Comparison

Redbird Pro vs FlightSense

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

Head to head
About

Redbird Pro

Enhance your aviation skills with personalized training plans, flight simulator scenarios, and expert-led content. Track your progress with objective measurements and receive recommendations tailored to your goals. Become a more proficient pilot with this comprehensive aviation training partner.

Highlights
  • Personalized proficiency plans
  • Flight simulator scenarios
  • Knowledge and decision-making assessments
  • Progress tracking and analysis
  • Expert-led training collections
  • Objective proficiency measurement (Pro Score)
Features
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Your Partner in Proficiency -- Redbird Pro helps you meet your aviation goals with an extensive and always growing catalog of task and skill training content, flight simulator scenarios, and knowledge and decision-making assessments. Each time you use Redbird Pro, it tracks and measures your progress and evolves your personal training plan. With every training event you complete, you become a more proficient pilot, and Redbird Pro becomes an even better training partner. Train With a Personalized Proficiency Plan * Redbird Pro puts personalized proficiency planning, training, and tracking right in your pocket to make becoming a better pilot an achievable and enjoyable part of your daily routine. * Redbird Pro builds and updates your personalized Training Plan to help you improve and maintain your skills as a pilot. * Using your actual performance, experience, and aviation goals, Redbird Pro recommends the training that will have the greatest impact on your proficiency. Track and Analyze Every Aspect of Your Training Over Time * Redbird Pro uses your performance data and frequency of training to generate a holistic measure of your current level of proficiency, called your Pro Score. * Your Pro Score provides you with an objective measurement of your progress over time. * You’ll get both a high level overview of your training and the ability to drill into specific skills and areas for improvement. Learn From the Best in Flight Training * Redbird Pro includes a growing catalog of training collections developed and led by top flight training professionals from around the world. * Each collection helps you improve your proficiency in a specific area through articles, quizzes, skill refreshers, and flight simulator scenarios curated by expert flight instructors. * Access expert training tips and guided lessons from your smartphone, tablet, or desktop any time you want and without leaving your couch

About

FlightSense

This app consolidates flight training materials, instructor feedback, and progress tracking for student pilots and instructors. It features an AI assistant for aviation queries and supports structured training workflows.

Highlights
  • Lesson and training progress tracking
  • Instructor feedback review
  • AI aviation assistant
  • Student and instructor management
  • Structured training support
  • Lesson-based logging
Features
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FlightSense brings your lessons, instructor feedback, and training progress together. STUDENT PILOTS See where you stand with completed lessons, your current stage, and recorded training time. Review instructor feedback alongside your lesson records, and use Amelia’s Summary to see what’s going well and where to focus next. Chat with Amelia, your aviation assistant, for answers grounded in FAA publications with source citations. FLIGHT INSTRUCTORS Manage your students and build logs around the lessons you trained. Enter grades and training time, type or record feedback, and follow changes through Log History. Review course progress, check results, and training records in one place. BUILT FOR STRUCTURED TRAINING FlightSense supports school training workflows and record keeping, including Part 141-style programs. Features include lesson-based logs, recorded feedback with transcription, course progress by stage, lesson grading, training time and activity tracking, check results, endorsement records, and school documents. FREE AND PREMIUM ACCESS Free accounts include limited chats with Amelia. Premium adds unlimited Amelia chats and live voice conversations. Existing school training records remain readable without a paid subscription. Creating new school training records requires paid access for the student. Terms of Use: https://flightsense.ai/terms Privacy Policy: https://flightsense.ai/privacy

Screenshots

Redbird Pro4 screens
FlightSense4 screens

Verdict

The call

Redbird Pro and FlightSense both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of FlightSense's written reviews are positive against 0% of Redbird Pro's. Redbird Pro's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Redbird Pro sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $15.99 per month and FlightSense sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $14.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Redbird Pro against 5.0 for FlightSense. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 8 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of Redbird Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of FlightSense's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Redbird Pro ships an update monthly, FlightSense every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Redbird Pro versus FlightSense: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRedbird ProFlightSense
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings68 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRedbird Flight Simulations, Inc.FlightSense

Customer experience

Redbird Pro

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

FlightSense

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Redbird Pro

Subscriptions4
  • Visual Pilot1 Month trial$15.991 Month
  • Instrument Pilot1 Month trial$19.991 Month
  • Visual Pilot - Annual1 Month trial$169.991 Year
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  • Instrument Pilot - Annual1 Month trial$199.991 Year
1 purchases

FlightSense

Subscriptions1
  • FlightSense Premium$14.991 Month

Questions

Is Redbird Pro free?
Redbird Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FlightSense free?
FlightSense is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Redbird Pro or FlightSense?
Redbird Pro and FlightSense are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6 and 8 ratings respectively.
Do Redbird Pro or FlightSense have ads?
Neither Redbird Pro nor FlightSense shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Redbird Pro or FlightSense?
Redbird Pro ships an update monthly, and FlightSense every 3 weeks. Most recently, Redbird Pro was updated on November 3, 2026 and FlightSense on October 30, 2026.

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