Comparison

Use Before Flight vs Softcraft

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Softcraft

Features
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Softcraft-SMS Audits is the perfect solution to perform offline Audits, where internet is no available, or due to operational resaon a PC may not be available. This app brings the possibility perform an Audit anywhere. Softcraft-SMS Audit is ready to work in iPhone or Ipad.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Use Before Flight at every 2 months against Softcraft's every 12 months. Softcraft's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Use Before Flight ships an update every 2 months, Softcraft every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Use Before Flight versus Softcraft: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUse Before FlightSoftcraft
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews30.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 12 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.114.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size286 MB98 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUse Before Flight UK LtdPaulo Mira Godinho

In-app purchases

None

Use Before Flight

No in-app purchases

None

Softcraft

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Use Before Flight free?
Use Before Flight is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Softcraft free?
Softcraft is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Use Before Flight or Softcraft have ads?
Neither Use Before Flight nor Softcraft shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Use Before Flight or Softcraft?
Use Before Flight ships an update every 2 months, and Softcraft every 12 months. Most recently, Use Before Flight was updated on October 9, 2026 and Softcraft on October 15, 2026.

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