Comparison

R vs Flight Board

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

Head to head
About

R

Features
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Follow all public transport, in real time! With R-OV, you get everything you need for a hassle-free journey in the Netherlands and parts of Belgium and Germany. Always up-to-date: Check current departure times, vehicle positions, and train compositions. Travel smart: Plan your journey quickly and easily with real-time information. Stay informed: Receive notifications about delays, changes, or cancellations of your trip. Find your ride: Easily search for trips near your current location. All in one app: Combine public transport with walking, cycling, and more. R-OV is continuously updated with new features. As frequent public transport users, we know better than anyone how frustrating it can be to lack accurate travel information. That’s why we’re always on the lookout for new ways to improve travel information.

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Flight Board

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Flight Board is a departure board for the flights you are actually taking. Add a flight and it starts watching. When the gate is called, when the time moves, when boarding starts, you are told, with the airline, the flight number and the number that has just changed. THE BOARD Your flights, drawn the way the departures hall draws them: flight, destination, check-in, gate, time. When a gate is called or a time moves, the board changes, and Flight Board tells you which flight moved and where. CHECK-IN AND GATE The check-in desk sits before the gate, because when you have just arrived the gate is usually not assigned yet and the desk is where you are actually going. Every time on the screen is the airport's own clock, not your phone's, so a flight from Tokyo reads in Tokyo time wherever you are standing. WHAT YOU GET TOLD Gate assigned. Gate changed. Check-in open. Boarding. Final call. Delayed, with the new time shown beside the old one. Cancelled, with the alternatives we can find on the same route. Diverted. Landed, with the belt. WHERE IS MY PLANE The aircraft that will fly you is usually somewhere else right now. Flight Board follows its inbound leg. See our estimate of a delay in Flight Intelligence, often before the airline announces it. CONNECTIONS When two of your flights connect, Flight Board shows how tight your connection is and what to do next: the walk, security, passport control, and what is left over. It shows the arithmetic, not only the verdict. YOUR FLIGHT, EXPLAINED With a subscription, Flight Board helps you understand flight changes, ask questions about your flight, see what may affect your departure, get guidance for your connection, receive clearer flight updates and understand your flying history. The airline's own times stay apart from estimates, and anything not known is said rather than guessed. PASSPORT Every country, airline and airport you have flown, built from your own flights, with the marks you earn along the way and a record of the longest, the highest and the earliest. LIVE ACTIVITIES AND WIDGETS The Live Activity on your lock screen reads the same source as the board and the tracking, so the three cannot disagree. Widgets put your gate on the home screen. ADDING A FLIGHT Type a flight number or a route. Scan a boarding pass and it fills in everything, including your seat. Import from an email, a calendar or a file. Or enter it yourself when nothing else has it. ONE CARREH ACCOUNT Flight Board runs on your Carreh account. If you already use Carreh, the flights in your account are offered to you on the first open. You do not need Carreh Premium, and Flight Board does not include it. TWENTY-FOUR LANGUAGES Flight Board is fully translated, and the language can be changed on the first screen, before you sign in. SUBSCRIPTION Your first flight is free, with every live feature. After that, choose a yearly or a monthly subscription, or a trip pass that opens every flight for 7 days. Each price is shown in the app before you pay. The subscriptions have no free trial, renew until cancelled and can be cancelled at any time in your Apple account settings. The trip pass is a single payment and does not renew. Flight Board is separate from Carreh Premium and from every other Carreh product. Terms of Use: https://flightboard.carreh.com/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://carreh.com/privacy-policy

Screenshots

R4 screens
Flight Board4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Flight Board at none against R's shown. Flight Board also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 6 days). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. R sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Flight Board sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

R ships an update every 6 days, Flight Board daily. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
R versus Flight Board: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRFlight Board
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.5 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTristan van TriestCARREH

In-app purchases

1 purchases

R

One-time1
  • Verwijder Advertenties$1.99
3 purchases

Flight Board

Subscriptions2
  • Flight Board$7.991 Month
  • Flight Board Annual$44.991 Year
One-time1
  • Flight Board Trip Pass$4.99

Questions

Is R free?
R is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Flight Board free?
Flight Board is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do R or Flight Board have ads?
R shows ads; Flight Board does not.
Which is updated more often, R or Flight Board?
R ships an update every 6 days, and Flight Board daily. Most recently, R was updated on October 27, 2026 and Flight Board on October 31, 2026.

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