Lonely Planet vs Points Path
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lonely Planet
Discover expert-curated travel recommendations for over 100 destinations worldwide. Plan your trips with saved spots, explore on foot with guided tours, and access immersive country guides. New content and features are regularly added.
- Expert-curated destination guides
- Save favorite spots
- Curated walking tours
- Immersive country guides
- Trip planning tools
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Travel the world with the Lonely Planet app. Every recommendation, route and restaurant we share is vetted by our global community of 450+ local experts for different kinds of travelers. Explore their curated travel advice inside our trusted guides to 400+ destinations all across the globe: Italy, Vietnam, Ireland, Spain, Japan, Costa Rica, Portugal and Greece, just to name a few. More on the way, too. Not sure where to go, or what to do once you're there? Browse destination guides, explore walking tours and use our interactive maps to uncover locals’ favorite restaurants, places to stay, museums and hidden gems. Save whatever catches your eye to travel collections to use whenever you’re ready to plan your next trip. Then build an itinerary from everything you've saved, or just edit one of ours. Or just ask our AI Guide your burning travel questions — such as, where to eat in Rio. Faster answers, always and only rooted in actual advice from real Lonely Planet experts. The Lonely Planet app is your travel app for discovering, saving and planning to make the most of every vacation. For a limited time, Founding Members get full access to all itineraries, destination guides and future member perks. See our Terms&Conditions: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/legal/app-terms
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 in-app purchases: Points Path at none against Lonely Planet's 2. Points Path also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Lonely Planet's advantage is ratings volume (170 vs 3) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Lonely Planet sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $72.00 per year. 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: Lonely Planet has 170 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 58% of Lonely Planet's written reviews are positive against 56% of Points Path's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Lonely Planet ships an update every 2 weeks, Points Path every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lonely Planet | Points Path |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (170 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.1% of reviews — better | 55.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 170 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 152 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lonely Planet Global, Inc. | Tripsight Inc. |
Customer experience
Lonely Planet
Points Path
In-app purchases
Lonely Planet
- Annual Membership$72.001 Year
- Trip Pass$30.00
Points Path
No in-app purchases
