Comparison

PaxLog vs SkyLog

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

Head to head
About

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.

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SkyLog

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SkyLog is a travel app that brings flight journaling and country stay-day tracking together in one place. FLIGHT JOURNAL • Add flight records manually without a subscription or usage limit. • Look up available flight details by flight number and travel date. • View all flight routes on an interactive 3D globe. • Record flight numbers, airlines, aircraft, airports, times, distance, and duration in one place. • Keep multiple flight legs with the same date and flight number as separate records. FOOTPRINTS, STAY DAYS & SCHENGEN • When enabled and permitted, Footprints can record visited countries and sampled cities automatically. • Review stay days by country and city in list and calendar views. • Import a Google Maps Timeline JSON file to add past country stay days and visited-city records to Footprints. Choose a date range and preview the records before importing. • Set an annual country goal or monitor Schengen days used and remaining under the 90/180-day rule. • Switch between the annual travel goal and Schengen status directly from the Footprints banner. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets can show your current country, current journey, D-day from the start of your record, and Schengen days used and remaining. Schengen calculations are reference information based on your recorded stay days. They do not replace official immigration records or legal or visa advice. YOUR TRAVEL STORY • Create a personal travel passport from your flight routes and visited countries. • View statistics for flights, distance, flight time, airports, airlines, aircraft, and visited countries. • Earn achievements and badges. • Revisit years with recorded travel through Year Recap cards. • Back up and restore supported travel data through your SkyLog account and sync it across signed-in devices. FREE FEATURES & OPTIONAL SKYLOG PLUS Core flight journaling, Footprints, and Google Maps Timeline importing are available without a subscription. Free users start with 30 base flight auto-lookups. This allowance does not reset monthly. After using the base allowance, users can watch rewarded ads to earn additional auto-lookups. SkyLog Plus includes: • 100 flight auto-lookups per service month • Regular banner ads removed • Premium map and theme colors • Flight data export in CSV and SkyLog JSON, plus SkyLog JSON import • High-resolution Year Recap cards • Detailed statistics and continent insights SkyLog Plus is available as a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription. Prices are shown in the app and may vary by country or region. Payment is charged to your Apple Account after purchase confirmation. The subscription renews automatically unless canceled in your Apple Account subscription settings. SUPPORTED LANGUAGES Korean, English, and Japanese. PERMISSIONS Some features may require location, photo, microphone, speech recognition, notification, or network access. Background location is used only when you enable Footprints and grant the required permission. Offline location samples may be kept temporarily in private on-device storage. Raw coordinates are not uploaded to SkyLog cloud services. LEGAL & SUPPORT Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ SkyLog Service Terms: https://kiserlunar-a11y.github.io/SkyLog-legal/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://kiserlunar-a11y.github.io/SkyLog-legal/privacy.html Support: https://kiserlunar-a11y.github.io/SkyLog-legal/support.html

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SkyLog4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: PaxLog at none against SkyLog's shown. PaxLog also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). SkyLog's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PaxLog sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and SkyLog sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PaxLog ships an update every 3 days, SkyLog fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
PaxLog versus SkyLog: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPaxLogSkyLog
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size176 MB108 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristian EtteltSUNYOUNG PARK

In-app purchases

1 purchases

PaxLog

One-time1
  • Full Version Unlock$1.99
2 purchases

SkyLog

Subscriptions2
  • SkyLog Plus Monthly$2.991 Month
  • SkyLog Plus Yearly$24.991 Year

Questions

Is PaxLog free?
PaxLog is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SkyLog free?
SkyLog is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PaxLog or SkyLog have ads?
SkyLog shows ads; PaxLog does not.
Which is updated more often, PaxLog or SkyLog?
PaxLog ships an update every 3 days, and SkyLog fortnightly. Most recently, PaxLog was updated on October 24, 2026 and SkyLog on October 7, 2026.

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