Comparison

Use Before Flight vs iFlight Crew Mobile

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

iFlight Crew Mobile

This mobile app provides airline crew members with easy access to their daily rosters, important messages, and alerts for roster changes. It allows users to view profile details, statistics, messages, and hotel information, enhancing operational efficiency.

Highlights
  • View daily roster details
  • Receive roster change alerts
  • Access important messages
  • View profile and statistics
  • Check hotel details
  • Acknowledge notifications
  • Perform check-in actions
Features
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iFlight has a new Mobile app, which can be accessible on mobile and tablet devices. iFlight Crew mobile application assists crew members in looking into their published day-to-day roster details with important messages and roster change alerts. The iFlight Crew mobile application also lets crew view their Profile, Statistics, Messages, Station, Hotel details, etc. Crew members can log in to the app with their credentials to view notifications like roster changes, expires, and broadcast messages. They can view the details and acknowledge these notifications. The app also allows viewing the check-in notification and performing check-in actions via the app. Crew members can view their itinerary details, crew list, etc. in detail. Duty cards for different assignments like pairing, activities, training, etc are displayed in different colors so the crew can easily identify the assignment from color in the app.

Screenshots

iFlight Crew Mobile4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Use Before Flight at 4.0 against iFlight Crew Mobile's 1.0. Use Before Flight also leads on review sentiment (30% vs 0%). iFlight Crew Mobile's advantage is monetization model (free vs subscription) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Use Before Flight holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iFlight Crew Mobile has 38 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 0% of iFlight Crew Mobile's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Use Before Flight ships an update every 2 months, iFlight Crew Mobile fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Use Before Flight versus iFlight Crew Mobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUse Before FlightiFlight Crew Mobile
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (5 ratings) — better1.0 (38 ratings)
Positive reviews30.4% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings538 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationSubscriptionFree — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size286 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUse Before Flight UK LtdIBS Software Private Limited

Customer experience

Use Before Flight

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive30.4%
Neutral4.3%
Negative65.2%

iFlight Crew Mobile

All ratings38 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Use Before Flight

No in-app purchases

None

iFlight Crew Mobile

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Use Before Flight free?
Use Before Flight is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is iFlight Crew Mobile free?
iFlight Crew Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Use Before Flight or iFlight Crew Mobile?
Use Before Flight is rated higher. Use Before Flight averages 4.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while iFlight Crew Mobile averages 1.0 from 38 ratings.
Do Use Before Flight or iFlight Crew Mobile have ads?
Neither Use Before Flight nor iFlight Crew Mobile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Use Before Flight or iFlight Crew Mobile?
Use Before Flight ships an update every 2 months, and iFlight Crew Mobile fortnightly. Most recently, Use Before Flight was updated on September 19, 2026 and iFlight Crew Mobile on September 22, 2026.

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