Flighty vs flew.world: which one is right for you?

Flighty and flew.world both show your flights on a map, so they often get compared. But they were built for different moments. Flighty is about the next few hours: is my flight on time, which gate, will I make my connection. flew.world is about the years: where have I been, how far have I flown, and how do I share that trip.

We make flew.world, so read this with that in mind. We have tried to be fair: Flighty is an excellent app, and there are things it does that flew.world doesn’t do at all. Facts about Flighty come from its own pages, checked in November 2026, and from the reviews listed at the end.

The short version

Where Flighty is better

Live tracking. This is the reason most people install Flighty, and it is very good at it. It shows where your plane is coming from, predicts delays before the airline announces them, and warns you about gate changes. Reviewers regularly describe it as the best flight tracker available.

The day of travel. Flighty Pro adds a connection assistant, gate-to-gate guides at airports, airport delay trends and Live Activities on your lock screen. If you fly for work every week, this can save real stress.

Polish on Apple devices. Flighty is designed for iPhone, with widgets, an Apple Watch app and Live Activities. It feels like part of the phone.

Sharing upcoming flights. Flighty Friends lets people follow your flight live, which is useful for whoever is picking you up.

flew.world does none of this. It doesn’t track flights live and won’t warn you about a delay.

Where flew.world is better

It works on every phone. Flighty is iPhone, iPad and Mac only. flew.world runs in any browser, so Android users, Windows users and families with a mix of phones get the same thing.

Your whole history, free. Flighty’s free version imports past flights from the last 365 days; unlimited history needs Pro. flew.world keeps every flight you have ever taken at no cost, whether that is 10 or 1,000.

Trips, not just flights. flew.world groups flights into trips automatically and treats a short change of planes as a connection, not a visit. Each trip gets its own page with the route, your photos and a short video, and you can invite the people you travelled with.

A year in review you can post. Flighty Passport summarises your year in the app. flew.world gives each year a page with a passport card, records and comparisons with last year, plus three video styles on a satellite globe that you save as MP4 files for Reels or TikTok. See Travel Wrapped 2026.

Getting your data in and out. flew.world imports from Flighty itself as well as myFlightradar24, OpenFlights, an App in the Air export, a TripIt calendar feed and any CSV. It exports to CSV, OpenFlights CSV, KML (Google Earth) and GPX.

Free tools around it. A flight distance calculator, a CO₂ calculator and a countries visited map, all free and without an account.

The year in review, compared

Both apps sum up your year, in different ways.

Flighty Passport lives in the app. Reviewers describe it as a yearly summary of where you have travelled, how far you have flown and how many hours you lost to delays, and it is included in the free version. Pro unlocks unlimited history in Passport. It is a good companion to Flighty’s tracking, because delay data is something only a tracker knows.

flew.world’s year in review is a page with its own link, a passport card you can save as a Story image, totals compared with last year, records and firsts, every flight month by month, and three videos on a satellite globe. The videos are vertical MP4 files you post yourself, and from 1 December there is a Wrapped story too. It doesn’t know about your delays, because flew.world doesn’t track flights live; it knows about trips, stays and countries, because it groups your flights into journeys.

If you use Flighty for tracking, you can have both: import your Flighty history into flew.world before New Year and post the video.

Privacy and your data

Both apps keep your flights in an account. A few differences:

• Visibility. On flew.world your profile is private unless you make it public. Upcoming flights, seat numbers and booking references are never shown publicly, even on a public profile.
• Export. Flighty can export your history as CSV. flew.world exports CSV, OpenFlights CSV, KML and GPX, so your data opens in spreadsheets, Google Earth and other flight logs.
• Lock-in. Because both export, you can move between them, or use both, without starting again.

Price, plainly

Flighty’s free version is generous for tracking: unlimited flights, live data and Flighty Passport, without ads. The paid plan, Flighty Pro, is listed at $4.99 a month or $59.99 a year, with weekly, family and lifetime options. All Pro features are free for your first flight, so you can try them.

flew.world is free. The videos are made in your browser rather than on our servers, which is part of why we can keep it that way.

Using both together

You don’t have to pick one. A common setup:

1. Track with Flighty on the day you fly: alerts, gates and connections.
2. Export your Flighty history as a CSV file from the app’s settings.
3. Import it into flew.world at flew.world/import. Cancelled flights are skipped, and you see every flight before it is saved.
4. Add photos and share the trip from flew.world when you’re home, and let your year in review build itself.

Repeat the export now and then, or add new trips by flight number, which takes a few seconds.

Which one should you choose?

• You fly often for work and want fewer surprises at the airport: Flighty, probably with Pro.
• You have an Android phone: flew.world, since Flighty isn’t available on Android.
• You want to see every flight you’ve ever taken without paying: flew.world.
• You want to share a trip or your year as a page or a video: flew.world.
• You want both: use Flighty to track and flew.world to remember.

Questions

Sources

1. Flighty pricing Flighty, checked November 2026
2. Flighty Wikipedia: platforms, history, Flighty Passport
3. Flighty review Going
4. Everything you need to know about the Flighty app The Points Guy

Updated 2 November 2026. Spotted something out of date? Tell us at hello@flew.world.