Flight Simulator Advanced vs OptiFlight
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flight Simulator Advanced
Experience realistic flight simulation with interactive cockpits and detailed aircraft. Plan your routes, manage ground services, and enjoy dynamic weather and day/night cycles. This app offers an immersive flying experience for aviation enthusiasts.
- Interactive cockpits
- Realistic physics and aerodynamics
- Flight planning system
- HD airports and diverse aircraft
- Airport ground services
- Day/night cycle and weather modes
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• Feel what it's like flying inside the cockpit of a real aircraft. • Interact with cockpit buttons, switches and levers. • Push-back, taxi to runway, take-off, fly your flight-plan, land, connect to jetway! ~ REQUIREMENTS ~ Requires an iPhone or iPad with at least 4GB RAM (e.g., iPhone 11/iPad 10th Generation or later) and internet connection whily playing. Performance not guaranteed on older devices. Main Features --------------------- • 100+ HD airports • Many aircraft, including A320, A321, A320neo, A321XLR, B737, A330, A340, A380, A350, B777, B747, Β787 with a lot of liveries and authentic cockpits • Ability to import your own custom liveries into the game • Airport Ground services (Movable jetways, fuel trucks, AI traffic) • Realistic physics/aerodynamics • Autopilot • Flight planning system with waypoints and navigation • Day/night cycle • Weather modes and precipitation • Interactable cockpits • Realistic sound effects (ATC chatter ,Engines sound effects, GPWS , alarms etc.
OptiFlight
Design intricate flight networks to connect cities and guide passengers efficiently. Adapt your routes to dynamic events like airport rushes and closures across over 350 themed levels. Test your strategic planning skills in historical, present-day, and weather-simulated scenarios.
- Design flight networks
- Create historical flight maps
- Simulate inclement weather
- Use real-world cities
- 350+ levels
- Analyze in-game statistics
- Compete on leaderboards
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Step into the world of airline route planning, where your goal is to create a flight network to guide passengers to their destinations in a limited amount of time. You get to call the shots on which routes to draw and which cities to designate as hubs that best serve each scenario. The flight maps you design will also need to be efficient and flexible to accommodate for events that may occur, like airport rushes and closures, as its effects ripple throughout your network. With over 350 geographically and historically themed levels to play, each map you make will be put to the test. MAIN FEATURES - Take a step back in time and create flight maps for past historical scenarios, like the 1849 California Gold Rush and the 2012 London Olympic Games - Prepare for the future and create flight maps in realistic inclement weather simulation, including Hurricanes and Blizzards - Understand the present and create flight maps using actual cities, like New York City and Tokyo, to reflect real flight patterns FAN-FAVORITE LEVELS Vote for your favorite level in the Preferences page ① Big Game (Level 36, Contiguous US) ② Silk Road (Level 17, Asia) ③ Big Apple (Level 18, Contiguous US) ④ Sustain (Level 38, Contiguous US) ⑤ Sustain (Level 38, Europe) ⑥ Tourism Capital (Level 20, Oceania) OTHER FEATURES - Play 350+ levels across multiple maps like America, Europe, and Asia - Analyze in-game statistics to help fine-tune your flight map - Speed up or slow down the game to your comfort - Compete for the top spot on worldwide leaderboards - Simplistic interface and experience - No ads FUTURE FEATURES - More maps! - More levels! - More cities!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: OptiFlight at none against Flight Simulator Advanced's shown. OptiFlight also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.4) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Flight Simulator Advanced's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (9K vs 1.3K). On price, review sentiment, 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. Flight Simulator Advanced sells 14 one-off in-app purchases and OptiFlight sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
OptiFlight holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flight Simulator Advanced has 9K ratings behind it against 1.3K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Flight Simulator Advanced's written reviews are positive against 80% of OptiFlight's.
Flight Simulator Advanced ships an update fortnightly, OptiFlight every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flight Simulator Advanced | OptiFlight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (9K ratings) | 4.6 (1.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.0% of reviews | 79.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9K — better | 1.3K |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2.0 GB | 131 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Panagiotis Drakopoulos | Krish Suchdev |
Customer experience
Flight Simulator Advanced
OptiFlight
Bugs and requests
Flight Simulator Advanced
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes and freezes when loading maps or starting flights
- Unresponsive controls and buttons
- Issues with landing gear, flaps, and other interactive cockpit elements
- Floating or misaligned aircraft on the ground
Requested features
6 requests- Add more airports, especially in North America, Asia, and other regions
- Implement full flight planning and routing options
- Introduce more aircraft types like regional jets, military planes, and older models
- Add ATC communication and integration
- Improve landing gear physics and animations
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- Implement multiplayer and online functionality
OptiFlight
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Flight Simulator Advanced
- Unlock region: North America$1.99
- A350-1000, liveries & No Ads$2.99
- A330-300 & Liveries & No Ads$2.99
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- A340-600$2.99
- B737 Max$2.99
- A321neo$2.99
- A340-300$2.99
- A321, Liveries & No Ads$2.99
- A330neo$2.99
- A380 with liveries and No Ads.$3.49
- B747-400, liveries & no ads$3.49
- A350-900, liveries, No-Ads$3.99
- B777-300ER$3.99
- B787-9$3.99
OptiFlight
- Small Tip$1.00
- OptiFlight Expansion$1.99
- Large Tip$5.00
Questions
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