Prepware Private Pilot vs Private Pilot Airplane
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Prepware Private Pilot
Prepare for your FAA Private Pilot Knowledge Exam with this comprehensive study and test tool. It offers flashcard-style review of questions, answers, and explanations, allowing you to study by subject or take realistic practice tests.
- Flashcard-style review
- Questions, answers, and explanations
- Study by subject
- Practice tests
- FAA Knowledge Exam preparation
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Comprehensive preparation, study and test tool for the FAA Knowledge Exam. Flashcard style review of questions, answers and explanations included for you to study by subject or with a true-to-form practice test.
Private Pilot Airplane
Prepare for your FAA Airplane Written Exam with this comprehensive knowledge test prep app. It features an updated question bank, progress tracking, and realistic exam simulation modes. Study, quiz, and test your knowledge offline with interactive features.
- Updated FAA question bank
- Progress tracking with scores and dates
- Realistic exam simulation
- Randomized questions and answers
- Zoomable figures
- Offline access
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The Private Pilot Knowledge Test Prep App is the fastest way to ace your FAA Airplane Written Exam! Our main goal is to keep you updated with the latest test bank! Questions are added, changed and deleted throughout the year. When they are, we'll update them as soon as possible. Features: • Simple to use interface recommended by Flight Instructors. • Scores, the date and time taken for quizzes and tests are saved to keep track of your progress. • Questions and answer choices are random just like the real exam! • Zoomable figures are activated and deactivated by a button tap. • Optional sound effects for selected answers in Quiz Mode. • Shocks! Answer incorrectly and feel your iPhone vibrate! (This can be turned on and off.) • No internet connection required. Modes: Quiz Mode - While taking a quiz, correct answers you choose are shown in green while incorrect ones are shown in red. Test Mode - Simulates the test you are going to take at a FAA Knowledge Test Center. In this mode, you are asked 60 questions that are pulled from the entire question bank. Study Mode - Here you can read all the questions with only the associated correct answers!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Private Pilot Airplane at $4.99 against Prepware Private Pilot's $9.99. Private Pilot Airplane also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Prepware Private Pilot's advantage is chart position (#9 vs unranked). On review sentiment, 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
Prepware Private Pilot costs $9.99 and Private Pilot Airplane $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Prepware Private Pilot | Private Pilot Airplane |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | $4.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.9 (137 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 137 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #9 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ASA | Bravo Zulu Apps LLC |
Customer experience
Prepware Private Pilot
Private Pilot Airplane
Bugs and requests
Prepware Private Pilot
Reported bugs
24 issues- Powered flight questions appearing for glider pilots
- Small screen makes chart plotting difficult
- Missing essential questions for the written exam
- Some answers are incorrect
- Macbook app not working properly
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- Dark mode has contrast issues, making text unreadable
- Status bar bug with black text on black background
- Right answers not highlighted after getting a question wrong
- Study portion allows pushing through without selecting the right option, leading to false 100% scores
- Questions cut off at the end
- Save and exit function does not save progress
- App resets to homepage after a short period or if not actively used
- Quiz shuffles questions, preventing picking up where left off
- Errors in questions referencing sectional charts
- Sections on charts not available when referenced
- New update degraded the app interface
- White lettering on light background makes questions unreadable
- Dark mode compatibility issues with white text on gray background
- Questions in rotorcraft sections refer to fixed-wing regulations
- Irrelevant gyrocopter and fixed-wing questions in rotorcraft section
- Dark theme not displaying correct/incorrect answers properly
- App not compatible with iPhone X screen
- No way to systematically study, questions are random
- Questions that reference a chart or diagram are cumbersome to view
Requested features
14 requests- Ability to save/create a bank of difficult questions
- Scramble answer choices for realism
- Improve UI for newer devices (iPhone X/Xs/Xr, iPad Pro)
- Add Apple Watch support
- Vary the length of test modules
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- Allow studying more than one section at a time
- Add better reference information in explanations (page/section numbers)
- Allow resizing of figures on iPhone
- Show explanation immediately after wrong answer
- Fix grading to allow for incorrect answers without immediate correction
- Make questions more compatible with dark mode
- Fix contrast issues in dark mode
- Add a feature to stop showing questions already known
- Allow review of only missed items
Private Pilot Airplane
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Prepware Private Pilot
No in-app purchases
Private Pilot Airplane
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Prepware Private Pilot free?
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