Comparison

SkyLog vs Contrails

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

Head to head
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

About

Contrails

Features
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Contrails keeps a trace of every route you fly. Add a flight in seconds — by hand, from a Wallet boarding pass, or straight from your ticket e-mail — and watch your airports, countries and kilometres turn into a personal world. YOUR WORLD, ON A GLOBE Every flight is drawn as a great-circle arc. Spin the 3D globe or switch to the flat map, then tap any route to open the flights that took it. ADD FLIGHTS WITHOUT TYPING • Share a ticket PDF or booking e-mail from Mail to Contrails — flight numbers, airports and dates are detected for you to confirm. • Drop in an Apple Wallet boarding pass (.pkpass) or a PDF boarding pass. • Or add it manually with airport and airline autocomplete. UPCOMING TRIPS Plan future flights with a countdown. When the day comes, the flight moves into your collection on its own. PHOTO MEMORIES Attach up to five photos to each flight and relive them from the flight's detail page. FRIENDS & FEED • Add friends by username, by scanning their QR code, or invite them from your contacts. • See their new flights in the feed, react with emoji and leave comments. • Discover who was on the same flight as you. • Add your X, Instagram and YouTube handles to your profile. NOTIFICATIONS Friend requests, comments, reactions and shared flights arrive as push notifications and in a built-in notification center. MAYOR BOARDS Become the top flyer of any airport and defend your title against friends. BADGES & WRAPPED Cross the equator, reach the Moon's distance, complete all seven continents — every milestone unlocks a badge. At year's end, your Wrapped tells the story of your flying year, ready to share. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Use it as a guest with no account, or sign in with Apple, Google or e-mail to back up and sync. Choose who sees your profile, block or report anyone, export all your data, or delete your account from the app at any time. Leave your trace.

Screenshots

SkyLog4 screens
Contrails4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SkyLog ships an update fortnightly, Contrails every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 2 level
SkyLog versus Contrails: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSkyLogContrails
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB68 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSUNYOUNG PARKGIZEM KIRAZ KAYA

In-app purchases

2 purchases

SkyLog

Subscriptions2
  • SkyLog Plus Monthly$2.991 Month
  • SkyLog Plus Yearly$24.991 Year
None

Contrails

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SkyLog free?
SkyLog is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Contrails free?
Contrails is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SkyLog or Contrails have ads?
SkyLog shows ads; Contrails does not.
Which is updated more often, SkyLog or Contrails?
SkyLog ships an update fortnightly, and Contrails every 2 days. Most recently, SkyLog was updated on October 7, 2026 and Contrails on October 19, 2026.

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