WDSU Parade Tracker vs Flextrip
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WDSU Parade Tracker
Follow Mardi Gras and other major parades in New Orleans and southeast Louisiana. Get real-time tracking, schedules, and maps for the front and back of parades. Future updates will include GPS tracking and estimated arrival times.
- Real-time parade tracking
- Parade schedules
- Interactive maps
- Track front and back of parades
- Year-round parade coverage
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The WDSU Parade tracker is the original parade tracking app in New Orleans. The app tracks the front and back of Mardi Gras and all the biggest parades across New Orleans and southeast Louisiana year-round. The app features real-time parade tracking, schedules, and maps. Coming soon: GPS tracking, parade estimated time of arrival to your spot on the route, and points of interest like food, bathrooms, and more.
Flextrip
Plan, experience, and remember your semester abroad with this comprehensive travel companion. Discover new cities, rank your favorite spots, and track your expenses. Optional premium services offer personalized planning and concierge support.
- Explore cities on a unified map
- Save and rank visited spots
- Build city-by-city trip journals
- Track weekend expenses with bill splitter
- Optional premium planning and concierge service
- Personalized travel journal with photos and notes
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Flextrip is the app for your semester abroad. Explore every city on one map, from our hand-picked spots to anything on Google. Save what you want to hit, rank what you actually did (loved it, fine, or nah), and watch your trips build themselves city by city. PLAN IT Going somewhere? Plan the trip, even across multiple cities, line up your spots, and set the days. LIVE IT Rank spots as you go. Your list becomes your personal best-to-worst ranking for every city. REMEMBER IT Finished trips become your travel journal: every spot scored, your photos, your notes, and what the weekend cost with the built-in bill splitter. FLEX+ (optional membership) Flex+ is a real-world travel service for your semester: our team plans your weekends, you get a personal concierge text line with real humans, member pricing at partner venues and tour operators, and access to member events. One payment covers the whole semester. Made for study-abroad students, by people who did it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Flextrip at 100% against WDSU Parade Tracker's 32%. Flextrip also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.6) and ads (none vs shown). WDSU Parade Tracker's advantage is ratings volume (139 vs 7) and monetization model (ad-supported vs freemium). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Flextrip holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WDSU Parade Tracker has 139 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 32% of WDSU Parade Tracker's written reviews are positive against 100% of Flextrip's.
WDSU Parade Tracker ships an update every 3 months, Flextrip fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WDSU Parade Tracker | Flextrip |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (139 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 31.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 139 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Hearst Television | Flextrip Travel LLC |
Customer experience
WDSU Parade Tracker
Flextrip
In-app purchases
WDSU Parade Tracker
No in-app purchases
Flextrip
No in-app purchases
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