Comparison

Glide AI vs Cockpit

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

Head to head
About

Glide AI

This app acts as an intelligent copilot for pilots, providing quick answers to aviation-related questions. It can access and interpret aviation manuals, regulations, weather data, and airport information. Advanced features and broader data access require a subscription.

Highlights
  • Answers aviation manual and regulation questions
  • Provides live aviation weather data
  • Accesses NOTAMs and aerodrome information
  • Upload personal aviation documents
  • Vision AI for environmental analysis
  • Plain language explanations of complex data
Features
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Glide AI is your essential copilot to help you fly smart. Free to use, and easy to try, the Glide AI app can answer questions about aviation manuals, regulations, theory, live aviation weather, NOTAMs, aerodrome information, and much more. Glide AI is the indispensable app for knowledgeable, informed, and safe flying. Glide AI is the perfect companion for any fixed wing, rotary wing, and UAS pilot. It’s the app you wish you had on your checkride. Users can sign up for a Free Plan offering voice or text questions about U.S. and Canadian aviation documents, aerodrome, airspace, navaid, as well as METAR and TAF weather. Questions about other live aviation weather (PIREPs, SIGMETs, AIRMETs, Winds Aloft, Digital ATIS, Global Forecasts, etc.), NOTAMs, or uploading your own documents, vision AI, and human-like speech responses require a Glide AI Pro subscription. ASK AVIATION QUESTIONS, GET QUICK ANSWERS Ask aviation questions and get answers in plain language from hundreds of U.S. and Canadian official aviation documents. U.S. documents include the Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs), Advisory Circulars (ACs), FAA Handbooks, Chart Supplements, Guides, Glossaries, and many others. Similarly, ask about Canadian aviation documents such as the Canadian Aviation Regulations (CARs), AIM, Handbooks, and Weather Guides. Also ask questions about Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, and U.A.E. regions. Switch effortlessly between regions if you fly in different areas. SOURCED ANSWERS YOU CAN TRUST Glide AI not only answers your question, but also takes you directly to the source of the answer in the documents. Read the exact page that contains the information you are looking for. UPLOAD YOUR OWN DOCUMENTS - UPGRADE TO GLIDE AI PRO Upload your aviation manuals, handbooks, guides, textbooks, limitations, and more to increase Glide AI's knowledge. Upload PDF files up to 200 MB each in size, and documents up to 5,000 pages maximum in size. Store up to a total of 10,000 pages of your own content. METARs + TAFs Read global METARs and TAFs in plain language, with local time automatically converted to UTC. Aviation weather has never been easier to read. ADVANCED LIVE AVIATION WEATHER - UPGRADE TO GLIDE AI PRO Ask questions about PIREPs, AIREPs, SIGMETs, AIRMETs, Winds Aloft, Digital ATIS, Live RVR, Global Forecasts, and more reports for any point in the world. Get straightforward plain language answers at lightning speed that tell you exactly what you need to know. AERODROME, AIRSPACE, NAVAID, PROCEDURAL DATA Ask detailed questions about airspace, navaid frequencies, and aerodrome data such as runway lengths, aerodrome coordinates, and more. NOTAMS - UPGRADE TO GLIDE AI PRO Effortlessly ask NOTAM questions pertinent to your flight like “What NOTAMs affect Runway 22R at Boston Logan?”, or “Which taxiways are closed today at DTW?”. VISION AI Powerful vision AI capabilities to analyze the world around you. Take a picture with your device's camera, or upload an image and let Glide AI use its knowledge, and information from your aviation documents to explain what you’re seeing. MAP MODE Ask questions about aerodrome, airspace, navaid, waypoint, and airway data with elegant 3D visual rendering to help you better understand your environment. Our OpenAIP-powered map brings the best aviation information to you in natural conversation. EULA: http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula

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Cockpit

Features
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CockpitCheck turns your paper checklist into a guided, always-current cockpit companion — organized exactly the way you already fly. Made for Flight Training Learning to fly, or teaching it? The Memory-Item Drill trains your emergency boldface items on the ground: hide the response, recall it from memory, then reveal to self-check. Every calculator shows its working: "How It's Calculated" opens the exact formula behind the result. And "Share with a Student" sends a plane's complete checklists to your student, ready to import. Not Bolted Onto a Map Every major EFB treats its checklist as a small tab behind maps, charts, and weather — CockpitCheck is built around nothing but the checklist itself. Guided Fly Mode and instant emergency access, built for the cockpit. Run it as your primary checklist, or keep it as an independent backup alongside the EFB you already fly with — no shared account, no shared point of failure. Organized by Phase of Flight Preflight, engine start, before takeoff, takeoff, enroute, and landing — every checklist lives exactly where you expect it, grouped and ordered the way your POH already teaches you to think. Fly Mode: Guided, Step by Step Your next checklist waits at the top of the Fleet screen, one tap on Fly away. Then a live progress ring, elapsed timer, and one-tap Check or Skip — heads up, not buried in a binder. Live Activity, Right There See your current step and progress on the Lock Screen or in the Dynamic Island — glance without unlocking your phone. Cockpit Night A true red-on-black night mode that preserves your night vision, one tap away — no digging through Settings before a night flight. Emergency Procedures, One Tap Away Every emergency checklist for your aircraft surfaces instantly from a single red button — no digging through tabs when seconds matter. Hands-Free Voice Readout Let CockpitCheck read each challenge and response aloud while you fly, in your choice of natural voice and pace — eyes on the panel, not the screen. Start From a Template Add a new plane and start from a generic checklist — single-engine, retractable gear, or glass cockpit — then make it your own, with an optional reference photo on any item. Your Whole Fleet Manage checklists for every aircraft you fly — a club rental, your own plane, or several you're checked out in — each with its own groups, checklists, and emergency procedures. Drag to put your most-flown aircraft first. Weight & Balance, Built In Set your aircraft's empty weight, stations, and certified CG envelope once — then load each flight and see a live, color-coded verdict plus a plotted takeoff/landing graph. Save named presets for the loads you fly most. The calculator is free; sharing or printing a full report with the envelope graph included comes with any one-time purchase. Pilot Tools, Built In Eleven offline tools with big, turbulence-friendly controls — a timer that rings even on silent, sunset & civil twilight for any airfield, climb/descent rate, wind correction, crosswind, fuel, time-speed-distance, density altitude & TAS, flight time, Zulu time, and unit conversion — each showing the formula behind the result. Nothing leaves your device. Works With Your Other Apps Export any checklist to PDF for printing, or to ForeFlight, Garmin Pilot, or Garmin G3X/GTN (.ace) format, so your existing EFB and avionics stay in sync. Built for iPhone and iPad A native SwiftUI app with an adaptive layout — compact on iPhone, spacious on iPad — with iCloud sync to keep your fleet current across every device. Private by Design No sign-up, no login. Your checklists sync through your own iCloud account, and nothing is ever uploaded to a third-party server. One-Time Purchase Buy CockpitCheck once, tiered by how many aircraft you fly, and own it for as long as you fly them. No subscription, ever. Whether you fly one Skyhawk on weekends or keep a small fleet current, CockpitCheck keeps every checklist exactly where — and how — you need it.

Screenshots

Glide AI4 screens
Cockpit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Glide AI at 15.0 against Cockpit's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Glide AI sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $29.99 per month and Cockpit sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Glide AI ships an update every 8 days, Cockpit every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Glide AI versus Cockpit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGlide AICockpit
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size101 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBoldStratus Inc.ser.soft GmbH

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Glide AI

Subscriptions1
  • Glide AI Monthly Plan$29.991 Month
4 purchases

Cockpit

One-time4
  • Unlock CockpitCheck$2.99
  • 2 Planes$3.99
  • 5 Planes$5.99
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  • Unlimited Planes$12.99

Questions

Is Glide AI free?
Glide AI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cockpit free?
Cockpit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Glide AI or Cockpit have ads?
Neither Glide AI nor Cockpit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Glide AI or Cockpit?
Glide AI ships an update every 8 days, and Cockpit every 10 days. Most recently, Glide AI was updated on November 3, 2026 and Cockpit on October 31, 2026.

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