Comparison

CrewAlert vs OpsVelo CrewAssist

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

OpsVelo CrewAssist

Features
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OpsVelo CrewAssist is the crew companion for OpsVelo (opsvelo.com), the operations platform for airlines and aircraft operators worldwide. If your airline runs OpsVelo, sign in and your whole roster, duty log and safety toolkit travels with you — on iPhone and iPad. FOR THE LINE PILOT AND CABIN CREW • Roster — your published duties, changes and standbys at a glance • Report for duty — check in at the aerodrome, with an offline queue when signal is thin • Flight folder & package — briefing documents where you need them • Safety reports and hazard submissions, straight from the flight deck • Licences and currency — expiry tracking so nothing lapses quietly • Training records and course progress • Per diem and leave requests • Manuals and notices — always the current revision • Logbook — your flights, exportable FOR THE OPERATION Everything crew file syncs to the OpsVelo web portal your ops, safety and HR teams already run: one source of truth for rostering, compliance and safety. BUILT FOR REGIONAL AIRLINES Designed with crews flying turboprops and regional jets — thin connectivity, tight turnarounds, real paperwork. Face ID unlock keeps it quick and secure. ANY AIRLINE CAN JOIN OpsVelo is available to any airline or aircraft operator — request a demo at https://opsvelo.com. Once your operation is on board, your ops team issues crew accounts, and CrewAssist is free for every crew member.

Screenshots

CrewAlert4 screens
OpsVelo CrewAssist4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OpsVelo CrewAssist at none against CrewAlert's 2. OpsVelo CrewAssist also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). CrewAlert's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). On price and ads 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

Both are free to download. CrewAlert sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. OpsVelo CrewAssist asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CrewAlert ships an update every 2 months, OpsVelo CrewAssist every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
CrewAlert versus OpsVelo CrewAssist: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrewAlertOpsVelo CrewAssist
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJeppesen Systems ABSamic Ventures LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

CrewAlert

Subscriptions2
  • CrewAlert (1 Month)$1.991 Month
  • CrewAlert Yearly (12 months)$19.991 Year
None

OpsVelo CrewAssist

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CrewAlert free?
CrewAlert is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is OpsVelo CrewAssist free?
OpsVelo CrewAssist is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do CrewAlert or OpsVelo CrewAssist have ads?
Neither CrewAlert nor OpsVelo CrewAssist shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CrewAlert or OpsVelo CrewAssist?
CrewAlert ships an update every 2 months, and OpsVelo CrewAssist every 2 weeks. Most recently, CrewAlert was updated on October 15, 2026 and OpsVelo CrewAssist on October 16, 2026.

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