ForeFlight Mobile EFB vs Epicenter
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
Epicenter
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Epicenter is real-time natural-hazard awareness: active wildfires, earthquakes, floods, severe storms, and local emergency activity, aggregated from official public sources and drawn on a live map, with detail pages that put every number in plain language. SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING • A live map of wildfires, earthquakes, floods, storms, and local emergencies • Official sources: USGS earthquake feeds, NOAA/NWS weather and flood alerts, NIFC and satellite wildfire detections, and public emergency-dispatch feeds • Wind, rainfall, and shaking context on every event UNDERSTAND IT • Comparisons that make the numbers real, hurricane winds raced against an F1 car, rainfall measured in bathtubs, quake energy in everyday terms • Live incident timelines as new reports arrive • Scanner radio for major incidents, where available STAY INFORMED • Push alerts when a significant event happens near you • Location is optional and while-in-use only, the app works fully without it • Share cards that carry the facts, built for messages Epicenter is free, supported by a single unobtrusive ad on the home screen and event pages — never beside the most severe events, and never personalized. Epicenter Premium removes ads and unlocks additional local emergency detail. No account required. Epicenter shows what official sources report. Epicenter Premium is an auto-renewing subscription: $4.99 per month or $49.99 per year (US; prices may vary by region and are always shown in the app before purchase). Payment is charged to your Apple Account, and the subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://epicenter.news/terms Privacy Policy: https://epicenter.news/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: ForeFlight Mobile EFB at none against Epicenter's shown. ForeFlight Mobile EFB also leads on chart position (#19 vs unranked) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases 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. ForeFlight Mobile EFB sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Epicenter sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | ForeFlight Mobile EFB | Epicenter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (3.3K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 67.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.3K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #19 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 592 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ForeFlight | Nate Sanders |
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
Epicenter
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ForeFlight Mobile EFB
- Basic Plus US - 3 months$70.00
- Starter US - 1 Year$129.99
- Starter CA - 1 Year$129.99
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- Starter EUR - 1 Year$129.99
- Starter APAC - 1 Year$129.99
- Starter ME & SA - 1 Year$129.99
- Essential US - 1 Year$259.99
- Essential CA - 1 Year$259.99
- Premium US - 1 Year2 variants$390.00
Epicenter
- Premium - Monthly$4.991 Month
- Premium - Annual$49.991 Year
Questions
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