Seat Alerts vs StopJetLag
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Seat Alerts
Find better airplane seats for your flights. This app helps you locate preferred seats like window or aisle by monitoring seat maps. Get notified when your desired seat becomes available, improving your travel experience.
- Monitor flight seat maps
- Set custom seat alerts (window, aisle)
- Receive notifications for available seats
- View SeatGuru seat ratings
- Supports over 150 airlines
- Cross-device alert management
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You've booked a trip to your favorite getaway but the plane is full and you're stuck in the middle seat, sound familiar? Let Seat Alerts® by ExpertFlyer help find you a better seat in 3 easy steps: 1. Look up the Seat Map of your flight. 2. Set up a Seat Alert to find window seats, aisle seats and more. 3. Get notified if your preferred seat is found. Seat Alerts will monitor the available seats right up until the flight departs. If it becomes available you can change your seat when your Seat Alert notification arrives, just contact the airline or the travel agency that booked your ticket. Seat Alerts finds a window or aisle seat better than 75% of the time. • With a Free account, you can set up one Free Seat Alert at a time using the Any Seat, Any Window or Any Aisle options. Other advanced alert options require a fee. • Seat maps include SeatGuru® seat ratings so you know which seat is the right seat for you. Just click on a seat to see its rating and review • If you need multiple Seat Alerts at the same time, additional alerts and alert options are available for purchase • Supports over 150 airlines that have preassigned seating Notes about app functionality: • Account registration is required to use the Seat Alert app, this is so we can notify you of found seats and keep track of your alerts across devices. • Miles Award or Upgrade searching and alerting is not the same as Seat Map searching and alerting. This app is Seat Map Alerts only. For Miles Awards & Upgrades, please use our website. • Also works with ExpertFlyer.com Basic and Premium subscriptions to manage your Seat Alerts. • Seat Alerts checks the seat maps several times a day. If you find and take an open seat before the next check of the alert, you won't be notified. • To prevent abuse, a limited about of seat maps can be viewed each day, resetting every 24 hrs. Only a single seat map search is needed to create a Seat Alert.
StopJetLag
This app provides personalized plans to combat jet lag using a science-backed sleep method. It optimizes your schedule based on flight details, sleep patterns, and destination time zones to help you arrive refreshed and productive.
- Flight-Aligned Sleep Method™
- Personalized jet lag plans
- Optimized for flight schedules
- Considers sleep patterns
- Destination time zone synchronization
- Advice on sleep, light, food, and caffeine
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StopJetLag's Flight-Aligned Plans Don't Just Ask, "How Do I Avoid Jet Lag?" Ask the more important question: ■ When is my first realistic opportunity for core sleep in sync with destination-time and what needs to happen before then? That's at the heart of StopJetLag's Flight-Aligned™ travel planning. The best biological time to sleep and the time your flights allow it can be very different. Your body clock doesn't know you have a connection to make. StopJetLag does. ■ Jet Lag Science Has to Work With Your Flights "Sleep now" isn't useful advice when you're landing, clearing immigration, changing terminals or boarding another flight. StopJetLag analyzes your itinerary, connections and normal sleep patterns to identify a critical anchor: your first realistic opportunity for destination-time core sleep. Then your plan coordinates what happens before and after it. ■ StopJetLag's Flight-Aligned™ Sleep Method StopJetLag provides personalized timing for: • Sleep & rest • Bright light exposure & avoidance • Meals—timing, type & size • Caffeine use & avoidance • Light exercise • Optional melatonin • Transitioning to destination time These recommendations aren't the endpoint-Their coordination with your flights is of primary importance. A sleep recommendation can't ignore when you have to board. Caffeine can't ignore when you need to sleep. None should act as though your connections don't exist. ■ Every Connection Changes What Is Possible An ideal time to sleep is useless if you have to be awake to change planes. A sleep opportunity can disappear because you need to deplane, clear immigration and board again. That's why connections aren't footnotes in a StopJetLag Plan. They help determine the plan. The goal isn't a perfect schedule on paper. It's one you can actually follow. ■ What Happens Before Core Sleep Matters The hours before your first destination-time core sleep matter—when you sleep, stay awake, seek or avoid bright light, eat, use caffeine, exercise and, if you choose, take melatonin. StopJetLag coordinates these influences with your itinerary so they work together rather than as disconnected jet lag tips. The flight itself becomes part of your adjustment strategy. ■ When to Sleep—and When Your Flights Won't Let You. You need enough sleep. Your body clock also needs to move toward destination time. Getting every possible hour of sleep isn't necessarily the same as sleeping at the most useful times. StopJetLag identifies practical sleep opportunities while keeping you awake when your itinerary requires it. The question isn't simply, "Can I sleep?" It's "Is this the right sleep opportunity for where my body clock needs to go next?" ■ Built Around Your Real Trip Your plan can account for departures, arrivals, connections, multi-stop itineraries, normal sleep patterns, practical sleep opportunities, destination time and important events you provide. Trip Notes address itinerary-specific timing issues. StopJetLag Mobile keeps your recommendations available while you travel. ■ Why StopJetLag's Flight-Aligned™ Plans Matter Most jet lag advice tells you what affects your body clock. The harder problem is knowing when you can realistically use those influences. Jet lag advice asks what your body needs. StopJetLag's Flight-Aligned™ planning asks when your journey will actually let you do it. StopJetLag builds your plan around the answer. ■ What Travelers and the Press Have Said Katie Couric Show: "There's a great service called StopJetLag" United Airlines Hemispheres: "The best approach is StopJetLag" Clare Vooght—iNews: "The best app by a million (air) miles...was StopJetLag" ■ StopJetLag on Your Next Trip Don't settle for jet lag advice that assumes your journey will cooperate. Start with your flights. Find your first realistic opportunity for destination-time core sleep. Coordinate what happens before it. Protect what happens after it. That's StopJetLag's Flight-Aligned™ travel planning.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Seat Alerts at 3.1 against StopJetLag's 2.3. Seat Alerts also leads on review sentiment (42% vs 8%) and ratings volume (140 vs 12). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Seat Alerts sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and StopJetLag sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Seat Alerts holds the better App Store score, 3.1 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Seat Alerts has 140 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of Seat Alerts's written reviews are positive against 8% of StopJetLag's.
Seat Alerts ships an update every 3 months, StopJetLag every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Seat Alerts | StopJetLag |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (140 ratings) — better | 2.3 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 41.7% of reviews — better | 7.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 140 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | New Imagitas, Inc. | StopJetLag |
Customer experience
Seat Alerts
StopJetLag
Bugs and requests
Seat Alerts
Reported bugs
3 issues- Incorrect seat information
- Endless login loop
- Inability to create new accounts
Requested features
4 requests- Push notifications for seat alerts
- Support for more airlines
- Improved user interface
- Award seat availability search
StopJetLag
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Seat Alerts
- Seat Alert$0.99
StopJetLag
- Access Your StopJetLag PlanFree









