Comparison

Paytrack vs Smart Logbook

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

Head to head
About

Paytrack

This app helps airline flight attendants accurately calculate their pay, including sick pay, vacation pay, and overtime. It provides detailed breakdowns of upcoming checks and manages sick bank hours. Account protection and cloud synchronization ensure your data is always accessible.

Highlights
  • Sick Pay Calculation
  • Sick Bank Hour Tracking
  • Vacation Pay Calculation
  • Lead Pay Calculation
  • Pay Protection
  • Overtime vs. Time & Half
  • Junior Assignment Calculation
  • Check Breakdown
Features
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Currently supported airlines : Spirit / Flight Attendants Exclusive Features: Paytrack holds innovative technologies and algorithms to be exact with every calculation it makes. Here is a list of conditions that the app will consider: - Sick Pay Paytrack will allow you to set a Pairing as “Sick” and depending on how many hours you have in your Sick Bank, it will process the calculation accordingly. - Keeping Track of your Sick Banks The Sick Banks will be automatically updated every month, and you will be able to see them under your user's settings. This way you may keep track of how many hours you have and how to use them if necessary. - Vacation Pay When you set your days of Vacation, Paytrack will recognize them and add those hours into your schedule. - Lead Pay With various algorithms inside Paytrack, all you need to do is let it know if you decide to fly Lead and you'll know exactly how much you will earn. - Pay Protected Pay Protection is also in Paytrack. If any of your trips are canceled and you are Pay Protected, simply go into your Pairing, and drop it with Pay Protection. This will allow Paytrack to know what to do next. - Account Protection & Cloud Synchronization By creating an account, Paytrack will automatically save all of your information in the Cloud, allowing it to synchronize with all of your devices at once. If you ever need to change to a new phone, all you have to do is download the application, log into your account and all of your information will be downloaded instantly. - Overtime Pay vs. Time & Half The confusion of not knowing when your Time & Half kicks in is over! With Paytrack, you will be able to distinguish how much you are making of Overtime versus Time & Half. - Junior Assignment Yep, it will also calculate Junior Assignments. - Check Breakdown By clicking on the Checks icon, you will see a breakdown of BOTH upcoming checks. It has been designed to resemble the company provided Pay Stub, so that you may compare it accordingly when it is Pay Day! And more ... ALL ACCESS Subscription: Paytrack offers two options for the ALL ACCESS Subscription. 1 - Month Subscription automatically renewed until canceled. 1 - Year Subscription automatically renewed until canceled. Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current payment period. Your iTunes account will be automatically charged at the same price for renewal within the 24-hour period prior to the end of the current payment period unless you change your subscription preferences in your Account Settings. You can manage your subscriptions through your Account Settings after purchase. To read about your Privacy and Terms & Conditions go to: https://www.crewlineapp.com/paytrack-terms-privacy-policy For any questions you can e-mail us at: support@paytrackapp.com

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

Paytrack4 screens
Smart Logbook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Smart Logbook at free with in-app purchases against Paytrack's subscription. Smart Logbook also leads on review sentiment (93% vs 71%) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). Paytrack's advantage is ratings volume (716 vs 153). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Paytrack sells 2 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Paytrack against 4.8 for Smart Logbook. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 716 and 153 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Paytrack's written reviews are positive against 93% of Smart Logbook's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Paytrack ships an update every 4 months, Smart Logbook every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on July 5, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Paytrack versus Smart Logbook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPaytrackSmart Logbook
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (716 ratings)4.8 (153 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews93.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings716 — better153
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB73 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPAYTRACK APP CORPKviation, Inc.

Customer experience

Paytrack

All ratings716 ratings
Positive91.5%
Neutral2.8%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews42 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral4.8%
Negative23.8%

Smart Logbook

All ratings153 ratings
Positive97.4%
Neutral0.7%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews72 reviews
Positive93.1%
Neutral5.6%
Negative1.4%

User reviews

Paytrack

From 716 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fantastic potential!
  • 🚀 Got help very quick
  • 🚀 The best!!!
  • 🚀 Must have!!!!!
  • 🚀 Life saver !

Room to improve

  • 🐛 It's ok, could be better
  • 🐛 Issues updating
  • 🐛 Adjustments.
  • 🐛 Locked out
  • 🐛 Very inaccurate

Smart Logbook

From 153 App Store ratings

What 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

Paytrack

Reported bugs

11 issues
  • On the checks page, when you edit the hours, it does not stay.
  • Paytrack seems to always have a problem connecting to Flica with updated schedule the various months becomes unavailable and can't go back to review pay for missing month.
  • My per diem is not what is listed. We don't have lead pay, it won't let me cut my guarantee in half.
  • At first I wasn't getting the App to do certain things to calculate my income accurately, so I thought .
  • I can't log in, the password reset function is not working, and there doesn't seem to be any way to contact customer support.
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  • Literally every refresh the amount will change for the previous months past .
  • The app is not user friendly and does not sync up lead pay correctly. It needs to reflect what flica has as far as lead hours and pay. There also needs to be a way to reset the month to the original pay report.
  • It says that you can add up to 4 pairings manually for free just by tapping of the calendar but it doesn't work. Also, I contacted support for my account to be deleted but they never deleted my account.
  • It gives you the option to have your trips added to your schedule automatically my pulling down on the screen but it never works!!
  • Asked for support on using the app never received an answer.
  • It tells you to hit the download button to download your schedule, but I don't see a download button 😡😡😡

Requested features

3 requests
  • Any chance you could make this app work for frontier as well?
  • Please, Please, Please!!! Add compatibility for Jetblue FA's this seems like a great app!
  • Hope for Expansion

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

2 purchases

Paytrack

Subscriptions2
  • ALL ACCESS1 Month trial$2.991 Month
  • ALL ACCESS1 Month trial$29.991 Year
5 purchases

Smart Logbook

Subscriptions2
  • Sync (monthly)1 Year trial$1.991 Month
  • Sync (yearly)1 Year trial$14.991 Year
One-time3
  • Unlimited Flights (discounted)$19.99
  • Unlimited Flights (on sale)$23.95
  • Unlimited Flights$34.99

Questions

Is Paytrack free?
Paytrack is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Smart Logbook free?
Smart Logbook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Paytrack or Smart Logbook?
Smart Logbook is rated higher. Paytrack averages 4.7 out of 5 from 716 ratings, while Smart Logbook averages 4.8 from 153 ratings.
Do Paytrack or Smart Logbook have ads?
Neither Paytrack nor Smart Logbook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Paytrack or Smart Logbook?
Paytrack ships an update every 4 months, and Smart Logbook every 3 months. Most recently, Paytrack was updated on July 5, 2026 and Smart Logbook on September 25, 2026.

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