PilotPal vs Plane Checklist
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PilotPal
This app provides FAA aviation airport charts and facility directories for easy flight planning. Access airport diagrams, frequencies, elevation, and helipad information offline. Stay updated with monthly chart revisions and quickly find nearby or favorite airports.
- Offline charts
- Airport Facility Directories
- Airport Diagrams
- Airport Information (Maps, Frequencies, Elevation, Helipads)
- Monthly updated FAA charts
- Nearby and favorite airports
- Airport search
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PilotPal is the easiest way to flight plan. PilotPal brings the FAA airport facility directory and Airport Diagrams to your pocket. Features: • Offline Charts: Easily download airports or entire regions for offline use • Airport Facility Directories • Airport Diagrams • Weather via METAR and TAF • Wind maps • Airport Information including: • Maps • Frequencies • Elevation • Helipads • Updated FAA charts every month so you're always up to date. • Nearby airports: Easily find airports around you • Favorite airports: Save your favorites for quick access • Airport search: Easily find any airport or helipad • Dark mode • iPad support Built by real pilots with a love for aviation Feedback or issues: tinybyteapps@gmail.com Legal: Airport facility directories and airport diagrams are provided by the FAA. Always consult appropriate and available sources to prepare for your flight. Our privacy policy is available at: https://pilotpal-1139.firebaseapp.com/privacypolicy.htm Our terms of service is available at: https://pilotpal-1139.firebaseapp.com/termsofuse.html
Plane Checklist
This app provides comprehensive checklists for flight simulation enthusiasts. It covers pre-start to shutdown procedures for various aircraft, enhancing realism and safety in virtual flights. Regular updates ensure current data for popular simulators.
- Comprehensive checklists
- Pre-start to shutdown procedures
- Supports popular flight simulators
- Includes major aircraft types
- Regular data updates
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The application is developed as a collection of checklists for flying in flight simulators, such as X-plane, MFS and others. We try to always update existing data and add new ones. At the moment, there are main aircraft, for example, Boeing, Airbus, Cessna, etc. Checklists contain complete information from Pre-Start Checklist to Approach, Landing and Shutdown checklists. In aviation, a preflight checklist is a list of tasks that should be performed by pilots and aircrew prior to takeoff. Its purpose is to improve flight safety by ensuring that no important tasks are forgotten. Failure to correctly conduct a preflight check using a checklist is a major contributing factor to aircraft accidents. FOR FLIGHT SIMULATION USE ONLY Term Of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PilotPal at 55% against Plane Checklist's 0%. PilotPal also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.3) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 39 months). Plane Checklist's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. PilotPal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Plane Checklist sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PilotPal holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PilotPal has 663 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of PilotPal's written reviews are positive against 0% of Plane Checklist's.
PilotPal ships an update every 3 months, Plane Checklist every 39 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and August 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PilotPal | Plane Checklist |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (663 ratings) — better | 2.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 55.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 663 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 39 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tinybyte Apps LLC | Aleksandr Dreval |
Customer experience
PilotPal
Plane Checklist
Bugs and requests
PilotPal
Reported bugs
5 issues- Subscription verification loop - shows already subscribed but denies access
- Airport diagrams not displaying despite active subscription
- App stopped working after February update
- General app functionality failures
- Missing settings/preferences menu
Requested features
6 requests- Airport diagram printing functionality
- Ability to sort favorites tab
- Front and back page information inclusion
- Improved search functionality for VOR locations
- Legend/index documentation
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- Comprehensive chart supplement data (VFR corridors, visual reporting points, VOR test locations)
Plane Checklist
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PilotPal
- Airport Diagrams$0.991 Month
- PilotPal Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- PilotPal Pro3 Days trial$19.991 Year
Plane Checklist
- Full Version$0.991 Month
Questions
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