Flight Simulator vs Docent
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flight Simulator
Experience the quiet joy of air travel without leaving home. This app lets you choose a destination and embrace peaceful solitude, perfect for unwinding.
- Choose your destination
- Experience peaceful solitude
- Simulated air travel
- Relaxing ambiance
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Flight Simulator is an ode to airplane mode. It celebrates the best part of air travel: peaceful solitude. Choose a destination, enable airplane mode, and enjoy.
Docent
Explore museums and galleries worldwide with this comprehensive guide. Discover nearby venues, follow curated tours, and connect with friends to share your cultural experiences. Learn about art and history through interactive features.
- Discover 100+ museums globally
- Curated walking tours with directions
- Host and join museum groups
- Rate and review venues and exhibits
- Follow friends and see their activity
- Learn about art history with tooltips
- Track visited museums and tours
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Docent is your personal guide to the world's museums, galleries, and exhibits. Discover venues near you, follow curated walking tours, write reviews, and share your journey with friends. DISCOVER Browse 100+ museums and galleries across cities worldwide—from the Met and Tate Modern to the de Young and Albertina. Sort by distance or rating, filter by city, and explore upcoming exhibits with opening and closing dates. GROUPS Host and join groups to attend museums together. Invite friends through Docent and share discussion posts, a photo album, and more with this feature. Record your group trips to museums through Docent, all in one place. TOURS Follow curated walking tours through museum collections. Each tour includes stop-by-stop directions, activities, and discussion prompts. Go at your own pace — pause and resume anytime. Upload photos and take notes along the way. REVIEWS & PHOTOS Rate and review museums, galleries, exhibits, and tours. Add photos with captions to share what you saw. Browse visitor photo collages on exhibit pages for a real look at what's on display. SOCIAL Follow friends to see their latest reviews in your feed. Discover what venues your friends are visiting and how they rated them. Friend reviews are always highlighted first. LEARN Tap highlighted keywords in venue descriptions to learn about art movements, architectural styles, and historic figures through contextual tooltips. TRACK YOUR JOURNEY Save your favorite venues and exhibits. Track which museums you've visited, tours you've completed, and see a visual breakdown of your activity on your profile. NOTIFICATIONS Save exhibits to get notified when they're opening soon or about to close. Never miss a limited-time show.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Docent at Free against Flight Simulator's $1.99. Docent also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 85%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Flight Simulator's advantage is ratings volume (38 vs 5) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Docent is free to download; Flight Simulator costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Docent holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flight Simulator has 38 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Flight Simulator's written reviews are positive against 100% of Docent's.
Flight Simulator ships an update every 3 weeks, Docent every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flight Simulator | Docent |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (38 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 38 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Soft Applications, LLC | Sky Jung |
Customer experience
Flight Simulator
Docent
In-app purchases
Flight Simulator
No in-app purchases
Docent
No in-app purchases
