EL AL vs Abroad Buddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EL AL
Book flights, manage your reservations, and check in effortlessly. Keep all your travel documents, including boarding passes and baggage tags, conveniently on your mobile device. Receive important updates for your upcoming trips and plan your airport transportation.
- Book flights
- Manage bookings
- Easy check-in
- Flight notifications
- Biometric identification for frequent flyers
- Mobile travel documents
- Airport ride planning
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Stay connected with EL AL APP! Book a flight, manage your booking, check-in easily & get flight notifications. • Frequent flyer members stay connected with biometric identification • Keep all travel documents on your mobile device (booking details, boarding pass, baggage tags & more). • Stay updated with important information for your upcoming trip. • Plan your ride to the airport.
Abroad Buddy
Manage your semester abroad finances with this dedicated budgeting app. Track spending, plan trips, and estimate costs to help you focus on your experience.
- Semester abroad budgeting
- Spending tracking
- Trip planning
- Weekly schedule
- Budget estimation
- Wishlist management
- EUR to USD conversion
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Manage your semester abroad budget with AbroadBuddy, the first and only budgeting app specifically made for students studying abroad. Track spending, plan trips, schedule your week, and dream big! Choose between two modes: "Set a Budget" to track your remaining balance, or use "Budget Builder" to estimate semester costs based on weekly expenses, planned trips, and wishlist items. Schedule trips with prepaid and planned expenses, track payments with built-in EUR to USD conversion that accounts for potential fees, and manage your wishlist of places you want to visit. Budgeting for your semester abroad can be difficult and nerve-racking. AbroadBuddy is here fix that and let you focus on what really matters!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Abroad Buddy at 5.0 against EL AL's 4.4. Abroad Buddy also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 68%). EL AL's advantage is ratings volume (1.3K vs 8). On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Abroad Buddy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EL AL has 1.3K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of EL AL's written reviews are positive against 100% of Abroad Buddy's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EL AL | Abroad Buddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (1.3K ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 10 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 322 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | EL AL Israel Airlines Ltd. | SAMMY ARKIN LICHTENSTEIN |
Customer experience
EL AL
Abroad Buddy
Bugs and requests
EL AL
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes on login
- Service unavailable error
- Unable to access account information
- Inconsistent behavior across devices
- Difficulty changing flights or seats
Requested features
6 requests- Add Apple Wallet support
- Improve customer service accessibility
- Enhance seat selection and management
- Provide more language options
- Improve app stability and reliability
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- Streamline login and account management
Abroad Buddy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
EL AL
No in-app purchases
Abroad Buddy
No in-app purchases
