Moving Map Basic vs Horizon Portable Glass Cockpit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Moving Map Basic
Track your aircraft's real-time position on a detailed, offline map. View live flight data including distance, time, speed, and altitude. Ideal for airline passengers wanting to follow their journey.
- Real-time aircraft position on map
- Downloadable offline maps (World, Europe, North America, Asia)
- Live flight data (distance, time, speed, altitude)
- Automatic route and zoom view swapping
- Detailed map with cities, countries, and points of interest
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Moving Map displays a realtime position of your aircraft on a map. The BASIC version, oriented to airline passengers, features the following characteristics: A DETAILED MAP • You download the region you operate on: World, Europe, North America or Asia. • High resolution, works without internet connection • Cities, country names, lakes, rivers • Major points of interest and mountains name • Swapping automatically between route view and close zoom view LIVE FLIGHT INFORMATION PAGE Display live data concerning your flight: • Remaining distance to destination (in NM, SM or Km) • Time left to destination • Current speed (in Knots, Km/h or Mph) • Flying altitude (in feet or meters) The PRO version, oriented to aircraft owners and operators, features the BASIC characteristics plus the following: • High resolution map, day mode and night mode • Welcome on board screen with weather conditions at destination • Welcome to destination screen with arrival city picture • 4 different aircraft icons (airline, private jet, single engine and helicopter) • Aircraft track displayed in the live information page • Estimated external temperature displayed in the live information page • Aircraft pressurisation in the live information page • Possibility to lock the view on one page (close zoom, far zoom or flight info) • GPS accuracy LIMITATION • GPS needs to be ON • Preferably position the device near a window • On a fully charged iPad the battery lifetime has been tested up to 4 hours • At least 1.0 Gb of free space for installation
Horizon Portable Glass Cockpit
This navigation app provides a portable glass cockpit experience for general aviation pilots. It offers intuitive visualizations, backup instrument functions, and enhanced situational awareness for safer and more enjoyable flights. Compatible with various sensor sources, it brings modern avionics capabilities to a tablet.
- 3D Synthetic Vision
- Moving Map (VFR/IFR)
- AHRS
- Split Screen Views
- Inflight Weather
- Worldwide Chart Data
- Flight Plan & Logfiles
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A fully functional portable glass cockpit (EFIS) for general aviation pilots. "Horizon - Your Portable Glass Cockpit" improves your flight experience, offering you intuitive visualizations for enhanced situational awareness. It provides a backup system for all relevant instruments for navigation and orientation in the air while being compatible with many sensor sources (internal sensors of a tablet or smartphone, external SensorBox, third party GDL90 devices). Therefore, it contains all relevant functions of a modern glass cockpit on a tablet, as well as the advantage of redundancy due to complete independence from the built-in avionics. New intuitive visualizations improve the situational awareness and thus make it possible, in particular for private pilots, to provide greater flight safety, less stress and thus greater enjoyment of flying. Key Features: - 3D Synthetic Vision - Moving Map (VFR and IFR) - AHRS (Attitude and Heading Reference System) - Free Arrangement / Split Screen Views - Side View - Optional connection with our SensorBox and 3rd party GDL90 devices (Stratux, TalosAvionics, etc...) - Inflight weather Other features: - worldwide* chart data with: - Obstacles - Airspaces - Airways - Airports - Navaids - Waypoints / GPS fixes - VFR Reporting Points - Taxiways/Aprons/Hangars/Terminals - Water Bodies (e.g. Rivers and Lakes) - Street and Railway Landmarks - High quality worldwide terrain data (except greenland and antarctica) - Support for US VFR Sectional raster charts - Support for custom waypoints and other custom elements - Angle of Attack indication (if available) - QNH/Altimeter settings to use a pressure sensor (default: auto determined by GNSS) - Manual and automatic calibration for best accuracy - Flight plans - Logfiles - Checklists - Viewing details of chart elements - Viewing glide infos - Connection with the free FlightGear flight simulator - Multiple display support (via UDP Forwarding) - In-App help / manual - Attitude accuracy indication - North Up and Track Up Modes - Portrait and Landscape Modes - … * worldwide data include: high quality data for Europe, USA, New Zealand, Canada and basic data for the rest of the world. Please also see our distribution overview maps. About Helios Avionics GmbH: We are a young and dynamic team of pilots, who admire flying and are constantly pursuing the dream of making the world of avionics more user friendly. Since we are proud FAA Private Pilot License holders with Instrument Rating, we can offer you products made by pilots and created for pilots. With "Horizon -Your portable Glass Cockpit" we are providing you straightforward navigation and enhanced situational awareness, so that you can concentrate on what really matters – the fun of flying! Please be advised that "Horizon - Your Portable Glass Cockpit" is not designed as an official flight instrument; usage is only permitted according to the EULA (https://helios-avionics.com/login/EULA_de.html) and applicable law. Problems or questions? Please find our FAQ: https://helios-avionics.com/login/faq.html or the manual: https://helios-avionics.com/login/manual/index.html Still need help? You can contact us on: https://helios-avionics.com/contact/ End User License Agreement: https://helios-avionics.com/login/EULA_de.html General Terms of Service, Copyright, Data Protection, Cookies and Revocation Terms: https://helios-avionics.com/contact/impressum/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Horizon Portable Glass Cockpit at 89% against Moving Map Basic's 36%. Horizon Portable Glass Cockpit also leads on rating (4.4 vs 2.0). Moving Map Basic's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Horizon Portable Glass Cockpit holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 36% of Moving Map Basic's written reviews are positive against 89% of Horizon Portable Glass Cockpit's.
Moving Map Basic ships an update every 3 weeks, Horizon Portable Glass Cockpit every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Moving Map Basic | Horizon Portable Glass Cockpit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (3 ratings) | 4.4 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 36.0% of reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 10.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Riccardo Arrigoni | Helios Avionics GmbH |
Customer experience
Moving Map Basic
Horizon Portable Glass Cockpit
In-app purchases
Moving Map Basic
No in-app purchases
Horizon Portable Glass Cockpit
No in-app purchases
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