ForeFlight Mobile EFB vs Minimums
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ForeFlight Mobile EFB
This app simplifies flight planning, briefing, and filing for pilots. It offers interactive weather layers, detailed charts, and hazard awareness tools for enhanced situational awareness. Logbook features track flight hours and currency.
- Touch Planning on Map
- Interactive Weather Layers
- Geo-referenced Plates & Charts
- Global Hazard Awareness
- Digital Logbook
- Synthetic Vision
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Download for a 30-day free trial of our top subscription plan! Visit our website for more information on available plans and add-ons. ForeFlight is the leading flight app for VFR and IFR pilots everywhere, making flight planning and flying easier, safer, and more enjoyable. FLIGHT PLANNING, BRIEFING, & FILING Plan flights with Touch Planning on the Map or full-featured form-based Flights view. Tap out a route in seconds and quickly see if flights will be affected by weather or TFRs. Helpful Route, Altitude, and Procedure Advisors make planning easy and accurate. Generate a graphical preflight briefing and file your flight plan directly from the app. Print a professional-grade Navlog for inflight reference. WEATHER Interactive weather layers include animated radar, global satellite and winds aloft, global icing, turbulence, and surface analysis, graphical AIR/SIGMETs, flight category, visibility, and more. View decoded METARs, TAFs, and MOS forecasts. Thoughtfully organized Imagery view puts a full range of forecast tools at your fingertips. PLATES, CHARTS, & MAPS Both VFR and IFR operations are covered with all of the essentials required for planning and navigation: data-driven Aeronautical Maps, VFR Sectionals, High/Low Enroute charts, SIDs, STARs, approach and taxi charts, and terrain, satellite, and street map views. GEO-REFERENCED APPROACHES & TAXI CHARTS Plates and taxi charts enable the real time display of your GPS location on the chart. They can also be overlaid on the Maps view along with weather and hazards for the ultimate situational awareness. GLOBAL HAZARD AWARENESS TECHNOLOGY Plan and fly with more confidence in all conditions and terrain. Top-down-view Hazard Advisor map layer, Terrain Profile View, and 3D Synthetic Vision seamlessly integrate into the map display to depict a clear picture of terrain and obstacle hazards anywhere in the world. When paired with an AHRS source, Synthetic Vision provides a backup attitude display. LOGBOOK Logbook makes it easy to log and share flights, track hours, review currency, record certificates and ratings, receive electronic instructor endorsements, and create experience reports. Your data is automatically synced across all your devices and protected in secure cloud storage. ADDITIONAL FEATURES INCLUDE: Built-in documents catalog with FAR/AIM, charts supplements, and more Airport, FBO, and fuel price information for thousands of locations Dynamic data-driven Aeronautical Maps Weight & Balance Glide Advisor Automatic chart and data data updates Chart color inversion for better night flying experience Access to web planner
Minimums
This app analyzes aviation weather reports (METARs and TAFs) to determine if airport conditions meet your custom takeoff, landing, or alternate minimums. Set up personalized alerts for weather changes and view conditions on a map.
- View METARs and TAFs for global airports
- Check custom takeoff, landing, and alternate minimums
- Create custom weather change alerts
- Customize units for visibility, wind, pressure, and temperature
- Map view with flight category, ceiling, and visibility
- Translated or raw METAR/TAF display
- Sunrise, sunset, and night time information
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• View METARs and TAFs for thousands of airports around the world • Tells you if your airports are above, at, or below your custom minimums for takeoff, landing, and alternate • Create custom alerts to be notified as soon as the weather changes (utilizes push notifications) • Customize visibility, wind speed, altimeter setting, and temperature units • Option to display information as either translated or raw • Map view with flight category, ceiling, and visibility View your own personalized list of airports or weather stations and quickly determine if they are above or below your takeoff, landing, or alternate minimums. No more digging through TAFs to see if your favourite alternate will hold - if it's green, it's good for the duration of the TAF! If it's yellow, it's at minimums. If it's red, the weather goes below your minimums at some point during the forecast. Minimums can be completely customized based on ceiling and visibility and is useful for all pilots, from airline to student. Simply set your personal, company, or legal limits for all of your airports, and quickly see which ones will work. You also have complete control over how TEMPO and PROB conditions should affect this analysis. Please note that minimums must be set manually by each user - a database of IFR minimums is not included in the app. However, with Data Sharing enabled, the app can suggest commonly used minimums for each airport. Set up alerts that will notify you when the weather meets your own custom criteria. For example, you might ask Minimums to alert you when the visibility at a certain airport goes above 1 mile. Or maybe the ceiling at your destination is 300 feet and the minimums are 500 feet. Just create an alert to tell you when the ceiling goes above your desired value. Minimums uses push notifications so you don't have to constantly refresh the app. As soon as we detect your criteria has been met, we'll send your phone a notification letting you know. Alerts are currently available for ceiling, visibility, flight category (VFR, MVFR, IFR, LIFR), lowest cloud layer, and new metar issued. Units can be customized as follows: - Visibility (miles or meters) - Wind Speed (knots or meters per second) - Pressure (inches of mercury or hectopascals) - Temperature (celsius or fahrenheit) - Time (UTC or Local) - Metars/TAFs can also be displayed as translated (decoded) or raw Sunrise, sunset, and night times are also included with night defined as the center of the sun's disc being 6º below the horizon. Light and dark mode available - follows your system settings. Weather data is provided by the National Weather Service and airport names and cities are provided by Our Airports. Free version limitations: • Maximum 5 airports in your station list • No suggested minimums, but you can see which airports have suggestions available • No push notifications for alerts DISCLAIMER: Never use Minimums as your sole source of aviation weather information. Always consult official meteorological sources for your country. While we strive to make Minimums completely error-free, sometimes the wrong information can be displayed. Gauld Developments takes no responsibility for any damages incurred as a result of the use of this app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Minimums at 4.8 against ForeFlight Mobile EFB's 4.4. Minimums also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 68%) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 18.0). ForeFlight Mobile EFB's advantage is ratings volume (3.2K vs 35) and chart position (#13 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. ForeFlight Mobile EFB sells 14 one-off in-app purchases and Minimums sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Minimums holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ForeFlight Mobile EFB has 3.2K ratings behind it against 35, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of ForeFlight Mobile EFB's written reviews are positive against 83% of Minimums's.
ForeFlight Mobile EFB ships an update every 2 weeks, Minimums fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ForeFlight Mobile EFB | Minimums |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (3.2K ratings) | 4.8 (35 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.5% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.2K — better | 35 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #13 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 12.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 587 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ForeFlight | Tailwheel Labs Ltd. |
Customer experience
ForeFlight Mobile EFB
Minimums
Bugs and requests
ForeFlight Mobile EFB
Reported bugs
3 issues- Weather data not updating correctly
- Issues with syncing user waypoints and annotations
- Incompatibility with certain iOS versions and device models
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to add multiple landing legs in a single flight plan
- Improved map annotations and drawing tools
- Customizable logbook and flight data export options
- Better support for Apple Watch and other wearables
- More comprehensive coverage of international airports and charts
Minimums
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ForeFlight Mobile EFB
- Basic Plus US - 3 months$70.00
- Starter LATAM - 1 Year$129.99
- Starter US - 1 Year$129.99
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- Starter CA - 1 Year$129.99
- Starter EUR - 1 Year$129.99
- Starter APAC - 1 Year$129.99
- Starter ME & SA - 1 Year$129.99
- Essential APAC - 1 Year$259.99
- Essential ME & SA - 1 Year$259.99
- Essential US - 1 Year$259.99
- Essential CA - 1 Year$259.99
- Premium LATAM$390.00
- Premium ME & SA$390.00
- Premium US - 1 Year2 variants$390.00
Minimums
- Premium$6.99
Questions
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