Saudia vs Simple Umrah Guide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Saudia
This travel app allows users to book flights, manage trips, and check in for flights seamlessly. It also provides access to loyalty program information and allows for the purchase of ancillaries like extra baggage and seat upgrades.
- Book flights and purchase ancillaries
- Online check-in and digital boarding passes
- Manage bookings and change seats
- ALFURSAN member dashboard
- Store passenger details and bookings offline
- Book hotels and rent cars
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The Saudia mobile app offers travelers a sleek and superior experience to Book, Manage Trips, Check-In and more. ALFURSAN members have access to a dashboard with key account information at their fingertips – making the app the ultimate traveler companion. FEATURES BOOKING FLIGHTS & PURCHASING ANCILLARIES - Book your flights quickly and seamlessly. - All of your passengers' details are stored on your phone. - Purchase extras such as Extra Legroom Seats, WiFi, Fast Track and Extra Baggage. - Pay with Visa, Master Card, American Express, MADA or SADAD. CHECK-IN - Check-in online and obtain your boarding pass. You have the option to view the digital boarding pass directly in the App or receive it via SMS or email as a digital copy. - Check-in all your passengers while on the move up to 60-minutes before departure time. - Boarding passes are stored on your phone offline. - Enhance your trip with ease, now you can book a hotel, rent a car, and more - all in one convenient place! ALFURSAN Dashboard - ALFURSAN fast enrollment after completing passengers' details during flight booking. - Retrieve and update your own ALFURSAN profile. - Retrieve your miles and rewards. - Retrieve your flight history. MY BOOKINGS & MORE - Retrieve your bookings made outside the app easily and store them on your phone offline. - From changing seats to adding baggage, you can now manage everything in one place! - Streamline your journey using simplified rebooking flow and easily purchase add-ons. - Make an offer to upgrade your cabin through booking management.
Simple Umrah Guide
This app offers a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to performing Umrah, complete with actions and duas. It works offline and provides insights from Hadith and Quran, along with preparation tips and historical site recommendations.
- Step-by-step Umrah instructions
- Learn actions and duas
- Understand reasoning from Quran and Hadith
- Significance and history of Umrah stages
- Preparation tips
- Makkah and Madinah historical site recommendations
- Record personal duas
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Simple Umrah Guide provides step by step instructions on how to perform Umrah, with an easy to use interface. It works completely offline with no internet connection required. This app will help you: - Learn exactly how to perform Umrah with clear and concise step-by-step instructions - Learn how to perform each action, and the duas to recite at each stage - Understand from the sources of Hadith and Quran the reasoning of certain actions - Find out more about the significance and history of each stage of Umrah - Get top tips on how best to prepare yourself before departing - Get recommendations for historical places to visit in Makkah and Madinah - Record your own personal duas within the app beforehand to remember during your Umrah pilgrimage
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Simple Umrah Guide at 89% against Saudia's 39%. Simple Umrah Guide also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 16.0). Saudia's advantage is ratings volume (59K vs 144). On price, update cadence, 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.
Simple Umrah Guide holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Saudia has 59K ratings behind it against 144, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 39% of Saudia's written reviews are positive against 89% of Simple Umrah Guide's.
Saudia ships an update every 3 weeks, Simple Umrah Guide every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Saudia | Simple Umrah Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (59K ratings) | 4.9 (144 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.8% of reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 59K — better | 144 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 459 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SAUDI AIRLINES AIR TRANSPORT COMPANY OF A SINGLE-PERSON COMPANY | Yusri Hamidi |
Customer experience
Saudia
Simple Umrah Guide
Bugs and requests
Saudia
Reported bugs
4 issues- Inability to log in to Alfursan account
- Boarding pass not working with Apple Wallet
- Seat selection not working properly
- Booking process getting stuck or not completing
Requested features
4 requests- Add multi-destination booking option
- Integrate Apple Pay and other digital wallets
- Improve Alfursan loyalty program integration
- Enhance mobile app functionality to match website
Simple Umrah Guide
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Saudia
No in-app purchases
Simple Umrah Guide
No in-app purchases
