Star Alliance vs WelcomeMats
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.
WelcomeMats
Create custom mobile welcome pages for guests, featuring Wi-Fi, check-in details, and local tips. Print a QR code placard for easy access, eliminating the need for guests to download an app or type passwords.
- Tap-free guest welcome pages
- Automatic Wi-Fi connection via QR code
- Share check-in instructions and local tips
- Customizable themes and fonts
- Manage multiple properties
- Instant updates to guest pages
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WelcomeMats turns every short-term rental, or even your own home, into a tap-free welcome for your guests. Create a beautiful mobile welcome page for each property — Wi-Fi network and password, check-in and check-out details, arrival steps, local tips, and how to reach you — then print a one-page QR placard. Your guests just scan it with their phone camera. No app to download, and no passwords to type. MAKE CHECK-IN EFFORTLESS • Guests scan one QR code to open your welcome page in any browser • A second QR joins your Wi-Fi automatically — no typing • Share check-in instructions, house rules, and local recommendations MAKE IT YOURS • 56 themes and fonts, plus accent colors • Add a cover photo and an About section • Print a clean, one-page placard for the entryway or kitchen BUILT FOR HOSTS • Manage multiple properties in one place • Update details anytime — your live guest page updates instantly • Great for Airbnb, Vrbo, and direct bookings WELCOMEMATS PRO A one-time $4.99 unlock (no subscription) adds up to 5 properties, every theme and font, cover and About photos, check-in details and arrival steps, an important-info section, and custom guest message templates. Restore it anytime. Your guest page lives at a public link, so anyone you share it with — or who scans your placard — can view it. You control exactly what's shown, and you can edit or unpublish it at any time. You can permanently delete your account and data from within the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Star Alliance at none against WelcomeMats's 1. Star Alliance also leads on ratings volume (82 vs 2). WelcomeMats's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 2 months). On price, rating 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. WelcomeMats sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Star Alliance asks for nothing beyond the download.
WelcomeMats holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Star Alliance has 82 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Star Alliance ships an update every 2 months, WelcomeMats every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Star Alliance | WelcomeMats |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (82 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 18.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 82 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Star Alliance | Holden Holt |
Customer experience
Star Alliance
WelcomeMats
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
WelcomeMats
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Star Alliance
No in-app purchases
WelcomeMats
- WelcomeMats Pro$4.99









