OffBlock vs Smart Logbook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OffBlock
This app combines a smart pilot logbook with a flight crew organizer. It offers features like automated roster imports, flight logging, and crew communication tools. Share your aviation life and manage your professional schedule efficiently.
- Smart flight logging
- Automated roster imports
- Integrated aircraft management
- Calendar with timeline
- Crew communication tools
- Roster sharing
- Data export in official formats
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The features you love combined in one app: Pilot Logbook – Created to do the work, with no work for you. • Smart flight logging, optimized for speed • Integrated aircraft management • Digital signature • Precise night time calculation • Powerful statistics, also for type- and class ratings • Data export, PDF reports in official formats (EASA, FAA) • Certificate manager • Extensive airport database, location info & aviation weather • Easy data import from third party apps Flight Crew App – Keep up. Be organized. Stay connected. • Calendar with timeline • Automated roster imports (“Live Updates”) • Push notifications & highlighting of roster changes • Calendar export to your private calendars • Crewlists for upcoming und past flights • Common events • Messaging (private chats & groups) • Flight map – ready to share on social media Roster Sharing – Share your aviation life. With privacy built in. • Connect with friends & colleagues • Check their rosters • Find common off days • Extra: OffBlock Family App for your non-flying family and friends The roster evaluation software „easy dutyplan“ is directly integrated into OffBlock - save money even faster and easier on your tax return! Supported roster systems: • AIMS eCrew • eCrew OCR • CBL WinOps • CrewConnex • CrewWebPlus APM • Jeppesen Crew Access • Leon • Lufthansa Group Open API • NetLine/CrewLink, Crew IDP • Planeación • RAIDO • Sabre CWP • SGT • SkedPlus+ • TOPS FREE 60 day trial on signup.
Smart Logbook
Effortlessly log flight hours, track currency, and manage pilot certifications. Visualize your flight history on an interactive map and receive timely renewal reminders for medicals and training. Supports various international regulations and export formats.
- Fast and easy flight logging
- Customizable totals calculation
- Currency and limit tracking
- Medical and training renewal reminders
- Interactive flight map
- Electronic signature capture
- Multiple export formats
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Smart Logbook makes logging your flights fast and easy. When you apply for a new rating or interview for a job, you can easily see your flying totals, over any span of time, in any type of aircraft. Track your currency and limits, and get reminders to renew your medical and recurrent training. As your flying experience grows, use the interactive map to see for yourself all the places flying has taken you. Getting started is easy. Download Smart Logbook and log 50 hours of flight time for free. Then make a one-time purchase in the app to continue adding flights. Besides getting the intuitive and powerful functionality Smart Logbook offers today, you'll also receive regular updates with new capabilities. Smart Logbook sync keeps your logbook securely backed up, and lets you seamlessly access it from multiple devices. Sync is included in the free trial. After that, just sign up for the very affordable sync subscription. The first year is free, and you can cancel any time. For more info about purchasing or the sync subscription, see https://thesmartlogbook.discourse.group/c/help/purchase Features: • Extensive customization, with defaults for general aviation and professional pilots. • Calculate your totals, filtered by time period, aircraft type/characteristics, and more. • Currency and limit tracking. Includes rules for FAA, EASA, and Transport Canada requirements, and allows creating custom rules. • Electronic signature capture, compliant with FAA standards. • Track certificates, ratings, endorsements, and medicals, and get notifications to renew items that expire. • Interactive map of your flights, which can be viewed and shared online. • Database of 40,000 airports, and allows adding custom airports. • Print your logbook in Jeppesen Basic/Pro, Transport Canada, EASA, or DGCA (India) format. • Calculate totals for the FAA Form 8710-1 / IACRA. • Add photos of aircraft, models, crew members, certificates, and flights. • Import flights from LogTen Pro or Excel/CSV file. • Export flights to CSV file. • Support for Dark Mode and Sign in with Apple. Privacy Policy: https://thesmartlogbook.com/privacy.html Terms & Conditions: https://thesmartlogbook.com/eula.html
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Verdict
OffBlock and Smart Logbook both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 93% of Smart Logbook's written reviews are positive against 48% of OffBlock's. OffBlock's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. OffBlock sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Smart Logbook sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for OffBlock against 4.8 for Smart Logbook. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 102 and 153 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 48% of OffBlock's written reviews are positive against 93% of Smart Logbook's.
OffBlock ships an update every 2 months, Smart Logbook every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OffBlock | Smart Logbook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (102 ratings) | 4.8 (153 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.3% of reviews | 93.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 102 | 153 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 275 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | OffBlock GmbH | Kviation, Inc. |
Customer experience
OffBlock
Smart Logbook
User reviews
OffBlock
From 102 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great support team
- 👍 App is good and useful
- 👍 Top App
- 👍 Best Support and product
- 👍 Works without difficulty
Room to improve
- 😞 Roster import not working
- 😞 App is unusable
- 😞 Way too expensive
- 😞 Service is really bad
- 😞 Data lost
Smart Logbook
From 153 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use interface
- 💰 Affordable one-time payment
- 🚀 Seamless syncing across devices
- 🛠️ Highly customizable
- 🌟 Excellent customer support
Room to improve
- 🐛 Rare updates
- 🐛 Small but frustrating bugs
- 🐛 Sorting issues (requires UTC date setting)
- ❓ Bug reporting requires third-party registration
- ❓ Registration form missing (only sign-in available)
Bugs and requests
OffBlock
Reported bugs
14 issues- Roster import not working
- App is unusable
- Roster autodownload and manual download doesn't work
- Stby duties are not visible
- Data lost
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- App crashes
- Dates bugging
- Calendar export not working
- Synchronization issues with Offblock-Family
- Import roster stuck at 0%
- Total flight hours not visible without payment
- Statistics data lost after forced migration
- All old data gone after update
- Remark option not reintroduced
Requested features
6 requests- Export in calendar view for printing
- Calendar export to be fixed
- More content in logbook for general aviation
- Reintroduce 'remark' option
- Desktop version available again
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- Integration of other airlines for connecting with friends outside own airline
Smart Logbook
Reported bugs
5 issues- Multiple sectors during one day sorted by name, not by time of departure
- Some airports missing (e.g., VDTI)
- Flights added as simulator flights
- Search function is terrible, impossible to find crew member
- Cross-platform purchase restoration issues (Android to iOS)
Requested features
18 requests- Ability to input waypoints instead of just airports
- Automatically add normal flight times for a route
- Separate flights by year on the main page for better overview
- Display flight direction on the map
- Allow custom names in the create an airport option
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- Filter flights by date (older/newer)
- Edit totals to date hours on FAA print pages
- Show all dates filter by default
- Add search by airport name
- Option to mark/switch view of all visited countries
- Add Airline field
- Add filters by airlines
- Show aircraft model and airline on the same line of the list
- See flight times with different date filters together on one page (e.g., last 7, 30, 120, 365 days)
- Add a signature feature for examiners and instructors
- Configure night time manually in settings for automatic calculation
- Add a prefix with airline name for flight ID
- Log duty time with multiple legs
In-app purchases
OffBlock
- OffBlock Pro (1 month)$2.991 Month
- OffBlock Pro+ (1 month)$6.991 Month
- OffBlock Pro (1 year)$29.991 Year
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- OffBlock Pro+ (1 year)$69.991 Year
Smart Logbook
- Sync (monthly)1 Year trial$1.991 Month
- Sync (yearly)1 Year trial$14.991 Year
- Unlimited Flights (discounted)$19.99
- Unlimited Flights (on sale)$23.95
- Unlimited Flights$34.99








