Comparison

PilotAssist vs QuackyBrush

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

Head to head
About

PilotAssist

This app provides essential aviation calculations and references for student and everyday pilots. It offers tools for fuel, temperature, and time conversions, runway headings, crosswind calculations, descent planning, and airport weather retrieval.

Highlights
  • Fuel, temperature, and time conversion
  • Landing crosswind calculator
  • Descent planner
  • Airport weather (METAR) retrieval
  • Runway reciprocal finder
  • Flight briefing tips
Features
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PilotAssist is built for student pilots and everyday flying—providing simple, reliable tools to support real-world decision making in the cockpit and during flight planning. Quickly access essential aviation calculations and references, all in one clean, easy-to-use app: • Fuel Conversion – Convert AvGas between gallons and pounds • Temperature Conversion – Instantly switch between Celsius and Fahrenheit • Time Conversion – Convert local time to Zulu (UTC) with ease • Runway Reciprocal – Find the opposite runway heading instantly • Landing Crosswind Calculator – Determine headwind, crosswind, and tailwind components with a visual wind indicator • Descent Planner – Know when to begin your descent based on altitude, rate, and groundspeed • Airport Weather (METAR) – Retrieve real-time weather observations by airport identifier • Flight Briefing Tips – Prepare for calls to 1800WXBrief with confidence PilotAssist is designed to help pilots answer common questions quickly: How much crosswind will I have on landing? When should I start my descent? What’s the current weather at my destination? How do I convert this fuel, time, or temperature? Whether you’re in training or flying regularly, PilotAssist keeps essential tools right at your fingertips. Important: PilotAssist is intended as a reference tool only. Always verify calculations, weather data, and flight planning information using official FAA sources, aircraft documentation, and proper instruction.

About

QuackyBrush

Features
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QuackyBrush 3D is a freestyle 3D modeler and painter. Tap to place primitives — sphere, ellipsoid, cylinder, capsule, cone, frustum, torus, box. Move, resize, rotate, mirror, group, and carve them into anything you can picture. When the shape is right, bake to fuse the primitives into a single smooth model. Then paint directly on the surface. Save as a Creation. Place it in a Scene with a movable light and other models. Render the scene to your camera roll. Built for everyone - ideal for 7+ (kids who play Minecraft/Roblox or other 3D games performed well in UX testing). The interface respects your time. Drag-first input on top of an SDF + smooth-min CSG engine. Premium creative ownership - buy once, no subscription. What you can make. Stuffed animals, cute characters, low-poly game assets, 3D-print-ready props, game mascots, geometric sculpture, snowmen, ducks, chess pieces, mushrooms, robots. The primitive set composes into more than its parts. Negative-space carving. Switch any primitive to Carve mode and it becomes a subtractive ghost - eye sockets, mouth slots, embossed details, cavities. Smooth-min CSG fillets the boundary so carves feel hand-shaped, not Boolean-clean. Groups + pre-bake. Build a head, group its parts, pre-bake the group into a single fused unit. Drag the head as one piece while you keep adding to the body. Mirror. X, Y, or Z. Place one ear, get the other automatically. Place one eye, get the second symmetric. Free trackball rotate. Drag in any direction - the model rotates around the axis perpendicular to your finger. Need axis-locked rotation? Switch to X / Y / Z sub-tools. Orthographic toggle: Faux-orthographic camera for design-grade views.

Screenshots

PilotAssist4 screens
QuackyBrush4 screens

Verdict

The call

PilotAssist and QuackyBrush 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
PilotAssist versus QuackyBrush: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPilotAssistQuackyBrush
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 20 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.2 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKelly GayneauxPorter360, LLC

In-app purchases

None

PilotAssist

No in-app purchases

None

QuackyBrush

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PilotAssist free?
PilotAssist is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is QuackyBrush free?
QuackyBrush is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PilotAssist or QuackyBrush have ads?
Neither PilotAssist nor QuackyBrush shows ads.

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