CrewAlert vs SkyGuide For Crews
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CrewAlert
This app helps airline professionals and crew manage fatigue risk by predicting and analyzing alertness levels. It offers tools for proactive and reactive fatigue reporting, risk reduction, and data collection, built on a scientific alertness model.
- Predictive fatigue analysis
- Proactive fatigue data collection
- Simplified fatigue reporting
- Context-sensitive fatigue mitigation
- Alertness prediction model
- Sleep diary and data collection
- What-if scenario planning
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CrewAlert is the leading mobile app for fatigue risk management for airline safety professionals, crew scheduling departments and airline crew. CrewAlert assists fulfilling vital parts of the ICAO requirements on a FRMS: - Predictive: Help crew and crew schedulers compare and identify upcoming fatiguing flight duties. - Proactive. Assists safety departments to efficiently collect fatigue data from your operation – so called fatigue surveys. - Reactive. Greatly simplifies fatigue reporting for crew but also for safety departments. - Risk reduction: Built-in context sensitive fatigue mitigation functionality for crew. CrewAlert contains a lot of functionality, but please note that some parts are unlocked only conditioned a paid-for subscription. Such functionality is marked with an asterisk (*) below. --- As part of a joint safety initiative, Boeing and Jeppesen have been developing tools for allowing better management of alertness and fatigue. CrewAlert is the first app designed specifically to help airlines and their crews manage alertness and fatigue. Built on the Boeing Alertness Model (BAM), a mathematical prediction model of alertness, the CrewAlert app puts scientific knowledge in the palm of your hand. Please Note: This application is designed for professional pilots and the airlines that they work for. Before you purchase, please read this description in full as well as the Application License Agreement to see if CrewAlert is for you. For Everyone: - CrewAlert provides the functionality of much more expensive alertness modeling products at a fraction of the cost. - While CrewAlert is designed with flight deck and cabin crews in mind, it is applicable to any 24/7 operation where human performance is crucial to safety. For Crew: - Prediction of future alertness levels from schedule information, prior sleep and personal settings - creating risk awareness - Allows for creation of what-if scenarios - Allows for entry of sleep diaries of either actual or planned sleep, which can be used to investigate the effectiveness of potential sleep strategies. - Allows for collection of sleep (also via Apple Health*) and alertness data for own use, to learn over time what strategies work best. - Built-in fatigue mitigation strategies* - Efficient fatigue reporting* - Participate in fatigue data collection - Alerts and predictions also on Apple Watch* - Acclimatisation advice - Estimated body clock time* For Crew Schedulers: - Investigate likely effect on crew members from different scheduling options - Investigate common causes of recurring problems in schedules, and to consider alternatives - Simple import of roster data and sharing of scenarios* For Airline Safety Officers: - Efficient modelling of fatigue reports, incidents and accidents in multiple scenarios* - Analysis mode for investigating fatigue causes* - Analysis of collected fatigue data via efficient import* - Import and share data also via iCloud Drive* - Detailed fatigue reports, received from CrewAlert, can be imported and are pre-modelled using BAM, reducing manual work.* *) The paid for subscription-version of CrewAlert unlocks the following functionality; integration with Apple Health, use of iCould Drive, scenarios, fatigue mitigation strategies, roster import, analysis view, day/night theme, local light conditions and display of estimated body-clock time.
SkyGuide For Crews
This app provides flight attendants and pilots with quick, accurate answers to questions about their union contracts. It allows users to search for specific rules, see contract references, and save time when dealing with union representatives. The tool is designed for ease of use, offering direct contract information without corporate jargon.
- Instant contract answers
- Contract reference citations
- Rest and duty rule lookup
- Pairing and pay protection search
- Time-saving for union reps
- All contract info in one app
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SkyGuide is built for unionized flight attendants and pilots who are tired of flipping through hundreds of pages just to find one rule. Ask a question in your own words and get an instant answer sourced directly from your union contract, with clear references so you can verify everything yourself. With SkyGuide you can: • Quickly look up rest rules, duty limits, pairings, and pay protections • See exactly where each answer comes from in your contract • Save time when filing questions or following up with your union reps • Keep all of your contract info in one easy-to-use app, right on your phone SkyGuide is designed specifically for flight crews—no corporate HR fluff, no generic legal talk. Just fast, accurate information from your contract so you can focus on flying and your life outside of work. SkyGuide does not replace your union or your contract. Always confirm important decisions with your union representative or by reviewing the official contract language
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SkyGuide For Crews at 100% against CrewAlert's 25%. SkyGuide For Crews also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support 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. CrewAlert sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. SkyGuide For Crews asks for nothing beyond the download.
SkyGuide For Crews holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of CrewAlert's written reviews are positive against 100% of SkyGuide For Crews's.
CrewAlert ships an update every 2 months, SkyGuide For Crews every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CrewAlert | SkyGuide For Crews |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 97 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeppesen Systems AB | SkyGuide LLC |
Customer experience
CrewAlert
SkyGuide For Crews
In-app purchases
CrewAlert
- CrewAlert (1 Month)$1.991 Month
- CrewAlert Yearly (12 months)$19.991 Year
SkyGuide For Crews
No in-app purchases








