Kneeboard for Pilots vs 天空之家
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kneeboard for Pilots
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Stop juggling paper, pens, and checklists in the cockpit. Kneeboard is the elegant, powerful, and essential iPad app designed to replace your traditional kneeboard, letting you focus on one thing: flying. Engineered by pilots for pilots, Kneeboard streamlines your entire in-flight workflow. Experience a writing feel, powered by Apple Pencil, that is as natural and responsive as pen on paper. COMMAND YOUR FLIGHT DECK, YOUR WAY Hit the ground running with built-in templates for Departures, Arrivals, ATIS, and more. Or, take complete control by seamlessly importing your own custom checklists, performance cards, or diagrams as PDF or PNG files. Your cockpit, your rules. FLUID NOTES, ZERO CLUTTER Scribble a clearance, sketch a holding pattern, or jot down frequencies with a lag-free, precision-driven drawing engine. Need to focus on a detail? Simply pinch-to-zoom and pan across the canvas with intuitive two-finger gestures. It’s powerful, but it stays out of your way. FIND ANYTHING, INSTANTLY Never lose a critical piece of information again. Assign custom names, tag notes as favorites for quick access, and organize everything with custom categories you create. Filter by "IFR Training," "Cross-Country," or by tail number to keep your log clean and accessible. ARCHIVE & SHARE LIKE A PRO With a single tap, export any note as a clean, high-quality PDF that merges your handwriting with the template background. It's perfect for debriefing with your CFI, logging flight details for your records, or professional record-keeping. Whether you're a student pilot on your first solo, a seasoned CFI, or a weekend flyer, Kneeboard is the most reliable co-pilot you'll have on your iPad. Download Kneeboard today and upgrade your flight experience.
天空之家
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Sky Family - Pilot Assistant is an offline-first supplemental situational display for pilots, student pilots and ground training. Using the phone's motion sensors, compass and foreground GNSS, it provides an original touch PFD, a camera HUD, offline route planning, a pilot toolbox, custom checklists, a personal logbook and a one-tap emergency record. MAIN DISPLAYS • Touch PFD: roll/pitch trend, GNSS ground speed, WGS-84 GNSS altitude, true track or magnetic heading, adaptive portrait/landscape layouts. • Camera HUD: the camera runs only on the HUD page for live preview — no photos, no recording, no upload. • Data-quality gating: mocked, stale or low-accuracy fixes never enter the navigation displays. ROUTES AND MAPS • Offline MAP/FPL: route creation, waypoint ordering, active leg, distance, true bearing, ETE, OBS, and GeoJSON/GPX/KML import. • After separate map-privacy consent, AMap capability and official offline city packages are available in mainland China. Elsewhere, the app uses a configured and available map provider. Routes, waypoints, OBS and position overlays remain usable when no base map is configured or available. • Within a valid offline entitlement, route planning works without a base map, including in airplane mode. PILOT TOOLS (all computed offline on the device) • Wind triangle, runway wind components, pressure/density altitude, fuel endurance and range. • Descent planning (TOD): distance to start descent, required vertical speed, time and gradient. • Holding-entry advice using the AIM/ICAO 70° sectors (direct / parallel / teardrop). • Standard-rate turn bank and radius; still-air glide range. • Sunrise, sunset and civil twilight with one-tap use of the current GNSS fix, in UTC and device-local time. • Two-way unit converter: kt/km/h, ft/m, NM/km, °C/°F, hPa/inHg, kg/lb, L/US gal. • UTC/leg timer, custom checklists and a local personal logbook. ACCOUNTS AND SUBSCRIPTION • PFD, HUD, pilot tools and emergency records work for guests without sign-in. • MAP/FPL routes and waypoints require an account; new accounts receive one free 72-hour trial. • After the trial, users may choose an auto-renewing monthly plan, a one-month non-renewing plan, or a one-year non-renewing plan. The final price is shown by the App Store purchase sheet. • The monthly auto-renewing plan continues until canceled in App Store subscription management; cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manual plans expire without another charge. • Accounts can be deleted inside the app. • Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ EMERGENCY CONTROL • Saves account, UTC, position and accuracy locally first; when signed in it syncs to Sky Family operations, retrying after connectivity returns. • Important: backend receipt does not mean public search and rescue, ATC or any authority has been notified. IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTICE This app is not certified airworthy equipment and is not an approved navigation source. It does not replace required aircraft equipment, approved navigation data, current charts, NOTAMs, weather or rescue services, and must not be used for primary navigation. GS is GNSS ground speed, not airspeed; ALT is WGS-84 GNSS altitude, not barometric altitude. All calculators are planning and training aids only — fly by the aircraft manual, published procedures and ATC.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: 天空之家 at every 4 days against Kneeboard for Pilots's every 5 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Kneeboard for Pilots sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and 天空之家 sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Kneeboard for Pilots ships an update every 5 weeks, 天空之家 every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kneeboard for Pilots | 天空之家 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Selcuk Dolapci | Jiangxi Future Technology Co., Ltd |
In-app purchases
Kneeboard for Pilots
- Kneeboard Pro$9.99
天空之家
- 航路权益月度自动续费$0.991 Month
- 航路单月权益$0.99
- 航路单年权益$12.99









