Comparison

Onboard Performance Tool vs Spice AirDocs

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

Head to head
About

Onboard Performance Tool

This application enables flight crews and ground personnel to perform real-time performance calculations for flights. It provides fast and precise data for takeoff, landing, and weight and balance, accounting for various environmental and operational factors.

Highlights
  • Real-time performance calculations
  • Takeoff analysis
  • Landing analysis
  • Weight and balance information
  • Accounts for weather and runway conditions
  • Corrects for pressure variation and MEL items
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*** This application requires configuration files, performance and other databases, available separately. Contact your Boeing representative for details. *** The Onboard Performance Tool (OPT) permits flight crews and ground personnel to perform real-time calculations based on current weather and runway conditions, while adhering to company and regulatory policies and procedures. The Onboard Performance Tool provides self-planning capability through fast and precise calculations. It allows flight crews to calculate the takeoff analysis, landing analysis, and weight and balance information. Instant and accurate calculations save time by correcting for pressure variation, runway conditions, engine bleeds and Minimum Equipment List (MEL) items.

About

Spice AirDocs

Features
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Electronic Flight Bag – Document Management System “Spice AirDocs” is the new standard in airline document management, a technology shift in safety and compliance, collaboration, and usability, from SpiceJet Ltd. Spice AirDocs, is a document management system designed to create, distribute and view aircraft manuals, plus internal manuals produced by the airline. Safety and regulatory compliance are made easy with Spice AirDocs workflows, tracking and content linking. Manuals can be updated in PDF. Our app enables pilots to find the information they require fast - crucial when quick decisions need to be made on the flight deck. The Spice AirDocs iPad app is an EFB Viewer for displaying EFB documents. The app is used in conjunction with Spice AirDocs Distributor, which enables airline staff to upload documents such as manuals in Pdf format. This airline-generated content is then distributed to user’s iPad devices. Spice AirDocs provides secure, controlled, and audited distribution and synchronization of operational documents through to iPad devices. Pilot user experience comes first in the Spice AirDocs App, with scope search, preservation of annotations and highlights, and effectivity. The Spice AirDocs iPad app can display PDF manuals from aircraft manufacturers including FCOM, MELs, and QRHs, as well as ground ops and airline operating manuals. Spice AirDocs consists of two integrated modules: Spice AirDocs Viewer and Spice AirDocs Distributor. The system delivers measurable benefits across all modules: Spice AirDocs Viewer is a mobile app used by pilots to access critical flight manual content during all phases of flight. This app is specifically designed for viewing Aircraft manufacturer manuals, plus company­ generated manuals. Built with pilot needs to the fore, our Viewer brings pilot-centric functionality into the flight deck, with genuine innovations, including: Annotations and Bookmarks - Pilot bookmarks are stored on our cloud server so that when manuals are updated, the bookmarks are never lost. New device? No problem. When the pilot downloads our app and signs in, all previous bookmarks are instantly delivered. Search - Vital in the cockpit when the flight crew demands immediate answers. Our dynamic search capability returns the correct results at lightning speed. Effectivity - Our Viewer displays only the documents that are specific to the plane's tail number reducing the potential for confusion when demanding situations arise. Spice AirDocs Distributor controls document distribution and tracking to mobile devices. Documents can be automatically targeted by the crew, flight, or aircraft. The system tracks each device to ensure the latest version of each document is up to date. The distributor can alert supervisors about a crew device that is out of date where the crew member is scheduled to fly. This advanced compliance monitoring gives airline managers that peace of mind that all relevant information is available to the crew at all times and that all safety and compliance requirements are met. The Spice AirDocs platform delivers real benefits across the airline.

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Spice AirDocs at monthly against Onboard Performance Tool's every 6 months. Spice AirDocs also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.6). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Onboard Performance Tool ships an update every 6 months, Spice AirDocs monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Onboard Performance Tool versus Spice AirDocs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOnboard Performance ToolSpice AirDocs
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (17 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews13.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings17 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPadiPad
Requires iOS17.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB75 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Boeing CompanySpiceJet

In-app purchases

None

Onboard Performance Tool

No in-app purchases

None

Spice AirDocs

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Onboard Performance Tool free?
Onboard Performance Tool is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spice AirDocs free?
Spice AirDocs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Onboard Performance Tool or Spice AirDocs have ads?
Neither Onboard Performance Tool nor Spice AirDocs shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Onboard Performance Tool or Spice AirDocs?
Onboard Performance Tool ships an update every 6 months, and Spice AirDocs monthly. Most recently, Onboard Performance Tool was updated on October 8, 2026 and Spice AirDocs on October 2, 2026.

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