MyFlightbook vs Hotline Events
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MyFlightbook
This app allows pilots to digitally log their flights, track flying totals, and manage currency. Access your logbook from anywhere, view flight routes on a map, and add photos and comments to entries. It also helps find nearby airports and offers optional auto-fill features for flight entries.
- Cloud-based flight logging
- Track flying totals and currency
- View flight routes on map
- Add photos and comments to flights
- Find nearby airports
- Optional auto-fill flight entry
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MyFlightbook provides a convenient tool for pilots to enter their flights and track their flying totals and currency. All information is stored in the cloud. Use of MyFlightbook requires a free account on MyFlightbook.com. MyFlightbook enables you to: • Access your logbook from anywhere. • Enter new flights (including auto-location of nearest airports), or edit existing entries. • View flying totals and do customized searches. • View your flying currency. • View the route of your flight on a map • Upload, edit, and view pictures for flights (either existing, or taken with the iPhone/iPad camera), including comments. • Find nearby airports and view airports you have visited. MyFlightbook also contains optional functionality to auto-fill parts of your flight entry for you. (Note that continued use of this GPS-based functionality running in the background can decrease battery life.)
Hotline Events
Discover local happenings across Rhode Island with a personalized feed or calendar view. Find concerts, food events, markets, and more, all tailored to your interests and location. Save events, add them to your calendar, and share with friends.
- Personalized event feed
- Calendar-based event exploration
- Search events by interest and organizer
- Filter by location, cost, and category
- Save and manage future events
- Add events to phone calendar
- Share events with friends
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Hotline makes it easier to find out what is happening across Rhode Island. Browse a personalized feed shaped by your interests and location, or pick a date in the calendar-first Explore view to see what is happening that day. Hotline brings concerts, food pop-ups, farmers markets, art shows, comedy, family events, outdoor activities, wellness, classes, community events, and more into one useful place. With Hotline you can: - Browse your feed of local events - Explore events by day with a full calendar - Search events, organizers, series, and interests across RI - Filter by location, cost, category, and audience - Save and browse your future events - Add events you choose to your phone calendar - Share events with friends - Get useful notifications about saved events and strong matches Hotline is independently built and run in Providence for the whole state.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: MyFlightbook at none against Hotline Events's shown. MyFlightbook also leads on ratings volume (1.1K vs 1) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Hotline Events's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 4 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for MyFlightbook against 5.0 for Hotline Events. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MyFlightbook has 1.1K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 97% of MyFlightbook's written reviews are positive against 100% of Hotline Events's.
MyFlightbook ships an update every 4 weeks, Hotline Events every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MyFlightbook | Hotline Events |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (1.1K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 97.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 80 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | MyFlightbook LLC | William Lupo |
Customer experience
MyFlightbook
Hotline Events
Bugs and requests
MyFlightbook
Reported bugs
1 issue- Occasional crashes or performance issues after updates
Requested features
3 requests- Automatic PIC/Co-Pilot name entry
- Better support for duty time tracking
- Improved integration with other platforms
Hotline Events
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
MyFlightbook
No in-app purchases
Hotline Events
No in-app purchases









