FlyBy Nav vs Jeb's Horizon EFB
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.
Jeb's Horizon EFB
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Jeb's Flight Bag is a next-generation Electronic Flight Bag built for pilots who want a serious cockpit toolkit without the lock-in of subscription-only iPad apps. WHAT YOU GET – Moving map with FAA VFR Sectional, IFR Low, IFR High, satellite, and dark-mode tile layers. – Live ADS-B traffic via Sentry, Stratux, Stratus, Garmin GDL, uAvionix SkyEcho — anything that broadcasts GDL90 over WiFi. – Real WAAS GPS from your portable receiver — even on a WiFi-only iPad with no internal GPS chip. – NEXRAD weather radar over the US (Iowa State Mesonet, sub-km, ~2 min refresh) and RainViewer worldwide composite outside CONUS. – FAA d-TPP approach plates with georeferenced ownship overlay — the aircraft chevron moves on the plate at the right pixel position as you fly. – METAR / TAF / NOTAMs / SIGMETs / PIREPs / TFRs / winds aloft, with color-coded VFR / MVFR / IFR / LIFR flight category dots at every airport on the map. – Two-finger touch ruler — measure nm + bearing between any two points. – Synthetic-vision PFD-style attitude indicator from your device's IMU. The rotation-vector sensor is fused even on tablets without a gyroscope. – ATC frequency reference, nearest airports / navaids / fixes, ICAO route export, auto-routing with SID/STAR insertion. – Pilot's Operating Handbook reference — Cessna 152, 172, 182, Piper PA-28, Cirrus SR22, plus PDF upload that uses Claude AI to extract V-speeds, weights, fuel, and performance numbers from any aircraft's POH. – Performance calculator: density altitude, takeoff / landing distance with weight, headwind, and POH baseline corrections. – On-device LLM copilot — answers flight-planning questions, decodes METAR-ese, walks emergency checklists. Routes to Anthropic's Claude API when an API key is configured, falls back to bundled MLC LLM locally on capable hardware. WHO IT'S FOR – Student pilots who want a capable EFB without a big yearly bill. – International pilots flying outside FAA territory — the moving map and radar are worldwide; everything else gracefully falls back to the relevant regional AIP via browser deep-link. – AI-curious aviators who want a copilot in the cockpit without sending their flight data to a corporate server. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW – Coverage today is North America (United States + Canada). Airports, navaids, fixes, airways, approach plates, and ADS-B fallback are sourced from FAA / Nav Canada data. The moving map renders worldwide via OpenStreetMap tiles, but other layers are best-effort outside North America. – This app is provided for situational awareness ONLY. It is NOT a primary navigation source and NOT a substitute for current sectionals, plates, or certified onboard avionics. Read the in-app liability disclaimer before flight. – Sentry, Stratus, Stratux, Garmin GDL, and SkyEcho are trademarks of their respective owners. Orchestr Aerospace Inc. is not affiliated with any receiver manufacturer. – Optional Claude API key (from console.anthropic.com) unlocks AI POH parsing and the on-device copilot. Without a key, regex-based POH import + offline copilot still work. NOT FOR – Use as a sole means of compliance with FAA, EASA, Transport Canada, or other regulatory navigation requirements. – Replacement of certified onboard avionics or current published charts. – Operations where loss of the EFB would create a safety hazard. JEB'S PRO SUBSCRIPTION Jeb's Pro is offered as an auto-renewing monthly or annual subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.orchestrsim.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: FlyBy Nav at 100% against Jeb's Horizon EFB's 0%. FlyBy Nav also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). Jeb's Horizon EFB's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 months). On ratings volume, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Jeb's Horizon EFB is free to download; FlyBy Nav costs $0.99 up front. Jeb's Horizon EFB sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. FlyBy Nav asks for nothing beyond the download.
FlyBy Nav holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of FlyBy Nav's written reviews are positive against 0% of Jeb's Horizon EFB's.
FlyBy Nav ships an update every 3 months, Jeb's Horizon EFB every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FlyBy Nav | Jeb's Horizon EFB |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 162 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lonnie Ganz | Wonmo Seong |
Customer experience
FlyBy Nav
Jeb's Horizon EFB
In-app purchases
FlyBy Nav
No in-app purchases
Jeb's Horizon EFB
- Jeb's Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
- Jeb's Pro Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Jeb's Pro Lifetime$149.99
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