Comparisons
If you already use a travel tracker, you’re probably here to figure out whether moving to TravStats is worth it. Honest answer: it depends on what you care about.
Quick decision tree
Section titled “Quick decision tree”- You want a hosted service that “just works” on your phone, and you don’t mind a cloud company holding your travel history? Stay with what you have. TravStats won’t beat a polished SaaS on convenience.
- You’re a homelab / self-hosting type. You already run Docker on something. You want full control of your data? Read the comparison pages below — TravStats was built for you.
- You travel a lot, hate manual entry, and the booking confirmation in your inbox already has all the data? Same answer. Email parsing is the headline feature.
What’s covered
Section titled “What’s covered”Hosted services
- TravStats vs. FlightDiary — FlightDiary now redirects to MyFlightradar24. Where your old flights are, and how to bring them over.
- TravStats vs. MyFlightradar24 — Flightradar24’s flight logbook, which FlightDiary now redirects to. Its CSV export imports into TravStats unmodified.
- TravStats vs. Polarsteps — A phone app that tracks your route and shares the trip. A different job from a logbook, and this page says which one you need.
Self-hosted
- TravStats vs. AirTrail — A self-hosted flight tracker with deep aviation detail, many importers and single sign-on.
- TravStats vs. Jetlog — A minimal self-hosted flight log: one container, SQLite, a map and statistics.
- TravStats vs. AdventureLog — A self-hosted travel tracker and trip planner built around places and itineraries.
An OpenFlights-based spreadsheet would follow the same three rules below; it is not written.
How we write these
Section titled “How we write these”Every comparison page on this site follows three rules:
- No bashing. The other tool isn’t bad — it just makes different trade-offs. We say what each one is good at.
- No hidden agendas. Where TravStats loses, we say so. Mobile-first workflows, social sharing, and large public flight databases are places we don’t compete.
- Migration help. Every comparison includes notes on getting your data out of the other tool and into TravStats — even if you decide not to switch, the export is yours.