EAA Events vs Steel Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EAA Events
This app provides comprehensive event information for aviation enthusiasts, allowing users to browse, filter, and search for activities, attractions, and exhibitors. Users can plan their visit by building a personalized itinerary and receive important notifications about schedule changes and weather.
- Event browsing and filtering
- Searchable attractions and exhibitors
- Personalized itinerary builder
- Real-time notifications
- Schedule change alerts
- Weather updates
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Whether you come to fly or to watch, the official EAA Events app is a must-have for attendees who want the “World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration” at their fingertips! EAA AirVenture Oshkosh is our flagship seven-day event, in July at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and is the ultimate celebration of aviation. Features of the app include: View, filter, and search EAA AirVenture events, attractions, guest services, destinations, workshops, speakers, and exhibitors. Plan Your Visit & Build Your Itinerary Browse the schedule of events and create your own personal day-by-day, hour-by-hour itinerary so that you don’t miss the events, activities, and exhibitors. Upon downloading the app, you’ll need to enter your name and email address, then respond to the email confirmation message. Then you’ll be able to build your itinerary on the EAA Events desktop portal and view or adjust your itinerary from your mobile device. Notifications Receive in-app notifications regarding activities, weather, and important schedule changes from the app home screen or main navigation menu. You’ll find the most up-to-date news and information and can even have your mobile device notify you when notifications are published in the app. The EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2022 event in the app is sponsored by BendixKing.
Steel Notes
This app helps you capture and organize quotes from books, articles, and your own ideas. It allows you to connect related thoughts and trace them back to their source material, building a lasting library of your reading and insights.
- Capture book quotes
- Clip web articles
- Organize notes and resources
- Connect related ideas
- Searchable library
- Trace ideas to source
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Steel Notes gives your books, quotes, articles, and ideas a lasting place to live. CAPTURE WHAT MATTERS • Quickly capture quotes from physical books. • Your margin notes automatically appear. • Search quotes, notes, and resources. PRESERVE USEFUL ARTICLES • Clip text from articles on the web. • Keep the content without the page disappearing from the web. CONNECT YOUR THINKING • Reference books, quotes, and articles within your own notes. • Connect related ideas across different sources. • Trace each idea back to the material that inspired it. BUILD YOUR READING LIBRARY Keep the books you have read and the ideas you have collected organized in one focused space. Steel Notes is made for students, researchers, academics, and thoughtful readers who want more from their reading than a collection of forgotten highlights. For readers to remember. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Steel Notes at 100% against EAA Events's 14%. Steel Notes also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.5) and ads (none vs shown). EAA Events's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (102 vs 2). On price, monetization model, device support and iOS requirement 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. Steel Notes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $5.00 per month. EAA Events asks for nothing beyond the download.
Steel Notes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EAA Events has 102 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 14% of EAA Events's written reviews are positive against 100% of Steel Notes's.
EAA Events ships an update every 5 months, Steel Notes weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EAA Events | Steel Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (102 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 102 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION, INC. | Pitts Ventures |
Customer experience
EAA Events
Steel Notes
Bugs and requests
EAA Events
Reported bugs
11 issues- Login process does not complete
- Event not listed in app
- Links to log in do not work
- Infinite login loop
- Code expired, cannot get new code
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- App opens to a blank screen
- EAA radio cuts out, ads too loud/delayed
- Map requires download each time
- Search field does not find vendors
- Login requires email link, not a code
- App not working on iOS 18.5
Requested features
8 requests- Offline map functionality
- Improved search tool
- Interactive GPS map like old app
- Ability to use EAA credentials for login
- Fix duplicate event listings with all times
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- Add map reference points
- Allow app access on multiple devices with one login
- Make app functional without login for basic info
Steel Notes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
EAA Events
No in-app purchases
Steel Notes
- Steel Notes Monthly$5.001 Month
