FlyBy Nav vs FlightSpan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FlyBy Nav
This app simplifies flight planning by allowing users to input departure and arrival points, along with wind data. It provides a comprehensive overview of flight details including track, heading, distance, speed, ETA, and fuel burn. Users can access a vast database of airports and navaids, plot routes on a map, and utilize weather information.
- One-screen flight detail display
- Fast waypoint database search
- Great circle route plotting on map
- Offline airport and navaid database
- METAR and TAF weather access
- User-defined waypoint saving
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Flight planning is as easy as tapping in your point of departure, arrival and winds! In one screen, FlyBy Nav displays track, heading, distance, ground speed, time enroute, ETA, and fuel burn. - Fast database search and lookup of waypoints. - Search function lets you search for an airport using its identifier, name or city name. - Stores your favorite aircraft cruise performance numbers. - Plots your great circle route on map. - Quick Charter Quote feature. - Track units in either Magnetic, True, or Grid - Sunrise/Sunset and Azimuth feature. - METAR and TAF weather access. - 55,000 Airports and Navaids included (offline). - Save your own user waypoints. - No subscription charges. Please visit our web site for more detail and screen shots of all the program features.
FlightSpan
This app offers comprehensive flight operations tools for remote aviation. It includes flight planning, logging, performance calculations, and real-time tracking with communication capabilities. Users can access company charts, weather information, and hazard tracking for enhanced safety and efficiency.
- Flight planning tools
- Daily flight logs
- Weight and balance calculations
- Takeoff and landing performance
- Flight tracking and communication
- Moving map with custom charts
- NOTAM and hazard tracking
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A complete flight operations software solution specifically designed for remote contexts. FlightSpan provides flight crews with tools for flight planning, daily flight logs/journey logs, weight and balance, takeoff and landing performance, departure and arrival briefings with company runway charts, flight tracking and two way communications (when paired with a v2 Tracker), moving map with capability to use custom/company navigation charts, Notam and hazard identification tracking and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: FlightSpan at Free against FlyBy Nav's $0.99. FlightSpan also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume 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
FlightSpan is free to download; FlyBy Nav costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for FlyBy Nav against 5.0 for FlightSpan. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
FlyBy Nav ships an update every 3 months, FlightSpan every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FlyBy Nav | FlightSpan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lonnie Ganz | JAARS, Inc. |
Customer experience
FlyBy Nav
FlightSpan
In-app purchases
FlyBy Nav
No in-app purchases
FlightSpan
No in-app purchases
