Comparison

FlyRight vs Contrails

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

Head to head
About

FlyRight

Features
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Keep the flights you have taken, plan the ones ahead, and bring your people along. FlyRight is your free travel journal, with Pro for the months you travel. Your flights, saved for free Add past and upcoming flights by flight number, scan a boarding pass, import an airline PDF, or enter a trip yourself. Keep your seat, booking reference, notes, ratings and private journal photos. Explore your routes on the globe, see your travel stats and share a travel poster. Your people follow for free Follow friends and family and read their permitted postcards without a Pro subscription. When a traveller has Pro, their followers can receive the live trip updates they choose to share. Each traveller controls the audience: followers, close circle, or only themselves. Pro when you travel Pro adds monitoring for your own flights: gate, terminal, delays, baggage belt and inbound aircraft information where available. Keep up with your travel day through alerts and a Lock Screen Live Activity. Publish postcards from your trip for the people following you, and prepare new delay-claim documents and follow-ups. The choice stays yours Save a future flight to see what Pro can add to that trip. Browse the available plans or set a separate in-app reminder for two days before departure. Continuing free keeps your flight saved. A reminder never starts a subscription or charges you automatically. When a flight goes wrong Manually check a past delay for possible EU261 compensation for free. Pro adds new claim preparation and automated claim-deadline follow-ups. Previously saved claim records remain available. Eligibility and the amount depend on the flight and the circumstances; compensation is not guaranteed. Start without an account You can keep flights locally and browse plans while signed out. Sign in to sync your journal, follow people, set a Pro reminder, or purchase and restore Pro. After signing in, return to your selected plan and decide whether to continue. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled in your store account settings. Cancelling renewal keeps Pro active through the paid period. Your saved flight history stays yours afterwards. Live information depends on airline and airport availability. Privacy policy: https://getflyright.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://getflyright.com/terms

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

FlyRight4 screens
Contrails4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: FlyRight at daily against Contrails's every 2 days. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FlyRight ships an update daily, Contrails every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
FlyRight versus Contrails: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlyRightContrails
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB68 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShanavas Padinjarechalil ShajiGIZEM KIRAZ KAYA

In-app purchases

None

FlyRight

No in-app purchases

None

Contrails

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FlyRight free?
FlyRight is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Contrails free?
Contrails is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FlyRight or Contrails have ads?
Neither FlyRight nor Contrails shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FlyRight or Contrails?
FlyRight ships an update daily, and Contrails every 2 days. Most recently, FlyRight was updated on October 6, 2026 and Contrails on October 2, 2026.

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