Comparison

AirTrack Classic vs smartCHECK

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

AirTrack Classic

This app provides real-time flight and navigation data wirelessly, ideal for flight simulators. It allows users to track virtual flights, remotely control simulated aircraft, and access detailed flight information on their device.

Highlights
  • Real-time flight and navigation data
  • Flight simulator integration
  • Remote flight control
  • Primary Flight Display (PFD)
  • Multi-Function Display (MFD)
  • Route planner (FMC)
  • Real-time weather information
Features
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AirTrack integrates with multiple data sources in order to report flight and navigation data wirelessly and in real time. Designed to be used with a Flight Simulator, with the aid of a plugin this application allows you to track your virtual flights in real-time in the palm of your hand, as well as to remotely control your simulated flights. You no longer need to stay glued to the computer in order to know if you're still flying at 39,000 feet, if you're still heading to the right waypoint, how long you've got left or what the weather is going to be like at your destination airport; you can now relax and do it in the garden or anywhere within WiFi reach really and control your flight with your thumb. But if this isn't enough, AirTrack can also use your device's built-in GPS, Accelerometer and Gyro to determine your current movements and attitude and the Internet to download real weather to simulate an aircraft's sensors. Turn your car trip into a flight experience by getting information about your instant position, heading and surrounding waypoints. See yourself in an EFIS style navigation display / primary flight display or plan your multi-leg trip with the built in route planner FMC which gives you real-time information about your waypoints, how far they are and how long it will take you to reach them. With its built-in database of FIX, VOR, NDB and Airports, AirTrack can also be used as a flight simulator companion allowing you to plan and monitor your trip, target a VOR or even perform a full IFR approach without ever needing to look at the screen. The AirTrack features include: - A full Primary Flight Display with speed, altitude, vertical speed, barometric pressure - Also in the PFD, compass, AI with roll/pitch, auto-pilot status and settings. - Instant GS, IAS, MACH, TAS and VS when available. - An MFD with APP, VOR, MAP and PLN mode with centered and expanded views. - The whole world as a map of geo contours in the MFD. - NAV / ADF and ILS / Approach guidance in the PFD and MFD. - An MCP panel to control the Aircraft's Auto-Pilot. - Wind speed and direction indicators. - Next waypoint reporting on the MFD. - Electronic Flight Bag style interface for iPad, - An advanced multimode navigation display. - A multi-leg FMC style route planner. - Enroute Airways decoder. - SID, STAR and Approach procedures decoder. - Bi-directional radio stack. - AutoTransponder Mode. - Customizable waypoints. - Saved waypoints and Nearby waypoints. - Real-Time weather information for airports. - Detailed airport information including runways. - A database of localities worldwide. - Built-in database of intersections, VORs and NDBs. - Support for NAVIGRAPH FMS AIRAC cycles. - Tracking of VATSIM / IVAO/ PilotEdge surrounding air traffic on the MFD. - Tracking of which controllers are online in VATSIM/IVAO. - Auto-tuning of ATC frequencies to COM1/COM2. - Automatic position report generation for oceanic. - Enhanced graphics with high-res Retina Display. - Remote Yoke/Joystick/Rudder for flight simulator. - Support for X-Plane - Support for Flight Simulator 2020 - Support for FS9 and FSX(*) - Cloud Services flight plan and waypoint sync. - Cloud based auto-sync advanced flight planner - Cloud based Approach plate / charts viewer with user charts. - And much more ... (*) Support for the old FS9 and FSX simulators is limited and provided by a third party plugin which is no longer actively maintained.

About

smartCHECK

This app acts as a digital copilot for airplane crews, reading checklists aloud and offering automatic altitude callouts. It also includes an integrated document browser for manuals and a notepad, along with tools like an oil log and fuel switch timer.

Highlights
  • Synthetic voice checklist reading
  • Automatic altitude callouts
  • Integrated document browser
  • Customizable checklists
  • Oil log and fuel timer
  • Night mode
Features
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smartCHECK is an App that reads Checklists by synthetic voice to airplane crews – smartCHECK is your „Digital Copilot“. I. Checklists App comes with a ready Light Airplane Template and a ready checklist set for the Cirrus SR22-G3 and G3 models. You can easily add items or even checklists to the checklist set. Other Checklist sets as in-app purchases: Cessna 172, 182, Piper Warrior and Archer. All checklist sets from the store can be downloaded as often as required, edited and saved. All checklist sets can be shared by eMail if the recipient owns the basic checklist of that airplane. Send checklist sets to yourself to save them on your computer or in a cloud service. Or install them on a second iPad. Make your own checklists for the categories Normal, Abnormal and Emergency and save them in the right category (Ground, Taxi…) of the checklist set for your airplane All checklists you create can be read to you II. Checklist Usage and Setting Checklists can be displayed as text only or shown as text and be read to the pilot/crew at the same time. Checklist items (text or audio) can also be completed manually one at a time by simply tapping the screen. If the whole checklist is read automatically then the reading can always be stopped and resumed by one tap on the screen. Some Checklist groups (Ground, Taxi, Takeoff…) can be forwarded automatically by GPS. Move and sort the icons on the screen according to your needs. Your edited checklists will be preserved with each new version of smartCHECK (we still recommend saving them). III. Automatic Altitude Callouts on Take-off (especially important for pilots of airplanes with BRS or CAPS system) Height AGL* above the Take-off runway can be announced („five hundred“). Pilot can either set one Height AGL* to be announced or a range between 100 and 1000 feet. Elevation above Take-off runway can be displayed in large numbers at the same time. Cirrus Aircraft Checklists contain a special CAPS checklist. After Take-off Checklists can be activated and read automatically and hands off. IV. Integrated Document Browser: Access all your Documents, Tables or Manuals with one tap Document Browser. Create green icons, give them a name and import any PDF or JPEG document. you might want to access with one tap. Import PDF documents like Avionics Manuals or Performance tables. Every document is accessible with tapping its icon. Use the camera of your iPad to create a document on the spot. Notepad feature. V. Other Tools and Settings Oil Log: Enter the Oil status of your engine, how much oil you added and the app calculates the oil consumption per flight hour. Fuel Switch Timer: Select an interval and get an onscreen and audio reminder to switch your tanks. Control brightness of screen in the app or use the red Night Mode. Switch the audio feature on/off. Switch on/off automatic forwarding of flight phases. Or swipe groups manually. Auto voice on/off. Auto voice means: The app reads the complete checklist and goes back to the main menu when checklist is completed. When using checklists without auto voice each tap on the screen will read one item (manual audio mode). If used without audio each tap will only mark each item/line green (manual text mode). Move checklist icons to other place on the screen by sliding them to a new position. Filter which checklist types you want to have displayed with a simple toggle switch. This way you can reduce the number of icons on the screen. More information: www.airwork.biz Hardware Requirements: smartCHECK will work on every iPad and iPad mini. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

AirTrack Classic4 screens
smartCHECK4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AirTrack Classic at none against smartCHECK's 2. AirTrack Classic also leads on review sentiment (81% vs 71%). smartCHECK's advantage is price ($13.99 vs $19.99) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On ratings volume, ads, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

AirTrack Classic costs $19.99 and smartCHECK $13.99 up front. smartCHECK sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. AirTrack Classic asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

smartCHECK holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 9 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 81% of AirTrack Classic's written reviews are positive against 71% of smartCHECK's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AirTrack Classic ships an update every 2 months, smartCHECK every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
AirTrack Classic versus smartCHECK: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAirTrack ClassicsmartCHECK
Price$19.99$13.99 — better
Rating3.8 (14 ratings)4.0 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.8% of reviews — better71.4% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better9
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size189 MB90 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoao CabralairWORK aviation media UG

Customer experience

AirTrack Classic

All ratings14 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%
Written reviews172 reviews
Positive80.8%
Neutral2.9%
Negative16.3%

smartCHECK

All ratings9 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral11.1%
Negative22.2%
Written reviews28 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral10.7%
Negative17.9%

Bugs and requests

AirTrack Classic

Reported bugs

18 issues
  • App crashes or closes automatically
  • App does not open or shows a black screen
  • Connection issues with FSX/X-Plane
  • MCP controls not working
  • Flight plan import issues
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  • Waypoint import issues
  • App not syncing with flight simulator
  • Location services not working or causing issues
  • App not working after iOS updates
  • Plugin not working or difficult to install
  • Some ICAO codes not showing
  • FMC heading freezes
  • Controls are reversed
  • Cannot read FMC in X-Plane
  • App slows down FSX performance
  • Charts are experimental and may not work
  • Incompatible with FSX non-default aircraft
  • White icon after update

Requested features

19 requests
  • Add FMC functionality
  • Improve compatibility with specific add-on aircraft (e.g., PMDG, FF777, A320Neo)
  • Include engine parameters display
  • Add a moving map with satellite view (like Google Maps)
  • More instrument style options (e.g., Cessna 172, Avidyne, G1000)
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  • Ability to upload own AIRAC data
  • Real-time weather integration
  • Simulate more traffic
  • Landscape mode option
  • Option to customize page layouts
  • Improve FMC database management (avoid expiration)
  • Add SID/STAR support
  • Improve graphics quality
  • Allow editing FMC entries (e.g., altitude)
  • Add VATSIM controller voice and text display
  • Better instructions for plugin placement
  • Integration of approach/procedure charts
  • Add holding patterns on route
  • Ability to use as a real-world flight aid (with privacy concerns addressed)

smartCHECK

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

AirTrack Classic

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

smartCHECK

Subscriptions2
  • smartCHECK Weather1 Month trial$2.991 Month
  • smartCHECK Pro3 Months trial$3.991 Month

Questions

Is AirTrack Classic free?
AirTrack Classic costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is smartCHECK free?
smartCHECK costs $13.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, AirTrack Classic or smartCHECK?
smartCHECK is rated higher. AirTrack Classic averages 3.8 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while smartCHECK averages 4.0 from 9 ratings.
Do AirTrack Classic or smartCHECK have ads?
Neither AirTrack Classic nor smartCHECK shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AirTrack Classic or smartCHECK?
AirTrack Classic ships an update every 2 months, and smartCHECK every 3 weeks. Most recently, AirTrack Classic was updated on October 26, 2026 and smartCHECK on October 19, 2026.

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