Comparison

Smart Logbook vs FlySto

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

Head to head
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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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

Screenshots

Smart Logbook4 screens
FlySto4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Smart Logbook versus FlySto: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmart LogbookFlySto
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (153 ratings)4.9 (27 ratings) — better
Positive reviews93.1% of reviews — better80.0% of reviews
Number of ratings153 — better27
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB106 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKviation, Inc.FlySto Limited

Customer experience

Smart Logbook

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

FlySto

All ratings27 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

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
Show 13 more
  • 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

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
None

FlySto

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Smart Logbook free?
Smart Logbook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FlySto free?
FlySto is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Smart Logbook or FlySto?
FlySto is rated higher. Smart Logbook averages 4.8 out of 5 from 153 ratings, while FlySto averages 4.9 from 27 ratings.
Do Smart Logbook or FlySto have ads?
Neither Smart Logbook nor FlySto shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Smart Logbook or FlySto?
Smart Logbook ships an update every 3 months, and FlySto every 9 days. Most recently, Smart Logbook was updated on September 17, 2026 and FlySto on September 11, 2026.

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