AvPlan EFB vs AeroPointer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AvPlan EFB
This app provides comprehensive flight planning and electronic flight bag capabilities for pilots. It offers advanced features like terrain warning, airspace status, and graphical replanning to enhance situational awareness and streamline flight preparation and execution.
- VFR & IFR Flight Planning
- Terrain Warning & Alerting
- Graphical Flight Replanning
- Weight and Balance
- Geo-referenced Airport Diagrams
- GPS Moving Map
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Get flying faster with AvPlan EFB - the premier lifetime Electronic Flight Bag that grows with you. Continuing to lead the market with unparalleled innovation and functionality, AvPlan features multiple firsts with terrain warning, touch to display restricted airspace status, automatic IFR airway planning and geo-referenced airport taxi & instrument approach diagrams to arm you with superior situational awareness. Envisioned, developed and rigorously tested over a two year period by pilots for pilots, AvPlan EFB integrates everything you need to prepare, plan and execute your flight - whether it be in a recreational aircraft, corporate jet or something in between. Your AvPlan EFB comes packed with the following features: • Comprehensive VFR & IFR Flight Planning • Complete official FAA airport/waypoint database • All necessary documentation • Advanced aircraft flight model setup • Automatic TOC, TOD, PNR and optimum altitude calculation • Full DUATS integration (WX, NOTAMS, flight plan submission) • All US VFR & IFR aeronautical charts (with pan, zoom and rotation) • Touch and drag (rubber band) graphical flight replanning/diversion • Weight and balance (with loadsheet and passenger manifest) • Graphical WX overlays on any chart (WX Radar, Lightning, METAR, SIGMET) • GPS moving map with display data labels • Touch-to-display TFR status • Terrain map overlay and in-flight terrain alerting • Geo-referenced airport diagrams (auto displays aircraft position on landing) • Geo-referenced instrument approach plates which support route editing and more • FAA Documentation (including full text search and bookmark functions) • Aircraft pilot operating handbook import • Send a briefing pack to PDF file, email & Apple AirPrint compatible printers • Extensive integration with external flight planning systems/panel GPS/FMS’s (Including Garmin G1000) • Ability to sync flight plans between Apple IOS devices • Easy to access support from a team of committed professionals • And much more we can’t list here The Perfect Co-pilot Intuitive, reliable and responsive, AvPlan’s inbuilt context awareness engine ensures it’s always up to date and ready to provide you with the right information at the right time, whether you’re preparing for your flight or already airborne. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. AvPlan EFB – Plan faster, fly sooner
AeroPointer
Access comprehensive worldwide aeronautical data for over 41,000 airports and 10,900 radio navigation aids. View airport diagrams, weather reports, NOTAMs, and more, with significant offline access to cached information.
- Worldwide airport and navaid data
- Offline data access
- Cached airport charts and weather
- METAR/TAF weather reports
- NOTAMs
- Airport diagrams and procedures
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AeroPointer shows airports, navaids, and aviation weather on a 3D globe, with FAA charts at every US airport. No account needed, no ads, and no tracking. AeroPointer Pro is an optional subscription. The free version keeps everything AeroPointer always had, plus improved and new features. Pro adds deeper weather layers, forecasts, route editing, and more. ON THE MAP • A 3D globe or a flat map, with Standard, Streets, and Satellite base layers • Animated US radar with a timeline you can scrub, and US infrared satellite • TFRs, AIRMETs and SIGMETs drawn and labeled on the map • Flight category for every reporting station • FAA airport status: ground stops, delay programs and closures, on the map and at the airport • Hurricane tracker: the forecast track, the cone, NHC wind probability, arrival times and areas of interest • FAA NAS status and the active tropical storms • Runways at close zoom, a ruler, a Zulu/local clock, and coordinates and magnetic variation anywhere you tap AIRPORT DETAIL • METAR and TAF, raw or decoded, color coded, with the age of every report • D-ATIS • Runway wind components • NOTAMs, decoded or raw, grouped and searchable • FAA airport diagrams and procedure charts, with dark mode, rotation and markup • Runways, frequencies, fuel, VOT, elevation and magnetic variation • Sunrise, sunset and civil twilight ON YOUR WRIST AND HOME SCREEN • Your home airport's flight category, wind and report age as a Home Screen or Lock Screen widget and as an Apple Watch complication • An Apple Watch app with your home airport and the nearest one: METAR, TAF, runways with wind components and frequencies • A morning note about your home airport, at the hour you choose WITH AEROPOINTER PRO • Alerts when a favorite airport changes: flight category, a TFR nearby, a ground stop or delay program, a hurricane watch • Highlights on the airport card: closures, ILS outages, TFRs and procedure changes from the NOTAMs • Favorites on the Apple Watch, with Highlights and the forecast • Lightning strikes over the Americas and Europe, with the last five minutes animated • Winds aloft and temperatures (surface to FL480) • Turbulence by altitude, now and up to 18 hours ahead • Pilot Reports (PIREPs) • Echo tops, European composite radar, global IR satellite, surface analysis (fronts and pressure areas), global surface temperature and smoke plumes • A 10-day and hourly forecast at every airport, and at any point you tap or any city you search • A route editor with airways, SIDs and STARs, Direct To, saved routes and your own waypoints • Vertical profile view with winds, turbulence, icing, AIRMETs, SIGMETs and TFRs along your route • Offline chart pack management THE DATA • More than 50,000 airports and 9,500 navaids worldwide: official FAA data for the US, open source data from Ourairports.com elsewhere • Airport and navaid data is stored on your device; weather, NOTAMs, and charts you have opened stay available offline Built for pilots by an airline pilot and flight instructor. AeroPointer Pro is available as an annual plan with 14 days free, or a monthly plan. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase, or at the end of the free trial. It renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. AeroPointer is for general reference and supplemental awareness only. It should not be used as a primary source for flight planning or navigation. The data comes from third-party sources, including the FAA, NOAA, the National Weather Service, Apple Weather and ourairports.com. The data is not guaranteed to be accurate, current, or available at any given time. You are responsible for verifying flight information using official sources. Privacy Policy: https://www.pilotscafe.com/aeropointer/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: AvPlan EFB at every 3 weeks against AeroPointer's every 4 months. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. AvPlan EFB sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and AeroPointer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for AvPlan EFB against 4.6 for AeroPointer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 94 and 98 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of AvPlan EFB's written reviews are positive against 83% of AeroPointer's.
AvPlan EFB ships an update every 3 weeks, AeroPointer every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AvPlan EFB | AeroPointer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (94 ratings) — better | 4.6 (98 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.8% of reviews — better | 83.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 94 | 98 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 146 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BJA Consulting Pty Ltd | FLEMINGER MEDIA LLC |
Customer experience
AvPlan EFB
AeroPointer
Bugs and requests
AvPlan EFB
Reported bugs
9 issues- App crashes during flight planning
- Wind data fails to download
- Registration process causes app to close
- Performance data not recognized during planning
- Georeference errors on NZ IFR charts (NZKK RNAV, NZNS STARs)
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- Inconsistent syncing with external devices
- Occasional freezing during data interruptions
- UI elements layering on top of each other
- Continued crashes despite updates
Requested features
12 requests- Fixed range rings around airports
- Better STARS and APPROACH plate access like JeppFD
- Larger heads-up display options for better readability
- Ability to sort flight plans in list view
- Dark mode option
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- Better bookmark organization for AIP documents
- Flight log to logbook conversion with endorsements
- Dropbox synchronization for document libraries
- Canadian mapping support
- Vector-based boundary layers for UAV operations
- Weather overlay restoration
- Webcam integration for airport conditions
AeroPointer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
AvPlan EFB
- AvPlan VFR - 1 Month Subscription$12.00
- AvPlan EFB USA IFR Upgrade 1 Year Subscription$49.99
- AvPlan USA VFR 1 Year Subscription$59.99
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- AvPlan EFB Velocity Weather Upgrade 1 Year Subscription$59.99
- AvPlan NZ IFR Upgrade - 1 year subscription$79.00
- AvPlan Worldwide 1 Year Subscription$89.99
- AvPlan VFR - 1 Year Subscription$129.00
- AvPlan NZ VFR 1 year subscription$149.00
- AvPlan EFB Premium Bundle - United States$169.99
- AvPlan EFB Premium Bundle - Australia$249.00
AeroPointer
- Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
- Pro Annual14 Days trial$49.991 Year









