Use Before Flight vs RenoPlan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Use Before Flight
This app offers interactive pilot training for professional pilots, focusing on ECAM handling and emergency scenarios for Airbus aircraft. Prepare for simulator checks and enhance system knowledge with hundreds of drills, videos, and documents, available offline.
- Interactive ECAM handling drills
- Simulated glass cockpit screens
- Over 250 abnormal/emergency scenarios
- Offline use for all drills
- Cross-referenced content (blogs, videos)
- Intuitive multi-functional menu
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THE AWARD-WINNING APP FOR PROFESSIONAL PILOTS Use Before Flight is the essential training app for the professional pilot, helping you prepare quicker and better for your sim check with interactive, immersive training, anywhere and at any time. **SUBSCRIPTION TO USE BEFORE FLIGHT REQUIRED** AVAILABLE FOR A320 & A330 AIRCRAFT ECAM handling and -discipline is key to operating Airbus aircraft. It is crucial, not only in real life, but also at least twice a year when the next simulator check is approaching. All Airbus pilots have experienced this: being in the flight simulator for a check is not the right time to start practicing ECAM handling, quite the contrary. You are expected to know what you are doing, and getting confused can really spoil the day. During line flying and daily operations, however, luckily failures and malfunctions are rare, so proper preparation with just the manuals can be challenging. This is where Use Before Flight steps in. Prepare yourself without the pressure of a simulator detail, wherever you are in your own time. Don’t let those unexpected ECAM lines surprise you! Being prepared will take the stress away and free up capacity you can spend on flying the aircraft and proper decision making. Albeit being the most confusing, it is not just the ECAM handling that matters. Training with literally hundreds of drills, supported by videos, blog posts and documents, will greatly improve not just your system knowledge, but expand your overall abilities as an Airbus pilot! Key features: - Visualise and interact with immersive scenarios with all glass cockpit screens fully simulated - Find content quickly and easily through an intuitive multi-functional menu system - Practice over 250 interactive abnormal and emergency scenarios anywhere and at any time - all drills embedded for instant offline use - Enhance your training experience further with our unique iconic guidance and by discovering fully cross-referenced related content, such as blogs, videos documents & case studies
RenoPlan
Easily measure rooms and create detailed floor plans for renovation and design projects. Generate accurate project estimates, invoices, and reports with integrated photos and diagrams. Supports AR, LiDAR, and professional laser measuring tools for precise results.
- Create floor plans
- Measure rooms with AR/LiDAR
- Automatic area calculations
- Generate project estimates
- Create invoices and get signatures
- Integrates with laser measuring tools
- Attach photos and diagrams
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RenoPlan helps anyone -- whether home contractors, interior designers, sales reps, architects, DIYers -- to quickly and accurately measure residential homes or office buildings to create floor plans and project estimates. The app can handle just about measuring jobs, like room drawings, doors, windows, kitchen countertops/cabinets, tubs, and showers. RenoPlan makes it easy for your renovation, remodeling and restoration projects. As you create your plan, the app automatically calculates floor, wall areas and perimeters of room areas so as to estimate product usages. This can mean big savings for your projects. It is handy to create estimates and invoices with attached floor plan diagrams and photos, so professionals like contractors can win a job and get client signatures on the spot. And when the job is done, send an invoice to the client to get paid faster. RenoPlan leverages your device's powerful AR (ARKit) and LiDAR capabilities to measure room in seconds, which will be very handy in the accuracy-insensitive scenarios. For professional projects, RenoPlan is integrated with Leica Disto, Bosch, and DeWalt laser meters, capable of measuring room quickly and accurately. With the app, you can also markup and attach site measurements and photos, which can be included in a professional report. Supported laser models: - Leica Disto D1, D2, E7100i - Bosch GLM 50C, 100C, 120C, 150C, 400C, 400CL - DeWALT DW099S, DW0165S, DW0330S - Moasure One (New)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: RenoPlan at 4.5 against Use Before Flight's 4.0. RenoPlan also leads on review sentiment (62% vs 30%) and ratings volume (751 vs 5). Use Before Flight's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. RenoPlan sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Use Before Flight asks for nothing beyond the download.
RenoPlan holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RenoPlan has 751 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 30% of Use Before Flight's written reviews are positive against 62% of RenoPlan's.
Use Before Flight ships an update every 2 months, RenoPlan fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Use Before Flight | RenoPlan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) | 4.5 (751 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.4% of reviews | 61.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 751 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 286 MB | 256 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Use Before Flight UK Ltd | Measure Square Corp. |
Customer experience
Use Before Flight
RenoPlan
Bugs and requests
Use Before Flight
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
RenoPlan
Reported bugs
5 issues- Help screen cut off
- Can't cancel subscription
- Objects not adding
- Lidar scanner doesn't work
- Can't add doors, windows or stairs
Requested features
4 requests- Display area and perimeter in room drawings
- Option for fraction dimensions and inches
- Quote and invoice functions
- More customizable symbols/icons
In-app purchases
Use Before Flight
No in-app purchases
RenoPlan
- Pro Plan$9.991 Month
- Pro+ Plan$19.991 Month
- Pro Plan$99.991 Year
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- Pro+ Plan$199.991 Year
- RenoPlan Pro Monthly$9.99
- RenoPlan Pro Yearly$99.99
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