Comparison

SimpleFlight Pigeon vs TOPigeon Clock

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

Head to head
About

SimpleFlight Pigeon

This app helps pigeon racers calculate race performance metrics like yards per minute. It integrates GPS for station creation and distance calculation, and provides weather data for race planning. Track progress in real-time and share results.

Highlights
  • YPM/MPM calculation
  • GPS station creation
  • Weather data integration
  • Real-time race tracking
  • Map display with weather overlay
  • Twitter sharing
Features
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SimpleFlight Pigeon is the race-day companion for pigeon fanciers: the distance to your loft, the speed your birds made, and what the weather is doing between the liberation site and home. Formerly flightControlRP, rebuilt from the ground up for today's iPhone and iPad. Your loft and stations from the earlier version come across when you update. RACE DAY • Pick the station and the liberation time, or tap Toss from here at a training release. • Distance to the loft to the yard, computed on WGS-84. Enter your club's official distance and the app uses it for every speed. • An expected-arrival window from the wind along the line of flight, recomputed every minute from where the birds are, with the wind and base speed it used shown alongside. • Slide to the speed you think the birds are making: arrival time, miles flown, miles to go, mph, and a bird that moves along the line on the map. • Sunrise at the liberation site and a reminder when the birds are due. WEATHER • The line of flight drawn over radar, satellite and an animated surface-wind layer. • Reporting stations along the line with wind, visibility and cloud, decoded in plain words. • Weather ahead of the birds: every station between them and the loft, with rain, low cloud, poor visibility, strong headwind or gusts flagged and how far ahead it is. ARRIVALS AND RESULTS • Record each band as it lands: YPM (or metres per minute), position and minutes behind the first bird. • Clock with BENZING Live? A Shortcuts automation hands each arrival notification to the app, which records the band and clock time on the current race. No account, no password, nothing leaves the phone. Requires iOS 27 or later. • Races and training tosses by season, CSV import, a race card image to share, and a link to your MyPigeons race page. • A speed faster than a pigeon flies is flagged, so a clock set an hour off is caught, not recorded. YOUR DATA • No account and no server. Loft, stations, races, arrivals and band numbers stay on your device. • Yards, miles and YPM, or metres, kilometres and metres per minute. • No ads, no tracking. ABOUT THE NUMBERS Distances, speeds and expected arrivals are computed from the coordinates you enter and public weather data. They are estimates, not results. Official liberation times, distances, clock times and results come from your club and your electronic timing system. Digitier is not affiliated with BENZING or MyPigeons. Data: Aviation Weather Center (NOAA), Iowa Environmental Mesonet, Open-Meteo.

About

TOPigeon Clock

Features
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Carry your TOPigeon ETS with you anytime, anywhere!—TOPigeon Clock is just like your personal pigeon clock. It will synchronize all the important data with your TOPigeon clock in the pigeon loft including arrival information, clock status, and so on. Pigeon fanciers can enjoy their pigeon racing world easily!

Screenshots

SimpleFlight Pigeon4 screens
TOPigeon Clock2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: TOPigeon Clock at fortnightly against SimpleFlight Pigeon's every 2 months. TOPigeon Clock also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SimpleFlight Pigeon ships an update every 2 months, TOPigeon Clock fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
SimpleFlight Pigeon versus TOPigeon Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimpleFlight PigeonTOPigeon Clock
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews28.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB12 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperKip HaasAvance Technology Co., Ltd.

In-app purchases

None

SimpleFlight Pigeon

No in-app purchases

None

TOPigeon Clock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SimpleFlight Pigeon free?
SimpleFlight Pigeon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TOPigeon Clock free?
TOPigeon Clock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SimpleFlight Pigeon or TOPigeon Clock have ads?
Neither SimpleFlight Pigeon nor TOPigeon Clock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SimpleFlight Pigeon or TOPigeon Clock?
SimpleFlight Pigeon ships an update every 2 months, and TOPigeon Clock fortnightly. Most recently, SimpleFlight Pigeon was updated on September 30, 2026 and TOPigeon Clock on October 7, 2026.

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