SkyPath Watch vs 8Flight Aviator EFB
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SkyPath Watch
Receive important cockpit notifications directly on your Apple Watch. This app pairs with a companion iPad application to ensure you never miss critical alerts, even in noisy environments.
- Receive notifications on Apple Watch
- Pairs with companion iPad app
- Ideal for noisy cockpit environments
- Delivers critical alerts
- Seamless integration
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Noisy cockpit? Not a problem at all. Download the SkyPath Watch app to your Apple Watch, connect it with the SkyPath iPad app and receive all the notifications to your Watch.
8Flight Aviator EFB
This app provides advanced flight planning with real-time weather forecasts and complete, accurate fuel and FBO pricing. It offers graphical weather data, FBO filtering by service and hours, and includes information on airport amenities. Designed for pilots to save time and make informed decisions.
- Data-driven flight planning
- Complete fuel and FBO pricing
- Graphical aviation weather forecasts
- Real-time weather radar
- FBO filtering by service and hours
- Airport amenities information
- Offline access
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8Flight is a new data-driven flight planning platform, and the world's only source of complete and accurate fuel and FBO pricing. Download for a 30-day free trial. World's fastest flight planning. No other EFB has this many graphical forecasts, FBO data this accurate, or flight planning this fast. Mappable aviation weather forecasts and FBO data let you view things like the best priced full-service fuel available at a particular day/time alongside forecast weather radar. Both retail avgas/jet fuel and contract fuel prices are always up to date. Our AI-based data engine and human reviewers conduct refresh and verification processes 24/7, and data downloads to the app seamlessly so you never have to worry about missing anything, with complete offline access in-flight as well. Unique Graphical Aviation Forecasts ~ 7-day forecast weather radar, echo tops, icing, turbulence, clouds, winds, and more - worldwide ~ Highest-resolution, fastest-updating realtime weather radar in the world ~ 3x faster realtime satellite cloud tops ~ Full METARs and TAFs on the map ~ Only EFB with full AIRMETs and SIGMETs ~ Weather widgets, Skew-Ts, and more Save 30+ Minutes on Every Trip ~ Don't spend an hour calling 4 FBOs at each of 3 airports. We already did. And we'll show you who's open when. Filter by Self Serve or Full Serve & Hours ~ $5.50 fuel is great these days, but sometimes you want to pay $6.00 to sit inside while someone does it for you. And sometimes passengers want an FBO that's open. right. now. Airport Restaurants & Museums (with hours!) and Hotels ~ The world's most complete in-flight collection of airport hotels, airport restaurants, and aviation museums, filtered on the map by hours for the time you'll arrive. New Features Weekly ~ 8Flight is the culmination of years of work on so many fronts, and we're rolling out new features almost every single week. 8Flight requires a subscription. Visit https://eightflight.com to learn more. Currently covers primarily the entire US & parts of the Caribbean. More regions coming soon. Learn more: https://eightflight.com Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://eightflight.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SkyPath Watch at none against 8Flight Aviator EFB's 7. SkyPath Watch also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). 8Flight Aviator EFB's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 15 months) and ratings volume (79 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. 8Flight Aviator EFB sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. SkyPath Watch asks for nothing beyond the download.
SkyPath Watch holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 8Flight Aviator EFB has 79 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SkyPath Watch ships an update every 15 months, 8Flight Aviator EFB weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SkyPath Watch | 8Flight Aviator EFB |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.6 (79 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 70.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 79 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Best chart rank | — | #85 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 196 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SKYPATH LTD | Eight Flight |
Customer experience
SkyPath Watch
8Flight Aviator EFB
In-app purchases
SkyPath Watch
No in-app purchases
8Flight Aviator EFB
- 8Flight Data$5.991 Month
- 8Flight Data$59.991 Year
- 8Flight Aviator1 Month trial3 variants$99.991 Year
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- aviator1 Month trial$129.991 Year
- 8Flight Aviator + Pro Logbook$179.991 Year
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