Comparison

Driftlog vs Flown

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 your trips are never sent to us. No ads, no tracking. The only thing the app sends us is anonymous usage counts, such as how often the purchase screen opens, and you can turn that off in the app's settings. 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

Flown

Log your flights to create a personalized travel map with glowing arcs, stamped countries, and a virtual passport. Track live flight status, find alternative flights, and explore fare options with an optional subscription.

Highlights
  • Personalized world travel map
  • Virtual passport with country stamps
  • Flight statistics and year-end summaries
  • Calendar flight import
  • Live flight status tracking
  • Alternative flight suggestions
  • Fare calendar and 'Anywhere' inspiration
Features
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Where have you been? Flown remembers. Log your flights in seconds and watch your personal world map paint itself—glowing flight arcs, scratch-map countries, and a passport that stamps itself every time you land somewhere new. YOUR TRAVEL MEMORY — FREE FOREVER • A beautiful dark world map of everywhere you've flown • Tick off all 197 countries—visited or bucket list • A virtual passport with a unique ink stamp for every country • Stats that tell your story: miles, hours in the air, times around the Earth, top routes and airlines • Flown Wrapped—a share-ready card of your year in the air • Calendar import: Flown finds flights hiding in your calendar, entirely on your iPhone. Nothing is ever uploaded. • iCloud sync: your map, flights and stats follow you across your devices and come back when you reinstall—through your own private iCloud FLOWN PRO — THE LIVE LAYER • Live flight status: delays, terminals, check-in desks, aircraft • Lock Screen tracking: your flight's status updates itself as it changes • Plan B: same-day alternative flights the moment things go wrong • Explore: flexible-date fare calendars, cheapest-day finder, and "Anywhere" inspiration from your home airport • Or pay with Avios? Reward-rate estimates for British Airways and Avios partner flights, with a pay-cash-or-use-points recommendation • Auto-fill a flight from just its flight number • Coming to Pro: delay notifications and Live Activities KNOW WHEN YOU ARE OWED • Flown checks delayed and cancelled flights against UK261 and EU261 air passenger rights • See what you could be owed — up to £520 in the UK, €600 in the EU • Distance, delay length and the reason are all handled for you Try Flown Pro free. Subscription required for Pro features. Cancel anytime. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No tracking. Your travel history lives on your iPhone and syncs privately through your own iCloud. Calendar scanning is 100% on-device. Live lookups send only a flight number or route—never your calendar, never your identity. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Driftlog4 screens
Flown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Driftlog at none against Flown's 2. Flown's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 78%). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Flown sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Driftlog asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Driftlog against 5.0 for Flown. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of Driftlog's written reviews are positive against 100% of Flown's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Driftlog ships an update every 4 days, Flown every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Driftlog versus Flown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDriftlogFlown
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews77.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAkira TakashimaSTEFAN SAMUEL DUPEY-WHYTE

Customer experience

Driftlog

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive77.8%
Neutral22.2%
Negative0.0%

Flown

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Driftlog

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Flown

Subscriptions2
  • Flown Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Flown Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Driftlog free?
Driftlog is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Flown free?
Flown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Driftlog or Flown?
Driftlog and Flown are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Driftlog or Flown have ads?
Neither Driftlog nor Flown shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Driftlog or Flown?
Driftlog ships an update every 4 days, and Flown every 2 days. Most recently, Driftlog was updated on October 29, 2026 and Flown on October 25, 2026.

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