Onboard Performance Tool vs Flightscape eFlight 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.
Flightscape eFlight Manager
This app automates flight planning by ingesting data from your flight planning system. It generates comprehensive trip packages with weather information and allows flight crews to upload real-time flight data for analysis.
- ARINC 633-2 flight plan ingestion
- Automated pre-flight briefing packages
- Real-time fuel and flight time capture
- Offline flight recalculations
- Scratchpad for notes and drawings
- Device data synchronization
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Flightscape eFlight Manager is a Flight Plan Manager add-on to expand the connected flight to the cockpit. The application automates the process of collecting all the information for your trip by ingesting flight plans from your flight planning system of choice. A comprehensive and complete package is then generated containing all the latest information required for a trip such as MET, NOTAM, Upper Wind and Temperature / Significant Weather charts and documentation. As well as being a system for delivering data for a trip, eFlight Manager has the ability to capture information from the flight crew. Information such as fuel records, actual flight times, and actual Fuel On board (FOB) are uploaded to the ground server for immediate analysis and reporting. Major features include: - ARINC 633-2 flight plan ingestion. Pre-flight Briefing: - METAR data with green, amber, red coloring based on configurable minima. - TAF for each airfield. - NOTAM for each airfield. - SNOWTAM for each airfield. - Update facility to receive the latest data for your trip. - FIR NOTAM, ASHTAM and SIGMETS. - Operational notices. - PDF Briefing Package. - Flight Recalculation - Sign Off. Trip: - Flight Summary showing weight and fuel information with offline recalculations. - Delay records. - Trip Log for capturing actual flight times, fuel on board, etc. Scratch Pad - Captures text notes. - Captures drawings. Device Sync - Allows crews to “push” or “share” the data that has been entered into eFM from their device to another device
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Flightscape eFlight Manager at 5.0 against Onboard Performance Tool's 3.5. Flightscape eFlight Manager also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 6 months). Onboard Performance Tool's advantage is ratings volume (17 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Flightscape eFlight Manager holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Onboard Performance Tool has 17 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Onboard Performance Tool ships an update every 6 months, Flightscape eFlight Manager every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on July 1, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Onboard Performance Tool | Flightscape eFlight Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (17 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 13.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 138 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Boeing Company | CAE Inc. |
Customer experience
Onboard Performance Tool
Flightscape eFlight Manager
In-app purchases
Onboard Performance Tool
No in-app purchases
Flightscape eFlight Manager
No in-app purchases
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