seats.aero vs Points Path
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
seats.aero
Discover domestic and international award flights using your points and miles. This app aggregates availability across major airline alliances, allowing you to find and book flights that are often missed on traditional airline websites. Plan spontaneous trips or snag hard-to-get premium cabin seats.
- Discover award flights with points and miles
- Supports Star Alliance, OneWorld, and SkyTeam
- Global flight coverage
- Search by desired airport
- Advanced filtering options
- Create flight availability alerts
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seats.aero® is a new way to book flights with your points and miles. Stop searching on outdated airline websites and immediately discover domestic and international award flights that you can book with your points. Take advantage of credit card points and frequent flyer miles to travel more for less. --- ALL MAJOR AIRLINE ALLIANCES --- We support Star Alliance, OneWorld, and SkyTeam flights, and they can all be discovered immediately out of the box. Global coverage means you can discover flights to/from any region of the world. --- EXPLORE YOUR OPTIONS --- We're the only award search tool that can show you every flight from your desired airport. Find availability on every direct route to book where you want to go -- even if it departs tomorrow. --- ADVANCED FILTERING --- Filter your searches to arrive or depart from specific airports or regions, cabin classes, on specific carriers, or just discover anywhere you can go from your home airport. --- CREATE ALERTS --- Create alerts to discover when the best flights become available. Airlines release seats for booking at all hours of the day; snag the hardest business and first awards without repetitive searching. Seats.aero supports most direct routes served by mileage programs. We are not affiliated with any airlines or mileage programs. This app uses the Apple standard EULA, available at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/.
Points Path
This tool integrates with Google Flights to display both cash and points prices for flights. It helps users determine the best time to use their frequent flyer miles for award travel.
- Integrates with Google Flights
- Displays cash and points prices
- Award flight search engine
- Finds best travel rewards deals
- Compares flight costs
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Add frequent flyer points prices to Google Flights & find the best deal with your travel rewards! If you’re never sure when’s the best time to use your frequent flyer miles, this is the tool you’ve been waiting for! Points Path is the first award flight search engine that runs directly in Google Flights, and provides both the cash price and points price of every flight in a search.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Points Path at 56% against seats.aero's 13%. Points Path also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). seats.aero's advantage is ratings volume (5.9K vs 2) and chart position (#105 vs unranked). On price, ads 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. seats.aero sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $20.00 per month. Points Path asks for nothing beyond the download.
Points Path holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: seats.aero has 5.9K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of seats.aero's written reviews are positive against 56% of Points Path's.
seats.aero ships an update every 3 weeks, Points Path every 8 days. Both last shipped on October 1, 2026.
| Parameter | seats.aero | Points Path |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (5.9K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 13.0% of reviews | 55.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5.9K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Best chart rank | #105 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | seats.aero | Tripsight Inc. |
Customer experience
seats.aero
Points Path
Bugs and requests
seats.aero
Reported bugs
3 issues- Search results show nothing
- Date selection issues
- Incorrect seat availability information
Requested features
4 requests- Add more airline options
- Allow filtering by number of travelers
- Improve search accuracy and availability
- Provide better login/subscription management
Points Path
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
seats.aero
- Pro$20.001 Month
Points Path
No in-app purchases
