8Flight Aviator EFB vs Wind & Runways
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Wind & Runways
This app provides pilots with essential preflight information, including wind components, runway diagrams, and weather data for over 76,000 airports worldwide. It helps pilots assess conditions at both major and smaller, non-towered fields, and includes NOTAMs for operational awareness.
- Wind component calculations for runways
- Visual runway diagrams with surface type
- METAR, TAF, and NOTAM data integration
- Map view with radar and airspace layers
- Flight route creation and navigation log
- Support for over 76,000 airports worldwide
- Live observation age updates
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Wind & Runways helps pilots quickly understand how the current wind lines up with the runway. It brings together METARs, runway data, TAF-based wind trends, NOTAMs, airport details, radar coverage, airspace information, and route planning in a simple view built around the decisions pilots actually make. For pilots using Stratux, Wind & Runways can also connect directly to compatible Linux-based Stratux ADS-B hardware to provide live traffic information along with cockpit instruments including an artificial horizon and compass with an adjustable heading bug. For each airport, the app calculates headwind, tailwind, and crosswind components for every runway end using the latest available weather. A visual runway diagram makes it easy to see the wind direction at a glance, and the app can suggest the best runway based on the strongest headwind component. When the wind is calm or mostly direct crosswind, it says that clearly instead of forcing a recommendation. Runway diagrams show paved runways in gray and turf or grass runways in green, making surface type easy to spot. Helipads are displayed separately with an H symbol and wind indication. The map view helps you understand the bigger picture around your route or local flying area. You can view nearby METAR stations, see where current observations are available, check radar coverage, display rendered airspace, and turn on a TFR layer directly on the map. You can also create, edit, and save flight routes by adding airports, stations, or fixes, then view a basic navigation log with leg distances and route details. This makes it easier to compare conditions across airports, spot nearby reporting stations, identify active flight restrictions, and keep weather, airspace, and route-planning awareness in one place. Wind & Runways is not limited to airports with their own weather stations. I built it specifically so pilots could check conditions at the little grass strips, private fields, and non-towered airports around them — not just the larger airports with METARs. If an airport does not report its own weather, the app finds a nearby reporting station and clearly shows where the weather is coming from, including the distance to that station. Weather data comes from NOAA’s Aviation Weather Center. Airport cards show wind, gusts, altimeter, temperature, visibility, ceiling layers, present weather, and flight category. Observation age updates live so you can quickly tell how fresh the report is. The Wind tab uses TAF data to show how wind is expected to change over the next several hours, helping you plan for a later departure or arrival. Wind & Runways includes airport and runway information for more than 76,000 airports worldwide using the OurAirports database, including many smaller strips and private fields. Name, elevation, runway data, and surface information are available even for many airports that do not report their own weather. The NOTAMs tab pulls active FAA Notices to Air Missions so you can check for runway closures, TFRs, equipment outages, and other operational items without leaving the app. You can save favorite airports, reorder them, and sync them across devices with Apple or Google sign-in. You can also use the app without an account. Recently loaded METAR, TAF, and NOTAM data remains available offline, with stale data clearly marked. Unit preferences are supported for wind speed, temperature, altimeter, and elevation. Wind & Runways is built by a pilot, for pilots — with a fast, cockpit-friendly layout focused on runway wind, airport weather, traffic awareness, airspace, route planning, and the information you want close at hand before and during a flight. Free to download. Sign in to sync favorites, or use it anonymously.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: 8Flight Aviator EFB at 4.6 against Wind & Runways's 3.0. 8Flight Aviator EFB also leads on ratings volume (79 vs 1) and chart position (#122 vs unranked). Wind & Runways's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Wind & Runways asks for nothing beyond the download.
8Flight Aviator EFB holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. 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.
8Flight Aviator EFB ships an update weekly, Wind & Runways every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 8Flight Aviator EFB | Wind & Runways |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (79 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 79 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #122 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 196 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eight Flight | Jeff Cardillo |
Customer experience
8Flight Aviator EFB
Wind & Runways
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
Wind & Runways
No in-app purchases
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