FlightChecklist vs Softcraft
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Softcraft
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Softcraft-SMS Audits is the perfect solution to perform offline Audits, where internet is no available, or due to operational resaon a PC may not be available. This app brings the possibility perform an Audit anywhere. Softcraft-SMS Audit is ready to work in iPhone or Ipad.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: FlightChecklist at every 8 days against Softcraft's every 12 months. FlightChecklist also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.2). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FlightChecklist ships an update every 8 days, Softcraft every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FlightChecklist | Softcraft |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 14.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 105 MB | 98 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Compsoft | Paulo Mira Godinho |
In-app purchases
FlightChecklist
No in-app purchases
Softcraft
No in-app purchases









