FlightDex vs Aviate vs Flighty.
They all track flights. FlightDex is the one that keeps your boarding passes on your phone and doesn't ask you to make an account, and it does the flying essentials properly rather than doing everything at once. Built for Android first.
| FlightDex | Aviate | Flighty | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scan & store boarding passes | ✓ | ✓ | ✕Not offered |
| Boarding passes kept only on your device | ✓Encrypted, never uploaded | ✕Stored on Aviate's servers | — |
| Never accesses your location | ✓ | ✕Uses precise location | ✕Uses location at airports |
| Works with no account | ✓Anonymous-first | ✕Account-based | ✓ |
| No ads & never sells your data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live status & delay alerts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Delay predictions before the airline announces | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Travel passport: lifetime stats and flight history | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Your whole history on the free plan | ✓Every flight, kept forever | — | ✕Free shows the last 12 months |
| Import a boarding pass you already haveA .pkpass, PDF or photo, not only a fresh scan | ✓ | —Scanning offered | ✕Not offered |
| Quiet hours for alerts | ✓Silent overnight, unless it can't wait | — | — |
| Export your flight log for expenses | ✓CSV or PDF, with fares | — | — |
| Shareable year-in-review recap | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Built for Android: foldables and home-screen widgets | ✓ | ✓ | ✕iOS only |
Privacy you can actually verify
Your boarding pass carries your name and your booking code, which makes it one of the most sensitive things in any travel app. FlightDex scans it and stores it encrypted on your device, and never uploads it. Aviate's own FAQ says it keeps sensitive boarding-pass fields on its servers instead. You also don't need an account here to get started, and there are no third-party trackers or ad networks anywhere in the app. That combination is rare on Android, which is more or less why FlightDex exists.
Focused, on purpose
FlightDex does fewer things than an everything-app, on purpose. Rather than indoor maps and LiveATC feeds and a dozen side-features, it concentrates on the part you use on every single trip: live status, early delay alerts, and a travel passport that fills as you fly. There's nothing to wade through to get to it.
Built for Android
FlightDex is designed for Android first, with foldable layouts, home-screen widgets and a live tracking notification while you fly. Flighty, for all its polish, is iOS only, so Android flyers can't use it at all. Of the trackers you can actually install, FlightDex is the private one: passes encrypted on your device, no location permission at all, and nothing in the app that follows you around.
Who FlightDex is for
People on Android who want live status and early delay alerts, and a record of their flying that's worth looking back at, in an app that stays quiet and keeps everything on their phone.