Flighty is excellent, but it only runs on Apple devices and its best features need a subscription. The right replacement depends on which part of Flighty you’d miss: the live tracking, or the record of everywhere you’ve been. Here’s an honest guide to both.
Written by the team behind Passyport, which appears on this list. We say plainly where other apps are the better choice.
This is what most people searching for a Flighty alternative want, and it’s not something Passyport does. These are the apps to look at. Pricing and platforms change often, so check each app’s site for current details.
Best for: Live tracking across Android and Apple devices
The closest like-for-like replacement if your household mixes iPhone and Android. byAir has native apps on both platforms plus both watch platforms, with trips and history synced between them, so it suits anyone who wants Flighty's live tracking without being locked to one ecosystem.
Best for: A Flighty-style experience on Android
Aviate launched on Android in 2026 and was widely covered as the Flighty-like app Android users had been waiting for. It focuses on detailed information about scheduled flights and is the natural first stop if you're on an Android phone and liked how Flighty looked and felt.
Best for: Delay and gate alerts, including offline
Flights25 covers the core of what people pay Flighty for: real-time tracking, delay notifications, and gate change alerts. Its distinctive feature is SMS notifications, which keep alerts arriving when you're roaming without data, a real advantage for international travel.
Best for: Free, no-frills flight tracking
If you only need to check where a flight is and get basic operational alerts, and don't care about polish, FlightAware is the long-standing free option. Less of a personal travel companion than Flighty, more of a reliable tracking utility.
Best for: Free and open source, privacy first
KDE Itinerary is a free, open source travel assistant that works from your booking confirmations and keeps your data on your device. It's the pick if avoiding subscriptions and third-party accounts matters more to you than a slick live tracking interface.
A lot of people don’t really use Flighty for live alerts. What they love is the Passport: the map of every route, the lifetime miles, the count of countries and airports. Paying a yearly subscription for real-time data feeds you rarely open is a poor fit for that, and if you’ve moved to Android, that history is stuck on a platform you no longer use.
Passyport is built only for that half. It’s a flight log app that keeps every flight you’ve taken as a digital passport, with lifetime stats, a searchable timeline, recent trips as stamps, and every route on a map and rotating 3D globe. It runs in any browser, so it works the same on Android, iPhone, and desktop, and it’s completely free because it carries no live data costs. You can export everything as CSV or JSON at any time.
Rebuilding years of history is easier than it sounds. Our guide to finding every flight you’ve taken walks through airline records, email searches, and other sources, and the whole list imports in one go as a CSV.
Including the rows where Flighty wins.
| Flighty | Passyport | |
|---|---|---|
| Live tracking & delay alerts | Yes, and it's the best in the category | No, history focused |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch | Any device with a browser, Android included |
| Price | Paid subscription for full features | Free, no paid tier |
| Lifetime travel stats | Yes, via its Passport feature | Yes, miles, hours, countries, records |
| Map of everywhere you've flown | Yes | Map plus a rotating 3D globe |
| Adding past flights | Calendar, TripIt, and email import | CSV, boarding pass, confirmation PDF, manual |
| Automatic flight detection | Yes, from your email and calendar | No, you add flights yourself |
Free for everyone · Works on Android · No credit card · Export any time
Flighty doesn't run on Android at all, since it's built for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. For live tracking on Android, Aviate is the closest match to Flighty's experience, byAir is the best choice if you also use Apple devices and want everything synced, and Flights25 stands out for delay alerts that still arrive by SMS when you're roaming without data.
Yes, several. FlightAware is free for basic tracking and alerts, KDE Itinerary is free and open source, and Aviate, byAir, and Flights25 all offer free tiers with paid upgrades. If what you want from Flighty is the Passport side, meaning a map and lifetime stats of the flights you've taken rather than live tracking, Passyport does that completely free with no paid tier.
Live flight tracking depends on commercial flight data feeds, which cost money on an ongoing basis, and delay prediction adds more on top. That's why nearly every serious live tracker has a paid tier. Apps that are free without limits are generally either very basic trackers or, like Passyport, don't track live flights at all.
Flighty is primarily a live flight tracker with strong delay prediction, plus a Passport feature for your travel history. Passyport is only the second half: a permanent record of every flight you've taken, with lifetime stats, a searchable timeline, and a map and 3D globe. Flighty tells you about the flight you're taking today. Passyport tells you about every flight you've ever taken.
Yes, and it's a sensible setup. Use Flighty or any of the alternatives above for alerts on the trip you're on now, and keep Passyport as a free permanent archive of your flying life that isn't tied to a subscription, a single app's future, or one hardware ecosystem.
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