Flags vs Flight Lens
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flags
Automatically create a visual map of countries visited using photo dates. Track your travel history, count visited locations, and generate a digital passport. Offers premium features for detailed insights and city-level mapping.
- Automatic country mapping from photos
- Visited country and continent counter
- Travel history timeline
- Digital passport for sharing stats
- Manual entry for missing data
- City and region mapping (Premium)
- Favorites map (Premium)
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Your photos already know where you've been. Flags turns them into a private map of every country you've visited — automatically, in seconds. Open the app and your world map is already filled in. No typing, no checkboxes, no sign-in. Just your footprint, drawn from the dates and places already saved in your photos. WHAT YOU GET, FREE • Countries Visited Map — your whole footprint on one world map • Country & continent counter — how many you've reached, and what's left • Travel Timeline — your history, year by year, month by month • Digital Passport — a clean snapshot of your stats to share BUILT FROM YOUR PHOTOS, NOT LIVE TRACKING • Reads the date and place saved in each photo, on your iPhone — no live GPS tracking • Fill any gaps with a fast manual add • Results in seconds that feel like a time machine PRIVACY BY DESIGN • No GPS tracking • No account, no sign-up • Synced privately with iCloud — only you can ever see your data • Share if you want — as an image, never your data FLAGS PREMIUM — $19.99/year (Start with a 7-day free trial.) • Insights — the full story your camera roll has been keeping • What you actually love — the places your photos say you couldn't resist • Real counts, real streaks, and the year everything changed • What comes next — your pace, your next country, your next milestone Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Flight Lens
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Flight Lens is the airline tracker that delivers real-time alerts, delays, and cheap tickets powered by the global Pulse Index. See the pulse of global aviation at a glance — and track any flight in real time. One number tells you everything. The Pulse Index scores global aviation from 0 to 100 — clear skies to chaos. Track specific routes, get alerts when conditions change, search any flight in real-time, and find the best ticket prices. Flight intelligence, not flight data. SEARCH ANY FLIGHT Look up any flight by number and get real-time status: departure, arrival, delays, gate info, and aircraft type. Search routes between airports to see what's flying, how reliable the connection is, and what fares look like. Save your frequent routes to track them over time. SMART ALERTS Set alerts for what matters to you. Pulse alerts notify you when global or regional anomalies cross your threshold. Route alerts watch your frequent routes for disruptions. Flight alerts track specific flights in real-time. Price alerts tell you when fares drop on routes you're watching. LIVE AIRCRAFT MAP Watch the skies in real-time. Thousands of aircraft tracked on an interactive map with flight details, altitude, speed, and route information. Tap any plane to see where it's going, whether it's on time, and what aircraft type it is. THE PULSE INDEX A single 0-100 score that captures the state of global aviation right now. Like the Fear & Greed Index, but for flight disruptions. Green means clear skies, red means chaos. The gauge updates in real-time, showing contributing factors — weather, air traffic congestion, airport delays — so you know what's driving the number. Drill into any region to see local anomaly scores, affected airports, and the airlines most impacted. YOUR PERSONALIZED BRIEFING Tap the For You button to get an AI-powered briefing tailored to your alerts. The app analyzes real-time disruption data across your routes, regions, and flights, then summarizes what matters to you in a single glance. On supported devices, Apple Intelligence generates natural language insights using your actual data — no hallucinated stats, just facts. Free users get global status; subscribers see a full briefing across all their alerts. SIMPLE PRICING Free: Full Pulse intel, 1 live alert for global disruption, ad-gated experience. Light ($1.99/mo): Everything in Free + no ads, up to 4 different alerts. Pro ($5.99/mo): Everything in Free + no ads, up to 10 different alerts. Privacy Policy: https://dragosroua.com/flight-lens/privacy-policy/ Terms of Service: https://dragosroua.com/flight-lens/terms-of-service/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Flags at none against Flight Lens's shown. Flight Lens's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.1). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. Flags sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year and Flight Lens sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Flags ships an update weekly, Flight Lens every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flags | Flight Lens |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.1 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | ZEROCREW AI LTD | Dragos Roua |
In-app purchases
Flags
- Yearly Plan7 Days trial$19.991 Year
Flight Lens
- Light1 Month trial$1.991 Month
- Pro1 Month trial$5.991 Month
- Light Annual1 Month trial$12.991 Year
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- Pro Annual1 Month trial$39.991 Year
- 20 Action Credits$0.99
- 75 Action Credits$2.99
- 250 Action Credits$4.99









