Avelo vs RideBuddies
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Avelo
This app simplifies air travel with easy booking, trip management, and real-time flight updates. Access mobile boarding passes and manage your profile and payments seamlessly.
- Easy navigation and profile management
- Simplified trip changes and cancellations
- Seamless flight booking
- Upcoming and past trips overview
- Secure payment management
- Mobile boarding pass access
- Real-time flight updates
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Hello, Avelo – Travel Made Simple! The Avelo app is designed to make your travel experience smoother and more convenient. - Easy Navigation: A modern, intuitive design for managing your Avelo profile, including your Avelo Cash. - Simplified Trip Management: Change or cancel your trips directly from the app. - Seamless Booking: Plan and book your trips with ease, all in just a few taps. - Upcoming Trips Overview: Stay organized with a clear view of your upcoming and past trips, including all key details. - Secure Payment Management: Manage your stored payment methods with an upgraded interface for safe and seamless transactions. - Mobile Boarding Pass: Access your boarding pass 24 hours before departure for all travelers on your trip. - Real-Time Flight Updates: Stay informed with the latest flight status, arrival and departure times, and gate details. Download or update the Avelo app today for a simple and stress-free travel experience!
RideBuddies
Connect with fellow students to share rides to and from nearby airports. This secure and easy-to-use application simplifies finding travel companions for convenient and cost-effective journeys.
- Find ride buddies for airport travel
- Secure student-only access via CAS login
- Easy request creation and management
- Push notifications for messages
- Relevant request matching
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Find Yalies to share an Uber/Lyft with to or from nearby airports! Made by a Yalie for Yalies, RideBuddies is the best way to find ride buddies because it's: 1. Secure! Only Yale students can use the app (login through CAS). Lots of time has been invested in implementing database security rules so even hackers can’t access any data. 2. Easy to Use! Search for, create, and edit requests with ease. 3. Convenient! Automatically receive push notifications when messaged about a request. Find requests relevant to the ones you’ve created with a single tap.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: RideBuddies at 100% against Avelo's 11%. RideBuddies also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4). Avelo's advantage is ratings volume (11K vs 7) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). 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.
RideBuddies holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Avelo has 11K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 11% of Avelo's written reviews are positive against 100% of RideBuddies's.
Avelo ships an update every 8 days, RideBuddies every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Avelo | RideBuddies |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (11K ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 10.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11K — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Avelo Airlines | Evan Lee |
Customer experience
Avelo
RideBuddies
Bugs and requests
Avelo
Reported bugs
4 issues- App freezes during check-in process
- Boarding passes not syncing to mobile wallet
- Saved traveler information not populating correctly
- Inconsistent performance across iOS and Android
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to view and manage existing reservations
- Improved account management and login experience
- Push notifications for flight status updates
- Integration with mobile wallets and calendars
RideBuddies
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Avelo
No in-app purchases
RideBuddies
No in-app purchases
