1st Flight vs Meshtastic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
1st Flight
This app guides users through creating mobile-first marketing campaigns, including push notifications and surveys. It explores audience features, A/B testing, and message optimization. Users can connect their account to send messages to their own device and learn about mobile marketing strategies.
- Create push notifications
- Design surveys
- Explore audience features
- Learn A/B testing
- Send messages to your device
- Optimize mobile marketing strategies
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Download 1st Flight today and learn how Airship can power mobile-first marketing. The app guides you through creating push notifications, surveys, and other messages that you can send to your own device. You’ll also learn about audience- and event-related features, A/B testing, and more. Unleash your creativity, optimize your strategies, and achieve remarkable success in mobile marketing. Try it it now! Create an account at go.airship.com. We’ll email you a magic link so you can connect your account with the 1st Flight app.
Meshtastic
This app enables off-grid, decentralized communication via a low-power mesh network. Send text messages in areas lacking cellular or WiFi service.
- Off-grid communication
- Decentralized mesh network
- Low-power LoRa radio support
- Text messaging
- No cellular/WiFi required
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Meshtastic® is an open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on low-power Lora radios letting you send text messages in areas without reliable cellular or WiFi service.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: 1st Flight at 100% against Meshtastic's 45%. 1st Flight also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2). Meshtastic's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (803 vs 10). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
1st Flight holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meshtastic has 803 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of 1st Flight's written reviews are positive against 45% of Meshtastic's.
1st Flight ships an update every 6 months, Meshtastic every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on June 25, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 1st Flight | Meshtastic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better | 4.2 (803 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 45.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 803 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Urban Airship Inc. | Meshtastic LLC |
Customer experience
1st Flight
Meshtastic
Bugs and requests
1st Flight
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Meshtastic
Reported bugs
4 issues- Canned messages configuration issues
- Location sharing and traceroute functions not working
- Settings screen bugs and crashes
- Inconsistent behavior when switching between devices
Requested features
5 requests- Offline maps support
- Ability to customize notifications
- More sorting and filtering options for nodes
- Apple Watch and Shortcuts integration
- Improved documentation and user guidance
In-app purchases
1st Flight
No in-app purchases
Meshtastic
No in-app purchases
Questions
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