Comparison

Flight Calcs vs Dark Night

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

Head to head
About

Flight Calcs

This app provides pilots with essential flight calculation tools for logging time, planning routes, and performing preflight checks. It offers accurate, real-world aviation calculations with familiar terminology and unit conventions.

Highlights
  • Pilot time logging and summing
  • Flight block/duty time calculation
  • Time-Speed-Distance (TSD) calculations
  • Wind component and True Airspeed (TAS) resolution
  • Density altitude computation
  • Fuel burn estimation
  • Weight and balance verification
Features
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Thank you for using Flight Calcs. Your attention to fuel, weather, loading and timing is good airmanship. Keep useful numbers close from preflight to the debrief, with aviation calculators, airport references and saved records on iPhone and iPad. FLIGHT PLANNING AND E6B - Solve heading, wind correction angle, groundspeed, time and distance. - Practice with the visual mechanical E6B simulator. - Check runway crosswind, headwind and tailwind components. - Estimate trip fuel, reserve fuel, endurance, climb and descent. - Calculate true airspeed, Mach, pressure altitude and density altitude. - Review cloud base estimates and holding pattern entry guidance. - Build NavLog legs with checkpoints, ETA, fuel and route notes. - Convert knots, nautical miles, gallons, liters, pounds and more. WEIGHT AND BALANCE - Choose from eleven searchable aircraft planning templates. - Enter occupants, baggage, equipment and usable fuel by station. - Compare zero-fuel, ramp, takeoff and landing weight and CG. - Include ground or taxi burn and trip fuel burn. - Switch between Load, Sheet and Envelope views. - Review basic empty weight, station arms and moments. - See which checks apply when a phase weight maximum is unknown. - Save loading snapshots alongside your other flight records. Templates are starting points. Verify the current aircraft's basic empty weight, station limits, fuel assumptions and CG envelope against its approved documents. AVIATION WEATHER AND AIRPORTS - Retrieve METAR and TAF reports from AviationWeather.gov. - Decode wind, visibility, clouds, altimeter and flight category. - Review TAF changes in a forecast timeline. - Decode pasted NOTAM and SNOWTAM reports. - Compare plain-language summaries with the original reports. - Find nearby airports and weather when you request location. - Search bundled airports by identifier, name, city or region. - Review available runways, elevation, frequencies and time zones. - Browse FAA reference material for preflight and study. TIME, DATES AND RECORDS - Work with flight time, duty snapshots and Zulu time. - Add or subtract times and dates. - Plan countdowns, work windows and business days. - Keep flight, duty, NavLog and Weight & Balance records. - Edit saved entries and browse activity in the Records Calendar. - Search records or duplicate a plan for the next trip. - Share supported results with Pilot Pro. Core calculators, bundled references and saved local data are useful offline. Live weather and App Store purchases need an internet connection. FREE STARTERS AND PILOT PRO E6B, E6B Simulator, Pilot Time, Flight Duty Snapshot and Time Speed Distance are free starters. Free iPhone and iPad access also includes three Pro calculator sessions and three Weight & Balance sessions per day, with five combined. Free Records allow one new record per day and six total. Pilot Pro removes those limits and enables sharing, with monthly and lifetime options. Temporary promotional access is separate from a purchase. Use Flight Calcs for planning and cross-checks. Your aircraft's current POH or AFM, approved Weight & Balance report, official weather briefing, operator procedures and applicable regulations remain the authority. For monthly subscriptions: Monthly Pro is a 1-month auto-renewable subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Dark Night

Enhance your browsing experience with a dark mode theme for Safari. This extension applies a visually pleasing dark theme to all websites, reducing eye strain for comfortable night reading. It offers customization options and prioritizes user privacy.

Highlights
  • Dark mode browsing for Safari
  • Applies dark theme to all websites
  • Reduces eye strain for night reading
  • Customizable per-site disabling
  • Follows system dark mode settings
  • Privacy-focused design
Features
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This Safari extension offers dark mode browsing in Safari. Dark Night mode adds a beautiful theme to every page you visit. It is based on the Dark Reader open source project used by over 4,000,000 users. So the look of dark mode on every website has been carefully tested. USE DARK NIGHT SAFARI EXTENSION The built-in Safari dark mode is affordable and will stay like that forever with full support for all websites for delightful night reading. YOUR PRIVACY, OUR PRIORITY The Dark Night extension was built with privacy as a no. 1 priority so it doesn't collect any data from Safari while you're browsing with calm eyes. Privacy Policy is linked on the store. CUSTOMIZE IT This extension can be disabled on a per-site basis and configured to follow the system dark mode (dark at night, light during the day). Just use the Safari extension menu to access it. -- Reports and feedback are welcome at: neonoirapp@gmail.com -- THE FUTURE IS COLORFUL More customized themes are coming soon, get ready to color all sites to your liking! This optional extra is the only place where we might charge a small fee and your kind contribution will support the development of this project. Half of all that income is going back to the Dark Reader community project. BEAUTIFUL NIGHT BROWSING STARTS HERE You are more than welcome to keep using the app for free forever! What are you waiting for? Your eyes are the apples of your eyes! See you on the other side. (I wonder which one that is... ;)

Screenshots

Flight Calcs4 screens
Dark Night4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Flight Calcs at Free against Dark Night's $0.99. Flight Calcs also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and review sentiment (85% vs 63%). Dark Night's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). On ads and monetization model 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

Flight Calcs is free to download; Dark Night costs $0.99 up front. Flight Calcs sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Dark Night asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Flight Calcs holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dark Night has 205 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Flight Calcs's written reviews are positive against 63% of Dark Night's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flight Calcs ships an update every 2 months, Dark Night every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Flight Calcs versus Dark Night: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlight CalcsDark Night
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.1 (205 ratings)
Positive reviews84.6% of reviews — better62.6% of reviews
Number of ratings1205 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVerosocial StudioBalazs Galambosi

Customer experience

Flight Calcs

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive84.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative15.4%

Dark Night

All ratings204 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral7.4%
Negative17.6%
Written reviews441 reviews
Positive62.6%
Neutral11.6%
Negative25.9%

Bugs and requests

Flight Calcs

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Dark Night

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Causes Safari to crash or become unresponsive on some devices
  • Fails to properly invert colors on certain website elements
  • Doesn't work as expected in private browsing mode

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add a true black mode option
  • Implement a whitelist mode to enable dark mode on select websites
  • Improve automatic dark mode detection and switching
  • Add a brightness/contrast slider for customization

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Flight Calcs

Subscriptions1
  • PilotCalculators pro monthly$1.991 Month
One-time1
  • Pilot Calculators pro lifetime$14.99
None

Dark Night

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flight Calcs free?
Flight Calcs is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dark Night free?
Dark Night costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Flight Calcs or Dark Night?
Flight Calcs is rated higher. Flight Calcs averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Dark Night averages 4.1 from 205 ratings.
Do Flight Calcs or Dark Night have ads?
Neither Flight Calcs nor Dark Night shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flight Calcs or Dark Night?
Flight Calcs ships an update every 2 months, and Dark Night every 3 days. Most recently, Flight Calcs was updated on November 1, 2026 and Dark Night on November 7, 2026.

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