Comparison

Winglet Flight Display vs Pocket Cockpit

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

Head to head
About

Winglet Flight Display

Features
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Winglet is a Primary Flight Display for use in simulators and experimental aircraft. The app is a companion application to Noisy Goose, a general EFB application. It allows you to see the following: Attitude, Speed, Heading, Vertical Speed. With flight simulators, you can see your autopilot bugs as well! Winglet supports the following external data sources: MS Flight Simulator Prepared 3D Dynon SkyView Stratux

About

Pocket Cockpit

Features
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Pocket Cockpit turns your phone into a real flight instrument panel. Mount your phone in landscape, and Pocket Cockpit reads your device's GPS and motion sensors to drive a full set of aircraft style instruments: airspeed tape, altitude tape, vertical speed indicator, artificial horizon with pitch ladder and roll indicator, and a compass. Live instruments, real data Airspeed tape with a speed trend arrow, driven by GPS Altitude tape and vertical speed indicator (VSI), smoothed for a stable readout Artificial horizon with pitch ladder, bank angle scale, and a fixed aircraft symbol Compass ring with heading readout Two ways to fly the horizon By default, the horizon follows your phone's gyroscope, just like a real attitude indicator. Switch on car mode in settings and it switches to the accelerometer instead, so the horizon banks with cornering and braking forces, similar to a simple gyro less attitude indicator. That makes it fun to mount in a car and watch the horizon react to real driving. Pocket Cockpit doesn't need an internet connection and only uses your location on device, to power the instruments while the app is open.

Screenshots

Winglet Flight Display3 screens
Pocket Cockpit2 screens

Verdict

The call

Winglet Flight Display and Pocket Cockpit are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Winglet Flight Display versus Pocket Cockpit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWinglet Flight DisplayPocket Cockpit
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size4 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAutomata Solutions Ltd.Daniel Bittner

In-app purchases

None

Winglet Flight Display

No in-app purchases

None

Pocket Cockpit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Winglet Flight Display free?
Winglet Flight Display is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pocket Cockpit free?
Pocket Cockpit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Winglet Flight Display or Pocket Cockpit have ads?
Neither Winglet Flight Display nor Pocket Cockpit shows ads.

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