Travel & Local
KAYAK: Flights, Hotels & Cars
Flight, hotel and car comparison across hundreds of travel sites, with price alerts and offline trips.
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- Developer
- Kayak Software Corp
- Score
- 4.8
- Downloads
- 100K+ ratings
- Age
- Rated 4+
- Version
- 297.0.0
- Price
- Free
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About this app
Comparison shopping is what KAYAK does: it pulls flights, hotels, rental cars and holiday homes from hundreds of booking sites into one set of results, then hands the traveller filters to narrow them down. It's for anyone planning a trip who wants to see the options side by side before committing. Price alerts watch a saved search and notify when fares move. KAYAK Explore flips the search around, showing where a fixed budget can fly. Hotel results include mobile-only rates, and car searches list car-sharing alongside the usual agencies. Once booked, the Trips tool gathers confirmations into an itinerary, works without a connection, holds boarding passes and warns about gate changes. A flight tracker follows connections, and a camera tool measures a bag against the airline's cabin allowance. Confirmations can be added to Trips by syncing an email inbox or entering them by hand.
KAYAK: Flights, Hotels & Cars: the full guide
What the app is
Comparison first, booking second. KAYAK pulls flights, hotels, cars and holiday rentals from hundreds of sites onto one results page, then lets you filter and sort until the choice is obvious. It's for anyone who wants everything side by side before paying.
Saved searches can carry a price alert that fires when fares shift. KAYAK Explore inverts the search: set a budget and see where it can take you. Hotel results include mobile-only rates; car results add car-sharing. After booking, the Trips tool collects confirmations into an offline itinerary with boarding passes and gate-change warnings, a tracker follows connecting flights, and the camera checks bag size against cabin limits.
How it works day to day
Planning starts weeks out. You run a flight search, apply the filters that matter (no overnight layovers, one bag included), and set a price alert rather than booking. When the alert fires you compare again and click through to whichever site is cheapest. Hotels get the same treatment, with a glance at mobile-only rates. Once everything's booked, you forward the confirmations or let the inbox sync pull them into Trips. On the day, Trips holds the boarding pass offline and buzzes about a gate change while the flight tracker watches the inbound connection.
Why people look for it
Nobody wants to open eight tabs to check whether a fare is fair, and KAYAK's search-everything approach is what people are after. Explore pulls in the undecided, who have a budget but no destination. The Trips organiser earns searches of its own from frequent flyers who want confirmations in one place that works without a connection.
Look and feel
A results list with filter chips, the Explore map, a Trips itinerary and probably the bag-measuring camera are what the five screenshots most plausibly cover. Travel comparison apps are list-heavy by nature, with price as the biggest number on every row. The listing gives no indication of unusual styling; function leads.
Updates and upkeep
A version number of 297.0.0 is extraordinary and points to a release-per-build numbering scheme rather than 297 feature generations; it does at least imply a steady flow of updates, though dates aren't in the data. Kayak Software Corp has over a hundred thousand ratings averaging 4.8, a large and happy sample. No Android listing is referenced.
