Visual Holding Pattern vs Virtual VOR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Visual Holding Pattern
This app offers a visual guide for pilots to determine correct holding pattern entry techniques. It allows for easy rotation of the holding pattern and aircraft heading to visualize the approach, with manual or automatic heading input.
- Visual holding pattern reference
- Determine entry techniques
- Rotate holding pattern
- Match aircraft heading
- Manual heading input
- Automatic heading input
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The Visual Holding Pattern provides a complete visual reference to help you determine the proper holding pattern entry technique based on your aircraft's heading and the holding pattern's inbound leg course. With a single finger rotation a pilot can easily orientate the holding pattern around a holding fix based on the inbound leg's desired bearing, radial, or course. The entire circular image can be rotated to match the aircraft's heading to allow the pilot to visualize the aircraft's approach to the holding pattern. The aircraft's heading can either be set manually or automatically based on the magnetic heading of the iDevice being used. This app is designed for optimal viewing and use on an iPad or iPhone 5 screen size or larger. This app requires iOS 8.0 or greater.
Virtual VOR
This navigation app allows users to place a VOR (VHF Omnidirectional Range) beacon anywhere on a map. It provides VOR-DME and ADF gauges for flight simulation or training purposes.
- Place VOR beacons anywhere
- VOR-DME gauge display
- ADF gauge display
- Customizable VOR placement
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Virtual VOR-DME, cast your VOR wherever you want, and get a VOR-DME and ADF gauges.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Virtual VOR at Free against Visual Holding Pattern's $0.99. Virtual VOR also leads on review sentiment (86% vs 63%) and ratings volume (46 vs 12). Visual Holding Pattern's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.2). On rating, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Virtual VOR is free to download; Visual Holding Pattern costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.9 for Visual Holding Pattern against 4.0 for Virtual VOR. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 46 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 63% of Visual Holding Pattern's written reviews are positive against 86% of Virtual VOR's.
Visual Holding Pattern ships an update every 9 months, Virtual VOR every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Visual Holding Pattern | Virtual VOR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.9 (12 ratings) | 4.0 (46 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 46 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arthur Varrassi | Gev Simon |
Customer experience
Visual Holding Pattern
Virtual VOR
In-app purchases
Visual Holding Pattern
No in-app purchases
Virtual VOR
No in-app purchases
Questions
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