RatePunk vs Points Compass
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RatePunk
Discover exclusive flight deals and save significantly on your next trip. Get notified about airline promotions, error fares, and mistake fares instantly. Make travel affordable and effortless with personalized deal alerts.
- Up to 90% off flights
- Save an average of $488 per ticket
- Set home airport for personalized deals
- Notify of airline promotions
- Notify of error and mistake fares
- Unlock ultimate savings
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Enjoy up to 90% off flights and save an average of $488 per ticket. * Set your home airport, and we will find exclusive flight deals that match your preferred destinations – making travel affordable and effortless. * Forget endless searching. We’ll notify you of valuable airline promotions, error fares, and mistake fares as they happen. * Unlock ultimate savings and elevate your travel experience today! Subscription Options for RatePunk: Choose between: Yearly Subscription Weekly Subscription Manage your subscription directly on your iPhone: Open Settings Tap your name Tap Subscriptions By using RatePunk, you agree to our Terms of Services, Privacy Policy: Privacy Policy - https://www.ratepunk.com/privacy Terms Of Use - https://premium.ratepunk.com/terms Check out our homepage for more: https://www.ratepunk.com/
Points Compass
This app helps you understand the true cost of waiting to redeem travel rewards. It calculates how much value you lose as points devalue and trips become more expensive. It provides insights into when to book and whether paying cash is a better option.
- Calculates cost of waiting for rewards
- Analyzes award inflation and devaluation
- Compares cash vs. points redemption
- Estimates currency shedding value
- Identifies hard expiry cliffs
- Provides real earning rate estimates
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Points Compass answers one question that no balance tracker will: what does waiting cost you? About a third of the travel rewards issued each year are never redeemed. Not because people lose them — because they hold them, waiting for a better redemption, while two things happen at once. Each point quietly loses value. And the trip they are saving for quietly gets more expensive in points. Points Compass prices both, separately, and adds them up. Type in what you hold. There is no airline login, no hotel login and no bank connection — the app is not connected to any of them and never asks. Name a trip and give it both prices, what it costs in points and what it costs in cash. Then the app draws two lines: the points you will hold over time, and the points the trip will cost over time. Where they meet is the earliest month you could book it. The gap between them, until that month, has a dollar figure — and the app shows you both halves of it. It is honest in both directions. Some currencies really are worth holding: when your miles have gained value over the year, or the award price has been flat, the app says so instead of telling you to spend. And when the points are the expensive way to buy a trip, it tells you to pay cash. What it works out for you: The month your balance finally covers the trip, and the cost of waiting for it, split into award inflation and devaluation. What each currency you hold is shedding, in dollars, every month. Where the hard expiry cliffs are, the last safe date to reset each one, and what hitting one would cost. Whether this particular redemption beats simply paying cash. Your real earning rate, derived from your own balance updates rather than typed in. And a log of every verdict the app has given, graded later against what actually happened — including the times it was wrong. Every figure is arithmetic you can see. Open "How this was worked out" on any verdict and the whole calculation is there, with every assumption editable. There is no score, and no number the app will not explain. Points Compass Pro, an optional subscription, adds unlimited trips compared side by side, burn order with the reason for every placement, transfer paths, the full month-by-month history, the complete decision log, and a plain-English second opinion written from your own numbers. It is $4.99 per month or $39.99 per year, with a 7-day free trial for eligible accounts. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and you can manage or cancel it any time in your App Store account settings. The free plan is not a demo. It prices one trip completely, end to end, including the part this app exists for. Points Compass is an educational planning tool. Every cents-per-point, drift and award-inflation figure in it is an estimate you can change, not a live data feed. It recommends no financial product, opens no account, moves no money, and is not affiliated with any airline, hotel or card issuer. Always confirm award pricing and availability with the programme before you book or transfer. This is not financial advice. Privacy Policy: https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/437/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/437/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Points Compass at 100% against RatePunk's 24%. Points Compass also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). RatePunk's advantage is ratings volume (6.7K vs 6) and update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly). 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. RatePunk sells 24 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Points Compass sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Points Compass holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RatePunk has 6.7K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 24% of RatePunk's written reviews are positive against 100% of Points Compass's.
RatePunk ships an update every 9 days, Points Compass monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RatePunk | Points Compass |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (6.7K ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 23.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6.7K — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #20 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yard Venture | Yeison Ochoa |
Customer experience
RatePunk
Points Compass
Bugs and requests
RatePunk
Reported bugs
4 issues- Unable to log in or access account
- Search results not loading properly
- Incorrect flight and pricing information
- Subscription issues and unauthorized charges
Requested features
5 requests- Add more filter options
- Improve search functionality
- Provide direct flight options
- Integrate with more booking platforms
- Enhance customer support
Points Compass
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
RatePunk
- Unlimited Access$0.991 Month
- Standard Flight Deals2 variants$4.991 Month
- Elite Flight Deals$9.997 Days
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- Unlimited Access$9.991 Month
- Unlimited Access$12.991 Month
- Elite Flight Deals$14.991 Year
- Standard Flight Deals$14.991 Year
- Unlimited Access$15.991 Year
- Elite Flight Deals$19.991 Year
- Unlimited Access14 Days trial$19.991 Month
- Standard Flight Deals$24.991 Year
- Standard Flight Deals14 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Unlimited Access7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Standard Flight Deals14 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Elite Deals$29.991 Year
- Elite Flight Deals1 Year trial$39.991 Year
- Unlimited Access$39.991 Year
- Elite Flight Deals$49.991 Year
- Standard Flight Deals1 Year trial$49.991 Year
- Unlimited Access14 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Unlimited Access$59.991 Year
- Unlimited Access14 Days trial$69.991 Year
- Unlimited Access14 Days trial$99.991 Year
- Unlimited Access$89.99
Points Compass
- Points Compass Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Points Compass Pro Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year









