Comparison

FlightLog vs PaxLog

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

Head to head
About

FlightLog

Effortlessly log all your past and future flights with automatic data entry from calendars, emails, and photos. Track flight stats, view routes on maps, and build a collection of aircraft you've flown on.

Highlights
  • Automatic flight detection from calendar and email
  • Manual flight entry with auto-fill
  • Detailed flight statistics and summaries
  • Interactive world maps and 3D globe
  • Aircraft collection and fleet book
  • Offline functionality and data export
  • Carbon footprint tracking
Features
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Every flight you have ever taken, in one place. FlightLog finds your past trips, fills in the new ones almost on its own, and turns them into stats, maps and memories you will love coming back to. YEARS OF FLIGHTS, IN A FEW MINUTES • Calendar: FlightLog spots the flights hiding in your calendar, up to 10 years back • Email: forward your booking confirmations to your personal FlightLog address and your flights arrive ready to add. Set up auto-forwarding once and you are done for good • Photos: a boarding pass, a booking confirmation or an e-ticket screenshot, and every flight on it is read • Camera: scan the barcode on your boarding pass, paper or mobile • Switching from another flight app? Bring your whole history with you in a few minutes • Or just type a flight number and a date: the airline, departure and arrival airports, departure and arrival times, aircraft type, registration, distance and flight time all fill in on their own EVERY FLIGHT, COMPLETE • On the day: the aircraft planned for your flight, before you even board • After landing: real times, aircraft type and registration added for you • Your seat on the real cabin layout of your plane • Your boarding passes kept on your phone, even years later • Photos, meals, notes, price and reason for travel YOUR LIFE IN THE AIR • Distance flown, trips around the Earth, hours in the air, day and night • Countries, airports and airlines, with your records and a year-by-year comparison • Window or aisle? Your seat habits, cabin classes and favorite aircraft • See where you stand among FlightLog travelers: top 10%, top 1% MADE FOR AVGEEKS • An aircraft collection that fills up as you fly, from the ATR 72 to the A380, with rarity levels • Your Fleet Book: every exact plane you flew on, with its registration, age and photo, and where it is flying right now • Old flights shown with the airline logo and aircraft name of their time • Seat maps by airline and aircraft MAPS AND SHARING • All your routes on a world map and an interactive 3D globe, and your countries as passport stamps • Badges to unlock, an animated year in review and stats cards made for your stories YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS • Works offline too, with a free account to sync all your devices • Export to CSV, JSON or PDF anytime, and a full backup that keeps your boarding passes and settings • Carbon footprint for every flight, with the calculation explained ALSO • Your upcoming flights, and a notification when you land • Home Screen widgets, iPad, dark mode Start with one flight, or bring in ten years of them in a few minutes. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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PaxLog

Features
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PaxLog is a personal flight logbook for passengers, aviation enthusiasts, and crew members who want to keep a detailed record of their journeys. Log your flights, explore your travel history on interactive maps, review detailed statistics, rediscover past journeys, save photos and travel memories, and build a personal archive of your flying history. Designed for iPhone and iPad, PaxLog combines detailed flight logging with powerful tools for exploring where, when, how, and on what you have flown. KEY FEATURES • Extensive aviation database with more than 60,000 airports • More than 5,500 airlines and operators, including current and historic entries • More than 2,000 aircraft types • Search online for flight numbers, routes, aircraft registrations, and additional flight information to help complete your entries • Enter scheduled and actual flight times in local time or UTC • Automatic departure and arrival delay calculation • Add terminals, gates, parking positions, runways, baggage belts, seats, travel class, ticket information, notes, and other details • Organize related flights into named Flight Groups for holidays, business trips, and multi-sector journeys • View historical and current weather information for logged flights • Set your home airport and use your current location to find nearby airports • Explore your flight history on an interactive map, including offline map support • Save aircraft photos, boarding passes, and personal travel memories • Search online for aircraft photos, including images closest to your flight date • Search your flight history by airports, routes, airlines, registrations, flight numbers, photos, remarks, special liveries, weather information, and more FLIGHT MEMORIES & YEAR IN REVIEW Rediscover your flying history with Flight Memories. Look back at flights from the same day in previous years, anniversaries, milestones, first visits, aircraft and airline memories, and other personal aviation highlights. Year in Review brings together your flights, map, statistics, favourite airlines and airports, aircraft, longest journeys, newly visited places, and photos for a personal overview of each year in the air. DETAILED STATISTICS & PASSPORTS Explore statistics for airports, countries, airlines, operating airlines, aircraft types, registrations, manufacturers, aircraft families and subfamilies, routes, flight numbers, distances, durations, seats, special liveries, records, milestones, and more. Dedicated Airport, Airline, and Aircraft Type Passports bring together the flights, routes, statistics, photos, and other information connected with each entry. YOUR PERSONAL AVIATION ARCHIVE PaxLog is designed as a detailed personal archive of your flying history. Whether you want to remember individual journeys, track the aircraft you have flown on, explore your travel patterns, revisit old memories, or simply watch your flight history grow over the years, PaxLog keeps everything together in one place. Sync your flight log across your devices with iCloud and create local backups to safeguard or transfer your data. Your flight data stays private. It is stored on your device and, when enabled, in your personal iCloud account. PaxLog does not transmit your personal flight log data to the developer. The free version allows you to add up to 50 flights. A one-time in-app purchase removes this limit and unlocks unlimited flight entries. Please note: PaxLog is intended for personal flight tracking and is not a certified or professional pilot logbook.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: FlightLog at 18.0 against PaxLog'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. FlightLog sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and PaxLog sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FlightLog ships an update every 2 days, PaxLog every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
FlightLog versus PaxLog: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlightLogPaxLog
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (12 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews90.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size122 MB176 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLorenziniChristian Ettelt

In-app purchases

3 purchases

FlightLog

Subscriptions2
  • FlightLog Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • FlightLog Premium Annual3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • FlightLog Premium Lifetime$99.99
1 purchases

PaxLog

One-time1
  • Full Version Unlock$1.99

Questions

Is FlightLog free?
FlightLog is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PaxLog free?
PaxLog is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do FlightLog or PaxLog have ads?
Neither FlightLog nor PaxLog shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FlightLog or PaxLog?
FlightLog ships an update every 2 days, and PaxLog every 3 days. Most recently, FlightLog was updated on November 7, 2026 and PaxLog on October 31, 2026.

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