Plot Travel vs FlightPing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Plot Travel
This travel app organizes your entire trip, from flights and hotels to activities, in a single timeline. It automatically tracks price drops on bookings and alerts you to potential savings, helping you get money back on flights, hotels, and car rentals. It also provides real-time travel updates like delays and gate changes.
- Automated itinerary building from confirmation emails
- Day-by-day timeline of all bookings
- Real-time flight delay and gate change alerts
- Price drop tracking for flights, hotels, and car rentals
- Money-back claim assistance for price drops
- Offline access to bookings and travel documents
- AI trip planning integration
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Your whole trip in one app. Plot plans it, tracks it, and gets you money back when prices drop. Forward any confirmation email to plans@plot.travel and your itinerary builds itself. Flights, hotels, cars, trains, restaurants and activities land on one day-by-day timeline that updates on its own. PLAN: FIND WHAT’S WORTH DOING • Discover the top sights in every city on your trip, with ratings, what visitors say and opening hours. • Search for a specific restaurant, museum or bar and add it to your trip in a tap. • Save places to Want to go, then add them to a day when you’re ready. • Plan with your AI. Connect ChatGPT, Claude or any MCP assistant and it saves the trip straight into Plot. ORGANIZE: WALK INTO EVERY TRIP CALM • Every booking on one timeline, from your first flight to your last dinner. • Invite travel companions to one live, shared itinerary. • Boarding passes, tickets and visas attached to each booking and available offline. • Subscribe once and every booking appears in Apple, Google or Outlook Calendar. TRACK: STAY A STEP AHEAD ON TRAVEL DAY • Delays, gate changes and cancellations sent to you the moment they happen. • Watched from the day you book, so schedule changes show up weeks ahead, while you still have options. • Gate, terminal and a countdown to landing at a glance, plus a Live Activity on your Lock Screen. SAVE: GET MONEY BACK ON TRIPS YOU’VE ALREADY BOOKED 50% of flights and 40% of hotels drop in price after booking. Plot watches yours. • Flights: know the moment your fare drops, with claim steps that match your airline’s rules. • Hotels: Plot watches your exact room and rate, and only speaks up when the saving is real. • Car rentals: get told when the same car class gets cheaper for your dates. • Every alert shows what you’ll get back and the fastest way to claim it: a refund, a travel credit or rebooking at the lower price. • Get a reminder 48 hours before your free-cancellation window closes. • Works with United, Delta, American, Southwest, Alaska, JetBlue and more, plus Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, Booking.com, Expedia, Hotels.com, Airbnb and VRBO. • Your booking stays exactly as you made it. Plot never changes anything without you. PRICING Free: Unlimited trips, every booking type, shared itineraries, offline access, and day-of-travel gate, delay and cancellation alerts. Plot Pro ($59.99/year or $9.99/month): Flight, hotel and car rental price watch with claim steps, flight tracking from the day you book, delay prediction, calendar sync and cancellation deadline reminders. One caught price drop pays for a year of Pro. Plan less. Pay less. Travel calmer. Terms of Use: https://plot.travel/terms Privacy Policy: https://plot.travel/privacy
FlightPing
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Never get caught off-guard at the airport. Enter any flight number and FlightPing tracks every change, sending you a push alert the moment something shifts. No account. No signup. No setup. WHAT FLIGHTPING TRACKS . Live flight status: On Time, Delayed, En Route, Landed . Departure and arrival gates and terminals . Delay amount and updates in real time . Cancellations . Boarding reminders . Landed notifications . Full status timeline of every change since tracking started WHAT YOU SEE . Boarding pass-style header with gates and status at a glance . Route map with animated flight path . Aircraft type, distance, and flight duration . Scheduled and actual departure and arrival times . Status timeline with timestamped change log FLIGHTPING PRO Unlock the full picture. See the complete status timeline, arrival gate details, and in-depth flight data. Track unlimited flights at the same time. Monthly, yearly, or lifetime access available. DESIGNED FOR REAL TRAVELERS No radar. No cluttered map of every plane in the sky. No account wall. FlightPing is for people who fly a few times a year and want one thing: to know if something changed before they find out the hard way at the gate. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
Plot Travel and FlightPing are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Plot Travel sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and FlightPing sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Plot Travel | FlightPing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Plot Travel | Cederic Schmid |
In-app purchases
Plot Travel
- Plot Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
- Plot Pro Annual$59.991 Year
FlightPing
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- Yearly3 Days trial$6.991 Year
- Lifetime$14.99









