Smart Logbook vs ProvenFlight
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
ProvenFlight
Effortlessly manage your military flight records with AI-powered logging. Import various formats, speak flight drafts, and track career hours for airline applications. Keep military and civilian flying data in one place.
- AI-powered flight logging
- Import military and civilian records
- Voice-to-text flight entry
- Track career hours and currency
- Prepare for airline applications
- Export to CSV and other apps
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ProvenFlight (Proven Flight) is the AI-powered military logbook. Spend less time entering records and more time preparing for your next flying job. BRING YOUR FLIGHT HISTORY Import military records, civilian logbooks, spreadsheets, scans, and photos. Review your flights before saving, with possible duplicates highlighted. LOG THE NEXT FLIGHT Speak a flight draft or enter it yourself. Keep your military duty, aircraft, landings, approaches, and crew details together. Use your logbook on mobile and the web. SEE YOUR CAREER TAKE SHAPE Track career hours, monthly flying, and FAA currency. Keep military and civilian flying in the same logbook, with civilian totals calculated from your military records and conversion settings. PREPARE FOR AIRLINE APPLICATIONS Build airline hour matrices, FAA 8710-1 totals, and a printable logbook. Export your records to civilian logbook apps or CSV. RECORDS FROM EVERY BRANCH Air Force ARMS and AFTO 781, Army CAFRS and DA 759, Navy and Marine Corps SHARP and M-SHARP, Coast Guard ALMIS, plus personal spreadsheets and civilian logbooks. Start free. Choose Pro with yearly or one-time payment options when you need more. LEGAL Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://provenflight.com/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://provenflight.com/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ProvenFlight at every 2 days against Smart Logbook's every 3 months. ProvenFlight also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Smart Logbook's advantage is ratings volume (153 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 and ProvenFlight sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $129.00 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ProvenFlight holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Smart Logbook has 153 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Smart Logbook ships an update every 3 months, ProvenFlight every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart Logbook | ProvenFlight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (153 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 93.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 153 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kviation, Inc. | Cubic Insights LLC |
Customer experience
Smart Logbook
ProvenFlight
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
ProvenFlight
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
ProvenFlight
- Pro$129.001 Year
- Lifetime$299.00
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