Flighty is the better app overall, scoring 9.0 to 8.4. Flighty wins on 4 of the 5 scores, Waze on 1.
Frequent flyers who want the earliest warning of delays and gate changes
Drivers who want the fastest route right now on commutes and road trips
Score by score
The details
| Feature | Flighty | Waze |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Travel & Maps | Travel & Maps |
| Category rank | #2 of 8 | #4 of 8 |
| Developer | Flighty LLC | Waze (Google) |
| Pricing | Free + paid plans | Free |
| Usable for free | Yes | Yes |
| iPhone & iPad | ✓ | ✓ |
| Android | — | ✓ |
| Web | — | ✓ |
Strengths and weaknesses
Flighty
- Delay alerts often arrive before airline notices
- Clean, glanceable design with Live Activities
- Easy to share live flight status with family
- Most advanced alerts need a Pro subscription
- Pro is hard to justify if you fly a few times a year
Flighty is the best flight tracker for frequent flyers. It pulls in your flights, shows gate changes and delays in Live Activities, and tracks the inbound plane so you often hear about a delay before the airline announces it. The design is clean and calm, and your lifetime stats make a fun travel log. The best features need Flighty Pro, which is hard to justify if you rarely fly.
Full Flighty review
Waze
- Reacts quickly to crashes and traffic jams
- Community reports catch hazards other apps miss
- Free, with music and podcast controls built in
- Ads appear on the map and when you stop
- Collects a lot of location data
Waze is the best app for drivers who want to dodge traffic. Other drivers report crashes, hazards, police and speed cameras in real time, and Waze reroutes you around slowdowns quickly. It works well with CarPlay and Android Auto. The trade-offs are ads on the map, heavy location data collection and the odd detour through side streets. Get it for daily commutes and road trips.
Full Waze review
