How MilesHound works
The short version — no jargon.
What does MilesHound do?
MilesHound answers one question: what are your points actually worth, and what's the best way to spend them? It values your miles, compares redemption options, and tells you which card to use for what.
Where do the points values come from?
Refreshed regularly from real redemption rates (flights, upgrades and partner awards). Mile prices move — a programme that was cheap last month can be poor value today — so the leaderboard shows cents per point for earning, redeeming and an average of both.
How do the tabs work?
- Use what miles — ranks every programme by value and shows rank changes (▲▼ vs the last refresh) at a glance.
- Use what card — sorts credit cards by miles-per-dollar for the spending category you pick (dining, travel, online…).
- Strategy — track your own mile balances and card points, and save plans.
- AI Assistant — ask anything in plain English; it uses the same up-to-date data as the boards.
What are the pills above the leaderboard?
They filter and re-sort the board. Alliance pills (Star Alliance / oneworld / SkyTeam / Others) narrow it to partner airlines; the cabin orbs (Economy, Premium, Business…) re-rank redemptions for that cabin; the arrows flip the sort direction. Filters combine.
What do the ▲▼ arrows beside programme names mean?
They appear after a data refresh and show whether that programme jumped up or down the leaderboard since your last visit — green for up, red for down. Arrows are comparisons with the previous state of the board, so they disappear once you've seen them (they're stored on your device, nothing is signed up).
How do I add my own miles and card points?
Open the Strategy tab and use the add rows. Everything lives in your browser — no account, no sign-up. Cards can hold mile programmes or plain points (like IDR/Cash), each with its own balance.
How is a programme’s value calculated?
Each programme gets three numbers: an earn rate (miles you collect per S$1 spent), a redeem rate (what one point is worth when you spend it on the best current redemptions, in S¢/mi), and the average the board sorts by. Higher is better on all three.
Worked example — Aeroplan in business class, earning and redeeming
Take Air Canada's Aeroplan with the Business lens selected. The board will show you two numbers that both come out at 4.5 — and they mean different things.
Redeeming — 4.5 S¢/mi. Aeroplan business awards carry a baseline of 3.5 US¢ per point from our source blend. Everything else in the app is in Singapore dollars, so it is converted once at USD/SGD 1.2797: 3.5 × 1.2797 = 4.5 S¢/mi. That reads as “one Aeroplan point spent on a business award is worth about 4.5 Singapore cents”, so 100,000 points ≈ S$4,500 of value. On a real route the same maths runs from the actual fare: (cash fare − taxes & fees) ÷ miles required.
Earning — 4.5 mi/S$. Aeroplan's typical earn path yields 1.8 miles per S$1 spent, and the Business lens scales the typical rate by 2.5: 1.8 × 2.5 = 4.5 mi/S$. Spend S$1,000 in that lens and you earn roughly 4,500 points. A programme with no curated earn rate falls back to 1.6 mi/S$ — the default you will see on most rows.
They are not comparable. S¢/mi is value extracted per mile when you spend, mi/S$ is miles accumulated per dollar when you earn. Higher is better in both, but a programme can be strong on one and weak on the other — that is exactly what the Redeem miles / Earn miles toggle is for.
Is my data private?
Yes. Holdings and colour themes stay in your device's local storage. The server only serves data tables — it never receives your balances.
Disclaimer. All numbers and values shown in MilesHound are baseline estimates calculated from various sources. They are for reference only and do not reflect the actual miles required or the real value of a redemption. For accurate, up-to-date values, always check the respective airline's own website before you book.
Values refresh on a schedule and may lag the latest award-space changes.