Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro vs Helitab Flight Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro
This electronic flight bag application provides pilots with integrated flight folder solutions, aiming to streamline operations and improve situational awareness. It offers high-quality aeronautical data, including enroute displays, airport maps, weather information, and NOTAMs.
- Integrated Electronic Flight Folder
- Fuel savings capabilities
- Improved situational awareness
- High-quality aeronautical data
- Performant enroute display
- High fidelity airport maps
- Advanced weather features
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Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro is the industry standard for electronic flight bags (EFBs) in the commercial airline market, now offering a fully integrated Electronic Flight Folder solution that streamlines flight operations, as well as capabilities that provide proven fuel savings, and improve situational awareness. FliteDeck Pro is developed on top of the highest quality aeronautical data in the market, and includes a highly performant enroute display and high fidelity airport maps, improved weather with profile view, expanded D-ATIS coverage (Canada), NOTAMs, and advanced weather options. **This app requires a data subscription, available separately. Contact your Jeppesen account manager for details.***
Helitab Flight Planner
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The Airbus Helicopters Helitab/Flight Planner application is an All-In-One Mission Planning Solution for Electronic Flight Bag. This user-friendly mobile application for tablets is designed to ease pilot workload and help for decisions. Helitab/Flight Planner gathers a large kind of environment and map data for an effective moving map display, available before as well as during the flight. Such data including maps, elevation, navigation database or TAF/METARs/SIGMETs data are available over the entire world through a secured cloud-based web portal. Helitab/Flight Planner enables the creation of navigation routes including detailed instructions such as hover, landing or SAR patterns actions, configuration change, time or speed constraints... Created routes are displayed through the moving map and vertical profile. A weather forecast over the area can be downloaded and applied to the navigation and displayed over the map. Helitab/Flight Planner embeds weight & balance and performance computations models in accordance with Airbus Helicopters Flight Manual. Based on such models, the application displays over the navigation waypoints the planned W&B and available performance. Helitab/Flight Planner allows the planned mission to be shared through various flight documents or to the onboard FMS using a physical or wireless media. Once in flight, Helitab/Flight Planner users can retrieve the actual GPS location from on-board equipment to accurately feed the moving map and record the flight trace. Dedicated in-flight functions allows users to find a nearby landing site, mark a position or display updated navigation data to the next waypoint. Helitab/Flight Planner requires a subscription. Support is available at support.flightplanner.ah@airbus.com
Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Helitab Flight Planner at 13.0 against Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro ships an update every 3 months, Helitab Flight Planner every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro | Helitab Flight Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (46 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 19.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 46 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Subscription | — |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 411 MB | 825 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeppesen | AIRBUS HELICOPTERS |
In-app purchases
Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro
No in-app purchases
Helitab Flight Planner
No in-app purchases
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