Award seat search for iPhone
Award seats in one table.
Pointfare is the current brand name of the app formerly called AwardGrid. The App Store listing is currently named AwardGrid (App ID 6816321841).
Type the routes and dates in English or Chinese, or set them in the editor. Pointfare puts seats.aero's cached award availability for several origins, several destinations and up to 92 days into one table. Each cell shows the lowest miles for each cabin you asked for, with the program and the seats left; each option also shows its fees and how old the data is.
What you need
- An iPhone with iOS 18 or later.
- Optional: your own seats.aero account with API access (seats.aero decides which accounts have API access; Pointfare sells nothing), connected with seats.aero's own sign-in. Without it, Pointfare shows sample data only.
- Pointfare depends on seats.aero's Partner API and connects to your seats.aero account through seats.aero's own sign-in (Login with Seats.aero); seats.aero's terms apply to that account.
What the table looks like
| Date | HKG → SEA | PVG → SEA |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 3 |
80,000 JAlaska · 2 seats F No matches |
87,500 JAeroplan · 2 seats 110,000 FAeroplan · 1 seat |
| Oct 4 |
J No matches F No matches |
90,000 JUnited · 3 seats F No matches |
| Oct 5 |
77,500 JAeroplan · 4 seats 100,000 FAlaska · 1 seat |
85,000 JAlaska · 1 seat F No matches |
Illustrative figures, not seats.aero data. In the app, results come from your seats.aero account, or from sample data.
Questions
Is Pointfare the same app as AwardGrid?
Pointfare is the current brand name of the app formerly called AwardGrid. The App Store listing is currently named AwardGrid (App ID 6816321841).
Is Pointfare free?
The app is free, with no in-app purchase. Your own seats.aero data (optional): if you have a seats.aero account with API access (seats.aero decides which accounts have API access; Pointfare sells nothing), you can connect it to see results from that account instead of sample data.
Do I need a seats.aero account?
No. Without one, Pointfare shows sample data only: search, the List, Calendar and Matrix views, option details, compare, Saved and Watches all work on sample data made on your iPhone, labelled as sample data, and nothing is sent. If you have a seats.aero account with API access, you can connect it in Settings to see results from that account instead.
Is Pointfare affiliated with seats.aero?
No. Pointfare is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by seats.aero, any airline, or any loyalty program. Its data comes from seats.aero.
Can Pointfare check award seats in the background and send push or email alerts?
Pointfare is the iPhone app formerly called AwardGrid (App ID 6816321841), published by Curastone CORP.
Route watches check when you open or return to the app. With your own connected data-provider account, route targets can also be checked in the background when iOS allows; iOS decides when, if at all. If a background check finds a route at or below its miles target and notifications are allowed, this iPhone can create a local notification. Pointfare does not send remote push or email alerts. There is no fixed checking frequency and no guaranteed immediate alert when seats open up. Sample-data watches check only when you open or return to the app.
Is the availability live?
No. Results are seats.aero's cached availability, not a live search, and each shows how old it is. Confirm on the program's own site before you transfer points.
Which programs does it cover?
The 26 programs seats.aero lists, where seats.aero monitors the route. An empty result can reflect no matching cached data, a route seats.aero does not monitor, or a search that did not finish reading all results. It does not prove that no award seats exist.
Can I search in Chinese?
Yes. Type the routes and dates in English or Chinese, or set them in the editor. The app's interface is in English or Simplified Chinese.
Does it book tickets?
No. For an option it opens seats.aero's booking link when there is one; otherwise you copy the search. It never books.
Could Pointfare stop working?
Pointfare depends on seats.aero's Partner API and connects to your seats.aero account through seats.aero's own sign-in (Login with Seats.aero); seats.aero's terms apply to that account.
Does Pointfare receive my seats.aero password or save award results on its servers?
Pointfare is the iPhone app formerly called AwardGrid (App ID 6816321841), published by Curastone CORP.
The Pointfare iPhone app connects through seats.aero's own sign-in (Login with Seats.aero), where you approve AwardGrid; Pointfare never sees your seats.aero password. Searches go directly from your iPhone to seats.aero, and results return to the iPhone. The developer's token service exchanges and refreshes sign-in tokens; it does not receive your search queries or award result rows and does not persist the tokens. Account result rows and the 45-minute search cache stay in the iPhone app's memory, not in a Pointfare server cache.
The iPhone app saves query and watch conditions, target-met and seen status, and check/call metadata in its own files on the device. With notification permission, iOS Notification Center can retain route, cabin, miles and date in a local watch notification. These device records are separate from award result rows and are not a Pointfare server cache.
What it does not do
| No airline-site scraping | It reads the seats.aero cache, or uses sample data made on your iPhone. It never scrapes airline or bank sites, and it never asks for an airline or bank password. |
|---|---|
| No guaranteed schedule | iOS cannot promise to run anything on a cadence, so Pointfare does not claim one. Route watches check when you open or return to the app. With your own connected data-provider account, route targets can also be checked in the background when iOS allows; iOS decides when, if at all. If a background check finds a route at or below its miles target and notifications are allowed, this iPhone can create a local notification. Pointfare does not send remote push or email alerts. There is no fixed checking frequency and no guaranteed immediate alert when seats open up. Sample-data watches check only when you open or return to the app. |
| No shared account | Without your own seats.aero account, Pointfare shows sample data only. It cannot search on someone else's behalf, and nobody can search on yours. |
| No live search | Only seats.aero's cached availability. Cached data goes stale and awards disappear; confirm on the program's own site before transferring points. |
| No round trips | Searches are one-way: no round trips, multi-city or passenger count. |
| No accounts, no analytics in the app | No telemetry, no advertising, no tracking. The app's only server of its own is a small token service for seats.aero's sign-in, which does not persist sign-in tokens, search queries or award results. These web pages count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, without cookies (privacy policy). |
Where this is up to
Pointfare is an iPhone app that runs on sample data or on your own seats.aero account. AwardGrid is free on the App Store (App ID 6816321841). Your own seats.aero data (optional): if you have a seats.aero account with API access (seats.aero decides which accounts have API access; Pointfare sells nothing), you can connect it to see results from that account instead of sample data. Available in 174 countries or regions; not in mainland China.
View AwardGrid on the App Store
Pointfare is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by seats.aero. Each user connects their own seats.aero account. What the app sends, and to whom, is in its privacy policy.