TravStats vs. MyFlightradar24
MyFlightradar24 is the personal flight
logbook run by Flightradar24 — “your personal flight logbook”, in its
own words. It is also where FlightDiary lives now: flightdiary.net
redirects to it, and its FAQ answers questions from former FlightDiary
account holders. If you came here from FlightDiary, this is the
comparison for you; the FlightDiary page
only explains the move.
At a glance
Section titled “At a glance”| TravStats | MyFlightradar24 | |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting | Your server (Docker) | Flightradar24’s cloud |
| Data ownership | Your PostgreSQL database | Their database |
| Account | On your own instance | Sign-up on their site |
| Adding flights | Drop a booking email, PDF or boarding pass → automatic; manual form | Manual form, flight-information lookup, TripIt import |
| List imports | Flightradar24 CSV, any logbook CSV, own spreadsheet | CSV, OpenFlights |
| Export | Whole-logbook spreadsheet (re-importable), JSON, database backup | CSV |
| Statistics | Per domain plus cross-domain; punctuality, records, CO2, year in review | Most visited airports, most flown aircraft, CO2 emissions and more |
| Ratings and reviews | No | Rate and review your flights; top-rated airports, airlines and aircraft |
| Sharing | No public surface | Share your profile; friends can follow you on Flightradar24 while you fly |
| Cruises | Yes | No |
| Hotels / stays | Yes — a domain of its own since 2.6.0 | No |
| Mobile app | Web (responsive); a Companion app in testing, beta | No app, per its FAQ |
| Ads and analytics | None; anonymous usage statistics only if an admin opts in | Third-party analytics and advertising cookies, per its cookie notice |
| Open source | Yes (GitHub) | No |
Where TravStats wins
Section titled “Where TravStats wins”1. The booking-email parser
Section titled “1. The booking-email parser”MyFlightradar24 lets you look a flight up, which saves some typing, but each flight is still something you add. TravStats reads the confirmation email or booking PDF you already have — or a photo of the boarding pass — and shows the extracted flight on a review screen before saving. Round trips and connections in one mail are handled best with a local language model (Ollama); without one, built-in templates cover single-leg bookings on common European carriers.
2. Your data, on your hardware
Section titled “2. Your data, on your hardware”A MyFlightradar24 logbook lives under Flightradar24’s terms and on its servers, and its site uses third-party cookies for analytics and advertising. TravStats runs on a machine you control, shows no ads, reports usage only if an admin opts in to anonymous usage statistics, and backs up to wherever you point it (Backups).
3. Travel that is not a flight
Section titled “3. Travel that is not a flight”MyFlightradar24 is a flight logbook. TravStats also records cruises, hotel stays and the trips that hold them, and counts a country by what proves you were there rather than by the airports you touched. See Trips.
Where MyFlightradar24 wins
Section titled “Where MyFlightradar24 wins”1. Nothing to install
Section titled “1. Nothing to install”It is a website. Sign up and start. TravStats is a Docker stack with a database; if you do not already run a server, that is a real hurdle.
2. The Flightradar24 connection
Section titled “2. The Flightradar24 connection”Share your profile, and friends can follow your flight live on Flightradar24 while you are in the air. TravStats is deliberately a logbook, not a live tracker, and has nothing like it.
3. The community
Section titled “3. The community”You can rate and review each flight, and the site shows top-rated airports, airlines and aircraft across its users. A single-household TravStats instance has no community to rank anything against.
4. TripIt
Section titled “4. TripIt”If your trips already land in TripIt, MyFlightradar24 imports from it. TravStats does not.
Migrating your data from MyFlightradar24
Section titled “Migrating your data from MyFlightradar24”This is the easiest migration TravStats has. Download your flights as
CSV from Settings → Export on MyFlightradar24
(my.flightradar24.com/settings/export), then in TravStats open
Settings → Import → “From Flightradar24” and drop the file
unmodified. The column map for that export is built in: times are
converted using the airport catalogue, Flight reason becomes the
category, and seat number, note and registration land in their fields.
You see every row in a preview, with duplicates and unresolvable airports flagged, before anything is written — and the run is one batch you can revert as a whole. Details on Import & Export.
Verdict
Section titled “Verdict”If you want a flight log in the browser with nothing to run, and you like the reviews and the live-follow link to Flightradar24, MyFlightradar24 does that well.
If you already run a homelab and want the logbook to fill itself from your inbox, keep cruises and hotels beside the flights, and stay on your own hardware, TravStats is the better fit — and your MyFlightradar24 history comes along in one file.