BLADE vs Postcard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BLADE
Experience faster and more convenient travel by booking seats on helicopters, seaplanes, or jets. Access exclusive events, bypass traffic, and enjoy private charters for a premium travel experience. Includes a dedicated car service for seamless last-mile transportation.
- Airport transfers in 5 minutes
- Weekend and holiday getaways
- Access to special events
- On-demand private charters
- Black Car Service
- Private BLADE Lounges
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Fly in ways you never thought possible. Save time, see more, and arrive better. - Fly to or from the airport. BLADE helicopters will get you there in 5 minutes, all day long, from $195. - Get away for the weekend or holiday. BLADE transportation is a highlight—book seats in helicopters, seaplanes, or jets to your destination. - Access special events or concerts. Land directly on property at music festivals, sporting events, ski slopes, and more. - Fly private. A fleet of BLADE jets, helicopters, turboprops, and seaplanes are available on-demand for charters and crowdsourcing. - Get there with BLADE Black Car Service. Our last-mile car service provides uniformity in high-end vehicles, driver training, expedited routes (including police escorts when needed), as well as industry leading health and safety protocols. - Enjoy a network of private BLADE Lounges before and after your trip. - No membership fees, ever. Download the BLADE app and fly the future today. ------------ BLADE Urban Air Mobility, Inc. (“BLADE”) is an air charter broker and indirect air carrier, not a direct air carrier, and does not have operational authority of aircraft. All flights are operated by DOT/FAA licensed direct air carriers. For select routes, BLADE acts as an indirect air carrier in accordance with 14 CFR Part 380. Please refer to BLADE’s Operator-Participant Agreement at https://www.blade.com for details
Postcard
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Plan the trip. Keep what was worth it. Everyone plans a holiday twice. Once in the weeks before, out of half-remembered recommendations — and once more, years later, trying to recall whether that temple was the one worth getting up at six for or the one that was a queue with a view. Postcard is built for the second time. A DAY AT A TIME Every day of the trip is on one screen, empty ones included — the gaps are usually why you opened the app. Each place sits in the morning, the afternoon or the evening, because that is the resolution a plan made six weeks out actually has. IDEAS, FOR THE THINGS WITH NO DATE YET Somewhere recommended in a pub is not something you have a date for. Write it down anyway, and swipe it onto a day when you decide — or never, which is also fine. THREE ANSWERS, NOT FIVE STARS Loved it. Fine. Skip it. The only question that survives a year is whether you would send someone there again, so those are the buttons. THE LINE YOU WOULD TELL YOURSELF "Get there before 7am — past the first twenty minutes of gates there is nobody at all." That sentence is the whole app. GOING BACK Type a destination you have been to and the new-trip form stops being a form. Everywhere you loved is listed under it, with what you wrote at the time and a + on each one. What comes across is the description and the advice — never the day, the tick or the verdict, so a fresh plan never arrives already ticked off. ONE ENTRY PER PLACE, REMEMBERED AT ITS BEST Somewhere you went on two trips is one line, keeping the best thing you ever said about it. A place you loved in 2024 and had a mediocre lunch at in 2026 is still a place you loved. WARNINGS KEPT SEPARATE The places you marked "skip it" stay well away from the recommendations. A list of good places with a dud in the middle is worse than no list. EVERYWHERE YOU HAVE BEEN A second tab holds every place from every finished trip, grouped by destination and searchable by name, by city, or by anything you wrote afterwards. SMALL THINGS THAT MATTER ON THE GROUND More than four things on one day gets flagged, before you are standing somewhere at 4pm with three of them left. Shortening a trip moves places back to Ideas rather than losing them with the days. And "Japan" and "japan" are the same place, as are "São Paulo" and "sao paulo", so a destination typed in a hurry still finds the trip you took years ago. NO ACCOUNT, AND NO NETWORK No sign-in, no password, no email. The app makes no network requests at all — your trips are a database on your iPhone and they stay there. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is analysed, and there is nothing to opt out of.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: BLADE at 3 against Postcard's 1. BLADE also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | BLADE | Postcard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (17 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 74.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 164 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fly Blade, LLC. | Irfan Furniturewala |
Bugs and requests
BLADE
Reported bugs
7 issues- App is buggy
- Booked wrong dates
- App not compatible with newer phones
- App forces login every time
- App is not native
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- App UI is pathetic
- App crashes device
Requested features
5 requests- Fewer clicks on the app
- Auto-apply credits/returns
- More upfront marketing about costs
- Improve app UI/UX
- Remember login details
Postcard
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
BLADE
No in-app purchases
Postcard
No in-app purchases









