Onboard Performance Tool vs Flysmart+ Manager
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
Flysmart+ Manager
This application provides pilots with a digital flight bag to reduce paper usage in the cockpit. It allows for centralized updates of electronic flight bag data and checks the global version of all associated applications.
- Digital flight bag (EFB) tool
- Reduces paper in the cockpit
- Centralized data updates
- Checks global EFB version
- For aircraft operations
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“DATA ENCLOSED IN THE APPLICATIONS ARE PROVIDED FOR DEMONSTRATION PURPOSES ONLY. THEY MUST NOT BE USED FOR OPERATIONAL PURPOSES AND AIRBUS AND NAVBLUE DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY REGARDING THE USE OF THESE APPLICATIONS. THESE APPLICATIONS CAN ONLY BE USED FOR OPERATIONAL PURPOSES WITH REAL DATA BY AIRLINES QUALIFIED PILOTS AFTER SUCH AIRLINE HAS ENTERED INTO A SPECIFIC AGREEMENT WITH NAVBLUE SAS.” Get access to a comprehensive and state-of-the-art EFB tool for aircraft operations directly on your device with Flysmart+ applications. This significantly helps to reduce the use of paper in the cockpit. The Flysmart+ Manager Application allows the user to update its EFB application suite of data in a centralised way and check its global EFB version applicable to all its EFB applications.
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Onboard Performance Tool at 3.5 against Flysmart+ Manager's 1.0. Onboard Performance Tool also leads on ratings volume (17 vs 3). Flysmart+ Manager's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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.
Onboard Performance Tool holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Onboard Performance Tool has 17 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 14% of Onboard Performance Tool's written reviews are positive against 19% of Flysmart+ Manager's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Onboard Performance Tool ships an update every 6 months, Flysmart+ Manager every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on July 1, 2026 and June 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Onboard Performance Tool | Flysmart+ Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (17 ratings) — better | 1.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 13.5% of reviews | 19.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Boeing Company | Navblue Inc. |
Customer experience
Onboard Performance Tool
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In-app purchases
Onboard Performance Tool
No in-app purchases
Flysmart+ Manager
No in-app purchases
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