Comparison

Nextbase vs Crosscheck

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

Head to head
About

Nextbase

Manage and control compatible dash cams to record, download, and share footage. Features include automatic parking recording, voice commands, and emergency SOS alerts. Secure cloud storage is also available.

Highlights
  • Video playback and sharing
  • Smart parking recording
  • Voice control
  • Guardian Mode for speed/location alerts
  • Witness Mode for trusted contact alerts
  • Emergency SOS with location sharing
  • Cloud storage for recordings
Features
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The Nextbase app is only compatible with Nextbase Piqo, 385GW and 385GWX Dash Cam models. We’ve got your back. The Nextbase app is designed to help you effortlessly prove you're not at fault or share a breathtaking drive. Trusted by millions of drivers worldwide, Nextbase Dash Cams lead the world. Compatible Nextbase Dash Cams will have access to the below features in the Nextbase app: Video Playback Download & share videos from your Dash Cam using the Nextbase app. Smart Parking Triggers recording automatically when your car is knocked. *Pro Install Cable or Quick Connect Cable required. Voice Control Nextbase native voice control gives you hassle-free direct command of your Dash Cam. Guardian Mode Stay in control with Guardian Mode. Set speed and location limitations on your Dash Cam and get a notification if your car breaks them. Witness Mode Never face danger alone again. Simply use voice commands to control your Dash Cam anytime you feel on edge, in a road rage incident, or if you’re pulled over and it will inform your trusted contact so they can step in and help. Emergency SOS Get instant life-saving help. If you, or whoever is driving are unresponsive after an accident, your Dash Cam will share location and key medical details and dispatch the emergency services. Cloud Storage Store your Dash Cam recordings on the Nextbase secure server making it easier to share with friends, family and your insurance company. Nextbase Skins Apply visual effects and overlays to your Dash Cam videos! Personalise your videos with real time speed, GPS and G-force data. Some of these features can be utilised with activation of a paid subscriptions via the Nextbase app. For your own safety do not operate Nextbase app whilst driving.

About

Crosscheck

Features
Currently charting
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Two lines of trigonometry, in the runup area, with the ATIS still in your head. Crosscheck does them and draws the answer. Type the runway and the wind. You get the crosswind and the head or tailwind, and — the part that matters — the runway drawn with the wind across it at the real angle, so which side it is on is unmistakable. Knowing the number is easy. Picturing the side wrong under pressure is what puts an aeroplane in the grass. THE GUST IS THE NUMBER THAT DECIDES Plan on the steady wind and land in the gust and you planned the wrong number. The headline figure is the gust; the steady one is underneath it, because you brief both. IT WORKS THE OTHER END WITHOUT BEING ASKED Every wind is computed for the reciprocal too. If that end is the better one — a headwind instead of a tailwind, or materially less across — the app says so with the numbers already on it, and swaps with one tap. That is the question you actually have when a crosswind is marginal, and no other calculator answers it. GRADED AGAINST YOUR FIGURE, NOT OURS You type the demonstrated crosswind from your own POH. The app compares your number to the computed component and tells you where you sit — within it, close to it, or past it — and it names which figure it means, the crosswind or the tailwind. There is no built-in aircraft database, on purpose. Demonstrated crosswind varies by model, by year and sometimes by modification, and a figure that is close but wrong is worse than no figure at all. For most light aircraft the demonstrated crosswind is a DEMONSTRATED value — the strongest crosswind a test pilot happened to find during certification — not a structural or regulatory limit. Some types are placarded with a real limit. The app says so where you enter it. DENSITY ALTITUDE TOO Field elevation, altimeter setting and OAT give you pressure altitude and density altitude, using the standard approximation printed in POH supplements. AND THE CLOCK RULE, HONESTLY The mental shortcut you were taught — angle off over sixty, times the wind — shown against the real figure at every angle, so you can see exactly where it starts over-reading. At 60° it says the full wind when the answer is 87%. WHAT IT IS NOT A planning aid, not an authority, and not a source of weather. It has no network connection of any kind: it does not fetch METARs, and the wind it uses is the wind you typed. Verify against the current ATIS or ASOS. It does not compute weight and balance, takeoff or landing distance, or performance of any kind. The pilot in command decides. Works offline. No account.

Screenshots

Nextbase4 screens
Crosscheck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Nextbase at Free against Crosscheck's $4.99. Crosscheck's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks) and chart position (#141 vs unranked). 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

Nextbase is free to download; Crosscheck costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nextbase ships an update every 4 weeks, Crosscheck weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Nextbase versus Crosscheck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNextbaseCrosscheck
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.7 (587 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews19.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings587 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank—#141 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size230 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNEXTBASE UKYaniv van der Stigchel

In-app purchases

None

Nextbase

No in-app purchases

None

Crosscheck

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Nextbase free?
Nextbase is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Crosscheck free?
Crosscheck costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Nextbase or Crosscheck have ads?
Neither Nextbase nor Crosscheck shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nextbase or Crosscheck?
Nextbase ships an update every 4 weeks, and Crosscheck weekly. Most recently, Nextbase was updated on November 8, 2026 and Crosscheck on November 6, 2026.

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