Flighty Alternative, Including One for Android

Flighty is a well-known flight tracker and travel history app, but it is built for Apple devices. This page explains why people look for an alternative, what to check before you switch, which options exist, and how to bring your logged flights with you.

Why do people look for a Flighty alternative?

The most common reason is the platform. Flighty’s support page says it is available across the Apple ecosystem: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple Vision. On the same page, Flighty states that it does not currently have plans for an Android version, and that it keeps reevaluating the opportunity. If you switch to an Android phone, or share a household with Android users, you need another app.

A second reason is focus. Flighty describes itself around staying ahead of disruptions: real-time updates, alerts and delay predictions, with your travel history tracked alongside. If what you want most is a long-term record, with statistics, maps and a place to keep every flight you have ever taken, you may prefer an app built around the diary itself.

A third reason is data. Whatever app you use, you should be able to take your flights out of it. Flighty lets you export your flights by email, which makes a move to another app practical.

What should you look for in a replacement?

• Your platform. Check that the app runs on every device you use, not only on your next phone.
• Import from your current app. A guided import saves hours of retyping. Check that the app reads Flighty’s export file.
• Offline use. Airplane mode is where a flight diary is used most.
• Adding flights without effort. Look for a flight number lookup, boarding pass scanning and email or calendar import.
• Statistics and maps. Distance, time in the air, countries, airports, airlines and aircraft types, shown on a map.
• Privacy. Find out which data leaves your phone, and whether you can export everything.
• Live tracking. Decide whether you need alerts for upcoming trips, or mainly a record of past ones.

Which Flighty alternatives exist?

There is no single best choice, because the apps solve different problems. Three real options, described from their own pages:

• byAir. Its website says it runs on iOS and Android. It tracks flights with live updates on terminal, gate and baggage status, sends notifications, and imports trips from email and calendar.
• Aviate. Its launch post says Aviate 1.0 is available now for Android on Google Play, with an iOS waitlist open. You can add flights by number, scan boarding passes or import older history, and it includes a passport section with route maps and statistics.
• FlightLog. A flight diary for iPhone, iPad and Android, available in 33 languages. It works offline, with optional account sync.

For a side-by-side look at FlightLog and Flighty, see FlightLog vs Flighty, or browse the full comparison hub.

What does FlightLog offer?

• Several ways to add flights: type a flight number and date, scan a paper or digital boarding pass, photograph a booking confirmation, forward booking emails to your personal import address, or import trips from your calendar.
• Statistics: total distance, time in the air, flights, countries, airports, airlines, routes and aircraft types, year by year, plus a carbon estimate based on DEFRA factors by cabin class.
• Maps: all your routes on an interactive 3D globe and a 2D map, and a map of visited countries.
• Passport: a page of passport-style entry stamps, one per country, in the order you first flew there.
• Live tracking: any plane from ADS-B data, with position, altitude, speed, heading and aircraft details.
• Export: PDF, CSV and JSON.

FlightLog is free to download, and every feature works with your 10 most recent flights active. Premium unlocks the complete history: $4.99 per month, $29.99 per year or $99.99 once. See pricing and features for details.

How do you move your Flighty history to FlightLog?

The Flighty import guide has the full walkthrough. In short:

1. In Flighty, tap Profile, then Settings, then Account Data (in the Manage section).
2. Tap Export Your Flights. Flighty asks for an email address and sends you the export file.
3. Open that email on your phone and save the attachment to Files.
4. In FlightLog, open the import screen and pick the file.
5. Review the list. Flights already in your journal are flagged and unchecked by default, so nothing is added twice. Confirm the rest.

Export before you give up your iPhone. The export is requested from inside Flighty, so do it while the app is still on a device you can open.

More detail is in how to export your flights from Flighty.

What do you keep and what do you lose?

FlightLog brings over the flight number and airline, the date and times, the departure and arrival airports, the aircraft type, the tail number, the cabin class, the seat and your notes. Distances and carbon estimates are recomputed by FlightLog, so you do not need them in the file, and durations are recalculated whenever the flight number is known. Cancelled flights keep their status.

Anything outside that list does not travel with the file. Old flights with no flight number are still imported, as long as the route and date are in the file. FlightLog reads up to 5,000 rows from one file, and every flight in the file is imported, nothing is silently discarded.

Will I need Premium to import?

Importing is free while you are under the free limit of 10 flights. The import that takes you past it still goes through in full: the extra flights stay visible but locked, and nothing is ever deleted. Once you are over the limit, further imports need Premium.

Can I use FlightLog on Android if I used Flighty on iPhone?

Yes. FlightLog runs on iPhone, iPad and Android, and your journal can sync through an optional account. Export from Flighty, save the file, and import it on whichever device you use next. Boarding passes and tickets, including passenger name and booking reference, stay on the phone and are never synced to the server.