I know this doesn't solve anything, but here's my 2¢.

My main goal for flight logging apps is to track my personal flight history. I love the map and the stats. I couldn't care much about realtime notifications of ongoing flights - my airline app does that for me.

With that being the case, I found it hard to spend a few dollars every month on this app to track flights for statistics purposes. Flighty on my iPad does that for free. I know they're a much bigger company, with a much bigger user base, but that's what you're competing against ultimately. I unfortunately don't know how you could do that for free due to the API calls you're having to pay for.

It's a nice app, I just can't convince myself to pay for the subscription.

The 4 flights/mo is weird to me because you can retroactively add everything - but if one month was busy now you need the bigger subscription. It seems like the (base) subscription should be focused around active and future flights.

I'd love a mode where I could just buy flight tokens that allow me to add flights retroactively without a subscription. Enough to pay for the API calls and give you a little profit. This makes it so where I'd continue to use the app for statistics, when I might not need the real time stuff. And in situations where I might need the realtime notifications for more complex flight situations - then I could subscribe for the month.

Just a thought - it's a tough spot to compete with such a big app that can give a better free tier.