seats.aero is the tool most people reach for when they want to know where an award seat actually exists right now. Miles Mosaic is where you go to know what you can pay for it with, and what a booking does to your status for the year. These are genuinely different jobs, and neither product is trying to become the other. This page explains where the boundary sits, so you can decide whether you need one, the other, or both.
The things we won't do
How loyalty balances, accounts, and credentials are handled: the rules each tool plays by.
| Feature | Miles Mosaic | AwardWallet | TripIt | MaxMyPoint | MaxRewards | A spreadsheet | SkyCalc | StatusTracker |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Privacy | ||||||||
| No account linking We never connect to your loyalty accounts on your behalf. | Yes | No: Logs into your loyalty accounts to sync balances. Logs into your loyalty accounts to sync balances. | With caveats: Parses email forwards or Gmail/Outlook OAuth, no direct loyalty login. Parses email forwards or Gmail/Outlook OAuth, no direct loyalty login. | No: Account-linked sync model. Account-linked sync model. | No: Links to bank and credit-card accounts (Plaid-style) to detect purchases. Links to bank and credit-card accounts (Plaid-style) to detect purchases. | Yes | Yes: Its own FAQ: "No, SkyCalc does not require direct access to your airline accounts. You manually input your current balances and trips." Its own FAQ: "No, SkyCalc does not require direct access to your airline accounts. You manually input your current balances and trips." | Unknown: Inferred from the absence of any documented account-linking feature in either store listing, not confirmed by the vendor: unlike SkyCalc's own FAQ, StatusTracker has never stated this directly. Inferred from the absence of any documented account-linking feature in either store listing, not confirmed by the vendor: unlike SkyCalc's own FAQ, StatusTracker has never stated this directly. |
| No credentials stored We don't ask for or hold loyalty programme passwords. | Yes | No: Stores loyalty account credentials to enable sync. Stores loyalty account credentials to enable sync. | Yes: Uses read-only OAuth tokens, not stored passwords. Uses read-only OAuth tokens, not stored passwords. | No: Credentials required for sync. Credentials required for sync. | With caveats: Plaid-style tokens, not raw passwords, but tied to bank/card credentials. Plaid-style tokens, not raw passwords, but tied to bank/card credentials. | Yes | Yes: Privacy policy lists only name, email and an optional photo as collected personal information; loyalty credentials appear nowhere in the data it collects or shares with its service providers. Privacy policy lists only name, email and an optional photo as collected personal information; loyalty credentials appear nowhere in the data it collects or shares with its service providers. | Unknown: Inferred from the absence of any documented credential or password field in either store listing, not confirmed by the vendor: Google Play's data-safety disclosure also declares no Financial info collection, but neither is a direct statement that no credentials are ever stored. Inferred from the absence of any documented credential or password field in either store listing, not confirmed by the vendor: Google Play's data-safety disclosure also declares no Financial info collection, but neither is a direct statement that no credentials are ever stored. |
| No data sold or shared Your activity isn't packaged or sold to advertisers, partners, or data brokers. | Yes | With caveats: Privacy policy permits sharing with affiliates and partners. Privacy policy permits sharing with affiliates and partners. | With caveats: Parent company (SAP Concur) shares trip data with corporate partners. Parent company (SAP Concur) shares trip data with corporate partners. | With caveats: Shares aggregated data with airline partners per ToS. Shares aggregated data with airline partners per ToS. | With caveats: Monetises via card-issuer referral partnerships; spend data informs the business model. Monetises via card-issuer referral partnerships; spend data informs the business model. | Yes | Yes: Privacy policy: "We do NOT sell, rent, lease, or trade your personal information... Your data is not a product we monetize." Privacy policy: "We do NOT sell, rent, lease, or trade your personal information... Your data is not a product we monetize." | Yes: Google Play's data-safety section states plainly: no data shared with third parties. Google Play's data-safety section states plainly: no data shared with third parties. |
| Delete everything in one click From your settings, delete your account and all stored data. No support ticket required. | Yes | With caveats: Account deletion requires a support request. Account deletion requires a support request. | With caveats: Self-serve closure available; full data deletion requires email. Self-serve closure available; full data deletion requires email. | With caveats: Account deletion via support form only. Account deletion via support form only. | With caveats: Account deletion via in-app request or support form. Account deletion via in-app request or support form. | Yes | With caveats: Deletable from account settings with no support ticket required, but the privacy policy states data is deleted or anonymised within 30 days rather than instantly. Deletable from account settings with no support ticket required, but the privacy policy states data is deleted or anonymised within 30 days rather than instantly. | With caveats: Neither store listing documents an in-app deletion flow. Google Play's developer account-deletion policy requires some path to exist, but nothing describes it as instant or one-click. Neither store listing documents an in-app deletion flow. Google Play's developer account-deletion policy requires some path to exist, but nothing describes it as instant or one-click. |
How they fit together
These tools solve different jobs. Here's the honest read on which one does what.
When Miles Mosaic is the right choice
Miles Mosaic answers the portfolio question: where do I stand across every programme I belong to, and what happens to my elite status if the year continues as it has started. It tracks 31 loyalty programmes, 24 airline and 7 hotel, plus 8 transferable point currencies, each modelled under its own 2026 earning rules and tier thresholds. That distinction matters most at exactly the moment award search gets interesting. Knowing that a route has saver space is only half a decision, because the other half is whether you hold the right currency, whether transferring in leaves you short somewhere else, and whether taking a cheap redemption instead of a revenue fare costs you the qualifying activity you needed for requalification. Miles Mosaic projects each programme forward to its qualification deadline and flags the ones at genuine risk. It gets that data from you rather than from your accounts: log a flight or stay, enter membership numbers, or import a CSV. There is no account linking and no inbox parsing, and we never ask for or store loyalty passwords. It is a responsive web app and PWA, with no native app, and it does not search or book award seats. Explorer is free permanently, and Pro is $7.50 per month.
When Seats aero is the right choice
seats.aero answers the availability question, which is the one Miles Mosaic deliberately does not touch. It searches award inventory across a large set of programmes and surfaces where saver space actually exists, including the bulk and calendar style searching that makes speculative award planning practical rather than exhausting. Doing that well is a serious engineering problem: award inventory moves constantly, every programme exposes it differently, and a tool is only as useful as how fresh and complete its picture is. It is the kind of problem worth a dedicated product, which is precisely why we have not built a weaker copy of it. If your immediate question is where can I fly on points next March, that is a seats.aero question and you should start there. Consult their site for current coverage and subscription terms, since both evolve. The natural sequence for most people is to check what you hold in Miles Mosaic, find the space in seats.aero, then book directly with the programme.
Who Seats aero suits, and who we suit better
The short version, before the detail below. We would rather send you to the right tool than win a signup you regret.
Seats aero is a good fit for
- Travellers hunting live award availability across many programmes at once rather than checking one airline site at a time
- Anyone planning speculative award trips who needs calendar and bulk style searching to be practical
- People who already know what miles they hold and just need to find where those miles can actually be spent
Miles Mosaic is the better fit for
- Anyone whose question is which balance should I use, or will this redemption cost me my status
- Travellers who need a rule-aware projection of elite qualification across a portfolio of programmes
- Travellers who need their own balances and qualification tracked rather than live award inventory, though no one tool does both
Frequently asked
Does Miles Mosaic do award search?
No, and we do not plan to. seats.aero is a dedicated product solving a hard, fast-moving problem, and we would rather build the best status tracker than a weaker copy of someone else's award tool.
Is there an integration between the two?
Not currently. Both are things you read rather than things that act on your accounts, so the workflow is manual by design: check your balances and status in Miles Mosaic, find the space in seats.aero, then book with the programme directly.
Which should I open first?
Miles Mosaic first if you are not sure what you hold or whether a redemption will cost you requalification. seats.aero first if you already know your balances and the only open question is where the seats are.
Try Miles Mosaic free
Explorer is free forever and needs no card. Pro is $7.50 a month during the launch promo, $14.99 after that. There is no automatic free trial; if Pro is not for you, the refund inside the first 14 days is one button in your billing settings.
How we compare
Claims about Seats aero on this page reflect its publicly available documentation, features and pricing as last checked on . We compare on the dimensions that matter for cross-programme loyalty tracking: what each tool tracks, how it obtains your data, elite-status forecasting, pricing, and the privacy and credential model. We do not exhaustively test every paid feature of competing products, and programmes change their terms, so confirm current details on each provider's own site. This page is updated when a competitor changes its public terms.
This page describes seats.aero from its publicly documented purpose and positioning on seats.aero, and Miles Mosaic from its own product behaviour. We have not enumerated seats.aero's programme coverage or subscription tiers here, because award-search coverage changes frequently and a specific list would date quickly. Check their site for current details.