Comparison

Portside Horizon vs AeroTrail

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

Head to head
About

Portside Horizon

This app helps flight crew manage their schedules and duties. It provides reminders for tasks and allows for logging flight details, functioning as a dedicated tool for crew operations.

Highlights
  • View flight schedule
  • Duty reminders
  • Log flight details
  • Calendar integration
  • Duty schedule overview
Features
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The Portside Horizon Crew App is a simple and user-friendly tool that's connected to the main Horizon App, but made just for crew members. With this app, you get an easy way to see your schedule, get reminders about duties and flights, and note down details after each flight. It also has a calendar and a duty schedule. Horizon is an efficient resource for managing tasks related to flight operations.

About

AeroTrail

Features
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AeroTrail is a fuel-aware flight planner for pilots shaping cross-country trips before they fly. Build a route from a departure airport, add destinations, choose an aircraft profile, and let AeroTrail organize a practical plan with fuel-aware legs, suggested stops, day-by-day pacing, route health checks, and a clear map/list/brief workflow. Designed for pre-flight planning, AeroTrail keeps the focus on route shape, fuel range, airport stops, and export. It is not a live navigation, weather, NOTAM, or flight-filing app. Highlights: - Create and save multiple trips - Plan with aircraft-specific range, cruise, fuel burn, reserve, and stop preferences - Search airports offline from a bundled airport database - Add place-based destinations and resolve them into planning airports - Generate route options with fuel stops when legs exceed safe planning range - Review routes on a map, in a day-by-day stop list, or through trip summary cards - Pin stops, mark overnights, add rest days, favorite airports, or avoid airports during replanning - Export full-trip or per-day .fpl files for compatible flight-planning workflows - Use AeroTrail across iPhone and iPad with native layouts for each screen size AeroTrail is built for pilots who want a calm planning workspace before opening their EFB: organize the trip, understand the legs, and carry a cleaner route into the next step of flight preparation. Important: AeroTrail is a planning aid only. Always verify route, fuel, weather, NOTAMs, airspace, airport data, aircraft performance, and regulatory requirements with official sources and approved aviation tools before flight.

Screenshots

Portside Horizon4 screens
AeroTrail4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Portside Horizon at Free against AeroTrail's $9.99. On ads, in-app purchases, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Portside Horizon is free to download; AeroTrail costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Portside Horizon versus AeroTrail: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPortside HorizonAeroTrail
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating1.4 (34 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings34 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size357 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPortside, Inc.Bountiful Apps

In-app purchases

None

Portside Horizon

No in-app purchases

None

AeroTrail

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Portside Horizon free?
Portside Horizon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AeroTrail free?
AeroTrail costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Portside Horizon or AeroTrail have ads?
Neither Portside Horizon nor AeroTrail shows ads.

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