Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro vs SimpleFlight
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 integrated flight folder solutions for commercial airlines. It offers advanced navigation features, fuel-saving capabilities, and enhanced situational awareness using high-quality aeronautical data.
- Electronic flight folder solution
- Fuel savings capabilities
- Improved situational awareness
- High-quality aeronautical data
- Performant enroute display
- High fidelity airport maps
- Expanded D-ATIS coverage
- NOTAMs and advanced weather
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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.***
SimpleFlight
This app helps VFR pilots plan flights by providing essential information on distance, duration, fuel, weather, airspace, and destination conditions. It offers wind-corrected headings, decoded weather reports, and airspace details, all designed for simplicity and VFR flight in the United States.
- Route planning with airspace avoidance
- Wind-corrected heading and fuel calculations
- Decoded METARs and TAFs
- Animated winds, radar, and satellite imagery
- Airspace class details with altitude floors/ceilings
- Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) alerts
- Runway diagrams and traffic pattern information
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SimpleFlight answers the questions that matter before a VFR flight: how far, how long, how much fuel, what the weather is doing along the way, what airspace is in the way, and what the destination looks like when you get there. Built by a pilot, for the United States, for VFR. Saying no to everything else is what keeps it simple. PLAN • Pick a departure and destination. Press and hold the route line to bend it around airspace; it snaps to nearby airports, VORs and fixes. • Choose from legal VFR hemispheric altitudes, each with its headwind or tailwind and time en route from current winds aloft. • Get wind-corrected heading, groundspeed, time, fuel burn and reserve for your airplane. WEATHER • Decoded METARs and TAFs for reporting airports along the route, colored by flight category. • Animated winds at your cruise altitude, radar and satellite on the map. • Winds aloft table for 6, 12 and 24 hours. SIGMETs, G-AIRMETs and pilot reports in the corridor. ROUTE PROFILE • A side view of the route: terrain under it, your cruise altitude, Class B, C and D shelves, cloud bases from METARs and the freezing level. • Highest terrain on the route and your clearance at cruise, with a preview of every VFR altitude. • Edit the route from the profile: find the ridge, drop a waypoint there and drag it around, then re-plan in place. MAP RULER • Hold two fingers on the map to measure distance, magnetic course from each end, and no-wind time and fuel. AIRSPACE AND TFRs • Class B, C and D with floors and ceilings. Shelves that apply at your altitude stand out; the rest fade back. • TFRs on or near the route, checked against your planned time and altitude, with the NOTAM text a tap away. DESTINATION • Headwind and crosswind for every runway, with the favored runway marked. • A to-scale runway diagram and the expected traffic pattern, drawn on the map when you zoom in, with left or right traffic from FAA data and pattern altitude. • Frequencies, elevation, fuel, sunrise and sunset. SHARE • Send the route to ForeFlight or Garmin Pilot in one tap, or export a Garmin FPL file, waypoints included. YOUR DATA • No account needed. Without one, nothing you enter leaves your device. • Optional Sign in with Apple syncs your airplanes and plans between iPhone and iPad. Export or delete your account any time in Settings. • No ads. No tracking. IMPORTANT SimpleFlight is a planning aid. It is not an official weather or NOTAM briefing, it is not approved by the FAA, and it is not for navigation. Data can be late, incomplete or wrong. Terrain comes from USGS elevation data and does not include towers or other obstacles. Traffic patterns and runway diagrams are schematics; ATC instructions and published procedures take precedence. The pilot in command is responsible for every decision. Get an official briefing and check current charts before every flight. Data: Aviation Weather Center (NOAA), FAA, USGS, Iowa Environmental Mesonet, Open-Meteo.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SimpleFlight at 5.0 against Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro's 3.9. SimpleFlight also leads on monetization model (free vs subscription) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 3 months). Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro's advantage is ratings volume (45 vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SimpleFlight holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro has 45 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro ships an update every 3 months, SimpleFlight every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro | SimpleFlight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (45 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 19.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 45 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 411 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeppesen | Kip Haas |
Customer experience
Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro
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In-app purchases
Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro
No in-app purchases
SimpleFlight
No in-app purchases
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