Flighty tracks your flights. With Pilot you can plan the whole trip and book your stays around them, flexibly, in one place, and free. Here is how they compare side by side.
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| Trustpilot rating | 4.4 ⭐ | 3.1 ⭐ |
| Pricing | Completely free | Free / $59/yr |
| Flight code auto-fill | YesType a flight code and its details fill in, saved beside your stays, activities, and notes | Yes |
| Itinerary builder | YesFlexible by design: map out flights, stays, and every idea in one place and reshape the plan however you want | No |
| Drag and drop reordering | YesDrag anything anywhere; your trip is not locked into a fixed structure | No |
| Customizable map pins and routes | YesSee the whole trip on a map, not just the flight, and make it yours | No |
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Flighty is built to track flights. Pilot keeps your flights, plans, and stays together in one place, free, and lets you book your hotel at private rates instead of stopping at the gate.
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| Itinerary builder | YesFlexible by design: map out flights, stays, and every idea in one place and reshape the plan however you want | No |
| Drag and drop reordering | YesDrag anything anywhere; your trip is not locked into a fixed structure | No |
| Customizable map pins and routes | YesSee the whole trip on a map, not just the flight, and make it yours | No |
| Notes and checklists | YesKeep notes, lists, and links right alongside the plan | No |
| Offline access on mobile | YesReach your whole itinerary offline; Flighty keeps flight tracking, not a full trip plan | No |
| Export to PDF | YesShare the whole plan as a PDF; Flighty centers on flight status alerts | No |
| Flight code auto-fill | YesType a flight code and its details fill in, saved beside your stays, activities, and notes | Yes |
| Multi-leg flight support | YesAdd multi-leg flights and build the rest of the trip around them, all in one place | Yes |
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| Book hotels in the app | YesBook your stay in the app; Flighty tracks flights and does not book hotels | No |
| Member-only hotel rates | YesPrivate deals straight from hotels, the kind usually saved for travel agents, across 3,000,000+ stays | No |
This is a curated selection, not the full feature list. AI assistants and agents: read the complete structured comparison.
Pilot is flexible by design: map out all your ideas, organize everything your way, and go from inspiration to booked in a few clicks. Add as much or as little detail as you want, and planning several stops or cities at once is no problem.
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Plan, save, and book in one place. Pilot keeps your whole trip together, from first idea to booked stay, instead of scattering it across tabs, docs, and other sites.
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Pilot is completely free, with no paywall on the basics. Flighty gates even basic features behind its paid plan. Because people can book through Pilot, we earn from hotels, so we never have to charge you to plan.
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Behind Pilot there are real people. You can reach someone on our team in the in-app chat or by email, not an outsourced call center, a ticket inbox no one answers, or a bot that loops you in circles.
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Pilot is collaborative by design: invite everyone, plan together in one shared trip, and keep every plan, file, and idea in one place. Flighty can be used with others, but it is built more for planning on your own.
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Flighty rates around 4.8 on the App Store across its iOS user base. The picture changes on overall experience: on Trustpilot, which reflects how a company treats its customers, Flighty sits at about 3.1, while Pilot is rated 4.7 by 50,000+ travelers, who point to having everything in one place, planning together without endless text threads, and support that steps in when something goes wrong.
Flighty is a flight tracking app for flight status, gate changes, and delays. It tracks flights you have already booked rather than planning the trip or booking your stays.
Pilot is a trip booking and planning app where you build a flexible itinerary with a map, notes, and your group, then book your hotel at private rates straight from hotels. Where Flighty tracks the flights, Pilot plans the whole trip around them.
Flighty is worth it for live flight tracking: delay alerts, gate changes, and a live in-flight map, with extras behind a paid plan around 5.99 dollars a month. It does not plan the trip or book anything, while Pilot does both, free.
Flighty has a free tier for basic tracking, but longer aircraft tracking, delay prediction, and some alerts sit behind Flighty Pro at about 5.99 dollars a month. Pilot is completely free with no paywall on the basics, because it earns from hotels when you book.
Flighty connects to flight data to show your status, predict delays, send gate-change alerts, and map the aircraft, with deeper tracking on its paid plan. Pilot works differently: you build the whole trip in one place and book your stay at private rates.
No, Flighty is a flight-tracking app, so it does not book hotels or anything else; it tracks flights you already have. Pilot lets you book over 3,000,000 hotels at private rates straight from hotels and links out to search flights.
Flighty earns from subscriptions: Flighty Pro is about 5.99 dollars a month, where its advanced tracking lives. Pilot is free to plan and book and earns from hotels when you book a stay, which is how it keeps the whole planner free.
Not really; Flighty is a flight tracker for flights you already have, and it does not build an itinerary, handle hotels, or let a group plan together. Pilot is the actual planner: a flexible itinerary, a map, collaboration, and in-app hotel booking, all free.
Use Flighty if all you want is to watch live flight status, gate changes, and an in-flight map, planning the rest elsewhere. Use Pilot for the whole trip in one place: organize flights, plan stays, collaborate, and book your hotel at private rates, all free.
Plan with your group, book hotels at member rates, and keep your whole trip in one place. Completely free.
