Priority Pass™ vs desti travel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Priority Pass™
Gain access to premium airport lounges and travel experiences globally. This app allows for easy account activation, digital membership cards for contactless entry, and the ability to search and save favorite lounges and experiences. Enhance your travel with a range of amenities like spas, sleeping pods, and dining options.
- Digital Membership Card
- Contactless Entry
- Lounge & Experience Search
- Save Favorites
- Membership Entitlement Check
- Visit History Tracking
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Download the Priority Pass™ app today to access the original and market-leading airport experiences programme. Activate your account in the Priority Pass™ app in just 2 easy steps, giving yourself access to airport lounges and travel experiences in over 700 airports worldwide. Choose from an ever-growing range of premium experiences – from spas to sleeping pods to dining – to help elevate every journey into something special. •Enjoy contactless entry with your Digital Membership Card •Stay up to date, check your current membership entitlement and visit history •Search for lounges and experiences, and save your favourites •Unlock more with access to additional Travel Services and benefits that enhance your travel journey Enrich your airport experience with the Priority Pass™ app.
desti travel
This app helps you rank visited places, save future destinations, and discover new trips based on the preferences of people you trust. It offers a unique comparison-based ranking system and allows you to store trip details, photos, and budget information.
- Rank visited places with a comparison system
- Save destinations and discover new trips
- Follow trusted travelers and see their recommendations
- Personalized recommendations based on your rankings
- Map view of visited and desired locations
- Collect travel stamps and climb the Journey ladder
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Desti is where you rank the places you have been, save where you want to go, and find your next trip through people whose taste actually matches yours. Star ratings flatten everything. Two places you loved both get five stars, and a stranger's average tells you nothing. Desti asks a simpler question instead: which of these two did you like more? RANK THE WORLD Add a place you have visited and choose a tier: you liked it, it was fine, or you did not like it. Then desti shows you two places at a time and you pick the one you liked more. A few taps and your list orders itself, with a 0 to 10 score on every place. You never pick the number. Your comparisons do. They stay inside the tier you chose, so a place you loved never goes up against one you did not. Cities, destinations, and national, state, and provincial parks all rank in the same list, where a park you loved can outrank a world capital. REMEMBER THE TRIP Every place you rank keeps the whole trip with it: when you went, trip tags like Food, Beach, Hiking, Nightlife, or Road Trip, and a rough budget. Add your pros and cons, the top spots you would tell a friend about, and up to 10 photos with captions. Tag the friends who were there with you. Years from now, it is all still here, not buried in a camera roll. SAVE WHERE YOU WANT TO GO Keep a Want to go list for everything still ahead of you. See a place in an Instagram Reel or a TikTok? Share the post straight into desti and it saves to that place, instead of vanishing into a folder you will never scroll back through. When you finally plan the trip, the video that started it is waiting for you on the place's page. FOLLOW PEOPLE, NOT ALGORITHMS Follow friends and the travelers you trust, and your feed fills with the places they just ranked. Every profile shows a Taste Match percentage: how closely your scores agree on the places you have both been. A high Taste Match means their 9 is probably your 9. Like their trips. See their maps and their full ranked lists. EXPLORE THAT LEARNS FROM YOU The Explore tab builds recommendations from your own rankings and from travelers whose scores line up with yours. Rows for "Travelers like you", "Hidden gems", "Seasonal picks", and "Because you love Food", plus a daily pick. Every card tells you why it is there. Filter by trip type, budget, and country, or flip between cities and parks. Not for you? Hide it and it will not come back. The more you rank, the sharper it gets. SEE IT ON A MAP Your Been map, your Want to go map, and your friends' places, all pinned and color-coded by score. Every place page shows a community score, the trip types people go there for, what travelers say about it, and a row of similar places. COLLECT THE STAMPS Ranking places earns you points and moves you up the Journey ladder, from Wanderer to Circumnavigator. Stamp your way through 50 states, all 7 continents, 20 parks, islands, mountains, beaches, food cities and more, then see where you land on the Explorer Leaderboard. WHAT desti IS NOT No endless reviews from strangers. Just the people you actually trust, and the places you actually went. Desti is free. Sign in with Apple or Google, then rank 5 places to unlock your feed, your maps, and your recommendations. Privacy Policy: https://thedesti.app/privacy.html Terms of Service: https://thedesti.app/terms.html Questions or problems: info@thedesti.app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: desti travel at 100% against Priority Pass™'s 29%. desti travel also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Priority Pass™'s advantage is ratings volume (502K vs 7) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 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.
desti travel holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Priority Pass™ has 502K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Priority Pass™'s written reviews are positive against 100% of desti travel's.
Priority Pass™ ships an update fortnightly, desti travel every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on November 9, 2026.
| Parameter | Priority Pass™ | desti travel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (502K ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 502K — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #135 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 244 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Priority Pass Ltd | Desti LLC |
Customer experience
Priority Pass™
desti travel
Bugs and requests
Priority Pass™
Reported bugs
4 issues- Login and account management issues
- Inconsistent app performance and crashes
- Inability to add digital card to wallet
- Inaccurate lounge location and hours information
Requested features
4 requests- Improved real-time lounge availability information
- Ability to book and reserve lounge access
- Enhanced digital card functionality
- Offline access to lounge details
desti travel
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Priority Pass™
No in-app purchases
desti travel
No in-app purchases









