Comparison

FlightChecklist vs TimeTick

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

Head to head
About

FlightChecklist

This app helps pilots manage essential safety checks and aircraft documentation. It allows for creating custom checklists, logging events with timestamps, and utilizing timers for critical phases of flight. Emergency procedures and digital documentation are also accessible.

Highlights
  • Customizable checklists
  • Event timestamp logging
  • Integrated stopwatch
  • Time presets with warnings
  • Emergency procedure checklists
  • Digital aircraft documentation (PDFs/images)
  • Sketchpad for notes
  • Apple Watch integration
Features
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FlightChecklist is a professional checklist app, developed to support pilots with ensuring they have carried out of the necessary safety checks, and to keep their checklists and aircraft all in one place. CHECKLISTS - The ability to create a list of all the items which need to be carried out, whether it is on the ground, or during flight. TIME STAMPS - Log exactly when events happen, whether it’s Block Off, Take Off, Landed or Blocks On, as well as logging any other necessary events. STOPWATCH - Need to time when how long something takes? The app comes with its own Stopwatch. TIME PRESETS - Ability to set timers to go off in advance of a time for an event, and provide warnings (red, amber and green) that event time is approaching. HAPTIC TIMERS - Coming soon! EMERGENCY - This section of the app is for all the emergency checklists and gizzers, for example if there is a ‘Fire during Start’, this checklist will advise the best practice to resolve this issue. GIZZERS - Images or PDFs of plane related documentation, which can have Hotspots on, to navigate to other areas in the app (Hotspots created via the CMS). SKETCHPAD - Somewhere to jot things down! APPLE WATCH - Comes with the ability to navigate through the checklists, emergency checklists, be notified of set Time Presets, or to set Timers. This all comes with an online Content Management System (CMS), to enable the creation, publishing and sharing of aircraft, whether it’s with your team, friends or family. To access the CMS, navigate to https://rrfclcms.co.uk, and log in with the credentials created in the app.

About

TimeTick

Features
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Welcome to TimeTick - a time-based checklist! Use it as a daily to-do list, an aid to schedule meal preparation tasks, a tool to keep agendas on track, a means to monitor time during practice exams, or a simple timed log of completed items.  The free version of the app is fully functional for a single Template but requires a small one-time in-app purchase to enable multiple Templates. Start by defining a Template and use this Template as the blueprint for one or more Tick Sheets. For example, set up a Template once and use that Template to create daily Tick Sheets for repetitive tasks. Alternatively, create an outline meal planning Template and use this as the starting point for a Tick Sheet for scheduling the preparation of different meals. Templates can be set up to track tasks relative to a reference time or cascading from a reference time. For example, in a meal planning situation, the reference time would show the planned dinner time and the target times for each task would all be relative to this reference time. An exam practice schedule, on the other hand, would use a cascading time with the total exam time split between the questions in proportion to their allocated marks. In the Tick Sheet for the first example, the Time Bank shows a countdown to the reference time, and in the second example, it indicates whether you have time in hand or are behind schedule. The Time Bank function allows for +/- six hours of ‘banked time’. On completion each item row is ‘ticked off’ by entering a completion time. Times can be entered manually, or by using a time entry button or swipe gesture, both of which use the app clock. Each item line also supports individual notes for additional information. Completed Tick Sheets may be emailed as a PDF and a tab-delimited file. The app has an extensive notification system. Each item row can be assigned a combination of colour, background notification and foreground audible alert. When the target time for a row is reached any notifications for that row are triggered: * A colour notification will change the colour of the toolbar from the default grey to the assigned colour - it will remain this colour until changed by a further target time trigger. * A sound notification will result in an audible chime if the app is active. * A background notification and associated sound will be triggered if the app is not active. Both the sound and background notifications for an entire Tick Sheet can be overridden by selecting these options 'on' or 'off' in the Tick Sheet preferences - 'on' is the default option. All the notification features may be set up in the Template Editor and inherited by the associated Tick Sheets or set up and amended directly in individual Tick Sheets. The app includes a clock that can be toggled between three time zones. (UTC, device system time and local time) TimeTick is set up to be easy to use. All views support dragging and dropping item rows to new positions. Where appropriate target times will be recalculated to reflect the new row position. Rows may be deleted in all views by swiping left on a row. In Tick Sheets, times can be entered by swiping right on a row. To help get you started the app comes with freely editable sample Template that is populated with the typical tasks performed by flight crew when loading a freight aircraft (also a great use for TimeTick!) The app was developed to work well on the small screen of an iPhone but scales effectively to the larger iPad screens. This version does not allow synchronisation between devices.

Screenshots

FlightChecklist4 screens
TimeTick4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FlightChecklist at none against TimeTick's 1. FlightChecklist also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, 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. TimeTick sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. FlightChecklist asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FlightChecklist ships an update every 8 days, TimeTick every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
FlightChecklist versus TimeTick: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlightChecklistTimeTick
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size105 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCompsoftIan Longshaw

In-app purchases

None

FlightChecklist

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

TimeTick

One-time1
  • Additional Templates$1.99

Questions

Is FlightChecklist free?
FlightChecklist is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TimeTick free?
TimeTick is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do FlightChecklist or TimeTick have ads?
Neither FlightChecklist nor TimeTick shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FlightChecklist or TimeTick?
FlightChecklist ships an update every 8 days, and TimeTick every 3 weeks. Most recently, FlightChecklist was updated on September 29, 2026 and TimeTick on October 1, 2026.

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