Comparison

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.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.***

About

Helitab Flight Planner

Features
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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 call

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

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

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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro versus Helitab Flight Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJeppesen FliteDeck ProHelitab Flight Planner
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (46 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews19.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings46 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPadiPad
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size411 MB825 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJeppesenAIRBUS HELICOPTERS

In-app purchases

None

Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Helitab Flight Planner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro free?
Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Helitab Flight Planner free?
Helitab Flight Planner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro or Helitab Flight Planner have ads?
Neither Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro nor Helitab Flight Planner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro or Helitab Flight Planner?
Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro ships an update every 3 months, and Helitab Flight Planner every 5 months. Most recently, Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro was updated on November 6, 2026 and Helitab Flight Planner on November 4, 2026.

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