Seat Alerts vs Loop for Flight Crew
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.
Loop for Flight Crew
This app displays flight schedules and layovers on a calendar. It allows users to share trip details with family and friends, providing real-time flight tracking and alerts. The app also offers local and home time displays, countdown widgets, and trip maps.
- Flight schedule on calendar
- Shareable trip links
- Real-time flight tracking
- Alerts for flight status changes
- Local and home time display
- Countdown widget
- Trip map view
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Loop starts with a screenshot of your trip. Your flights, layovers and show times land on a calendar. Add reserve, standby and commutes, and that's your month. Create links to share with family and friends. It's free for them, and nobody needs an account. They get flight tracking, alerts when you push, land, run late or get cancelled, and plain answers to where you are, what you're doing, how much longer, what's next and when you're home. All in their time, with yours beside it. Every link is yours. Turn one off and it's gone from their phone. Loop tracks the flight, not you. It never asks for your location. For you: local and home time side by side, a widget that counts down to the next thing, and the trip on a map. Loop isn't an official schedule and won't update schedule changes for you. If your schedule changes, upload the new one, or Loop will continue to use the outdated schedule. Check your airline's schedule for official times. Loop for crew is offered as a monthly or yearly subscription with a 14-day free trial. Family links are always free. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://loopcal.net/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Loop for Flight Crew at 100% against Seat Alerts's 42%. Loop for Flight Crew also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.1) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 months). Seat Alerts's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and ratings volume (140 vs 6). On price, ads, 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. Seat Alerts sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Loop for Flight Crew sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Loop for Flight Crew holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Seat Alerts has 140 ratings behind it against 6, 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 100% of Loop for Flight Crew's.
Seat Alerts ships an update every 3 months, Loop for Flight Crew every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Seat Alerts | Loop for Flight Crew |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (140 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 140 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Best chart rank | — | #148 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | New Imagitas, Inc. | DENNIS MARSHALL JINKS III |
Customer experience
Seat Alerts
Loop for Flight Crew
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
Loop for Flight Crew
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Seat Alerts
- Seat Alert$0.99
Loop for Flight Crew
- Loop Monthly14 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Loop Yearly14 Days trial$99.001 Year
Questions
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