--- title: "FlightMemory alternative for Android — honest comparison · Orbit" description: "FlightMemory is a personal flight logbook on the web, running since the 2000s. Here is what Orbit does instead, what it does not do, and what moving actually involves — including the parts that count against us." url: https://orbitflights.app/alternatives/flightmemory --- FlightMemory # FlightMemory, rebuilt as something you carry The original of the type, and still running. You enter every flight and it produces maps, totals and a genuinely deep set of statistics — more granular than anything newer in this list. ## Read this before you switch **Orbit cannot import your flights.** Not from FlightMemory, not from anywhere — there is no importer yet. Moving a logbook across means typing it in. If you have years of history in FlightMemory, that is a real asset and it is worth keeping a copy for yourself regardless of what you use next. There is no export button, so the copy is the flight-data pages saved from your browser. Orbit cannot read those, so moving means typing — which is why it is worth doing the long flights first. It is less work than it sounds: three fields per flight — where from, where to, and when. Orbit derives the distance, the hours, the countries, the continents and every milestone from those. The [method for rebuilding a history](https://orbitflights.app/blog/reconstruct-your-flight-history) is written up in full. The free tier holds 15 flights, so you can find out whether you like it before deciding whether to carry the rest across. ## Orbit and FlightMemory, row by row Including the rows Orbit loses. A table where one side wins everything is an advert, and you would be right not to believe it. __Orbit compared with FlightMemory, feature by feature.__ | | Orbit | FlightMemory | | ------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------- | | Platforms | Partly. Android. iPhone in development. | Partly. Web only. | | Log flights from any date | Yes. Any date, back to your first. | Yes | | Import from another app | No. Nothing yet — flights are typed in. | Partly | | Adds flights from your email | No | No | | Live tracking and delay alerts | No. It's a logbook, not a tracker. | No | | 3D globe of your flights | Yes. Real orthographic projection, drag to spin. | No. Static maps. | | Works offline | Yes. All 8,801 airports on device. | No | | Export your data | Partly. CSV, on Pro. | No. No export. Saving its pages is the workaround. | | Works without an account | Yes. Guest-first. Sign in only to sync. | No. Account required. | | Free tier | Partly. 15 flights, then Pro. | Yes. Free, unlimited flights. | | Price | Yes. $19.90/year or $49.90 once. | Yes. Free. | | Ads | Yes. None, on any tier. | Not checked | Checked against FlightMemory’s own site and public sources on 6 October 2026. Anything marked “not checked” is exactly that — not a quiet no. ## Orbit, on the screen The parts of the table above that are easier to see than to read. Your routes on a globe you can drag, rather than a static map image. One flight: distance, hours and what it unlocked, all worked out from two airports. ## What FlightMemory does better - Its statistics go deeper than Orbit's — seat, class, aircraft, registration, reason for travel. - It is free and has no cap on flights. - Two decades of continuous operation is its own kind of reassurance. ## What Orbit does better - It is a website from another era; Orbit is a phone app that works offline. - A 3D globe rather than a static map image. - Getting your data out of Orbit is a CSV button rather than a project. ## Asked and answered ### Is FlightMemory still running? Yes. It has been going since the 2000s and is still live, which is more than most of its contemporaries managed. ### Can Orbit import from FlightMemory? No. Orbit has no importer, so a FlightMemory history has to be re-entered. Three fields per flight is the whole job — Orbit derives distance, hours, countries and continents from the airport pair and the date. ### What does Orbit do that FlightMemory does not? It is a phone app rather than a website, it works with no signal, and it draws your flights on a real 3D globe. FlightMemory records more detail per flight; Orbit does more with less of it. ## What Orbit works out for you You enter an airport pair and a date. Everything below is computed from the airports’ own coordinates — which is why entering a flight takes a few seconds rather than a form. - [São Paulo – Singapore, 15,995 km →](https://orbitflights.app/routes/gru-to-sin) - [Singapore – New York, 15,341 km →](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sin-to-jfk) - [Singapore – Newark, 15,337 km →](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sin-to-ewr) ## Start with the flights you remember. The long ones first — they carry most of the distance and most of the milestones. Free for your first 15, no account needed, no ads on any tier. [Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit) ## Sources - [FlightMemory ↗](https://www.flightmemory.com/) - [OpenFlights — importing from FlightMemory (no export function) ↗](https://openflights.org/html/import) - [Business Traveller forum — which digital flight logbook to use ↗](https://www.businesstraveller.com/forums/topic/which-digital-flight-logbook-to-use/) FlightMemory is a trademark of its owner and is named here only to describe what it does. Orbit is not affiliated with it. --- Markdown copy of https://orbitflights.app/alternatives/flightmemory for language models and agents. Site index: https://orbitflights.app/llms.txt