Comparison

GoFlyThere vs Aviation GPS

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

Head to head
About

GoFlyThere

This aviation GPS app provides pilots with a real RMI display and access to thousands of airports and navigation aids across North America. It offers precise navigation data, including track, distance, ground speed, and estimated time enroute, even in airplane mode.

Highlights
  • Real RMI display
  • 3440+ public airports
  • 2932+ nav aids (VOR, NDB)
  • Precision distance and speed
  • Works in airplane mode
  • User-defined waypoint
Features
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GoFlyThere is a handy pocket GPS aviation app featuring a real RMI display designed for pilots by a pilot. With access to 3440 public airports and 2932 nav aids (VOR and NDB) across the US, Canada, and Mexico, it offers precision navigation. Features include track, bearing to waypoint, distance with 0.01mn accuracy, Estimated Time Enroute, ground speed in knots, and 1-degree bearing and track accuracy. All degrees are True. It supports one user-defined waypoint and even works in airplane mode. Perfect for flight planning and navigation on the go!

About

Aviation GPS

This app transforms your device into a professional aviation navigation tool. It provides real-time bearing, distance, and timing data to airports and navaids globally with aviation-standard precision. Ideal for pilots and aviation enthusiasts, it offers a clean interface with customizable data fields.

Highlights
  • Real-time GPS navigation to 55,000+ airports
  • Professional 6-panel data display
  • Multiple compass modes
  • Comprehensive destination information
  • Magnetic declination correction
  • Aviation-standard data fields
  • Smart airport and navaid search
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Aviation GPS turns your iPhone or iPad into a professional-grade navigation instrument for pilots, flight training, and aviation enthusiasts — real-time bearing, distance, course deviation, and a full moving map with worldwide airport, navaid, and airspace data. Modeled on the panel-mount GPS navigators pilots already know, it pairs a clean FMC-style data display with a genuine moving map, HSI/CDI guidance, flight planning, and a Visual Approach mode with a 3° glidepath where there's no ILS. KEY FEATURES: • Moving map with 23-step zoom range, pan, pinch-zoom, and declutter levels • Globe projection: zoom out to see the Earth as a sphere, up to 10000 NM • Traffic from OpenSky or a GDL 90 ADS-B receiver (Stratux, SkyEcho), with threat colors, a 60-second speed vector, and a trail for a tapped target (advisory only) • Terrain colored relative to your altitude, with TERRAIN / PULL UP alerts (downloadable regional data; not a certified TAWS) • Optional obstacle layer (towers, masts, wind turbines) with OBSTACLE / PULL UP alerts for obstacles on your path (advisory only) • Own-ship breadcrumb trail • Worldwide airspace (Class B/C/D, Restricted/Danger/Prohibited, MOA, and more) — tap a boundary for its name, class, and floor/ceiling • Airspace proximity alarms before you enter a boundary • Messages for arrival, the next track before each turn, GPS loss, and descent • To-scale runways at close range, colored by surface type • Visual Approach mode: lateral and vertical guidance to any runway, no ILS required • VNAV page: plan a descent or climb to a target altitude at any waypoint, with the vertical speed required and the time to start down • Vertical situation display (VSD): terrain, obstacles, and airspace along your route or the next 60 NM • OBS mode: key in a course or dial it by dragging • HSI/CDI with auto-scaling sensitivity • 55,000+ airports and 10,000+ navaids (VOR, NDB, TACAN, DME) worldwide • FAA NOTAMs on the map, for your route, and per airport, kept for offline use (not an official briefing) • METAR and TAF with flight category • Flight log: record your track in the background, show it on the map, share as CSV or GPX • Barometric altitude and vertical speed, blended with GPS • Selectable GPS track smoothing, from light aircraft to jet speeds • Nearest (NRST) airports, navaids, and user waypoints, filtered by runway length and surface • Full-screen DATA page with selectable fields, and a customizable button bar • Portrait or landscape; on iPad, map, flight plan, and HSI at once • Track, Heading, or Auto compass modes, plus RMI and HSI styles • Airport info with runway diagrams, elevations, and up-to-date OpenAIP frequencies, with the 8.33 kHz channel you dial • Magnetic variation from the World Magnetic Model (WMM2025) • Background layers: coastlines, rivers, roads, railways, and cities • AutoZoom tightens the range on approach to your destination • Optional database updates; works fully offline • Built-in Pilot's Guide, available offline • X-Plane integration via XGPS (with simulator traffic), plus a demo mode with a KAP 140-style simulated autopilot FLIGHT PLANNING: • Unlimited waypoints — airports, navaids, or custom coordinates • Save flight plans by name and load them again • Automatic waypoint sequencing with turn-anticipation arcs • Per-leg and total distance and ETE • DIRECT TO any waypoint, with automatic return to the active plan • Named coordinate waypoints, saved and reusable • Activate, suspend, reverse, or clear your plan at any time • An altitude per leg with its minimum safe altitude, and your aircraft's climb and descent PROFESSIONAL FEATURES: • Great-circle bearing and distance, true or magnetic • ETA with local time at your destination • Coordinates in DEG, D M, or DMS format • Aviation-standard color coding and typeface Full worldwide aviation database on-device — no internet needed for navigation. Only OpenSky traffic, weather, NOTAMs, and the wind indicator use a live connection.

Screenshots

GoFlyThere3 screens
Aviation GPS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Aviation GPS at every 6 days against GoFlyThere's every 4 weeks. Aviation GPS also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for GoFlyThere against 5.0 for Aviation GPS. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GoFlyThere ships an update every 4 weeks, Aviation GPS every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
GoFlyThere versus Aviation GPS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoFlyThereAviation GPS
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB60 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBlair SimpkinsMarian Fujara

Customer experience

GoFlyThere

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Aviation GPS

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

GoFlyThere

No in-app purchases

None

Aviation GPS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GoFlyThere free?
GoFlyThere is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Aviation GPS free?
Aviation GPS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, GoFlyThere or Aviation GPS?
GoFlyThere and Aviation GPS are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do GoFlyThere or Aviation GPS have ads?
Neither GoFlyThere nor Aviation GPS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GoFlyThere or Aviation GPS?
GoFlyThere ships an update every 4 weeks, and Aviation GPS every 6 days. Most recently, GoFlyThere was updated on October 18, 2026 and Aviation GPS on October 24, 2026.

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