# Stratus Insight EFB — user reviews > 70 indexed App Store user reviews of Stratus Insight EFB by Aerovie, LLC, rated 3.70/5 from 7 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/stratus-insight-efb/id819848629/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/stratus-insight-efb/id819848629.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 1 ## Newest reviews (14 of 70) ### 4/5 — Great EFB, but I have a wishlist *2025-09-04* Honestly a great EFB, came recommended by my instructor. However there are a couple features on my wishlist. 1. Glide Range. It would be so cool to calibrate your range by recording a real life glide. 2. A web interface for planning would be awesome but I know a ton of work. 3. It’s easy to click on airports when zoomed out or very close, but at mid zoom it’s impossible to click on them which is really frustrating. **Developer response:** Thanks for the kind words. We will add these to our backlog of features. Hopefully we'll be able to add these for you one day. Cheers! ### 2/5 — Kind of meh *2023-08-25, version 5.30* Support for Hawaii is abysmal. There’s no option to load the high resolution IFR sectional. Victor airways in Hawaii do not work — if you plug one in then your flight path jumps thousands of miles to the continental US and back. Oceanic tracks (R464 etc) are not recognized at all. Aside from the Hawaii specific issues, it is not possible to shortcut direct to a fix during an arrival or departure route. The app also seemingly hasn’t changed at all since its release as Aerovie years ago. Abandonware? Update 8/2023: still pretty useless for Hawaii. No way to tell it to use the local V20 instead of the one in Texas 🤦 ### 2/5 — Doesn’t work well, especially for the price *2023-03-10* The Apple Watch part of this app just flat doesn’t work, trying to view radar crashes it, it needs the iPhone and isn’t remotely stand alone, NRST plus Windy does everything this tries to do, better and a fraction of the price On the iPhone, it’s just clunky and for the price point its too close to foreflight prices, if I want to save money fltplango is free and better **Developer response:** We apologize for the issues with the Apple Watch. We weren't aware of any crashes coming from the app related to that. If you wouldn't mind, reach out to us via email with what you were seeing and we will take care of it right away. Thanks for letting us know in your review. ### 2/5 — Kind of meh *2023-01-20, version 5.22* Support for Hawaii is abysmal. There’s no option to load the high resolution IFR sectional. Victor airways in Hawaii do not work — if you plug one in then your flight path jumps thousands of miles to the continental US and back. Oceanic tracks (R464 etc) are not recognized at all. Aside from the Hawaii specific issues, it is not possible to shortcut direct to a fix during an arrival or departure route. The app also seemingly hasn’t changed at all since its release as Aerovie years ago. Abandonware? **Developer response:** We can assure you the app has not been abandoned. Please reach out via email in the app if you are still having issues with airports in HI. We apologize if there were any difficulties using the app in flight. We will do everything we can to get these fixed as soon as we can. Thanks for leaving a review. ### 4/5 — Flight plan and landscape *2022-10-22, version 5.20* Have been using for couple years, nice app. It fails to open flight plans and lack of landscape orientation for iPhone are my two issues. ### 1/5 — Can’t rely on *2020-07-27, version 5.13.0* I have tried to use on IPad Pro, and it crashed, locked screen and even after rebooting and restarting Insight, only thing that comes up is same locked screen. I have cancelled subscription. ### 1/5 — Scam *2020-05-30, version 5.12.2* Beware If you download this app, they will charge you for an ongoing subscription without you realizing it. There’s no way to cancel this automatic renewal! A real scam! Don’t dare download the “free” trial! ### 3/5 — Favorites lacking, storage hog *2020-05-07* I’ve tried quite a few flight apps, most called EFBs despite the fact that most are far from an “EFB”. I like this one but it is a compromise because it lacks the ability to edit the favorites list or a method to save for a long term, a plan that one uses frequently. It is also not possible to edit a temporarily saved “favorite”, you have to name it something else. The favorites list as is, has little to no value to me. More than 20 gig, yes, more than 20 gig of storage, how can that be? Another problem I encountered is that after creating an IFR flight plan, if you try to edit airways after the fact, it draws airway lines all over the place which the only way to fix is to start over. I found myself going back to skyvector to create and file my flight plans because I know they will be correct that way. Documentation is really poor, and that is a problem in itself. I really like the price as it is reasonable, but improvements need to be made. I’m going to continue using this app as I watch for these changes. Hopefully I can edit this review as changes are made. I uninstalled this app because it is not working for me, before the trial ended, yet I was still charge the annual fee. I would like refund. **Developer response:** Thank you for trying insight. We do have the ability to both save and recall flight plans, finding this functionality can be a little tricky at first. Please contact us at support@appareo.com and we would be happy to help walk you through this. The storage space seems a little high. We recommend deleting the app entirely then reinstalling and downloading what you need. If you had a previous version around there may be a few database files still hanging around on the filesystem. It sounds like you had some issues with airway routing. The app tries to detect which direction you are going on your airway based on what you enter. It might be easier to enter the entire route in the search box instead of the FPL editor tool, this may help you. If you have a series of waypoints you enter that show up wrong please contact support as this may be a bug. ### 1/5 — Long way to go yet *2020-04-30, version 5.12.1* It’s written as a hybrid app with no real thought to design or user experience. It feels like a bad Android app. This isn’t something I would use in the simulator let alone as an efb. I might use the weather for flight planning purposes if it was separated, but there are better apps out there for that as well. ### 3/5 — OK but needs improvement to compete w FF and GP *2020-04-23* Overall very pleased with the product but needs some improvements. Been using for 2 weeks now and I have active FF and GP to compare to. Some comments : 1) The deal breaker — Synthetic vision screen severely lacks overlay options and is extremely glitchy. It’s hard to call this a feature when there is zero fluidness to the screen. Before you judge, I use apple mini 5 and I’ve also tried on Ipaad air - both have this major issue. 2) Needs graphical Leidos brief like FF does. Why is it that FF has full graphics like 800brief but no other product offers this? Something isn’t right with that. 3) Although you can add the approach plate, you don’t get option to add fixes to the flight plan - ie loading approaching. This is a must and needs attention to be competitive with FF/GP 4) Too many layers of menus. Menus at the top match FF (but why since imo this is the worst part of FF interface). On the lower screen there’s another menu. The lower one should be configurable, then completely delete the top one which is impossible to touch accurately on a bumpy flight. My preference is the menu method GP uses. Rich in color and highly visible in flight. 5) It would be nice to have Heading overlay arc on the plan view - the way aera796 does this (which I also own) would be amazing. No other iOS app does this and would be game changer for situational awareness. Btw the round compass rose approach is not a good solution as it clutters the screen. 6) Add HITS for full FP + loaded approach - There is no reason why any paying app should be without this feature. This coupled with approaches would be the best solution for 99% of pilots. I don’t like the auto glide slope as it does not match approach glide slope and can be very misleading. It should match the approach only when loaded. 7) Split screen similar to FF was the wrong decision. IMO the method GP uses is the best, offering small button to configure the secondary window that we want to activate. No one else comes close. 8)Vertical planning mode w weather is a valuable tool especially for icing and cloud layers. **Developer response:** Thank you for your comments Adam. We will continue to improve the product and we hope many of your ideas will soon become updates to the app. Stay tuned and continue to let us know how we can make the app even better. Contact us at: support@appareo.com with your suggestions. ### 1/5 — Still no Canadian charts *2020-03-31, version 5.11* It was hoping for an alternative for ForeFlight or FltPlan Go but without Canadian charts I guess I have to keep waiting. ### 1/5 — No Free Trial *2020-01-04, version 5.09* Tried to use this funky app. Downloaded for a free trial. As I entered a flight plan, I was prompted that my free trial ended and I couldn’t use any features. It’s a shame I couldn’t try this app as I heard good reviews. Stick to Foreflight. ### 2/5 — Weather is incredible, but... *2019-12-28* ...I tried it for two months and 5 flights after I upgraded my Stratus from 2S to 3. Clearly, the integration of the two, both now owned by Appareo, had a LOOONNNGGGG way to go. All the flights were VFR, thankfully, as the instability of the program was woeful at best. It crashed continuously! The craziest one that caused me to turn it off for good was a VFR flight to a pancake fly in. I was watching all the targets on screen as I entered he pattern when the screen began replicating itself over and over just before it crashed again. Fortunately, I was focused outside the airplane, but this just proved I could not rely on it and cancelled the subscription. But, oh that weather! Cloud tops and bases visually for your route? Yowzaa! Just wish I could buy that separately. **Developer response:** Please stay tuned as we believe we've fixed a number of the traffic issues you've described in the next release. Sorry that happened, if you contact us we will make it right for you with extending your account so you may re-test. ### 3/5 — Has potential, but is WAY to glitchy to be used in flight *2019-08-06, version 5.09* After using ForeFlight for 3 years, I decided to try some different EFBs. I like how simple this app is, but even in the 15 minutes getting oriented with the app, I noticed that it is very glitchy. There were several times where I could not get charts or takeoff minimums to close using the ‘X’ (close button). Also, I don’t feel like the interface is too polished. It felt a little clunky to use. Given the bugs I came across so far, I would hesitate to attempt to use it during an actual flight. Has potential though. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — DO NOT DOWNLOAD IN CANADA *2024-11-26, version 6.1.2* This app is no good in Canada as per the other review. There is no way to cancel the subscription in the app. Haven’t been able to get my money back from Apple. Have to go to credit card company next. ### 1/5 — Not Canadian *2024-04-28, version 5.33.9* Sold in the Canadian App Store, but no Canadian charts. 1-star for this uselessness. Change the app and add Canadian charts and the review can be changed. Will update if anything does. ### 1/5 — Ruined new version *2023-07-31, version 5.28* I’ve been using this app for about 3 years and it’s been great. Right before EAA AirVenture 2023 they put out a terrible new release making it impossible to file a flight plan. You enter in data to the flight plan manager and it doesn’t update the map. Impossible to file a flight plan so make to calling flight service. Anyway, don’t buy this, it’s going down hill. And it’s not safe. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t accept no home number on sign up *2023-05-19, version 5.24* What a stupid first screen. Asks for a phone number, but doesn’t accept it or even ask for the country or area code. Is this an app that assumes everyone is on the US? ### 1/5 — Broken onboarding *2022-10-01, version 5.20* The app opens on a rather nosey account creation screen that won’t accept phone numbers that have more than 10 digits. But at the end you’re rewarded with a “Account cannont be created’ error message. It’s built so poorly that iOS’ password generator doesn’t work. ### 1/5 — Don’t purchase. Avoid Avoid Avoid *2022-06-17, version 5.19* I will updated if anything changes, but I downloaded this app, then during the first day of the 30-day trial learned that it does not work in Canada where I need it to work. I was immediately charged for the app. I requested a refund but it was denied, then after contacting the credit card company I was issued a credit memo but Apple. Then, after I alerted the credit card company that a refund had been provided, the app was mysteriously reinstated and I was changed again by Apple (or the app developer). Stay away from this app! If anything positive comes of this I will update accordingly. ### 1/5 — It’s a joke! Don’t waste your time. *2021-08-18, version 5.18* There is no such thing “a 30 day trial “. It would not even let you look at it without subscribing. ### 1/5 — Do not download !!! *2021-06-26, version 5.17.3* ADSB does not work with Garmin GDL and I was charged $9.95 less than a week after downloading. Was not 30-day trial period. ### 1/5 — No thanks *2020-09-28, version 5.16.0* Not paying $9.99 per month ### 1/5 — No support for Stratux *2020-08-20, version 5.14.0* It used to support Stratux, now it does not!!! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Promising application *2020-11-17, version 5.17.0* Good application with even better potential ### 5/5 — Best Value *2020-08-02, version 5.13.0* I’ve used every EFB out there. It is coded tightly, isn’t designed by committee and the dev is responsive to feature requests and bug fixes. ### 5/5 — Status Insight great for VFR flights *2020-04-14, version 5.12* The main reason I purchased the one month subscription of $9.95 (1 year/$100) was to try the ATC transcription service. Mainly to help with clearance delivery read backs and general read back ATC instructions. You do need the special wire adapter that you use with your existing headset for it to work. The EFB is an added bonus to the transcription service. Transcription service: The verbal to written transcription service is overall pretty good, it does a very good job with numbers, which is probably the most important. It does have some difficulty with some terms. Accuracy is about 80%-90% Overall. It does do a good job of organizing the verbal transmissions, so if the text transcription does not make sense, you can always listen again to the original verbal message. It is like having a copilot next to you, where u can turn to him/her and ask “what did ATC say?” It is also nice to be able to multi task in the cockpit, when there is a long 2-3 minute ATIS that talks about every NOTAM over the last 6 months, and you miss the most important part, the winds and barometric pressure, active runway and what letter designation is current (e.g. bravo) , it is nice not having to repeat and listen to it. The strongest part of the EFB is actually the weather planning aspect of the Stratus Insight program. It can almost be a stand alone program by itself, it is overall all a pretty good weather planning tool. Using the program for VFR flying and weather planning, is where the program is at its strongest. The AHRS is also very good, especially when used with the Stratus, which would be expected. The program is a little weak in my opinion for IFR flying, as compared to ForeFlight, which is much more polished, but more expensive. For example, It is difficult to choose an IFR plate, while flying, if you have not loaded the plates already. Also the wind data is not incorporated with the active runway (no active head wind and cross wind data based on current conditions) In conclusion, I think when used with ForeFlight ( or Garmin) it is a good adjunct program, especially for IFR flights. By using the transcription service, I am much more likely to file an IFR flight plan, mainly by helping me read back my clearance delivery without getting flustered during the read back. I use the middle cost FF plan, $199 per year. I do not think the $299 FF plan is worth the extra ($100) cost, compared to what you get. But I do think, putting the extra $100 per year toward the Stratus Insight EFB makes more sense, especially with the forward looking weather planning data. If you fly VFR, I think Stratus Insight is worth it as a stand alone EFB, it has everything you need, and the weather part of the program is perfect for helping plan a more safe VFR only flight. There is also a flight log book, that keeps track of currency and airplane check lists also as part of the Stratus Insights EFB program. If you do not want to spend the money on a Complete EFB like ForeFlight or Garmin, it is worth is as an inexpensive option, you can download the program and play around with it to get a feel of the program, but you do not get complete access to the whole program unless you sign up for the free month. ### 5/5 — One month free trial *2020-04-03, version 5.12* I am just playing with this app for first time. There is a free one month trial. looks good so far ### 5/5 — Excellent *2019-12-19, version 5.09* Aerovie is the best, most cost effective and user friendly flight app. I cannot stress how useful and intuitive it is. I fly in the US and abroad and even in South America the information is accurate. I only wish you could save and label personal waypoints as this would be very useful down south.Wholly recommend it! ### 5/5 — Excellent *2019-11-28, version 5.09* A great app with all the functionality needed at a great price! ### 5/5 — Excellent flight app! *2019-05-11, version 5.08* Full function flight bag app with some great weather planning resources. ### 5/5 — Great App *2019-04-26, version 5.08* Nice feature set and generally intuitive process to use. Support is timely and great. It’s unclear to me why this app does not get more notice in the aviation press; anyone who gives this app some time will be impressed. ### 5/5 — One of my Go to apps as a CFI *2019-03-26, version 5.07* This App is Fantastic. I use it every time I plan a trip. It helps me make quick decisions on route, altitude, and weather. What a fantastic time saver and safety tool. Thanks guys, keep it up. ### 5/5 — Outstanding for a CFI/CFII/MEI/Professional Pilot *2019-01-24* As a 1200+ hr CFI/MEI/CFII I highly recommend this to my students as I think it’s phenomenal. I’d used foreflight for a long time (mostly because it’s popular) and it’s what my employer wanted us to use... Then flight plan go. But aerovie is on a whole other level and is amazing as a personal tool and as a teaching tool. Awesome weather info, easy to use, reliable interface in the cockpit, ability to show multiple METAR qualities on the map for airports (which foreflight CAN NOT do!), tons of advanced layers you can load on the map for weather - for teaching, research, or getting a more in-depth understanding of the atmosphere you’re going to face... These really help provide a more in-depth look at the weather as well as your flight plan. All for a very affordable price I think. One thing I wish were changed however... when clicking on AIRMETs (Zulu tango Sierra etc) it shows the applicable altitude but I still want to see the RAW ORIGINAL AIRMET information in the little white box. The original airmet text information. Also when looking at the complete standard briefing.... the way the winds/temperatures aloft text is presented it kind of runs together and is hard to read? Is there any way to fix this? I’m running a 12.9 inch iPad Pro (on the ground only!) and it’s still hard to see/decipher sometimes. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-01.*