Comparison

Enroute Flight Navigation vs Fix Timer

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

Head to head
About

Enroute Flight Navigation

A non-commercial flight navigation app for VFR pilots, offering a moving map with airspace and airfield information. It provides flight planning tools, weather-based diversion suggestions, and free, weekly updated aeronautical maps.

Highlights
  • Moving map with current position and flight path
  • Detailed airspace, airfield, and navaid information
  • Weekly updated aeronautical maps
  • Flight planning for distance, time, and fuel
  • Closest airfield suggestions for diversions
  • No advertising or commercial versions
Features
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Enroute is a non-commercial flight navigation app written by flight enthusiasts for VFR pilots. Designed to be simple, functional, and elegant, it takes the stress out of your next flight. Enroute features a moving map similar in style to the official ICAO maps. Your current position and your flight path for the next five minutes are marked, and so is your intended flight route. A simple tap gives you all the information about airspaces, airfields, and navaids – complete with frequencies, codes, elevations, and runway information. Our aeronautical maps are free, receive weekly updates, and cover large parts of the world. Selected maps show traffic circuits and flight procedures for control zones. Enroute supports essential flight planning. It allows you to quickly and easily compute distances, courses, and headings. It gives you an estimate for flight time and fuel consumption. If the weather turns bad, the app will show you the closest airfields for landing, complete with distances, directions, runway information, and frequencies. There is no advertising and no commercial “pro”-version of the app. We do not spy on you. You do not need to register for “membership.” And we do not hassle you with e-mails. We do not even have or want your address! Disclaimer: We publish this free app hoping that it might be helpful as an aid to prudent navigation. It comes with no guarantees. It may not work as expected. The data does not come from official sources and might be incomplete, outdated, or otherwise incorrect. This app is no substitute for proper flight preparation or good pilotage. Relying on it as a primary means of navigation is most likely illegal, undoubtedly stupid, and potentially suicidal.

About

Fix Timer

Features
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A pocket enroute computer for pilots. Enter a takeoff time, the leg minutes to each fix along your route, and Fix Timer shows the running ETA at every waypoint — exactly the "time at the next fix" a flight plan needs. Fix Timer is built for the cockpit. It runs 100% offline, forever. No login, no cloud, no signal required at FL350 or in the middle of an ocean crossing. Every calculation happens on your device, instantly. GLASS COCKPIT INSTRUMENT PANEL A deep-navy panel with phosphor-green readouts, segmented FMS-style time digits, and a continuous rail connecting your route fixes — the visual language of a real avionics display, rebuilt as a touch interface. SAVED TRIPS LIBRARY Every flight is its own trip — name it, give it a callsign and route, save it. Switch between trips with one tap; each keeps its own takeoff time and fix list. ROUTE PLANNING THAT TRACKS - Enter a takeoff time in 24-hour HH:MM, or tap SET NOW to stamp current Zulu - Add fixes with optional waypoint names and minutes-from-previous - Cumulative ETAs roll forward automatically; +1d badges appear at day rollovers - Drag to reorder, swipe to delete, share a clean text nav-log to AirPrint, Notes or Messages HH:MM DURATION CALCULATOR A scratchpad time calculator built into the app: add and subtract HH:MM durations, multiply or divide a duration by a number. Ideal for oceanic crossings where every fix is two minutes apart — punch in 00:02 × 30 and get 01:00. One tap to add the result to current Zulu time and read the arrival ETA. OCEANIC RADIO REFERENCE HF and VHF frequencies for the Atlantic and Pacific oceanic regions, sourced from Collins Aerospace ARINC. Search routes by name, see primary, secondary and tertiary HF assignments at giant readable type. Cached on your device so the lookup keeps working offline. THREE COCKPIT MODES - BRT — bright daytime panel - DIM — night-flight, low-light cockpit - ATL — Atlas Airways livery Tap once to cycle. The whole UI shifts colour palette in place. LIVE ZULU CLOCK A live UTC clock ticks in the header at all times. SET NOW stamps the current minute as your takeoff. Never miss a time. WORKS WITHOUT THE INTERNET Once installed, Fix Timer needs no connection. Every value is computed locally with integer-minute arithmetic — no time-zone drift, no rounding errors. Built by a pilot, for pilots. Tap to add a fix, drag to reorder, swipe to delete. That's the whole UI.

Screenshots

Enroute Flight Navigation4 screens
Fix Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

Enroute Flight Navigation and Fix Timer are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Enroute Flight Navigation versus Fix Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEnroute Flight NavigationFix Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size85 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAkademische Fliegergruppe Freiburg i. Br. e. V.Michael Myers

In-app purchases

None

Enroute Flight Navigation

No in-app purchases

None

Fix Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Enroute Flight Navigation free?
Enroute Flight Navigation is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fix Timer free?
Fix Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Enroute Flight Navigation or Fix Timer have ads?
Neither Enroute Flight Navigation nor Fix Timer shows ads.

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