Comparison

Nice Places by Synapse vs FlyETA

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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Nice Places by Synapse

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With Nice Places!, every outing transforms into a journey of your own making. Our mission is to swiftly guide you to the best specialty coffee, delectable eats for any time of day, top-notch beauty salons, ideal workspaces, and the coolest hangout spots in the city. Today, Belgrade locals are the lucky ones, but soon, Nice Places! will be bringing its charm to more cities around the globe. Carefully selected recommendations await you in the app, where you'll discover a variety of places marked on the city map. Each location is thoughtfully chosen by and for people, ensuring every spot is vetted and sure to make a great impression. For each place, you'll find a description, along with links to their pricing and website. Functionality meets convenience. Find your perfect spot through a list, on the map, or by keyword search. Save your favorite places to your favorites for quick access in the future. Frequent updates and fresh finds. We constantly update our database with the latest on local establishments and scout out newly opened, intriguing spots to add to the app. Stay in the loop with the newest trends and hidden gems in your city! We're open to your feedback. In the app, you'll find our contact information — feel free to reach out if you believe we've overlooked a deserving spot, or if you have any other suggestions. Nice Places! transcends being a mere directory of venues; it's the curated creation of Victoria Izvarina. Victoria, a seasoned traveler, has journeyed through numerous countries and lived for extended periods in places like Moscow, Bali, and Serbia, always pinpointing her most cherished locales. Nice Places! represents the culmination of her worldwide culinary and cultural discoveries.

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FlyETA

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A window seat, somewhere over the world. A river shines below, then a lake, a town you have never heard of, a mountain in the snow. FlyETA shows you where you are: your place in the sky, on a 3D map of the whole planet, with the names of what you see and the time you land. FlyETA is an offline flight tracker and in-flight map for passengers. It runs from your own phone's GPS, in airplane mode. The whole planet is already inside the app, so it works with no cabin Wi-Fi and no download at all. WHAT IS DOWN THERE Look out, find it on the globe and read its name. Towns, lakes, rivers, peaks with their heights, borders and the countries under you are named as you fly over them, from more than 470,000 places that come with the app. Mountains, valleys and coasts are drawn in 3D. With a connection before you fly, FlyETA can add sharper terrain for your route. WHEN YOU LAND Your arrival time, the time to go and the distance to go. You see them on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island too. On routes with recent flights, the forecast follows the past flight most like yours: FlyETA collects these flights every day from open flight-tracking data, and loads your route's when you set up the flight with a connection. Without them it uses a general flight model, which cannot see wind or holding. THE VIEW Follow the airplane from behind, circle around it, or pinch in to the cockpit and look out at the wing, its engines turning and its lights flashing. Contrails at cruise height, and the stars and the Milky Way when you zoom out into space. The globe stops drawing when nothing moves, to save your battery. KEEP EVERY FLIGHT Tap Start following and FlyETA records the flight, with the screen locked too. After you land: - Find it in History and replay it at home, up to 300x - Collect a stamp for every airport and a page for every country in your Passport - Add a flight you took but did not record; it replays as a labelled simulation - Keep every recording as a readable file in the Files app FOR THE CURIOUS Altitude above sea level, ground speed and vertical speed from your phone's GPS, cabin pressure altitude, a turbulence reading, and GPS tools with every accuracy figure. Metric, imperial or aviation units, in 10 languages. TRY IT ON THE GROUND Pick any two of more than 4,000 airports and tap Simulate to watch the flight on the globe. A simulation is labelled Simulated, and values only a phone in the air can measure show "--". HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT SEES Position, height and speed come from your phone's own GPS, not from the aircraft, and a window seat gives it a better view of the sky. FlyETA follows the flight you are on: it shows no gates, delays or other aircraft. When it does not know a value, it shows "--" instead of a guess. FREE, AND YOURS Every feature is free: no ads, no account, no in-app purchases, no subscription and no limit on flights. FlyETA never sends your position and uploads no flight. With a connection it sends only what its lookups need: a flight number you type, your route's two airport codes, the map squares the route crosses, and the app and system version. In airplane mode it sends nothing. REQUIREMENTS iPhone 15 or newer, or an iPad with an A13 chip or newer, on iOS 26 or iPadOS 26 or newer. Live following needs GPS: an iPhone or iPad Wi-Fi + Cellular. A Wi-Fi-only iPad can simulate and replay flights. FlyETA is a personal project by Nick Bubelich. He loves to fly, and on every flight he wanted to know what was down there and when he would land.

Screenshots

Nice Places by Synapse4 screens
FlyETA4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Nice Places by Synapse at 13.0 against FlyETA's 26.0. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nice Places by Synapse ships an update every 9 days, FlyETA every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Nice Places by Synapse versus FlyETA: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNice Places by SynapseFlyETA
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB204 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaniial ZagidullinMykola Bubelich

In-app purchases

None

Nice Places by Synapse

No in-app purchases

None

FlyETA

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Nice Places by Synapse free?
Nice Places by Synapse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FlyETA free?
FlyETA is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Nice Places by Synapse or FlyETA have ads?
Neither Nice Places by Synapse nor FlyETA shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nice Places by Synapse or FlyETA?
Nice Places by Synapse ships an update every 9 days, and FlyETA every 2 weeks. Most recently, Nice Places by Synapse was updated on October 27, 2026 and FlyETA on November 6, 2026.

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