Comparison

Pilots Atlas vs FlightChecked

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

Head to head
About

Pilots Atlas

This aviation tool provides offline navigation, flight planning, and weather information for pilots. Access a vast database of waypoints, airports, and navaids, with real-time aircraft tracking and customizable maps. It offers essential calculators and decoders for safe and efficient flight operations.

Highlights
  • Offline world maps with aviation overlays
  • 185,000+ waypoints, 72,000+ airports
  • Live aircraft tracking (ADS-B)
  • METAR/TAF weather decoding
  • Multi-waypoint trip planning
  • Captain's Corner aviation calculators
Features
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The aviation app pilots have trusted since 1998 — now rebuilt for modern iOS. Pilots Atlas puts 85,000 airports, 180,000 waypoints and 28,000 points of interest in your pocket, fully offline. Plan flights, read NOTAMs, track aircraft live and decode weather without relying on connectivity. FREE TO DOWNLOAD. FREE FOREVER. Start with a 7-day Premium trial. When it ends, keep the core features at no cost — no subscription required. — FREE FEATURES (Always Available) — NOTAMs — FREE FOR EVERYONE • Worldwide NOTAMs from the FAA NOTAM Management Service • A tab on every airport: decoded, grouped, plus everything within 25 nm • Drawn on the map where they apply, with a filter switch per category • Plan for a departure time — see this morning what closes tonight • A briefing for a whole route, cached against signal loss LIVE AIRCRAFT TRACKING — FREE FOR EVERYONE • Real-time ADS-B traffic worldwide, at no cost • Multiple community networks with automatic failover, so coverage stays up • Connect your own receiver: SBS1 (dump1090), Stratux, GDL90 or FLARM • Flight path history, configurable zoom and labels SUN, MOON AND NIGHT — FREE FOR EVERYONE • Night by rulebook, not astronomy: ICAO/EASA, FAA 91.209, FAA 61.57(b), UK ANO • Sunrise and sunset for any place, in its own time zone, offline • Whether the sun will sit on final at each runway end — now or at your ETA • Moonlight tonight, with a verdict for night VFR AI COPILOT • Ask for weather, NOTAMs, airspace, airports and routes in plain language • Brief a saved trip at its own cruise altitude, or ask "what's near me" • It reads the map with you and flies you straight to any result ON YOUR WRIST AND HOME SCREEN • Apple Watch app: weather, GPS tracking, flight timers, haptics, voice notes • Widgets and Live Activities on Home Screen, Lock Screen and watch face THE BASICS • 11,000 navaids, and search by ICAO or IATA code • Configurable units (NM/KM/MI) and a dark mode built for the cockpit — PREMIUM FEATURES — WEATHER AT A GLANCE • METAR/TAF with VFR/MVFR/IFR/LIFR colour coding • The forecast for the time you actually arrive, from the TAF period covering it • Custom weather lists, decoders for METAR, TAF and SNOWTAM, holdover tables FLIGHT PLANNING & NAVIGATION • Multi-waypoint trip planning with colour-coded routes • Worldwide winds aloft — courses, ground speeds, times and fuel, corrected • A terrain and airspace profile of your route, with the real ground beneath • Distance rulers, range circles, proximity alerts, GPS track recording • GPX import/export, LIDO / OFP route paste, and cloud sync across devices AIRSPACE • Worldwide airspace: class, vertical limits and a readable weekly schedule • Tap anywhere and every airspace above that point is offered, likeliest first • A full-screen vertical cross-section you can pan, zoom and filter • FIR overlays, Special Use Airspace, and full airport details ANNOTATE YOUR WORLD • Markers, notes and photos anywhere on the map, plus favourites • Offline-first — every annotation works with no signal — OFFLINE MAPS — • Aviation day and night, streets, terrain and satellite base maps • The open flightmaps VFR chart, and topographical maps with contours • Download whole regions for use with no signal — CAPTAIN'S CORNER (Free) — • Unit converters, climb gradient and jet fuel calculators • Aircraft country codes, ICAO prefixes, dangerous goods, VOLMET, ACARS • Operating minima, Morse, 5,000+ aviation abbreviations — SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS — • 7-day free trial — full Premium access • Monthly or yearly subscriptions • One-time lifetime purchase available Payment charged to Apple ID at confirmation. Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage them in Account Settings. The free trial converts to a paid subscription unless canceled. Continuous GPS use in background may decrease battery life. Privacy Policy: https://www.absolutezero.de/datenschutz/ Terms of Use: https://www.absolutezero.de/agb/

About

FlightChecked

Features
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FlightChecked streamlines your preflight briefing, helping you manage the volume of operational data before you head to the aircraft. Instead of wading through blocks of cryptic NOTAM text and raw forecast strings, you get clean, decoded, and easily scannable information for every airport and FIR on your route. Built for pilots, by pilots. — FLIGHT OVERVIEW — All your upcoming flights in one place, each with a quick snapshot of departure and destination weather and NOTAM status. Spot deteriorating conditions or new restrictions before you open the full briefing. — TAF AS A TIMELINE — Visibility, ceiling, and weather phenomena are parsed from each TAF and presented cleanly. Wind components are resolved against the runway diagram and corrected for local magnetic variation. The full forecast is shown as a color-coded timeline for rapid VFR/MVFR/IFR assessment. — NOTAM DECODE & MAP — Hundreds of NOTAMs, instantly readable. We translate raw NOTAMs into structured, plain language and plot spatially relevant obstacles and restrictions on an interactive map — instead of burying them in cryptic text. — ENROUTE OVERVIEW — See your departure, destination, and enroute alternates together. Smart ERA suggestions surface suitable enroute alternates for your route, with relevant NOTAMs and weather appearing exactly where they matter along the way. — FIR NOTAM MAP — Every FIR your route crosses, visualized with airspace restrictions, obstacles, and hazards plotted where they are. Smart filters surface only NOTAMs relevant to your flight — close to your route, at your cruising altitudes, and active during your crossing time — sorted by aircraft-aware severity. — WEATHER & NOTAM ALERTS — Proactive notifications in the hours before departure. Alerts are scoped to airports on your active route and filtered by severity and time relevance, so you hear about the fog, wind, or new restriction that actually affects you. — COMING SOON — AI-generated briefing notes tailored to flight phase and timing, runway and taxiway closures on airport layouts, and weather-aware fuel tracking. WHY FLIGHTCHECKED  • 1,000+ NOTAMs decoded daily  • 200+ airports supported  • 200+ FIRs supported Less time decoding. More time understanding the big picture. Download FlightChecked now and fly with clearer context. FlightChecked is a supplementary aid that aims to enhance a pilot's situational awareness and does not replace official briefing sources or pilot-in-command judgment. Always consult authoritative aeronautical data for your flight. Questions? support@daelead.co Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Pilots Atlas4 screens
FlightChecked4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: FlightChecked at 15.1 against Pilots Atlas's 18.6. 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. Pilots Atlas sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per year and FlightChecked sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $10.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Pilots Atlas versus FlightChecked: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPilots AtlasFlightChecked
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (92 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews22.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings92 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size269 MB109 MB
Age rating+44+
Developerabsolutezero multimedia GmbHDAELead Limited

In-app purchases

12 purchases

Pilots Atlas

Subscriptions5
  • Weather Layer1 Month trial$5.991 Year
  • Monthly World Subscription7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • One Area Subscription$12.991 Year
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  • Two Areas Subscription$22.991 Year
  • Yearly World Subscription14 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time7
  • Afrika and Antarktica$20.99
  • Asia$20.99
  • Europe$20.99
Show 4 more
  • North America$20.99
  • South America$20.99
  • Upgrade from two area to world$32.99
  • Whole World$119.99
2 purchases

FlightChecked

Subscriptions2
  • FlightChecked Premium (Monthly)14 Days trial$10.991 Month
  • FlightChecked Premium (Yearly)14 Days trial$110.991 Year

Questions

Is Pilots Atlas free?
Pilots Atlas is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FlightChecked free?
FlightChecked is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pilots Atlas or FlightChecked have ads?
Neither Pilots Atlas nor FlightChecked shows ads.

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