Comparison

Smart Logbook vs Logipad EFB

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

Logipad EFB

Access digital flight documents, eForms, and other content on your mobile device. Features include annotation, note-taking, bookmarking, and peer-to-peer data synchronization without Wi-Fi. It's a customizable solution for managing flight information before, during, and after flights.

Highlights
  • Digital content access (EFF, documents, eForms)
  • Annotation and note-taking
  • Bookmarking
  • Peer-to-peer data synchronization
  • Customizable information management
  • Briefing, Documentation, and eForms support
Features
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Logipad EFB app enables you to access the digital content like EFF, documents and eForms on your mobile devices. The app provides features to make annotation, notes, bookmarks and even synchronize data between devices without WIFI in a peer-to-peer manner. Logipad Electronic Flight Bag is the right choice if you are looking for a highly customizable, flexible, and comprehensive information management solution. The complete solution package focuses on three main areas: Briefing, Documentation, and eForms which support your processes before, during, and after the flight. In addition, it helps you to support and enhance existing business processes. The EFB application with its administrative environment integrates seamlessly into existing IT infrastructures. Logipad provides interoperational functionalities with homogeneous IT in- frastructures such as data exchange with third-party server systems as well as data exchange with existing applications on the client side.

Screenshots

Smart Logbook4 screens
Logipad EFB4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Smart Logbook at 93% against Logipad EFB's 0%. Smart Logbook also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (153 vs 1). Logipad EFB's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Logipad EFB asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Smart Logbook holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Smart Logbook has 153 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of Smart Logbook's written reviews are positive against 0% of Logipad EFB's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Smart Logbook ships an update every 3 months, Logipad EFB weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Smart Logbook versus Logipad EFB: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmart LogbookLogipad EFB
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (153 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews93.1% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings153 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB97 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKviation, Inc.DextraData GmbH

Customer experience

Smart Logbook

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

Logipad EFB

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

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

Logipad EFB

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

Logipad EFB

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Smart Logbook free?
Smart Logbook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Logipad EFB free?
Logipad EFB is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Smart Logbook or Logipad EFB?
Smart Logbook is rated higher. Smart Logbook averages 4.8 out of 5 from 153 ratings, while Logipad EFB averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Smart Logbook or Logipad EFB have ads?
Neither Smart Logbook nor Logipad EFB shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Smart Logbook or Logipad EFB?
Smart Logbook ships an update every 3 months, and Logipad EFB weekly. Most recently, Smart Logbook was updated on October 14, 2026 and Logipad EFB on October 7, 2026.

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