Ryanair vs SmartTravelling
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ryanair
Find the lowest airfares across Europe with this travel app. It offers convenient features like mobile check-in, digital boarding passes, and easy access to in-flight extras for a seamless travel experience.
- Lowest European fares
- Mobile check-in
- Mobile boarding pass
- In-flight extras
- Easy booking
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With this App at your fingertips, Europe is at your feet. We’re Ryanair, so of course you’ll find the lowest fares in Europe on our app. But you’ll also get handy extras like being able to check in while you’re on the move, a mobile boarding pass delivered straight to your phone and a choice of in-flight extras in one quick click. So why are you still reading? Download it now and get flying!
SmartTravelling
Discover curated travel guides for cities and regions worldwide, focusing on gastronomy, accommodation, and culture. Plan your trips with authentic recommendations and easily book hotels through integrated services.
- Premium travel guides
- Gastronomy, accommodation, cultural recommendations
- Over 50 cities and regions
- Personal trip planning
- Hotel booking integration
- New rating system
- My Day feature
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Smart Travelling Mobile App brings you in-depth premium travel guides for our favorite cities and regions in Europe and around the world. Created by the editors of the well-known travel book series "A perfect weekend in …" and "A perfect week in …". Smart Travelling selects on two criteria: excellence and soul. The authentic and unique can be found in our guides: Special places, welcoming us as if they were old friends. Specialising in gastronomy, accommodation and cultural recommendations for travellers in over 50 cities and regions worldwide. Offers tightly curated tips on restaurants, cafes, hotels and more. Use the app to plan your trip ahead of time, or to decide what to do in the moment, by looking at our recommendations near you. Create your personal guides to plan your trip. Book hotels easily thanks to our cooperation with booking.com! - New and revamped interface - Improved Google maps functionality - New rating system - New "My Day" feature: add some locations to a "to visit" list and mark them as visited once you've been there
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ryanair at 4.5 against SmartTravelling's 1.0. Ryanair also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 25) and ratings volume (85K vs 1). SmartTravelling's advantage is review sentiment (59% vs 17%). On price, ads, 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. SmartTravelling sells 24 one-off in-app purchases. Ryanair asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ryanair holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ryanair has 85K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 17% of Ryanair's written reviews are positive against 59% of SmartTravelling's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Ryanair ships an update weekly, SmartTravelling fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ryanair | SmartTravelling |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (85K ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 17.0% of reviews | 59.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 85K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #92 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 345 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ryanair Ltd. | smart-travelling |
Customer experience
Ryanair
SmartTravelling
Bugs and requests
Ryanair
Reported bugs
3 issues- Passport scanning functionality not working
- Booking and check-in process glitches
- App crashing and losing user data
Requested features
3 requests- Improved communication about flight status updates
- Ability to easily manage and change bookings
- Better integration between app and website
SmartTravelling
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ryanair
No in-app purchases
SmartTravelling
- Naples$4.90
- Florence$4.90
- Nice$4.90
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- Deutsch$4.90
- Berlin$5.90
- Paris$5.90
- London$5.90
- Venice$5.90
- Copenhagen$5.90
- Munich$5.90
- New York$5.90
- San Francisco$5.90
- Stockholm$5.90
- Vienna$5.90
- Côte d'Azur$5.90
- Istanbul$5.90
- Ibiza - Formentera$5.90
- Rome$5.90
- Piemont$5.90
- Madrid$5.90
- Sizilien$5.90
- Deutsch2 variants$5.90
- Gardasee$5.90
- Portugal$5.90
