ForeFlight Mobile EFB vs HoldoverLive
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
HoldoverLive
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HoldoverLive turns the FAA holdover tables, your weather and your NOTAM briefing into one fast, glanceable tool — so you spend the de-icing window flying the operation, not flipping through PDFs. ZERO TYPING, STRAIGHT TO THE ANSWER - Tap the location button: the app finds the nearest reporting aerodrome, pulls the current METAR and SNOWTAM, and decodes them instantly. - The decoded weather is applied directly to the FAA tables — the correct holdover cell is highlighted for your fluid, concentration, OAT and precipitation. - No signal at the gate? The complete FAA HOT tables (Type I/II/III/IV, winter 2026-27) are bundled in the app and work fully offline. A HOLDOVER TIMER THAT FOLLOWS YOU - Start the timer when fluid is applied. Lock your phone — the countdown lives on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. - Colour-coded timeline from protection active to degrading to expired, with time-sensitive alerts and haptics at each threshold — even in your pocket. - A Home Screen widget confirms the bundled FAA edition is still the current season. TRUST, THEN VERIFY - Every value can be checked against the original FAA page in one tap, with pinch-to-zoom for the fine print. - Adjusted HOT (early flaps/slats, 76%), ice-pellet allowances, one-step/two-step guidance and day/night handling built in. NOTAM LIVE - Enter any ICAO worldwide and get the NOTAMs decoded and grouped: runway/taxiway, ILS/approach, navaids, lighting, airspace, obstacles, warnings. - Closed runways and unserviceable aids highlighted; validity at a glance; raw text always available. - Searchable ICAO abbreviations dictionary — type "rwy" and see every runway-related code explained. HoldoverLive requires an annual subscription (USD 4.99/year, local price shown at purchase). It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage it in your Apple Account settings. HoldoverLive is an advisory planning aid, not an official source of aeronautical information. Always verify holdover values and NOTAMs against your official FAA / AIS briefing. When in doubt, de-ice again. Privacy Policy: https://flightlimits.com/holdover-privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: HoldoverLive at every 2 days against ForeFlight Mobile EFB's every 2 weeks. ForeFlight Mobile EFB's advantage is chart position (#10 vs unranked). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. ForeFlight Mobile EFB sells 14 one-off in-app purchases and HoldoverLive sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ForeFlight Mobile EFB ships an update every 2 weeks, HoldoverLive every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ForeFlight Mobile EFB | HoldoverLive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (3.3K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 68.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.3K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #10 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 592 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ForeFlight | Huseyin Bora AKYOL |
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
HoldoverLive
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
HoldoverLive
- HoldoverLive Yearly$4.991 Year
Questions
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