Pilots Atlas vs Quick Planning
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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/
Quick Planning
This app helps corporate jet pilots plan flights, calculating flight time, fuel burn, and local takeoff/landing times. It accounts for time zones, daylight savings, and delays, and stores aircraft data. Users can also manage FBOs, hotels, and limos for over 6800 airports.
- Flight time calculation
- Fuel burn estimation
- Local takeoff/landing times
- Aircraft database
- FBO, hotel, limo storage
- Itinerary emailing
- Great circle route display
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Quick Planning is a powerful Itinerary-Trip Planner written for Corporate Jets to allow the user to determine Flight Time, Fuel Burn and (local) Take Off or Landing times for various aircraft. 85% probability winds are stored but can be modified during planning. It has the unique advantage of allowing an individual to "talk" completely in local times. All corporate jet aircraft are stored in the database base. Based on a minimum of input (select an aircraft, date of travel, departure point, destination and desired take off or landing time) the respective local departure time or local landing time is then computed. These times account for Standard or Daylight savings time as well as Taxi and ATC delays. GMT times, Fuel Burns are ETEs are displayed. FBO's, Hotels and Limos can be stored for any of the over 6800 airports in the worldwide database. This itinerary can be emailed to anyone from within the program. The great circle route is displayed for ease of planning your route and fuel stops. Your max range, with reserves, is indicated on the great circle route.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Quick Planning at 100% against Pilots Atlas's 22%. Quick Planning also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 12). Pilots Atlas's advantage is price (Free vs $19.99) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 months). On ads 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
Pilots Atlas is free to download; Quick Planning costs $19.99 up front. Pilots Atlas sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per year. Quick Planning asks for nothing beyond the download.
Quick Planning holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pilots Atlas has 92 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of Pilots Atlas's written reviews are positive against 100% of Quick Planning's.
Pilots Atlas ships an update every 10 days, Quick Planning every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pilots Atlas | Quick Planning |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $19.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (92 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 92 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #178 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 258 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | absolutezero multimedia GmbH | Paul LeBlanc |
Customer experience
Pilots Atlas
Quick Planning
In-app purchases
Pilots Atlas
- 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
- Afrika and Antarktica$20.99
- Asia$20.99
- Europe$20.99
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- North America$20.99
- South America$20.99
- Upgrade from two area to world$32.99
- Whole World$119.99
Quick Planning
No in-app purchases








