Comparison

Driftlog vs SkyLog

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

Head to head
About

Driftlog

This app automatically logs your travel destinations, including countries, cities, and dates, even when closed. It organizes your journey with photos and provides visual maps and timelines of your adventures. Enjoy a private, ad-free experience with a one-time purchase.

Highlights
  • Automatic country and city logging
  • Hands-free travel diary
  • Trip photos linked automatically
  • Visual map of visited locations
  • Year-by-year travel timeline
  • Private, on-device storage
Features
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Driftlog fills in your travel map by itself. No account, no ads, no subscription: it is free to download, and one purchase unlocks everything. YOUR OLD TRIPS ARE ALREADY IN YOUR PHOTOS You do not have to start from today. Tap import once and Driftlog reads the location that is already saved inside your photos, then puts those trips on the map with their dates. Years of travel can appear in a minute. It reads the location tag on a photo. It never looks at the picture itself. If the location history your phone used to keep is gone, this is the thing to try. Your photos usually still remember where you were. AND IT KEEPS GOING FROM TODAY Turn on location once and leave it. Driftlog records the countries, cities and regions you pass through while it sits closed in the background. No check-ins. No writing anything down. Open it after six months and the map has been filling itself in the whole time. WHAT YOU GET - A world map that colors itself in, country by country - A passport with a landmark stamp for every country you have visited - A timeline by year, down to the cities you stayed in and the dates - Memories: where you were on this day a year ago, and the year before that - A welcome back recap when you get home - Trip and year cards you can share WHAT IT COSTS Free to download. Free forever, for everyone: the world map, the passport stamps, your country count, the timeline. Free in full at home: the first three regions you visited in your home country (prefectures, states, provinces). Every city, stay date and linked photo in them, without paying anything. Free abroad: your first foreign country, in full. That is the oldest one in your history. From the second foreign country and the fourth home region onward, the details (dates, cities, notes, photos) open with one purchase. Those places still color in your map and count toward your totals. The price is shown on this page. You pay once. No subscription, no ads, no account. WHAT LEAVES YOUR PHONE Your records stay on the device. There is no account and no server behind this app. No ads, no tracking, and the App Store privacy label says Data Not Collected. Place-name lookups do go out, and it is worth saying plainly. To turn coordinates into a name like "Lisbon, Portugal", the coordinates are sent to Apple's map service, and when you type a city name to add a trip by hand, that name is sent to find where it is. That is all that is sent. Not your history, not your photos. BEFORE YOU START Automatic recording needs Location set to Always, with Precise Location on. Nothing is recorded while your phone is off. Without a data connection (roaming off, for example), Driftlog still notes the country you arrive in, except near borders, and adds the city name once you are back online. The photo import only sees photos that carry a location. Photos taken with camera location switched off are invisible to it. You can add a location to them later in the Photos app: select them, tap the info button, then Add Location, and run the import again. The import also needs Photos access set to Full Access. On Limited Access it only looks at the ones you picked. A place counts as a trip when it has 3 or more photos on one day, or photos spanning 2 or more days and at least 6 hours apart, so a late-night landing plus a photo after midnight is not counted as an overnight stay. Shorter stops are treated as layovers and left out. Your home area is excluded by default, inside a radius you can change in settings. iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 or later. Portrait only. Made by one person. Wander. It logs the rest.

About

SkyLog

Features
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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

Screenshots

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SkyLog4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Driftlog at none against SkyLog's 2. Driftlog also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. SkyLog sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Driftlog asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Driftlog 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 · 7 level
Driftlog versus SkyLog: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDriftlogSkyLog
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews77.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB108 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAkira TakashimaSUNYOUNG PARK

In-app purchases

None

Driftlog

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

SkyLog

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

Questions

Is Driftlog free?
Driftlog is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SkyLog free?
SkyLog is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Driftlog or SkyLog have ads?
SkyLog shows ads; Driftlog does not.
Which is updated more often, Driftlog or SkyLog?
Driftlog ships an update every 3 days, and SkyLog fortnightly. Most recently, Driftlog was updated on October 24, 2026 and SkyLog on October 7, 2026.

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