flyNav Flight Navigation vs Nearest Airport
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
flyNav Flight Navigation
This app provides VFR flight navigation with a moving map, detailed airspace information for multiple regions, and a database of thousands of airfields worldwide. It offers on-route weather, NOTAMs, and flight logging capabilities for pilots.
- Moving map flight navigation
- USA & Europe airspaces
- 20,000+ airfields worldwide
- On-route weather & NOTAMs
- Offline map data
- Flight logging
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flyNav is a flight navigation app for VFR. Overview Features: - Moving map flight navigation with vector based maps - Airspaces for USA & Europe included - About 20.000 airfields & airports worldwide - Navaids VOR, DME, NDB for Europe - Supported devices: Apple iPhone, Apple iPad and Apple Watch - Easy-to-read Navigation Display - On-route weather & NOTAM information Detailed Feature: - Waypoints database with about 20.000 airfields & airports worldwide - Airspaces for USA, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Swiss, Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Finnland,... - Moving map with vector based data (offline available!) - Navigation display with course and bearing indicator incl. waypoint distance and ETA - Altimeter with flight level support (using barometric sensor) - Plan a route directly in map via touch & drag - Automatic link of map orientation to airplane course - 5 minutes indicator - Manual route planner with ICAO & city search - Load & save routes - Automatic detection of take off time and touch down time - Track your flights via GPX - Emergency function: find nearest airfield and check if it's reachable - Import additional airspaces via openair format, e.g. traffic circuits - On-route NOTAM - On-route weather - Flight-log in PDF-format (printable & exportable) The handbook can be downloaded at http://www.flynav-app.com
Nearest Airport
This standalone watch application helps general aviation pilots quickly find nearby airports during flight. It displays crucial details like distance, heading, elevation, runway specs, and communication frequencies. The interface uses color-coded backgrounds to differentiate airport types and offers a "Map It" feature for visualizing your position relative to an airport.
- Locate nearby airports
- Display distance and heading
- Show field elevation and runway info
- Provide communication frequencies
- Color-coded airport type backgrounds
- Map view with airport details
- Search airports by identifier
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This standalone watch app allows GA pilots to locate quickly, nearby airports while in flight. Intuitive user interface provides the current distance from, the magnetic heading to, field elevation, runway information (lengths, widths, directions, pattern, and lighting), communication frequencies, and published remarks for nearby airports. Backgrounds are color coded to match sectional charts as to identify towered and non-towered airports. A slightly different shade is used for private airports. View current location relative to a selected airport with "Map It" feature. Click on the airport identifier while viewing the map to have important information read aloud. (text-to-speech) Requires Watch OS version 10.0 or higher. Includes a search feature that allows searching for airports by identifier, or partial match (limited to 100 results for performance). Does not require data connection to operate. Includes all airports registered with the FAA as of the current version release date.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Nearest Airport at $0.99 against flyNav Flight Navigation's $29.99. Nearest Airport also leads on rating (3.0 vs 1.5) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). flyNav Flight Navigation's advantage is review sentiment (71% vs 50%) and device support (4 vs 2). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
flyNav Flight Navigation costs $29.99 and Nearest Airport $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Nearest Airport holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of flyNav Flight Navigation's written reviews are positive against 50% of Nearest Airport's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
flyNav Flight Navigation ships an update every 4 months, Nearest Airport every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | flyNav Flight Navigation | Nearest Airport |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $29.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 1.5 (2 ratings) | 3.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.6% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Walter Greger | JONOTHON CONE |
Customer experience
flyNav Flight Navigation
Nearest Airport
In-app purchases
flyNav Flight Navigation
No in-app purchases
Nearest Airport
No in-app purchases
Questions
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