A320 Checklist vs Smart Telescope Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
A320 Checklist
This companion app enhances the Airbus A320 flight simulator experience. It offers interactive checklists, a detailed flight logbook synced via iCloud, and a community feed for pilots to share their journeys. Features include flight timers, SimBrief import, and integration with Siri and Home Screen widgets.
- Interactive A320 checklists
- iCloud-synced flight logbook
- Pilot ranks and achievements
- Pilot community social feed
- SimBrief OFP import
- Live Activity and Siri integration
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Run every A320 checklist in flight order, hands-free if you like, and keep each sim flight as a boarding pass. A320 Checklist is the iPhone and iPad companion for pilots who fly the A318, A319, A320 and A321 in a flight simulator. Keep it next to Microsoft Flight Simulator, X-Plane or Prepar3D, with the default aircraft or your favorite add-on. CHECKLISTS IN FLIGHT ORDER • 9 normal checklists on one timeline, from Before Start to Securing the Aircraft • Tap to tick an item, or go hands-free: the app reads each item aloud and you answer “checked”, “next” or “say again” • Speech recognition runs on your device and works offline (voice commands in English) • Build your own checklists for other aircraft or your own flows • QRH with 51 abnormal and emergency procedures, as a training reference A LOGBOOK WORTH OPENING • Every flight becomes a boarding pass, and the stub tears off as you scroll • Import a SimBrief OFP to fill in the route, aircraft and times • Flight timer: start it before taxi, stop it on arrival, and the entry fills itself in • Route map, total hours, landing ratings, activity heatmap and countries visited • Syncs through iCloud, works offline, exports to CSV and JSON AT A GLANCE • Home Screen widgets in small, medium and large, plus Lock Screen widgets: last landing, total hours, this month’s flights • Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island while the timer runs • Flight timer control in Control Center • Siri, Shortcuts and Spotlight COMMUNITY • See where other sim pilots fly, follow them and like their flights • Your flights stay private until you share one • Share cards for Instagram Stories: profile, weekly recap, countries visited PROGRESS AND EXTRAS • Ranks from Cadet to Commander, achievements and streaks • Aviation quiz, fun facts and over 1,200 aviation abbreviations explained • Decoded METAR weather by ICAO code BUILT FOR EVERY SCREEN • iPhone Duo: use it folded or unfolded; unfolded, list and detail sit side by side • iPad: list and detail side by side in a wide window • Large text sizes supported throughout • In English, Polish, German, Spanish, French and Italian FOR SIMULATION ONLY A320 Checklist is for flight simulation and entertainment. Don’t use it for real-world flight operations or flight training. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Airbus, Microsoft, Laminar Research, Lockheed Martin or Navigraph. All trademarks belong to their owners.
Smart Telescope Planner
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BigSky Planner helps smart telescope users prepare an observing night before they head outside. Save your observing sites, set up your smart telescope, filter a bundled target catalog, and build a timed plan for the night. Target cards show magnitude, object type, first view time, time in view, azimuth and altitude. Details adds capture guidance for your default telescope, with Min, Opt and Best integration times and filter-aware notes. Key features - Save and reuse observing sites, and mark a default - Smart telescope profiles with altitude, timing and Equatorial Mode limits for each model - Filter targets by catalog, magnitude, object type, altitude and azimuth, with exact catalog-number search - Planets, the Moon and comets - One target card per object, with its common name - Build Plan places every selected target across its Clear Sky, so the times overlap. Balance Plan and Use Priority set the time shares - An alert when a capture is shorter than 30 minutes, with a longer seat or a replacement to choose from - Weather from NOAA in the United States and MET Norway elsewhere, with no account or key. Open-Meteo works with your own key. - Save, reopen, print and share plans - Back up on iPhone or iPad and restore on a Mac or Windows PC, or the other way around - Text follows your iPhone or iPad text size - Light and dark appearance, an illustrated Help guide and a full PDF manual Free download with a 20-day free trial BigSky Planner is free to download and includes a free 20-day trial. After the trial, Full Access is a one-time in-app purchase: no subscription and no automatic charge. Your saved sites and plans are kept. If you bought the app before it became free, you keep Full Access with no additional purchase. Purchase questions: support@bigskyastro.com. Your data stays on your device. No account is required.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Smart Telescope Planner at Free against A320 Checklist's $1.99. Smart Telescope Planner also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). A320 Checklist's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On 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
Smart Telescope Planner is free to download; A320 Checklist costs $1.99 up front. Smart Telescope Planner sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. A320 Checklist asks for nothing beyond the download.
A320 Checklist ships an update fortnightly, Smart Telescope Planner every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | A320 Checklist | Smart Telescope Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wojciech Olszewski | Richard Derry |
In-app purchases
A320 Checklist
No in-app purchases
Smart Telescope Planner
- 20-day TrialFree
- Full Access$9.99





