Star Alliance vs SeatBoost
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Star Alliance
This app offers a comprehensive mobile companion for alliance travel. It provides flight information, schedules, lounge locations, and airport details. Users can also manage their flights through a dedicated trips feature.
- Alliance-wide flight information
- Flight schedules
- Worldwide lounge locations
- Airport information
- Flight trip management
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The newly updated Star Alliance Navigator is the perfect mobile companion in support of the Star Alliance experience. It provides comprehensive alliance-wide flight information and schedules, worldwide lounge locations and detail, and airport information. It also allows the user to easily manage his flights by introducing Trips.
SeatBoost
Enhance your flight experience with last-minute upgrades. Participate in live auctions or purchase instant upgrades for premium seating. You only pay if you win your bid.
- Live seat upgrade auctions
- Instant upgrade purchases
- Check flight eligibility
- Bid for companions
- Pay only if you win
- Automatic upgrade and boarding pass
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SeatBoost Upgrade your seat to a premium flight experience with SeatBoost’s live, last-minute auctions or through an instant purchase. **HOW IT WORKS** - Download the free SeatBoost app - Starting 24 hours before your flight's departure, check if your flight is eligible by retrieving your booking in the SeatBoost app - Join the live auction for your desired cabin and bid for an upgrade or purchase an upgrade right away - You can bid for yourself as well as for your traveling companions - You pay only if you win - Winners receive their upgrade and new boarding pass automatically at the end of the auction **AVAILABLE AIRLINES** SeatBoost is currently available on Avianca, Condor Airlines, Iberia, LATAM Airlines and TAP Air Portugal, with more airlines coming soon! **QUESTIONS** You can contact us at https://seatboost.com/#contact-us Personal data disclosure: www.seatboost.com/privacy-policy/#purposes-for-which-we-will-use-your-personal-data
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Verdict
Star Alliance and SeatBoost both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 79% of SeatBoost's written reviews are positive against 18% of Star Alliance's. SeatBoost also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (976 vs 82). On price, rating and in-app purchases 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Star Alliance against 4.8 for SeatBoost. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SeatBoost has 976 ratings behind it against 82, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 18% of Star Alliance's written reviews are positive against 79% of SeatBoost's.
Star Alliance ships an update every 2 months, SeatBoost every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Star Alliance | SeatBoost |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (82 ratings) — better | 4.8 (976 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 18.4% of reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 82 | 976 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Star Alliance | SeatBoost Inc. |
Customer experience
Star Alliance
SeatBoost
User reviews
Star Alliance
From 82 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast app startup
- 📍 Helpful airport information
- 🔍 Comprehensive flight search
Room to improve
- 🐛 Passport scanning issues
- 🔒 Biometric profile creation problems
- 🤖 Lack of integration with airline apps
- 🔍 Limited flight search functionality
- 🚫 Inability to log in or access account details
SeatBoost
From 976 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💰 Affordable upgrades
- 🛒 Convenient and easy to use
- 🤝 Helpful staff
- 🎉 Exciting bidding experience
- 🤑 Great value for money
Room to improve
- 🚧 Technical issues and bugs
- 🤔 Unclear availability of upgrades
- 🙅♀️ Oversold upgrades
- 🤥 Misleading information
- 🕰️ Tight bidding timeline
Bugs and requests
Star Alliance
Reported bugs
3 issues- Freezing during biometric profile creation
- Inconsistent or missing airport information
- Flight search function not working as expected
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to import flight bookings
- Integration with frequent flyer programs
- Offline access to flight information
- More comprehensive airport maps and amenities
SeatBoost
Reported bugs
3 issues- App reporting outdated version
- Technical errors during bidding
- Upgrades not honored after winning bid
Requested features
5 requests- More airline partners
- Clearer upgrade availability information
- Longer bidding timeline
- Ability to cancel or amend bids
- Better customer support
In-app purchases
Star Alliance
No in-app purchases
SeatBoost
No in-app purchases
