Falcon BMS Control vs GlassOut
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Falcon BMS Control
Control a flight simulator from your mobile device. This app mirrors simulator displays and buttons on your touch screen, offering responsive control with minimal delay. A companion server application is required for full functionality.
- Control Falcon BMS simulator
- Render ICP, DED, and MFDs
- Touchscreen button control
- No perceivable delay
- Requires companion server app
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Falcon BMS Control lets you control Falcon BMS simulator from your iPad or iPhone. It will render the ICP, DED and both left and right MFDs on your touch device and all buttons present will control your simulator with no perceivable delay. Requires the accompanying server application from https://kungfoo.github.io/falcon-bms-control/ to be running to fully work.
GlassOut
This app transforms your mobile device into an external instrument display for Microsoft Flight Simulator. Stream PFD, MFD, EICAS, and other panels directly from your PC to your phone or tablet over Wi-Fi, enhancing your home cockpit or virtual flying experience.
- External instrument display for MSFS
- Stream PFD, MFD, EICAS panels
- Wi-Fi streaming, no capture cards
- Pixel-for-pixel rendering
- Auto-discovery of desktop engine
- Full-screen panel viewer
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GlassOut turns your iPhone or iPad into an external instrument display for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and 2020. Pair the app with the GlassOut Engine running on your flight sim PC, and any panel — PFD, MFD, EICAS, FMC, radio stack, standby instruments — streams straight to your device over your local Wi-Fi. No capture cards, no screen-mirroring lag, no manual pop-outs. GlassOut pulls panels directly from the simulator's rendering pipeline, so what you see on your device matches the sim pixel-for-pixel. Perfect for: - Home cockpit builders who want a dedicated tablet for each instrument - Virtual pilots who run out of monitor space during IFR approaches - Anyone who'd rather see their PFD on the external display HOW IT WORKS 1. Install the GlassOut desktop app on your flight sim PC (glassout.flyingart.dev). 2. Launch Microsoft Flight Simulator and start a flight. 3. Open GlassOut on your iPhone or iPad while on the same Wi-Fi network. The app auto-discovers your PC, lists every available panels, and renders the one you pick full-screen. FEATURES - Auto-discovery of the GlassOut Engine on your local network (Bonjour / mDNS) - Manual IP entry as a fallback - Full-screen, locked panel viewer — no accidental swipes during flight - Screen stays awake while a panel is active, sleeps normally in menus - Works in landscape and portrait, iPhone and iPad REQUIREMENTS - A Windows PC running Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 or 2020 - The GlassOut Engine installed on that PC - Your phone/tablet and PC on the same Wi-Fi network GlassOut is made by a flight-sim enthusiast for flight-sim enthusiasts. Questions, bug reports, or feature requests: flyingartdev@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: GlassOut at every 2 weeks against Falcon BMS Control's every 9 months. Falcon BMS Control's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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.
Falcon BMS Control holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Falcon BMS Control ships an update every 9 months, GlassOut every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Falcon BMS Control | GlassOut |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better | 4.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Silvio Heuberger | Artur Kumszczynski |
Customer experience
Falcon BMS Control
GlassOut
In-app purchases
Falcon BMS Control
No in-app purchases
GlassOut
No in-app purchases
Questions
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