OptiFlight vs Class Echo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
Class Echo
This app enhances flight simulation by providing a dedicated controller interface for common aircraft functions. It offers intuitive touch screen controls and a digital encoder for precise adjustments, displaying essential flight information.
- Dedicated flight simulator controller interface
- Touch screen and digital encoder controls
- Displays essential flight, fuel, and engine information
- Programmable with custom SPAD.neXt profiles
- Optional hardware knob integration for tactile feel
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Class Echo REQUIRES a registered / paid SPAD.neXt software license (MSFS / FSX / P3D Edition) and valid simulator installation (Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020) to operate. The Class Echo simulator panel is a controller made specifically for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. It takes many of the most common controls and puts them at your fingertips. No longer do you have to pan around the cockpit and zoom into autopilot, radio, COM and NAV panels. Autopilot values are selected easily using the touch screen and digital rotary encoder. COM and NAV frequencies are swapped with a touch, and input is done with a responsive touch screen number pad. Essential information about your flight, fuel and engines are displayed on screen in an easy-to-read layout. The Class Echo can be paired with an external hardware knob (ShakePrint Knob, Sim Innovations Knobster, or a DIY option) to allow for an amazing experience with the touch controls and tactile feel of a physical encoder. The Class echo is fully programmable and utilizes SPAD.neXt 'profiles' to allow for custom control hotspots, logic, and other user-derived workflows to be created. Please see the ShakePrint website and discord if you have questions, issues, or feedback on the Class Echo.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: OptiFlight at Free against Class Echo's $19.99. OptiFlight also leads on ratings volume (1.3K vs 6) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 5 months). Class Echo's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On 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
OptiFlight is free to download; Class Echo costs $19.99 up front. OptiFlight sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Class Echo asks for nothing beyond the download.
Class Echo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OptiFlight has 1.3K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of OptiFlight's written reviews are positive against 71% of Class Echo's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
OptiFlight ships an update every 6 weeks, Class Echo every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OptiFlight | Class Echo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $19.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.3K ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 71.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 131 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Krish Suchdev | ShakePrint Simulations Inc |
Customer experience
OptiFlight
Class Echo
In-app purchases
OptiFlight
- Small Tip$1.00
- OptiFlight Expansion$1.99
- Large Tip$5.00
Class Echo
No in-app purchases
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