CrewAlert vs Flightscape eFlight Manager
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.
Flightscape eFlight Manager
This app automates flight planning by ingesting data from your flight planning system. It generates comprehensive trip packages with weather information and allows flight crews to upload real-time flight data for analysis.
- ARINC 633-2 flight plan ingestion
- Automated pre-flight briefing packages
- Real-time fuel and flight time capture
- Offline flight recalculations
- Scratchpad for notes and drawings
- Device data synchronization
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Flightscape eFlight Manager is a Flight Plan Manager add-on to expand the connected flight to the cockpit. The application automates the process of collecting all the information for your trip by ingesting flight plans from your flight planning system of choice. A comprehensive and complete package is then generated containing all the latest information required for a trip such as MET, NOTAM, Upper Wind and Temperature / Significant Weather charts and documentation. As well as being a system for delivering data for a trip, eFlight Manager has the ability to capture information from the flight crew. Information such as fuel records, actual flight times, and actual Fuel On board (FOB) are uploaded to the ground server for immediate analysis and reporting. Major features include: - ARINC 633-2 flight plan ingestion. Pre-flight Briefing: - METAR data with green, amber, red coloring based on configurable minima. - TAF for each airfield. - NOTAM for each airfield. - SNOWTAM for each airfield. - Update facility to receive the latest data for your trip. - FIR NOTAM, ASHTAM and SIGMETS. - Operational notices. - PDF Briefing Package. - Flight Recalculation - Sign Off. Trip: - Flight Summary showing weight and fuel information with offline recalculations. - Delay records. - Trip Log for capturing actual flight times, fuel on board, etc. Scratch Pad - Captures text notes. - Captures drawings. Device Sync - Allows crews to “push” or “share” the data that has been entered into eFM from their device to another device
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Flightscape eFlight Manager at 5.0 against CrewAlert's 4.0. Flightscape eFlight Manager also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (38% vs 25%). CrewAlert's advantage is device support (4 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. CrewAlert sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Flightscape eFlight Manager asks for nothing beyond the download.
Flightscape eFlight Manager holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of CrewAlert's written reviews are positive against 38% of Flightscape eFlight Manager's.
CrewAlert ships an update every 2 months, Flightscape eFlight Manager every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CrewAlert | Flightscape eFlight Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 37.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 138 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeppesen Systems AB | CAE Inc. |
Customer experience
CrewAlert
Flightscape eFlight Manager
In-app purchases
CrewAlert
- CrewAlert (1 Month)$1.991 Month
- CrewAlert Yearly (12 months)$19.991 Year
Flightscape eFlight Manager
No in-app purchases
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