Landing trainer vs Smart Logbook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Landing trainer
This utility informs pilots about optimal aircraft approach speeds. It visualizes how factors like wind and pitch angle affect flight. The app is for informational purposes only and not for operational use.
- Optimal approach speed information
- Visualizes effect of wind
- Visualizes effect of speed
- Visualizes effect of pitch angle
- Informational purposes only
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The ATR Landing Trainer is a little demonstration utility aimed to inform pilots about the optimal Aircaft approach speed. The Application schematizes the consequences of miscellaneous elements on the aircraft (wind, speed, pitch angle, ..). THIS APPLICATION AND ITS CONTENT ARE PROVIDED FOR INFORMATION AND INDICATIVE PURPOSE ONLY AND NOT FOR OPERATIONAL USE.
Smart Logbook
Effortlessly log flight hours, track currency, and manage pilot certifications. Visualize your flight history on an interactive map and receive timely renewal reminders for medicals and training. Supports various international regulations and export formats.
- Fast and easy flight logging
- Customizable totals calculation
- Currency and limit tracking
- Medical and training renewal reminders
- Interactive flight map
- Electronic signature capture
- Multiple export formats
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Smart Logbook makes logging your flights fast and easy. When you apply for a new rating or interview for a job, you can easily see your flying totals, over any span of time, in any type of aircraft. Track your currency and limits, and get reminders to renew your medical and recurrent training. As your flying experience grows, use the interactive map to see for yourself all the places flying has taken you. Getting started is easy. Download Smart Logbook and log 50 hours of flight time for free. Then make a one-time purchase in the app to continue adding flights. Besides getting the intuitive and powerful functionality Smart Logbook offers today, you'll also receive regular updates with new capabilities. Smart Logbook sync keeps your logbook securely backed up, and lets you seamlessly access it from multiple devices. Sync is included in the free trial. After that, just sign up for the very affordable sync subscription. The first year is free, and you can cancel any time. For more info about purchasing or the sync subscription, see https://thesmartlogbook.discourse.group/c/help/purchase Features: • Extensive customization, with defaults for general aviation and professional pilots. • Calculate your totals, filtered by time period, aircraft type/characteristics, and more. • Currency and limit tracking. Includes rules for FAA, EASA, and Transport Canada requirements, and allows creating custom rules. • Electronic signature capture, compliant with FAA standards. • Track certificates, ratings, endorsements, and medicals, and get notifications to renew items that expire. • Interactive map of your flights, which can be viewed and shared online. • Database of 40,000 airports, and allows adding custom airports. • Print your logbook in Jeppesen Basic/Pro, Transport Canada, EASA, or DGCA (India) format. • Calculate totals for the FAA Form 8710-1 / IACRA. • Add photos of aircraft, models, crew members, certificates, and flights. • Import flights from LogTen Pro or Excel/CSV file. • Export flights to CSV file. • Support for Dark Mode and Sign in with Apple. Privacy Policy: https://thesmartlogbook.com/privacy.html Terms & Conditions: https://thesmartlogbook.com/eula.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Smart Logbook at 93% against Landing trainer's 0%. Smart Logbook also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.0) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 25 months). Landing trainer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Smart Logbook sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Landing trainer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Smart Logbook holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Smart Logbook has 153 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Landing trainer's written reviews are positive against 93% of Smart Logbook's.
Landing trainer ships an update every 25 months, Smart Logbook every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Landing trainer | Smart Logbook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (3 ratings) | 4.8 (153 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 93.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 153 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 25 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ATR TRAINING CENTER | Kviation, Inc. |
Customer experience
Landing trainer
Smart Logbook
Bugs and requests
Landing trainer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Smart Logbook
Reported bugs
5 issues- Multiple sectors during one day sorted by name, not by time of departure
- Some airports missing (e.g., VDTI)
- Flights added as simulator flights
- Search function is terrible, impossible to find crew member
- Cross-platform purchase restoration issues (Android to iOS)
Requested features
18 requests- Ability to input waypoints instead of just airports
- Automatically add normal flight times for a route
- Separate flights by year on the main page for better overview
- Display flight direction on the map
- Allow custom names in the create an airport option
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- Filter flights by date (older/newer)
- Edit totals to date hours on FAA print pages
- Show all dates filter by default
- Add search by airport name
- Option to mark/switch view of all visited countries
- Add Airline field
- Add filters by airlines
- Show aircraft model and airline on the same line of the list
- See flight times with different date filters together on one page (e.g., last 7, 30, 120, 365 days)
- Add a signature feature for examiners and instructors
- Configure night time manually in settings for automatic calculation
- Add a prefix with airline name for flight ID
- Log duty time with multiple legs
In-app purchases
Landing trainer
No in-app purchases
Smart Logbook
- Sync (monthly)1 Year trial$1.991 Month
- Sync (yearly)1 Year trial$14.991 Year
- Unlimited Flights (discounted)$19.99
- Unlimited Flights (on sale)$23.95
- Unlimited Flights$34.99
Questions
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