Comparison

SWOON vs RotateFly

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

Head to head
About

SWOON

This app acts as a visual travel diary and map, allowing users to save and share their favorite places and experiences. Discover new destinations through recommendations from friends and create personalized bucket lists for future adventures.

Highlights
  • Save favorite places
  • Share travel recommendations
  • Discover places on a friend-powered map
  • Create bucket lists
  • Import saved places from other apps
Features
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Collect your best spots and experiences from around the world, and find new destinations through people you know. Part map, part visual travel diary, SWOON makes it easy to save, share, and discover recommendations with friends. SWOON is free. No waitlist. Sign up in seconds — no password required. Profiles can be public, but this is a space designed for friends, not followers. • Save your favorite places — near and far, all in one place • Share your best spots instantly straight from the app, from quick recs to full city guides • Find places on a map powered by friends — search by location, filter by category (restaurants, bars, hotels, outdoor adventures, & more) • See your friends' latest recommendations and get inspired for your next adventure • Create your bucket list and never forget a place you hope to visit • Import places you’ve saved from Apple Maps, Google Maps, TripAdvisor, Yelp and more

About

RotateFly

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Know whether your flight is actually leaving. RotateFly gives you the odds your flight departs within the hour, repriced through the day and as often as every 10 minutes in the 12 hours before departure. When those odds hold steady, you can stop refreshing. When they start slipping, you see it developing rather than finding out at the gate. Most days the answer is reassuring. Some days it isn't — the inbound aircraft is running late, the FAA has put a ground delay program in place at your origin, weather is turning, and cancellation risk is climbing off its usual floor. Those are the mornings when an hour of warning is worth real money: rebook while seats are still available, or leave for the airport later instead of spending the afternoon at the gate. THREE NUMBERS, ONE GLANCE • Leaves within 1 hour — the headline, and the one that decides your morning • Leaves within 3 hours — how bad a bad day is likely to get • Cancellation risk — low most of the time, and impossible to miss when it isn't WHY IT MOVED Every flight you unlock shows the reasoning behind its odds: where the inbound aircraft is right now, FAA ground stops and delay programs, weather at the origin, the airline's own posted status, and U.S. DOT on-time history for that route, airline and departure hour, or a broader average where DOT has too little data (as for flights leaving outside the U.S.). You can see what changed and when — so you are judging an argument, not trusting a number. ALERTS THAT SAY WHY For a flight you track, you hear when its odds move — with the reason when we know it, such as a storm in your departure window or a late inbound aircraft — and when its status changes: delayed, boarding, departed or cancelled, and diverted while its Live Activity is running. FROM GATE TO BAGGAGE CLAIM • A Live Activity on your Lock Screen (and in the Dynamic Island on iPhones that have one), counting down to takeoff and following the flight toward landing • Live position, altitude and progress once airborne • Arrival terminal and baggage claim on landing • A timeline of how the odds moved across the day PRICING • Looking up a flight is free and shows its route and scheduled departure time. If a lookup fails or finds no flight, nothing is used. Adding a cancelled flight is free. • Unlocking a flight shows its odds and tracks it: the list, the alerts and the Live Activity above. Your first two flights are free. • After that, unlock one flight at a time with a one-time purchase (US$1.99 plus tax in the United States), or subscribe to Rotate Pro (US$2.99 a month plus tax in the United States), which unlocks every flight while it is active. The app shows the price in your currency before you buy. • Each flight is unlocked once: removing it and adding it back never charges again. A one-flight purchase you haven't used waits for your next flight and never expires. Flights added to your list while you subscribe stay unlocked if Rotate Pro ends. • Free flights and one-flight purchases are kept on your iPhone: they are normally kept if you delete and reinstall the app, but do not move to a new phone. Rotate Pro belongs to your Apple Account — on a new phone, tap Restore. • Rotate Pro is a monthly subscription that renews automatically until cancelled. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Manage or cancel any time in Settings > [your name] > Subscriptions. No account. No sign-up. Just a flight number and a date. Odds are estimates built from public flight schedules, live status feeds, and historical on-time performance data published by the U.S. Department of Transportation. They are not guarantees — always confirm with your airline before travelling. RotateFly is not affiliated with any airline. Terms of Use: https://www.rotatefly.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.rotatefly.com/privacy

Screenshots

SWOON4 screens
RotateFly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SWOON at none against RotateFly's 2. RotateFly's advantage is update cadence (daily vs monthly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. RotateFly sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. SWOON asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SWOON ships an update monthly, RotateFly daily. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
SWOON versus RotateFly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSWOONRotateFly
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (18 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings18 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.016.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size120 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLush Lagoon LLCNEELESH INDRA NATH

In-app purchases

None

SWOON

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

RotateFly

Subscriptions1
  • Rotate Pro$2.991 Month
One-time1
  • Unlock a Flight$1.99

Questions

Is SWOON free?
SWOON is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RotateFly free?
RotateFly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SWOON or RotateFly have ads?
Neither SWOON nor RotateFly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SWOON or RotateFly?
SWOON ships an update monthly, and RotateFly daily. Most recently, SWOON was updated on October 30, 2026 and RotateFly on October 30, 2026.

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