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- ProsTracks and predicts flight prices. Wonderful interface. Responsive. Solid notifications.
- ConsNo Web app. Only searches flights. Filters aren't the most advanced.
- Bottom LineIf you want to know exactly when to buy that flight to get the best price, Hopper has one of the best interfaces and alert systems among flight-tracking tools. If only there were a Web app.
The very best travel apps don't just help you get around once you land in a foreign place. They also help you plan, organize, and book travel. Mobile app Hopper (available for Android and iPhone) has been gaining attention recently for its ability to track and alert travelers about the lowest price for flights and the best time to buy. And the attention is deserved. The app is well designed, responsive, simple, and extremely adept at monitoring airfare prices and predicting when they'll change and by how much. For travel price tracking on a mobile device, it's better than even the very capable Kayak.
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Design
A big reason I like Hopper as much as I do is because its design is clean, straightforward, and very user-friendly. Hopper pulls up a color-coded calendar when searching for flights. Red days are the most expensive, green are the least pricey, and you understand that without having to look at a more detailed key. There is a key, however, and it tells you each color's price cap for a particular search.
A big reason I like Hopper as much as I do is because its design is clean, straightforward, and very user-friendly. Hopper pulls up a color-coded calendar when searching for flights. Red days are the most expensive, green are the least pricey, and you understand that without having to look at a more detailed key. There is a key, however, and it tells you each color's price cap for a particular search.
Say you want to fly from Miami to Bogota. To start, you tap on a magnifying glass icon to search. Next, you type the first few letters of the city or airport code until options appear that let you select your departure and arrival points. For cities with multiple airports, such as New York, options include all nearby airports, such as JFK, LGA, and EWR.
Next, you choose to either look for a one-way or roundtrip flight. The following screen that appears shows monthly calendars for the next six months with color-coded days. For travelers with flexible travel dates, this interface does a fantastic job helping you see price differences. I can tell at a glance that flying to Bogota is much more expensive in October, but it's cheap during most of July. If your potential travel dates are further out, you can click to reveal more months.
Tap the dates you want to travel, and Hopper starts looking for the best flights. A prediction screen then advises you whether to buy now or wait. In my case, I was told that the current price was $455, but I could save $187 if I wait for the right time to buy.
I love the specificity, but so far it's pretty similar to what you'll find in some other travel tracking and prediction tools.
Here's where Hopper gets even more specific. It tells you when prices are low, when they're expected to increase again, and by how much. For the Miami-Bogota trip, Hopper anticipates varying prices over the next four months, but it could drop to $268. Then, sometime around September 25, Hopper anticipates the price rising by $36.
Those details are excellent for times when you aren't sure if your travel plans might change. Can I afford to spend more if I'm not ready to buy and the price goes up? In this case, yes. If I rush to buy a ticket that I ultimately can't use, the change fee alone will be at least twice as much. I'd rather wait and pay $36 more than $100 in change fees. (That's an example and isn't based on any particular airline's fee, although for what it's worth, the last time I paid such a fee, it was about that much.)
Here's another example of great details for a search. I search for a flight from New York to Trinidad. Hopper tells me that a good price on a nonstop round-trip ticket is $450, and adding a layover only drops the price by about $25. I'll take that direct flight, please!
Alerts
A button on the bottom of the page lets you Watch This Trip, meaning Hopper keeps an eye on the price. When it finds a good price, it tells you via push notification. You can watch up to 99 flights at a time.
A button on the bottom of the page lets you Watch This Trip, meaning Hopper keeps an eye on the price. When it finds a good price, it tells you via push notification. You can watch up to 99 flights at a time.
Any time Hopper is tracking prices, it updates you periodically with the current price and advice on whether you should buy or wait.
In the app's settings, you can turn off the alerts and choose whether to silence them overnight, between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. You can also change the currency in the settings. The settings are good, but I'd like to see them built out in future updates. I'd love to be able to tell Hopper my home airport and get alerts about amazing flight deals leaving from it. Bonus points if I can opt into notifications about, say, amazing deals from my home airport for the month of January.
Buying
You can choose the flights you want from a clean and organized list of summaries of each flight. You can easily see the carrier, departure and arrival times, as well as flight duration. A sorting tool at the top of the page helped me narrow in on the shortest flights to find the ones that were nonstop. You can also sort by departure time, arrival time, and number of stops.
You can choose the flights you want from a clean and organized list of summaries of each flight. You can easily see the carrier, departure and arrival times, as well as flight duration. A sorting tool at the top of the page helped me narrow in on the shortest flights to find the ones that were nonstop. You can also sort by departure time, arrival time, and number of stops.
Hopper takes you all the way through the point of purchase if you're ready to jump on a good price for a flight. Hopper makes the booking for you directly with the airline. As you reach the final payment page, but before you enter your credit card, Hopper shows you a breakdown of the fare, which includes a commission. On a roughly $400 flight, the fee was $6, and it was completely transparent: clear, labeled, easy to see. I really appreciate how transparent fees are in Hopper.
A company representative explained that the commission is based on the route. For most flights, the fee is about $5. International flights that cost more than $900 are charged an $8 commission.
I also asked the spokesperson for more details about who owns the booking when you pay through Hopper. With most third-party booking sites, such as Orbitz and Expedia, you have to deal with that company rather than the airline or hotel directly if you need to change your booking. With Hopper, it's the same. They have an email address and phone number for customer support. Hopper doesn't charge any change fees, but the airline probably will, and those will be passed on to you.
What's Missing
I already hinted at the fact that there are features I'd love to see in Hopper that don't currently exist, like a Deals page. The app isn't crammed with features, because it's just a mobile app, and there's something to be said for simplicity on a mobile device. Some features might be better left to a Web app, but Hopper doesn't have one.
I already hinted at the fact that there are features I'd love to see in Hopper that don't currently exist, like a Deals page. The app isn't crammed with features, because it's just a mobile app, and there's something to be said for simplicity on a mobile device. Some features might be better left to a Web app, but Hopper doesn't have one.
There are Web apps for Google Flights and Kayak, and they do have more options for rolling the dice and finding a cheap flight to any destination.
When I need the most filtering tools during a search, Kayak (Web version) is always my first stop. I like that I can look for flights to and from a major city, such as San Francisco, and exclude any nearby airports that I don't want while including the rest (for example, SFO and OAK, but not SJC). On mobile, however, Hopper beats Kayak for price tracking and alerts. The interface is cleaner and easier to use.
Hop On
Hopper sticks to one aspect of travel—flight search and price prediction—and it does a fantastic job at it. Considering Hopper is a mobile app, it's stellar. It doesn't go overboard with features. It offers extremely clear information, and the interface does its job admirably without adding any unnecessary bling. Still, I'm excited to watch this little app grow, and I hope its next stop is to add a full Web app.
Hopper sticks to one aspect of travel—flight search and price prediction—and it does a fantastic job at it. Considering Hopper is a mobile app, it's stellar. It doesn't go overboard with features. It offers extremely clear information, and the interface does its job admirably without adding any unnecessary bling. Still, I'm excited to watch this little app grow, and I hope its next stop is to add a full Web app.
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Bottom Line: If you want to know exactly when to buy that flight to get the best price, Hopper has one of the best interfaces and alert systems among flight-tracking tools. If only there were a Web app.
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Users save on average $50 per flight by following the bunny’s advice. Know if you should book now or wait for a better price using the price prediction feature.
Hopper is like a super-fast, all-knowing travel agent that analyzes up to 15 billion flights prices every day and predicts the future cheapest price with 95% accuracy!
✓ PREDICT the best time to fly and buy so you’ll score the cheapest fares.
✓ WATCH a trip to receive price alerts via push notifications the instant prices drop.
✓ BUY cheap flights in 60 seconds or less with just a few taps and a swipe.
✓ FLY with confidence knowing you’ve found the best plane tickets on the airlines you like.
Hopper is an award-winning travel app. No spam. No ads. No popups. No time wasted. Just the confidence you’re booking the best flight and saving money.
Other things you can do with Hopper:
• Find the cheapest travel dates using the color-coded calendar
• Get smart travel tips about nearby airports and dates to save even more on your trip
• Use filters to get custom predictions about the best flight for you. Remove long layovers, stops, or basic fares that have lots of extra fees and restrictions
• Compare prices and amenities from over 250 airlines around the world including most low-cost airlines
• Use our price tracker for round-trip or one-way flights
• Receive personalized recommendations about deals to destinations you might like based on flights you are tracking, your past vacations and your travel budget
• Find out about breaking fare sales, hacker fares, and exclusive deals available from your home airport
• Save your traveler profile and your payment details securely for even faster booking
• Get an overview of all of the important details in the fine print from Fair Bear. He’ll let you know about the policies and fees related to flights cancellation or changes, carry-on allowances, first & second checked bags prices and seat selection
• Receive help 24/7 from our support agents if you need to cancel or modify your flight
Hopper features the major airlines in the US, Canada and around the world such as American Airlines, United Airlines, JetBlue, Alaska Airlines, Air Canada, Frontier, Spirit Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, Air Transat, WestJet, British Airways, Air France, Lufthansa, KLM & many more.
Download Hopper and let’s start planning your trip!
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2016 Google Play Award Winner - Standout Startup!
“The 10 Best Free Apps for Air Travel Junkies” - TIME
“23 Life-Changing Apps We Downloaded This Year” - BuzzFeed
'How Well Do Airfare Predictors Work? Hopper: 8/10, Kayak: 6/10, Google Flights: 0/10” - WSJ
“List reveals a number of apps from lesser-known travel services that bear looking into: Hopper, HotelTonight, trivago, Skyscanner” - AirfareWatchDog
“Compared to exact searches on Expedia, Kayak, and Orbitz, we regularly found that the best deal quoted on Hopper was the best” - Travel and Leisure
“Don’t neglect stand-alone airfare apps, including Hopper, Kiwi and Hitlist” - The Washington Post
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hoppertravel
Twitter: @hopper
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Have a question or feedback about the app? Visit us at http://help.hopper.com!
Users save on average $50 per flight by following the bunny’s advice. Know if you should book now or wait for a better price using the price prediction feature.
Hopper is like a super-fast, all-knowing travel agent that analyzes up to 15 billion flights prices every day and predicts the future cheapest price with 95% accuracy!
✓ PREDICT the best time to fly and buy so you’ll score the cheapest fares.
✓ WATCH a trip to receive price alerts via push notifications the instant prices drop.
✓ BUY cheap flights in 60 seconds or less with just a few taps and a swipe.
✓ FLY with confidence knowing you’ve found the best plane tickets on the airlines you like.
Hopper is an award-winning travel app. No spam. No ads. No popups. No time wasted. Just the confidence you’re booking the best flight and saving money.
Other things you can do with Hopper:
• Find the cheapest travel dates using the color-coded calendar
• Get smart travel tips about nearby airports and dates to save even more on your trip
• Use filters to get custom predictions about the best flight for you. Remove long layovers, stops, or basic fares that have lots of extra fees and restrictions
• Compare prices and amenities from over 250 airlines around the world including most low-cost airlines
• Use our price tracker for round-trip or one-way flights
• Receive personalized recommendations about deals to destinations you might like based on flights you are tracking, your past vacations and your travel budget
• Find out about breaking fare sales, hacker fares, and exclusive deals available from your home airport
• Save your traveler profile and your payment details securely for even faster booking
• Get an overview of all of the important details in the fine print from Fair Bear. He’ll let you know about the policies and fees related to flights cancellation or changes, carry-on allowances, first & second checked bags prices and seat selection
• Receive help 24/7 from our support agents if you need to cancel or modify your flight
Hopper features the major airlines in the US, Canada and around the world such as American Airlines, United Airlines, JetBlue, Alaska Airlines, Air Canada, Frontier, Spirit Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, Air Transat, WestJet, British Airways, Air France, Lufthansa, KLM & many more.
Download Hopper and let’s start planning your trip!
HOPPER LOVE
2016 Google Play Award Winner - Standout Startup!
“The 10 Best Free Apps for Air Travel Junkies” - TIME
“23 Life-Changing Apps We Downloaded This Year” - BuzzFeed
'How Well Do Airfare Predictors Work? Hopper: 8/10, Kayak: 6/10, Google Flights: 0/10” - WSJ
“List reveals a number of apps from lesser-known travel services that bear looking into: Hopper, HotelTonight, trivago, Skyscanner” - AirfareWatchDog
“Compared to exact searches on Expedia, Kayak, and Orbitz, we regularly found that the best deal quoted on Hopper was the best” - Travel and Leisure
“Don’t neglect stand-alone airfare apps, including Hopper, Kiwi and Hitlist” - The Washington Post
SAY HELLO
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hoppertravel
Twitter: @hopper
http://www.hopper.com
Have a question or feedback about the app? Visit us at http://help.hopper.com!
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