Planely vs Stayed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Planely
Receive instant notifications when commercial flights pass overhead, with precise directions and altitude to spot them. This app provides flight details and a live sky compass to enhance your plane spotting experience.
- Overhead flight notifications
- Direction and altitude guidance
- Live sky compass
- Flight details (airline, aircraft)
- Rare flight badges
- 24-hour flight timeline
- Apple Watch integration
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Stop missing what's flying over you. Planely alerts your phone when a flight passes overhead — and tells you exactly where in the sky to look. No map. No app to open. Other flight trackers make you do the work. You hear a plane, grab your phone, open the app, find the map, pinch to zoom, tap the dot — and by then it's gone. Planely flips it around. Your phone taps YOU when a commercial flight passes overhead. Just a notification: UAL1951 · E, 12° up Boeing 737-800 United Airlines 34,000 ft Look east, a little above the horizon. There it is. Glance, smile, get back to your day. HOW IT WORKS Planely watches the sky around you for major commercial flights and notifies you the moment one enters your radius — with the direction and height to point your eyes. Open the notification and a live sky view tracks the plane as it crosses over. WHO IT'S FOR • Aviation enthusiasts who want to know what is flying over • People who live or work under flight paths and are curious • Plane spotters tired of fumbling with map apps • Anyone who likes a challenge — Planely tells you a 737 is up there, 40° above the trees to the west. Can you find it? WHAT YOU GET • Push alerts when major airlines pass over you • Every alert tells you where to look — "E, 12° up" • Flight details — airline, altitude and aircraft type • A live sky compass showing exactly where to point • Only uncommon flights — skip the daily regulars and hear only about airlines and aircraft you rarely see • First and Rare badges — your first-ever Emirates or 787, with the flight's route over the US • A 24-hour timeline of every plane that crossed your sky • Save your favorite flyovers and share them • Direction filter — only get pinged for planes in the parts of the sky you can see • Altitude floor and ceiling — skip the low approaches or the high cruisers • Wearing an Apple Watch? Alerts land on your wrist automatically — glance, then look up PLANELY PRO Upgrade to unlock the full sky: • Flight routes over the US — see where every plane is going (ORD → LAX) • Radius up to 25 miles • Regional and cargo carriers — add SkyWest, FedEx, UPS and more • Full 24-hour cloud forecast for your spot New subscribers start with a 7-day free trial. Pro is a monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription. PRIVACY Your location is used only to determine which flights are near you. It's never shared or sold.
Stayed
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Add a stay once. It keeps working. Share a booking confirmation and Stayed takes it from there: your nights counted, your status watched, the cancellation deadline in view before it costs you money, and afterwards a check of the points you log against what the stay was expected to earn. No account. No login. Your stays live on your phone and sync through your own private iCloud, which we cannot read. THE LEDGER Booked anywhere, filed the same. Every stay with its dates, rate and cancellation terms in one dated list, and a flag on the bookings that will not earn you anything. Bring bookings in however you have them: share from Mail, forward the email, paste the text, import a PDF, or let Stayed find them in your calendar. Every one shows you a draft before anything is kept. ON EVERY STAY Open a stay for the map, the check-in and check-out times, what the property has, and the forecast for the nights you will be there. Been before? Stayed says which visit this is, the room you had last time, and whether you said you would book again. THE LOYALTY WALLET Points lapse on a schedule your program rarely shows you: 12 months at IHG and Accor, 24 at Marriott, Hilton and Hyatt. Stayed works the date out from your own stays and warns you 90 days and 30 days ahead. Free nights and suite upgrades get their own notice. Status is counted in nights, so the wallet shows yours plainly: the nights you have slept, the nights already booked and how many more you need before the year resets. DID YOUR POINTS ARRIVE? After a stay, type in the points your program credited. Stayed says whether they land above, in line with, or below the range it estimated the stay would earn, and shows how it worked that out. If nothing arrived at all, Stayed gathers what the claim asks for: member number, hotel, dates, confirmation number. Copy it in one tap, then send it the way your program takes these. Four of them publish an online form and Stayed opens it for you; the rest take these by email or phone. Stayed never tells you that you are owed points. Loyalty math has too many moving parts for that. It tells you when a stay is worth a second look. THE PASSPORT Everywhere you have stayed on one globe, with stamps and totals for every year. 33 loyalty programs. 140 hotel brands. 9 booking sites. WHAT IS FREE Unlimited stays, the passport, and one loyalty program with every expiration warning. Your phone reads confirmations without limit; five cloud reads a month cover the ones it cannot manage on its own. No ads and no third-party trackers. STAYED PRO Reads every confirmation automatically with no monthly cap, tracks every loyalty program you carry, and adds points estimates, the points check after a stay, calendar sync, email sync, file import, photo matching and area guides, plus a concierge for the area around any stay: ask what is nearby, ask follow-up questions, and tap the places it suggests to open them in Maps. - Stayed Pro Yearly: 29.99 EUR per year, with a 3-day free trial - Stayed Pro Monthly: 3.99 EUR per month, no trial - Stayed Pro Lifetime: 79.99 EUR, a one-off purchase, no trial Prices are for the Spanish storefront. The App Store shows your own price before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your Apple Account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. You can manage or cancel a subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://stayed.info/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Stayed's own terms: https://stayed.info/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Stayed at every 2 days against Planely's every 10 days. Planely's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, ads, 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. Planely sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Stayed sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Planely ships an update every 10 days, Stayed every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Planely | Stayed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SAP & Associates LLC | Hugo Hodinka |
In-app purchases
Planely
- Planely Pro7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Planely Pro7 Days trial$14.991 Year
Stayed
- Stayed Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- Stayed Pro Yearly3 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Stayed Pro Lifetime$69.99









