Hi,

I'm looking for an easy and fairly low-effort way to keep track of my past flights and get as much statistics out of that as possible.

I'm aware that there are several website out there which seem to do that job more or less nicely and for free (including diagrams etc.), like flightdiary.net

However, I am not a big fan of the "cloud", you never know how long those services are around and with most free offers the old rule holds true that if you don't have to pay anything, you most likely are the product.

Until recently, I've tried to track my flights, cabins, aircraft types and earned miles/points per leg in a table in OneNote as part of my occasional travel notes, which looks nicer than Excel but has zero options to do statistics, calculations etc.
Also, it's really tedious as I have to track down and enter every piece of relevant information myself.

So what I'm looking for, ideally, is an offline version (formely known as "a piece of software", i.e. not an app or website) of flightdiary and the like that allows me to put in flight no., date and cabin - and fills out the rest automatically (like distance flown, tier points earned, airports visited, aircraft used), as well as giving the usual statistics (e.g. "my shortest/longest flight"). Ideally, this would be presented nicely, along with a map display etc.

Does anybody know of such a program? Is there even one out there? I'd be interested to hear any suggestions!

Thanks!

I'm not aware of any offline apps that would get the job done more quickly and more flexibly than Excel--while it's not pretty, it gets 90% of what you want (a log) done, with only a little more legwork than some offline tool that may not even exist. If you are even the slightest bit programmatically inclined, then it shouldn't be too hard to whip up something that could even output paths for google maps.

I do believe there are some websites that aspire to your requirements, though.

Thanks for your insights, arthabaska.
Are there any websites in particular which you can recommend? Might be a good inspiration at least.

I suppose if there really is no software product you can use locally (which, to be honest, surprises me, seeing as the frequent flyer community seems so vast) this might be a niche that's absolutely worth exploring, if, as you say, one is "programmatically inclined"...!

Thanks anyway!