Comparison

Vulture vs Qlogger

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

Head to head
About

Vulture

Plan, fly, and analyze soaring flights with live airspace, weather, and detailed thermal replays. This app offers advanced tools for glider, paragliding, and hang gliding pilots, eliminating the need for a laptop.

Highlights
  • Task planning from waypoints or imported files
  • Live airspace and weather integration
  • Detailed flight replay with barograph and statistics
  • Thermal analytics and wind estimation
  • Flight analysis and comparison tools
  • Cloud sync across devices via iCloud
Features
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Vulture is a soaring planning and analysis app built for glider, paragliding, and hang gliding pilots. Plan a task on the day, fly it with live airspace and weather, then replay every thermal back on the airfield — on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Plan * Build a task from waypoints, or import one from a CUP file, WeGlide, or SoaringSpot. * Scan a task from a QR code, as shared by XCTrack and the other gliding tools. * Edit any task to fit the weather of the day, with custom observation zones per turnpoint. * Check the day with dozens of SkySight weather layers — thermals, cloud cover, storms, rain, wind, and wave — before you commit to a task. * Export a task as a CUP file or a FLARM declaration for your IGC-approved device. * Share a task through iCloud with the pilots you fly with. * Import OpenAir, CUB, and openAIP airspace files, pull sets from XCSoar, or show openAIP airspace live on the map. Fly * See airspace and optimized flight information in the air, and navigate to any waypoint. * Start recording from Control Center or the Action button, and follow the flight on the Lock Screen and Apple Watch. * Look up the nearest airfield and its frequency, provided by OurAirports. * Long-press the map to see the airspace above that point as a vertical profile, with your own altitude marked in flight. * Your sport is detected automatically, or set by you, with matching thresholds for thermals, takeoff, and landing. Analyze * Browse your logbook as a gallery, each flight and task drawn on a map. * Replay one or more flights with a barograph and detailed statistics as you scrub through them. * Overlay satellite cloud imagery and scrub the barograph to see the clouds at each moment of a flight (requires SkySight). * Drag the graph handle for a calculated wind estimate at any point in a flight. * Take a thermal apart — the climb over time, from above, and from the side — with a score for how well you centred it. * Debrief rates a flight out of 1000 and answers the questions pilots ask of it, each shown on the map. * Add searchable remarks to saved flights, mark contests, and keep your favorites. * Compare flights against a pinned one, with leader/leecher analysis — who found the thermals first, and who followed. * Browse Soaring Spot, WeGlide, Charron, and SkyLines in the app, and upload your flights to them. Everywhere * Sync flights, tasks, waypoints, airspace, and all settings across your devices with iCloud. * Hand a flight, a task, or the map over to another device with Handoff. * Import flights by drag and drop, from Files, or straight from the share sheet. * Open flights and tasks directly in Vulture from SoaringSpot and Charron using the Chrome extension. * Share a Soaring Spot results link and it opens even without Vulture — that day's scoreboard, and every pilot's flight on a map. * Preview flight, waypoint, and airspace files in Files before you import them. * Find flights and tasks from Spotlight on your home screen. * Widgets for the wind at your home base, tomorrow's launch window, and a flight from your logbook — on the Home Screen, the Lock Screen, and in StandBy. * Windows of their own for flights and tasks on iPad, keyboard shortcuts, pointer support, and dark mode. Vulture is free to download: keep your logbook, replay a flight and follow competitions. Vulture Pro adds the analysis, the planning and the flying, with a free trial to start. One subscription covers iPhone, iPad and Mac. Tell us how we can make Vulture better. Terms of use: https://vulture.aero/terms

About

Qlogger

Features
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Software designed for and dedicated to Gliding Clubs. Use at Launch Point to replace paper Flight Logs. Maintains Membership and Aircraft Registers and Flight Logs. Members have on-line access to view their flights. Automatically generated Invoices for flights and membership fees. Facility to upload Flights, Invoices, Payments in and out directly to Accounting Systems. New Version with multi-layer pricing, Duty Roster and Calendar modules.

Screenshots

Vulture4 screens
Qlogger4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Qlogger at none against Vulture's 3. Qlogger also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Vulture sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Qlogger asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Vulture versus Qlogger: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVultureQlogger
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS26.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size96 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJelle VandebeeckMina Express Limited

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Vulture

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Quarterly subscription$11.993 Months
  • Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
None

Qlogger

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Vulture free?
Vulture is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Qlogger free?
Qlogger is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Vulture or Qlogger have ads?
Neither Vulture nor Qlogger shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vulture or Qlogger?
Vulture ships an update every 2 weeks, and Qlogger every 2 weeks. Most recently, Vulture was updated on October 25, 2026 and Qlogger on October 20, 2026.

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