Independent Miles Mosaic guide. No programme partnerships, no account linking, no scraped balances. Sources cited below; corrections welcomed.
The best AwardWallet alternative in 2026 depends on which part of the job you actually need done. AwardWallet bundles loyalty-balance tracking, programme sync, and award search into one credential-linked product, and the right alternative depends on which of those three you want to keep and which you are happy to drop.
This is a short, honest round-up of the five tools most travellers compare AwardWallet against in 2026, what each does well, and where it falls short. Miles Mosaic is on this list, but the rest are independent of us and the criticisms are fair on both sides.
What an AwardWallet alternative actually has to do
AwardWallet does four things at once. A useful alternative usually does one or two of them, more cleanly, with a different trade-off. The four jobs are:
Consolidated balance view across many loyalty programmes in a single dashboard.
Status and expiry tracking: when does my Bonvoy gold drop, am I going to make Flying Blue Platinum, when do my Avios expire.
Automated balance sync via login on your behalf to each loyalty programme.
Award availability search across airlines.
Jobs 1 and 2 are the consolidated-tracker job. Jobs 3 and 4 are the credential-linked and award-search jobs. The first split most readers actually want to make is: do I need automatic balance sync, or am I happy to type the numbers in myself and gain back full control over my credentials? Your answer to that determines almost everything below.
1. Miles Mosaic: the privacy-first alternative
The reason Miles Mosaic exists is that handing loyalty programme passwords to any third party, including AwardWallet, is a meaningful trade. Miles Mosaic does not ask for and does not store loyalty programme credentials. You enter your membership numbers and balances. We run the maths, the projections, and the alerts.
Coverage is 31 loyalty programmes (24 airline + 7 hotel) plus 8 transferable currencies. The Explorer plan is free, the Pro plan is $14.99/month and is genuinely ad-free across editorial and dashboard. There is no automated balance sync (by design); there is also no award-search engine inside the product (we recommend pairing with seats.aero or point.me when you need it).
The honest read on Miles Mosaic: right tool if you want to know where you stand across many programmes without giving anyone the keys to your loyalty accounts; wrong tool if you want one-click automated sync as the headline feature. We are not chasing AwardWallet on credential-linked sync. We think the trade-off is the wrong one for the readers we serve.
2. TripIt: the right tool for trips, not the right tool for status
TripIt is the long-standing standard for "what trips do I have coming up, what is the itinerary, where are the boarding passes". It parses your booking emails (forwarded, or via Gmail/Outlook read-only OAuth) and turns them into a single trip view.
For loyalty programme tracking specifically, TripIt is the wrong tool. It does not project tier progress across programmes, it does not flag expiry windows, and it does not consolidate balances. TripIt Pro does include a "Point Tracker" feature, but the tier-projection logic is limited and only covers programmes you have actively flown on in the past year.
Honest read: pair TripIt with whatever loyalty tracker you choose. It is not a competitor to a loyalty-tracking tool; it owns a different problem. The natural setup is TripIt for the trip itinerary and a separate tool for the status maths.
3. MaxMyPoint: an adjacent credential-linked workflow
MaxMyPoint is closer to AwardWallet in spirit than the others on this list. It also links to loyalty accounts to sync balances and tracks status across programmes, with a focus on the points-redemption optimisation workflow rather than pure balance tracking.
If you are looking specifically for a credential-linked AwardWallet alternative, MaxMyPoint is the most direct option in 2026. The privacy and coverage trade-offs are broadly similar to AwardWallet's: credentials are stored, the linked-sync model still trips on programmes that block third-party login, and the value proposition is "we will do the maths for you, just hand over the passwords".
Honest read: useful if the credential-sync model is the deal-breaker for you and you specifically want a different vendor running it. If the credential-sync model itself is the concern, switching from AwardWallet to MaxMyPoint does not solve it.
4. MaxRewards: a credit-card optimizer, not a loyalty tracker
MaxRewards is included on this list because it is the most commonly mis-suggested AwardWallet alternative in 2026. It is a US-market mobile app that links to your credit cards, detects purchases, and recommends which card to use at checkout for maximum cashback or points earnings. It is a genuinely useful tool for that job.
It is not a loyalty programme tracker. MaxRewards does not project airline elite status, does not track hotel programmes, and does not consolidate frequent-flyer balances. If you found yourself reading MaxRewards reviews while looking for an AwardWallet alternative, you wanted job 1 or 2 above (consolidated balance + status) and MaxRewards does neither.
Honest read: pair MaxRewards with a loyalty tracker if you want both jobs done. Use MaxRewards to optimise the card-at-checkout decision in the US market, and use a loyalty tracker to manage the points and status that result.
5. A well-built spreadsheet: still the most common AwardWallet alternative
The most-used loyalty tracker on the planet in 2026 is still a Google Sheet with a tab per programme. There is nothing wrong with this for travellers with one or two programmes who enjoy formula maintenance.
The failure mode is predictable: a programme changes its tier thresholds (British Airways did, Delta did, Flying Blue did, Marriott has done it twice in three years), your formula silently keeps using the old numbers, and you spend six months thinking you are 10,000 points further along than you actually are. A spreadsheet is also a single point of failure: lose the file, lose the history.
Honest read: fine for one or two programmes, a structural maintenance burden as you add more. The crossover where a dedicated tracker is worth its keep is somewhere around three to four active programmes, depending on how often each of them devalues.
If you want automated balance sync and you accept the credential trade-off: AwardWallet remains the most mature option; MaxMyPoint is the closest direct alternative.
If you want consolidated loyalty tracking without handing over credentials: Miles Mosaic is built for exactly this case; the Explorer tier is free and covers all 31 programmes.
If you want trip itineraries: TripIt, paired with whatever loyalty tracker you choose.
If you want credit-card-at-checkout optimization in the US: MaxRewards, paired with a loyalty tracker.
If you want award availability search: seats.aero or point.me, neither of which is an AwardWallet replacement on the tracking side.
If you have one or two programmes and like formulae: a spreadsheet is genuinely fine.
None of these tools is wrong; they are designed for different versions of the same reader. The mistake we see most often is choosing the tool that does the most jobs at once, and then quietly resenting the trade-off it asks you to accept on the job you actually cared about. Pick the tool that does the one job you most care about, and pair it with a tool that does the next one.
Switching from AwardWallet, practical steps
If you have decided to move off AwardWallet specifically, the migration is less work than it looks. Most of the friction is rebuilding the membership-number list, which is a one-evening job, not a multi-week project. The exact sequence depends on where you are going, but the pattern is consistent.
Export your AwardWallet account inventory. From your AwardWallet account settings you can download a CSV of every loyalty programme you currently track, including membership numbers and balances. Save it locally before you do anything else.
Strip down to the programmes you actually use. The honest version of this list is shorter than the one you originally added to AwardWallet. Drop programmes you have not touched in two years; their balances are usually already gone to expiry.
Bulk paste into your new tracker. Miles Mosaic accepts a paste of all your membership numbers in one go during setup; the parser identifies which programme each belongs to. AwardWallet allows export but not import elsewhere, so the paste-bulk-add pattern is the fastest path.
Cancel or downgrade your AwardWallet Plus subscription only after the new tracker has projected your status correctly for one cycle. Two weeks of overlap is cheap insurance.
Decide what to do about credentials AwardWallet still holds. Closing your account does not automatically revoke programme-level passwords AwardWallet stored. If the credential trade-off was your reason for switching, rotate any loyalty passwords that AwardWallet had on file before you delete the account.
The whole exercise typically takes 60 to 90 minutes for someone with five to ten active loyalty programmes. The credential-rotation step in particular is one most switchers forget and is the only step that has lasting privacy implications.
Why this matters more in 2026
Two things have changed in the last 18 months that make the AwardWallet-alternative question more pointed. First, the four largest US airlines (American, Delta, United, Southwest) now block third-party login from sync tools at varying levels of strictness, which means the headline AwardWallet feature, automatic balance sync, does not actually work for the carriers most US-based members hold. Second, loyalty programmes themselves have devalued more aggressively in 2024-2026 than at any point in the prior decade, which makes the accuracy of programme rules and tier thresholds matter more than the speed of balance refresh.
Both of those shifts favour the consolidated-tracker job over the credential-linked-sync job. That is the structural reason Miles Mosaic was built and the structural reason this round-up is shorter than it would have been three years ago. The market for credential-linked loyalty sync is genuinely narrower in 2026; the market for accurate cross-programme consolidation is genuinely wider. Pick accordingly.
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