Alti versus Flightglobe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAltiFlightglobe
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAdam MazurBite Forest LLC

In-app purchases

None

Alti

No in-app purchases

None

Flightglobe

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Alti free?
Alti is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Flightglobe free?
Flightglobe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Alti or Flightglobe have ads?
Neither Alti nor Flightglobe shows ads.

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