Smart Logbook vs FlySto
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
FlySto
Track all your flight data conveniently on your mobile device. Organize flights by month, filter by aircraft or airport, and upload logs easily. Get detailed analysis of your flights with over 30 calculated parameters and graphs.
- Organized monthly flight list
- Filter by aircraft or airport
- Easy log upload via SD card
- Offline log storage and upload
- Detailed flight analysis with graphs
- Review landing limits and scoring
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Welcome aboard the FlySto app! All your flights in your pocket. Use FlySto's App on your mobile iOS device for easy access to your flights on the go, including a conveniently organized month by month list showing the most relevant data. Too many flights? Good for you! Simply filter by aircraft or airport. Upload your flights with ease, for instance by using an sd card reader to access your sd card with your iPhone. Just select the folder containing your logs and from now on all new logs will be detected and uploaded. No internet connection? No problem! FlySto's mobile app will copy your logs, store them and upload them to FlySto as soon as you're back online. Are you an AirSync+FlySto subscriber? Your logs will be in the app just as fast as on FlySto web. Quickly see all the details about your flights including flags, instantly review your landing limits and approach scoring values, get details on fuel consumption, and get a comprehensive analysis with up to 30+ calculated parameters and graphs about your flight. All at your fingertips in FlySto's new app. Fly safe, FlySto
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FlySto at none against Smart Logbook's 5. FlySto also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months). Smart Logbook's advantage is review sentiment (93% vs 80%) and ratings volume (153 vs 27). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. Smart Logbook sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. FlySto asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Smart Logbook against 4.9 for FlySto. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Smart Logbook has 153 ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of Smart Logbook's written reviews are positive against 80% of FlySto's.
Smart Logbook ships an update every 3 months, FlySto every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart Logbook | FlySto |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (153 ratings) | 4.9 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 93.1% of reviews — better | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 153 — better | 27 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 106 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kviation, Inc. | FlySto Limited |
Customer experience
Smart Logbook
FlySto
Bugs and requests
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
FlySto
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
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
FlySto
No in-app purchases









