Flighty
reviews and complaints

This is my new favorite app. It has the most beautiful maps of any flight tracker I've seen and syncs with TripIt so everything flows in automatically. Though I really loved to manually input flights before because the UI is so good. Sync with TripIt is sometimes intermittant, but it has improved. It also gives me updates faster than the airline does. Weather recently caused crazy, and Flighty alerted me usually 5 minutes before the United app... which gave me a jump on the rest of the crowd in contacting them for alternate flight plans.

As a frequent flyer this app comes in very handy. Both before the flight and during.
Once a booking is made, a quick forward to a dedicated email address imports the details directly into the app and into the designated calendar.

It also features several useful reminders such as check in. It updates with information about gate assignment, landing of incoming airplane, etd and eta by monitoring the movements of the plane. For aviation geeks, there’s all sorts of info about the plane itself.

5 stars if the promised apple watch app is being added.

The pro version is likely quite good. But the free version is so crippled it is impossible to be sure. Essentially every feature is dumbed down to the point of being less useful than other apps I already use. The whole thing is just a bunch of growth hacker anti-patterns trying to get you to buy the upgrade. Instead, just give me a 14 day free tria of the pro versionl. That’s enough to see all the features for myself on one trip. And at the end of that I personally am more likely to covert than I am with the crippled version you let me try out now.

I downloaded this app at first out of curiosity, but kept it to this day, because it is truly unmatched by any others of its kind! My partner is an extremely anxious flyer in this app has been a huge help when we travel together. speaking from experience, I get updates on this app faster than my gate at the airport does! This is probably the only app that will alert you of changes before the flight attendants!

My only qualm is that the app never tells me what the baggage claim number is. It always shows as “—“ long after any of my flights have landed.

Download it. It’s worth it! I use it to track my husbands flight when he’s in air from HI to the east coast (a 9+ hour flight). So it eases my mind knowing where he’s at en route. It gives you notifications when something changes and so on. You can also leave the app on in the background so it shows up on the top of the screen by the speaker (I have an iphone 14) or on your lock screen, showing when they land and expected time of arrival. It shows the planes exact live location! I’m telling you, just download it. The best part is, is that it’s FREE.

I have been using flight just over a year now. The app is great with notifying you about your upcoming flights. It keeps a record of the flights you have been on and how far you have flown as well as how many hours you have flown. Flighty has told me about any delays, cancelations, and plane changes even BEFORE the airline has! If you someone who has trust issues with the airlines (like myself) this app is where you can turn. Overall, Flighty is BY FAR THE BEST FLIGHT TRACKER I have ever used. PS: Get Pro I find it super worth it, especially if you travel often)

I agree with the other reviewer. I think this app is great if you fly all the time because you can justify the annual price. But it needs a monthly feature; or pay by flight or something.

Especially since “weekly” is a much shorter cadence than most typical trips, so I’d have to buy two weeks of weekly for one trip. $8 a trip, 3 trips a year; that’s $24; half the cost of the annual plan. The weekly plan just doesn’t have a good value proposition for any traveler. I understand they want to push annual subscriptions, but those don’t make sense for an infrequent flyer.

The fields don’t populate, for example trying to see where the aircraft is for my outbound flight. There was no information for that ever. Notifications to check in start 72 hours out, way too early, and then not at all 24 hours before the flight. Also, as I am preparing to board my delayed flight, the app says I am on my way already, half way to my destination. The information was not timely didn’t update, didn’t provide the information advertised. I found it totally useless. Not sure why it gets editor’s choice, unless it’s based on the promises, not the delivered product.

I’m in love with this app. It is the best flight tracking app I’ve ever used - and I haven’t even used it for a live flight yet! My issue, though, is that for some airlines that don’t exist anymore (like US Air), it doesn’t find my old flights with them. I also have quite a few flights between 2003 and 2005 that can’t be added because the lookup only goes to 2007. While I can understand this, I don’t understand why we can’t manually insert flights with dates prior to 2007. Fix this and the app definitely deserves 5 stars (though it wouldn’t hurt to also release an Android version).

I love this app, whether I'm traveling or I'm picking up my wife at the airport. It has become an invaluable tool where travel is concerned. Automatically putting trips on my calendar is awesome.

2 Suggestions: I would like to be able to label a friend's tripe (Ie. Maryanns Rerurn Flght).
The other thing is toggling whether the friend's flight is a departure or arrival. Right now the calendar schedules as if its always departing so times are calculated based on departure instead of arrival. If I'm picking up someone from the airport the event date/time is the arrival time not the departure.

Go to airport or airline website instead. This app gave me wrong info even with the paid version. I put in flight number and it wouldn’t give gate number, got paid version, and still nothing. Then some time later, the Flighty App shows that airplane is on runway, but passenger and family say the flight already took off about 2-hours ago (as does the airline website). While the Flighty App map shows that the plane is still on the runway. So essentially no tracking given, no gate number given and all this with paid version. Weird. Best bet is to go to airline website for free and accurate info.

Flighty is an excellent travel app that provides real-time updates and notifications, personalized recommendations based on travel history, and insights into flight prices. Its user-friendly interface allows for easy access to flight details, including departure and arrival times, gate information, and any delays or cancellations. The app's features also include wait times for security checkpoints in major airports, making planning more convenient. Whether you're a frequent flyer or an occasional traveler, Flighty is an essential tool for staying informed and having a stress-free travel experience.

It’s doesn’t actually sync with TripIt. It will import the flight from TripIt, but if you change or cancel your flight that isn’t automatically updated in Flighty.
The plane icons are replaced with novelty icons for holidays (bats on Halloween, turkeys on Thanksgiving, sleighs on Christmas, etc). That’s fine for people who enjoy that kind of whimsy but it should be an option especially if you’re actually excluding holidays that people celebrate.
I’ve sent several emails for support and feedback without response or acknowledgment from the developer. Not a good sign for an app with an expensive subscription fee.

This review is as of 14 November 2019, for a paid/premium account.

Flaky, sadly. Doesn’t work for multiple devices when trying to activate the same email or whatever. Paid account. Signed in to same Apple ID. Restored purchases. Activated same email. Most things don’t propagate across phones and tablet (yes, triple-checked: same AppleID, and attempting to activate same forwarding email).

Here’s hoping they fix this serious sync issue. Let us make user accounts with Flightly, or at least make pairing an email with multiple devices usable... or something!

Aside from this, the UX and information are top-notch.

I’m a ramp agent (those are the people who process the bags on your plane!) at Las Vegas International Airport, and throughout multiple contracts and companies I’ve worked with, this by far is the best and cleanest flight tracker that I’ve used for such. Now, I have always needed to mark all of the flights as Friends Flights (maybe there can be something for airport / ramp workers?) but it’s nothing entirely bad. It’s still the best tracker I’ve used and it’s one that I continue to use to this day all to keep me ahead in my work and to make me on-time with getting people’s bags and planes ready. Five stars, every day. Amazing app.

I’m a million-miler, 100K+/year flyer, so I’ll try any app related to travel, including the aviation nerd flight tracking apps. I’m just not seeing the incremental value of this app over the United Airlines app and a couple of free apps to justify the subscription cost. For an extra $1/month compared to Flightly, I subscribe to a service that gives me real-time access to flight availability on any airline plus almost all of the data provided on this app. If my travel wasn’t so heavily concentrated on United, maybe I’d see more value from having all of the information together in one place other than the airline app, but I do, so I don’t need it.

I see so many great reviews and wonder why I , an ex CIO, could not get this to work well. It seems to have great promise yet o could not get it to accept my data well, nor did it help with my international flight either way. I used several other apps with success so I’m not ready to simply admit user ignorance
I will up my stars from one to three, however. The developers contacted me to see if they could determine the problem. That is very impressive While too much time has gone by for me to provide the necessary facts of what happened line by line and in what order, I trust that they are “on it” and want to and will make it an even better app

The idea of the app is awesome. The UI is very nice as well. But under the hood, there is a lot of room for improvement. Importing flights from the calendar doesn’t work properly. Calendar events with different time zones or flights that arrive the next day are simply ignored an don’t sho up in your flight list. The developer’s support team is not responsive at all. After I reported it first, they were treating me like it was my fold and that i cannot generate the calendar events in the right format. But after I analyzed the bug and explained to them, why it happened and when, they never responded. They took the money for a subscription and now, they don’t care anymore.

I can’t say enough great things about this app. I am a travel addict and this is my most heavily used app.
So crisply designed. So much information. So much better than most airlines apps. I find out flight status before the airline tells me. So worth the $$.

Also super helpful when someone else is tracking your flight, or you need to track someone else’s. Also I love the inflight status…and the ability to see where I am during the flight….all while using the free messaging data some airlines are nice enough to give access to.

Plus it’s fun to see your annual lifetime stats. That’s the geek side of me with the ongoing eye rolls my family gives me when I rattle off my stats.

The app looks great so gave it a try for a week. Had 5 flights that week that I was tracking, and unfortunately the information was regularly wrong. Or got the aircraft type wrong on two flights, it said it was a type of plane that doesn’t have anywhere near the range for the flight. It regularly said there wasn’t enough flight data to make arrival forecasts. And it also has the incoming plane completely wrong for one flight, so I kept getting alerts about my incoming plane heading to Winnipeg and landing in Winnipeg, when I was flying out of Ottawa. Turned out the app had the wrong flight number for the incoming flight.
So looks great, but unfortunately simply doesn’t work as advertised.