EL AL vs Buckit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EL AL
Manage your entire travel experience with this app. Book flights, access all your travel documents digitally, and receive important updates for your journey. It also helps you plan your transportation to the airport.
- Book flights
- Manage bookings
- Digital travel documents
- Flight notifications
- Biometric identification for frequent flyers
- 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.
Buckit
Discover and save memorable places like bars, hikes, and museums based on trusted recommendations. Plan outings or explore new cities with a live map of real reviews from people you know.
- Discover places based on trusted friends
- Rate places on a 1-10 scale
- Add photos and notes to reviews
- Save spots to a personal list
- Explore a live map of reviews
- Personalized 'For You' feed
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Buckit is where you keep the places worth remembering, and discover the ones worth going to next, based on people you actually trust. Bars, hikes, museums, shows, weekend trips. Anything worth doing, anywhere in the world. No more texting friends for their itineraries. Just open their profile and see everywhere they’ve loved and where they wouldn’t go back to. Planning a night out or landing in a new city? Open Buckit and instantly see what’s worth it nearby, based on people you trust. What you can do • Rate every place on a real 1–10 scale • Add photos, notes, and tag friends • Save spots to your Buckit list • Explore a live map of real reviews • Scroll your personalized For You feed • Get notified when friends try new places Why Buckit • No fake reviews or inflated 5-star ratings • Real recommendations from people you know • A personal log of everywhere worth remembering Privacy & Moderation • Block any user with one tap • Report any review or profile • Delete your account and data anytime
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Buckit at 5.0 against EL AL's 4.4. Buckit also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 68%). EL AL's advantage is ratings volume (1.3K vs 9) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). 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.
Buckit 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 9, 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 Buckit's.
EL AL ships an update every 10 days, Buckit weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EL AL | Buckit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (1.3K ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 321 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | EL AL Israel Airlines Ltd. | ANDRES JOSEPH RUAH |
Customer experience
EL AL
Buckit
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
Buckit
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
EL AL
No in-app purchases
Buckit
No in-app purchases
