Comparison

TraceTrail vs SkyDiary

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

Head to head
About

TraceTrail

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Discover Your World, One Path at a Time TraceTrail turns your daily journeys into a personal heatmap, showing the roads you've travelled and the paths yet to explore. Ever wondered which streets you've never walked down? Which trails you've yet to discover? TraceTrail shows you where you've been - and where you haven't. Fully automatic: tracking runs in the background and knows when you stop - trips start and end by themselves, and GPS pauses while you're not moving to save battery. Completely private: no accounts, no data collection, your location history never leaves your device. Your data is yours: browse, rename and manage every trail, export to GPX, and back up or restore everything with one file.

About

SkyDiary

Log your flight history by scanning boarding passes or manually entering details. Visualize your travels on an interactive 3D globe and access detailed statistics about your journeys. Offers a free tier for limited entries with an optional premium upgrade for unlimited logging and advanced features.

Highlights
  • Scan boarding passes with camera
  • 7,900+ airports worldwide
  • 3D globe map with flight arcs
  • Detailed flight statistics
  • Home screen widget
  • Year in Review card
Features
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SkyDiary is your personal flight diary. Log every flight you've ever taken, scan your boarding pass to add flights in seconds, and watch your journey come to life on a stunning 3D globe. FEATURES - Scan boarding passes with your camera - 7,900+ airports worldwide - Beautiful 3D globe map with flight arcs - Detailed stats — distance, hours, countries - Year in Review boarding pass card - Home screen widget Free for your first 10 flights. Upgrade to Premium for unlimited flights, home screen widget, year in review card and CSV export — just £1.99/year. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

TraceTrail4 screens
SkyDiary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: SkyDiary at 18.6 against TraceTrail'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. TraceTrail sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month and SkyDiary sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TraceTrail ships an update every 2 weeks, SkyDiary fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 7 level
TraceTrail versus SkyDiary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTraceTrailSkyDiary
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.018.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMiroslav PalkaThomas Shaw

In-app purchases

1 purchases

TraceTrail

Subscriptions1
  • TraceTrail+$0.991 Month
1 purchases

SkyDiary

Subscriptions1
  • SkyDiary Premium$1.991 Year

Questions

Is TraceTrail free?
TraceTrail is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SkyDiary free?
SkyDiary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do TraceTrail or SkyDiary have ads?
Neither TraceTrail nor SkyDiary shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TraceTrail or SkyDiary?
TraceTrail ships an update every 2 weeks, and SkyDiary fortnightly. Most recently, TraceTrail was updated on November 5, 2026 and SkyDiary on November 13, 2026.

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