Comparison

ForeFlight Mobile EFB vs FLYR Preflight

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Touch Planning on Map
  • Interactive Weather Layers
  • Geo-referenced Plates & Charts
  • Global Hazard Awareness
  • Digital Logbook
  • Synthetic Vision
Features
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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

About

FLYR Preflight

This comprehensive pilot toolkit provides essential weather data, filtered NOTAMs, airport information, and enroute charts. It includes pilot tools and a quick-reference library to help aviators prepare for flights.

Highlights
  • Raw and decoded METARs/TAFs
  • Filtered human-readable NOTAMs
  • Airport information and runway diagrams
  • NAT tracks and wind charts
  • Pilot tools and quick-reference library
Features
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THE PROFESSIONAL PILOT’S TOOLKIT Designed by pilots, for pilots, FLYR Preflight is packed with everything you need to prepare for your flight. We know what you need to know because we do it everyday. • The latest Metars and Tafs, raw or decoded • Filtered, human-readable Notams • At-a-glance airport info, satellite views and runway diagrams • NAT tracks, space wx, sig wx and wind charts • Essential pilot tools and a handy quick-reference library Say hello to FLYR and arrive at the crew room fully briefed. WEATHER Quickly build your weather picture with raw or decoded Metars and Tafs for each airport and nearby alternates. See what’s happening at a glance with the latest weather for your favourites, recents and nearby airports all together in one list. NOTAMS Cut through the noise with clear, intelligently organised Notams and Snowtams, with human-readable titles, key details highlighted and coordinates plotted on a map. Filter and sort Notams how you like to get to what you need quickly. AIRPORT Build your situational awareness with satellite views and key info for each airport, plus intuitive runway diagrams showing orientations and dimensions, the current wind components and best approach types. ENROUTE Prepare for your polar/oceanic crossings with the latest space weather and a map of the current NAT tracks, colour coded by direction and PBCS. Then check the big picture with sig wx and wind charts for each ICAO area. FLIGHT BAG Save time in the cockpit with a collection of essential pilot calculators, decoders and converters to make your life that little bit easier, plus a handy quick-reference library to help with all those acronyms, abbreviations and codes.

Screenshots

ForeFlight Mobile EFB4 screens
FLYR Preflight4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ForeFlight Mobile EFB at Free against FLYR Preflight's $8.99. ForeFlight Mobile EFB also leads on rating (4.4 vs 1.5) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). FLYR Preflight's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 18) and review sentiment (86% vs 68%). On 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

ForeFlight Mobile EFB is free to download; FLYR Preflight costs $8.99 up front. ForeFlight Mobile EFB sells 14 one-off in-app purchases. FLYR Preflight asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ForeFlight Mobile EFB holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ForeFlight Mobile EFB has 3.3K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 68% of ForeFlight Mobile EFB's written reviews are positive against 86% of FLYR Preflight's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ForeFlight Mobile EFB ships an update every 2 weeks, FLYR Preflight every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
ForeFlight Mobile EFB versus FLYR Preflight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterForeFlight Mobile EFBFLYR Preflight
PriceFree — better$8.99
Rating4.4 (3.3K ratings) — better1.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews68.2% of reviews85.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.3K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank#16 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size592 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperForeFlightJames York

Customer experience

ForeFlight Mobile EFB

All ratings3,265 ratings
Positive83.6%
Neutral5.3%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews443 reviews
Positive68.2%
Neutral9.0%
Negative22.8%

FLYR Preflight

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

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

FLYR Preflight

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

14 purchases

ForeFlight Mobile EFB

One-time14
  • 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
None

FLYR Preflight

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ForeFlight Mobile EFB free?
ForeFlight Mobile EFB is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FLYR Preflight free?
FLYR Preflight costs $8.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ForeFlight Mobile EFB or FLYR Preflight?
ForeFlight Mobile EFB is rated higher. ForeFlight Mobile EFB averages 4.4 out of 5 from 3.3K ratings, while FLYR Preflight averages 1.5 from 2 ratings.
Do ForeFlight Mobile EFB or FLYR Preflight have ads?
Neither ForeFlight Mobile EFB nor FLYR Preflight shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ForeFlight Mobile EFB or FLYR Preflight?
ForeFlight Mobile EFB ships an update every 2 weeks, and FLYR Preflight every 3 months. Most recently, ForeFlight Mobile EFB was updated on October 22, 2026 and FLYR Preflight on October 9, 2026.

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