Prepware Private Pilot vs Pilot Aptitude Pro
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.
Pilot Aptitude Pro
Prepare for pilot aptitude tests with this app designed by military aircrew. It enhances capacity, multitasking, short-term memory, and mental arithmetic skills through intuitive gameplay.
- Capacity and multitasking enhancement
- Short-term memory improvement
- Mental arithmetic training
- Intuitive gameplay
- Designed by military aircrew
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If you're looking to pass the daunting computer-based pilot aptitude tests currently in use by both military and civilian aircrew recruitment then Pilot Aptitude Pro is the perfect companion app to sharpen up your skills. Designed by military aircrew, Pilot Aptitude Pro directly targets your increasingly important capacity and multitasking abilities, whilst at the same time enhancing your short-term memory and competence in mental arithmetic. This is achieved through simple yet highly intuitive gameplay and, with the latest update, a fresh approach to design. Pilot Aptitude Pro: Brain training for future pilots. • App Icon includes licensed artwork from Roundicons, Yannick & Freepik from www.flaticon.com. • Lobster Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1, Copyright Impallari Type. • Roboto Font is licensed under the Apache License v2.00, Copyright 2017 Christian Robertson.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pilot Aptitude Pro at 4.6 against Prepware Private Pilot's 3.9. Pilot Aptitude Pro also leads on price ($3.99 vs $9.99) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 4 months). Prepware Private Pilot's advantage is chart position (#15 vs unranked). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Pilot Aptitude Pro $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pilot Aptitude Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 137 and 56 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Prepware Private Pilot's written reviews are positive against 74% of Pilot Aptitude Pro's.
Prepware Private Pilot ships an update every 4 months, Pilot Aptitude Pro every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Prepware Private Pilot | Pilot Aptitude Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | $3.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.9 (137 ratings) | 4.6 (56 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews | 74.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 137 — better | 56 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #15 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ASA | Mountain Wave Media Ltd |
Customer experience
Prepware Private Pilot
Pilot Aptitude Pro
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
Pilot Aptitude Pro
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Prepware Private Pilot
No in-app purchases
Pilot Aptitude Pro
No in-app purchases
Questions
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