Comparison

STEM Flights vs Flybound

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

Head to head
About

STEM Flights

Features
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Use the mobile app to find and sign up for available flights, manage your upcoming flights, file your mission reports, update your profile, and much more.

About

Flybound

This app helps general aviation pilots quickly determine safe day-trip destinations based on live weather, aircraft performance, and personal minimums. It provides detailed airport information, including weather, runway conditions, and local attractions, to aid in planning.

Highlights
  • Wind-shaped range rings
  • Airport GO/CAUTION/NO-GO scoring
  • Live weather integration
  • Aircraft performance calculation
  • Daylight and fuel checks
  • Airport details (weather, runways, frequencies)
  • Things to do at destination
Features
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Where can I fly today — or tomorrow? Pick a leave time. Flybound draws wind-shaped range rings around your home airport and scores every reachable field GO, CAUTION or NO-GO — from live weather, your aircraft's numbers, daylight, fuel and your own personal minimums. Then it does the part a raw briefing never does: it tells you what would change the answer. IT TELLS YOU WHY — AND WHAT WOULD FIX IT Every CAUTION and NO-GO carries the number: "GO if the ceiling lifts 400 ft." "GO if you leave by 2:15 PM." Trend arrows show whether the ceiling and visibility are lifting or dropping, and when they're heading your way you get a time: "on this trend, around 2:40 PM." YOUR MINIMUMS, NOT SOMEBODY ELSE'S Ceiling, visibility, surface wind, gusts, crosswind, density altitude, runway length, fuel on the field, your own night policy. PLAN TONIGHT FOR TOMORROW Tap Tomorrow 8 AM or 1 PM, or set any leave time, and every airport is scored on its forecast for when you'd arrive. Where the forecast doesn't reach yet, Flybound says so instead of guessing green. THE WHOLE DAY, NOT JUST THE DEPARTURE • Weather along the route at the time you will actually cross it, not only at the ends. • The forecast at your arrival, and again for the ride home. • Last light, and the be-home-by deadline that follows from it, with night-currency cues. • A fuel-stop planner that sizes the stop and lands it near the true midpoint. • Round-trip or one-way scoring, and an expected-ride estimate for the passenger who asks. ALTITUDE Trips are planned at the altitude you actually fly, legal for each direction, with the climb modelled. Pro adds a cruise-altitude card: the wind triangle solved at every legal level your aircraft can reach, out and back. WHEN YOU KNOW BETTER THAN THE DATA Set a field aside — a runway you won't use, a sensor you don't trust — and Flybound leaves it out of every decision: as a destination, as en-route weather on other routes, as a weather source for its neighbours, and as a fuel stop. With Pro, it can also leave out the ~135 airports where Vector Airport Solutions bills landing and ramp fees; put any one back with a tap. ON THE GROUND AND AFTER Runways with wind components, frequencies, airspace class, fuel, and things worth walking to. A Wheels Down log of everywhere you've been, scout alerts for the fields you care about, and a home-screen widget. IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC On iPad and Mac the map, the airport list and the brief sit side by side. One purchase covers every device on your Apple ID, and your aircraft, minimums and logbook follow you through iCloud. FREE AND PRO Free is a real app, not a demo: full GO/CAUTION/NO-GO scoring, Plan for tomorrow, personal minimums, route weather, daylight, fuel and the airport briefs — with one aircraft, rings out to 2.5 hours, 50 airports on the map and 10 logged fields. Flybound Pro is $14.99 per month, an auto-renewing monthly subscription; it includes a 14-day free trial. Pro unlocks rings out to 6.5 hours, every airport in range, multiple aircraft and home fields, filters, the cruise-altitude optimizer, winds-aloft override, one-way mode, fee-airport disregards, scout alerts, faster weather refresh, and an unlimited Wheels Down log with CSV import. Lifetime is $59.99 once, with Family Sharing. Everything Pro has, paid for one time. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. The free trial is available once per account. Terms of Use (EULA): https://flybound.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://flybound.app/privacy.html BEFORE YOU FLY Flybound is a planning aid for discovering day trips. It is not a navigation or in-flight app, it carries no terrain data, and it is not a substitute for an official preflight briefing. Verify weather, airspace, runways, frequencies, fuel and NOTAMs against current official sources before every flight.

Screenshots

STEM Flights4 screens
Flybound4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: STEM Flights at none against Flybound's 2. STEM Flights also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). Flybound's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 8 months). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Flybound sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. STEM Flights asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

STEM Flights ships an update every 8 months, Flybound every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
STEM Flights versus Flybound: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSTEM FlightsFlybound
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAngel Flight West IncLenny Tropiano

In-app purchases

None

STEM Flights

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Flybound

Subscriptions1
  • Flybound Pro Monthly$14.991 Month
One-time1
  • Flybound Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is STEM Flights free?
STEM Flights is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Flybound free?
Flybound is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do STEM Flights or Flybound have ads?
Neither STEM Flights nor Flybound shows ads.
Which is updated more often, STEM Flights or Flybound?
STEM Flights ships an update every 8 months, and Flybound every 6 days. Most recently, STEM Flights was updated on November 3, 2026 and Flybound on October 31, 2026.

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