Comparison

APA Pilot vs Check My Pay

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

APA Pilot

Access real-time pilot schedules, weather, and crew data. This tool offers offline flight history, news, and essential pilot utilities. It supports account setup, biometric authentication, and provides trip and commuter information.

Highlights
  • Real-time pilot schedules
  • Arrival/departure weather
  • Load details
  • Crew data
  • Offline flight history
  • News updates
  • Pilot tools
Features
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Allied Pilot Association, the certified collective bargaining agent for the 15,000 professional pilots who fly for American Airlines, presents APA Pilot as a leading-edge mobile app/tool. APA Pilot provides pilot schedules in real-time, arrival/departure weather, load details, and crew data. APA members will also have access to offline flight history, news updates and a robust suite of pilot tools. APA Pilot also provides the following capabilities: · Account Setup · Biometric Authentication · Navigation Bar (Available for All Apps) · Touch Dashboard Icons for Navigation · Settings Management · Known Crewmember Information · Auto Sign-in · Option to Provide Feedback · FAR 117 Support · APA Reserve BETA · Trip INFO · Commuter INFO · Sentinel · Pay Check Audit

About

Check My Pay

This app analyzes your monthly schedule to identify any pay discrepancies and ensures you receive all owed wages. It allows you to project your monthly earnings, compare calculations with your employer's, and verify any errors.

Highlights
  • Paycheck analysis
  • Discrepancy identification
  • Earnings projection
  • Calculation comparison
  • Error verification
Features
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Check My Pay helps you understand your paycheck and ensures you get paid everything you are owed. The Check My Pay system takes a monthly schedule and analyzes it. We notify you directly with any pay discrepancies we identify. In addition, you may see how much you are projected to make each month, compare our paycheck calculations with the company's and verify any errors for yourself through our app.

Screenshots

APA Pilot4 screens
Check My Pay3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Check My Pay at 57% against APA Pilot's 29%. Check My Pay also leads on rating (3.8 vs 3.5). APA Pilot's advantage is ratings volume (422 vs 36). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Check My Pay holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: APA Pilot has 422 ratings behind it against 36, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of APA Pilot's written reviews are positive against 57% of Check My Pay's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

APA Pilot ships an update monthly, Check My Pay every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
APA Pilot versus Check My Pay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAPA PilotCheck My Pay
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (422 ratings)3.8 (36 ratings) — better
Positive reviews28.7% of reviews57.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings422 — better36
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.2 — better15
Further details — not scored
Size170 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAllied Pilots AssociationCheck My Pay, Inc

Customer experience

APA Pilot

All ratings422 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative35.1%
Written reviews87 reviews
Positive28.7%
Neutral10.3%
Negative60.9%

Check My Pay

All ratings36 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral5.6%
Negative27.8%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral7.1%
Negative35.7%

In-app purchases

None

APA Pilot

No in-app purchases

None

Check My Pay

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is APA Pilot free?
APA Pilot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Check My Pay free?
Check My Pay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, APA Pilot or Check My Pay?
Check My Pay is rated higher. APA Pilot averages 3.5 out of 5 from 422 ratings, while Check My Pay averages 3.8 from 36 ratings.
Do APA Pilot or Check My Pay have ads?
Neither APA Pilot nor Check My Pay shows ads.
Which is updated more often, APA Pilot or Check My Pay?
APA Pilot ships an update monthly, and Check My Pay every 3 weeks. Most recently, APA Pilot was updated on November 2, 2026 and Check My Pay on November 11, 2026.

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