AVTECH proFLIGHT vs SkyFeed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AVTECH proFLIGHT
This app provides professional pilots with highly accurate, tailored weather forecasts for their specific flight routes and aircraft. It offers detailed data on turbulence, winds, and hazardous weather conditions, aiding in flight planning and in-flight decision-making for increased efficiency and safety.
- Tailored 10KM weather forecasts
- Turbulence and wind optimization
- Hazardous weather alerts (SIGMETS)
- Horizontal and vertical flight-profile views
- Flight planning and in-flight use
- Aircraft performance integration
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AVTECH proFLIGHT is a high-quality weather tool for professional flight crew. proFLIGHT uses the actual flight route and time combined with the Met Office's Global 10KM Weather model to produce a tailored weather forecast based on the most up to date information. Hazardous weather such as high-resolution turbulence, alerts such as SIGMETS, among more weather-related data is presented to the pilot both in a horizontal map view and a vertical flight-profile view. proFLIGHT also, based on your specific aircraft performance parameters, uses a patented algorithm to optimize the wind selection (winds to be used by the FMS) for climb- and descent phases. proFLIGHT can be used not only during flight but also during the planning phase. Using proFLIGHT assists the flight crew in the decision-making process to optimize the flight to become more efficient and safe. Tailored Weather Data: 10KM-resolution turbulence forecast 10KM-resolution wind & temperature forecast En-route SIGMETS AVENTUS optimized climb winds AVENTUS optimized descent winds Non-tailored Weather Data: SIGMETS (global) SIGWX (SWC) METAR & TAF WAFS 140KM-resolution turbulence forecast WAFS 140KM-resolution ice forecast CB (selected regions) Navigation data: Organized Track Systems (North Atlantic Tracks)
SkyFeed
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SkyFeed is an aviation weather app for general aviation pilots: student, private, and IFR-rated. It decodes METAR and TAF into plain English by default, checks your personal minimums, and returns one clear preflight verdict: GO, NO-GO, or CHECK. Built for pilots flying Cessna, Piper, Cirrus, Diamond, and Mooney class singles. Calm and quiet, on the ground and in the cockpit. DECODED BY DEFAULT Every METAR and TAF surfaces a plain-English sentence above the raw text. Tap to expand the coded report. Decoded is the default, because that is how pilots actually read weather under time pressure. ONE VERDICT, NOT A WALL OF DATA Open a saved trip and SkyFeed renders a Pre-Flight Brief: GO, NO-GO, or CHECK with a one-sentence reason • Per-airport breakdown for departure, destination, alternate • Personal-minimums grid with every limit as pass or fail • Distance, ETE, and ETA at your cruise speed The engine checks visibility, ceiling, max wind, crosswind, tailwind, and density altitude against your active profile. It demotes to CHECK on stale data, flags thunderstorms, and warns on IFR trips without an alternate. PERSONAL MINIMUMS, FIRST-CLASS Keep multiple profiles and switch in one tap: • VFR Day • VFR Night • IFR Solo • IFR with Passengers • Training Every screen evaluates against the active profile. WATCHED AIRPORTS Each row shows: • ICAO and IATA codes • Flight category (VFR, MVFR, IFR, LIFR) • Wind in knots, visibility in statute miles, ceiling in feet • Observation age and NOTAM count • Best runway for current wind Group by Home Base, region, or training. Small fields borrow from the nearest reporting station. STATION DETAIL • Decoded METAR with raw text on tap • Live TAF preview • 12-hour meteogram: flight category, wind, gusts, ceiling • Runway diagram with headwind and crosswind components • NOTAMs grouped by impact • Tower, ground, and ATIS frequencies • PIREPs within 50 nautical miles LIVE TAF READER Chronological list with FM, BECMG, TEMPO, PROB30, PROB40 cards. Times in Zulu. MAP • Worldwide animated radar (RainViewer) with a time scrubber • US high-resolution NEXRAD as an optional layer • Satellite infrared • SIGMET and AIRMET polygons • PIREPs as severity-tagged icons • Markers color-coded by flight category TRIPS Save routes with departure, destination, alternate, ETD, tail number, cruise altitude, cruise speed. Filter by Upcoming, Today, This Week, Past. AVIATION CALCULATORS • Density altitude • Pressure altitude • Wind components • Crosswind table • True airspeed and Mach • Unit converter • Sun and civil twilight times • Weight-and-balance scaffold ALERTS Rule-based notifications watch your stations in the background. Category drops, wind exceeds, visibility or ceiling falls. Quiet hours and SPECI bypass. WIDGETS Home Screen widgets in two sizes: one airport, or four side-by-side. BUILT FOR iPAD Real master-detail layouts. List on the left, full station detail on the right. Three-column reading order on Station Detail and Pre-Flight Brief. OFFLINE-FIRST Every screen renders from local cache when offline. Stale-data badges escalate at one hour and four hours, with flight-category color suppressed so you never decide on expired data. UNITS ICAO codes, Zulu time, knots, statute miles, feet, inches of mercury, Celsius. Toggle to Local time or metric. PRIVACY No accounts. No server-side data. No analytics. No ads. No telemetry. All persistence is local. WHAT SKYFEED IS NOT SkyFeed is not a navigation app. No flight-plan filing, charts, approach plates, or sectionals. Not a substitute for an official preflight briefing. In the US: NOAA aviationweather.gov and 1800wxbrief. In Europe: AIS, Eurocontrol, and your national met service. Advisory only. AT LAUNCH FAA NOTAM integration is pending approval. International NOTAMs are not in v1. Single alternate per trip. iPhone and iPad only. iOS 18 or newer required.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: AVTECH proFLIGHT at 16.6 against SkyFeed's 18.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
AVTECH proFLIGHT ships an update every 3 weeks, SkyFeed monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AVTECH proFLIGHT | SkyFeed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 208 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AVTECH Sweden AB | Pixel Management |
In-app purchases
AVTECH proFLIGHT
No in-app purchases
SkyFeed
No in-app purchases









