Comparison

Flight Board vs HELBoard

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

Head to head
About

Flight Board

Features
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Flight Board is a departure board for the flights you are actually taking. Add a flight and it starts watching. When the gate is called, when the time moves, when boarding starts, you are told, with the airline, the flight number and the number that has just changed. THE BOARD Your flights, drawn the way the departures hall draws them: flight, destination, check-in, gate, time. When a gate is called or a time moves, the board changes, and Flight Board tells you which flight moved and where. CHECK-IN AND GATE The check-in desk sits before the gate, because when you have just arrived the gate is usually not assigned yet and the desk is where you are actually going. Every time on the screen is the airport's own clock, not your phone's, so a flight from Tokyo reads in Tokyo time wherever you are standing. WHAT YOU GET TOLD Gate assigned. Gate changed. Check-in open. Boarding. Final call. Delayed, with the new time shown beside the old one. Cancelled, with the alternatives we can find on the same route. Diverted. Landed, with the belt. WHERE IS MY PLANE The aircraft that will fly you is usually somewhere else right now. Flight Board follows its inbound leg. See our estimate of a delay in Flight Intelligence, often before the airline announces it. CONNECTIONS When two of your flights connect, Flight Board shows how tight your connection is and what to do next: the walk, security, passport control, and what is left over. It shows the arithmetic, not only the verdict. YOUR FLIGHT, EXPLAINED With a subscription, Flight Board helps you understand flight changes, ask questions about your flight, see what may affect your departure, get guidance for your connection, receive clearer flight updates and understand your flying history. The airline's own times stay apart from estimates, and anything not known is said rather than guessed. PASSPORT Every country, airline and airport you have flown, built from your own flights, with the marks you earn along the way and a record of the longest, the highest and the earliest. LIVE ACTIVITIES AND WIDGETS The Live Activity on your lock screen reads the same source as the board and the tracking, so the three cannot disagree. Widgets put your gate on the home screen. ADDING A FLIGHT Type a flight number or a route. Scan a boarding pass and it fills in everything, including your seat. Import from an email, a calendar or a file. Or enter it yourself when nothing else has it. ONE CARREH ACCOUNT Flight Board runs on your Carreh account. If you already use Carreh, the flights in your account are offered to you on the first open. You do not need Carreh Premium, and Flight Board does not include it. TWENTY-FOUR LANGUAGES Flight Board is fully translated, and the language can be changed on the first screen, before you sign in. SUBSCRIPTION Your first flight is free, with every live feature. After that, choose a yearly or a monthly subscription, or a trip pass that opens every flight for 7 days. Each price is shown in the app before you pay. The subscriptions have no free trial, renew until cancelled and can be cancelled at any time in your Apple account settings. The trip pass is a single payment and does not renew. Flight Board is separate from Carreh Premium and from every other Carreh product. Terms of Use: https://flightboard.carreh.com/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://carreh.com/privacy-policy

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HELBoard

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HELBoard is a personal arrivals and departures board for airports operated by Finavia. It is a native iOS app, not a website in a shell, not a flight tracker, and not Finavia’s app. HELBoard is free. An optional tip jar is available. Nothing is locked behind payment. There are no ads, accounts, or tracking. Choose an airport to see official public board data: flight times, status, gates, check-in desks, and baggage areas. HELBoard does not add unofficial airport data. Open the app and you are on the board. Search by flight number or city, including the codeshare number on your ticket. Pin a flight for pickup, drop-off, or your own journey. For flights you care about, add a personal flight with its date, airport, direction, and an optional note. Upcoming and past flights stay organized in My Flights. You can optionally keep these personal flight details in your private iCloud account so they can return after reinstalling or be available on your other devices. Follow a pinned flight for a glanceable Live Activity and optional alerts around its public flight time. Updates can be late, missed, or out of date. Never rely on HELBoard alone and confirm important times and status with Finavia or your airline. HELBoard is built for privacy. No telemetry, profiling, analytics, advertising, or user account. Pins, follows, Live Activities, alerts, and board settings stay on your device. Personal flights and notes use private iCloud only when you choose to enable it. Accessibility is part of the work. Common tasks support VoiceOver, Dark Mode, Reduce Motion, and sufficient contrast. Dense flight lists remain difficult at the largest text sizes. What you get: • Arrivals and departures for 19 Finnish airports, starting with Helsinki • A board centered around now, with a quick return to Now • Search by flight number or city, including codeshares • Flight details when provided by the public feed: scheduled, expected, and actual times, via airports, gate and previous gate, departure calls, and aircraft • Pin up to five flights • Optional Live Activity from roughly two hours before the public flight time • Optional alerts for meaningful flight changes • My Flights for upcoming and past personal flights • Optional notes for your personal flights • Optional private iCloud sync for personal flights and notes • Calendar event sharing • English, Finnish, and Swedish

Screenshots

Flight Board4 screens
HELBoard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Flight Board at daily against HELBoard's every 4 days. Flight Board also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Flight Board sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and HELBoard sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flight Board ships an update daily, HELBoard every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Flight Board versus HELBoard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlight BoardHELBoard
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCARREHYoji Hirabayashi

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Flight Board

Subscriptions2
  • Flight Board$7.991 Month
  • Flight Board Annual$44.991 Year
One-time1
  • Flight Board Trip Pass$4.99
3 purchases

HELBoard

One-time3
  • Espresso$1.99
  • Flat White$3.99
  • Iced Pumpkin Spice Mocha$8.99

Questions

Is Flight Board free?
Flight Board is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HELBoard free?
HELBoard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Flight Board or HELBoard have ads?
Neither Flight Board nor HELBoard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flight Board or HELBoard?
Flight Board ships an update daily, and HELBoard every 4 days. Most recently, Flight Board was updated on October 31, 2026 and HELBoard on October 31, 2026.

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