Comparison

Pilot Reach vs Tomato Planes

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

Head to head
About

Pilot Reach

This app provides a personalized roadmap for flight training, offering guidance for new, returning, and career pilots. It also includes resources for instructor and airline preparation, along with automated reminders for crucial pilot certifications and expirations.

Highlights
  • Personalized flight training roadmap
  • Instructor resume and lesson plans
  • Airline resume and interview gouge
  • Automated pilot certification reminders
  • Medical and flight review tracking
Features
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Pilot Pathway Discover your personalized flight training roadmap. Built to guide new, returning, and career-focused pilots step-by-step toward their goals. Instructor Preperation Access CFI Resume & CFI Lesson Plans. Airline Preperation Airline Resume, Airline Interview Gouge, & Airline Training Footprint Guide. Pilot Reminders Stay current with notifications & automated tracking for medicals, flight reviews, and certificate expirations.

About

Tomato Planes

Learn aviation concepts through interactive lessons and engaging visuals. This app focuses on understanding, not memorization, with quizzes and progress tracking to reinforce learning. It's designed to make ground school more productive for aspiring and licensed pilots.

Highlights
  • Interactive aviation lessons
  • Hands-on visual explanations
  • Integrated quizzes
  • Skill tree progression
  • Progress tracking and achievements
  • Complete ground school curriculum
Features
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Tomato Planes is private pilot ground school, rebuilt around one goal: understanding. Not rote memorization. Every lesson is interactive, every concept is taught in the order that makes it click, and the hard ideas come with hands-on visuals you can actually fly. WHAT'S INSIDE • A complete private pilot ground school curriculum in short, game-like lessons • Interactive visuals: bend the airflow over a wing, load a real CG envelope, ride the four-stroke cycle, fly the traffic pattern, watch a thunderstorm build • Quizzes woven into every lesson so you find out immediately whether it stuck • A skill tree that unlocks section by section, from aerodynamics through weather, performance, airspace, and navigation • Streaks, achievements, and progress tracking that make showing up easy WHO IT'S FOR • Student pilots who want their ground knowledge to actually make sense • Licensed pilots knocking the rust off • Anyone who has ever wondered how flying really works THE HONEST PART Tomato Planes is a study supplement. It will not replace your flight instructor or an official FAA course, and we do not pretend otherwise. What it will do is make your time with both dramatically more productive, because you will arrive already understanding the why. Built by a working flight instructor who got tired of watching students memorize answers they did not understand. FREE TO START The first lessons are free. Premium unlocks the full course. Ultimate adds cross-device sync and a lifetime option. SUBSCRIPTIONS Premium and Ultimate are auto-renewing subscriptions (weekly, monthly, or annual) with a one-time Lifetime option. Some plans include a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings. Terms of Service: https://truecourseapps.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://truecourseapps.com/privacy.html

Screenshots

Pilot Reach4 screens
Tomato Planes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Pilot Reach at every 3 days against Tomato Planes's fortnightly. Pilot Reach also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 67%) and iOS requirement (14.0.0 vs 16.0). Tomato Planes's advantage is ratings volume (33 vs 10). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Pilot Reach sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Tomato Planes sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tomato Planes holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 33 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Pilot Reach's written reviews are positive against 67% of Tomato Planes's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pilot Reach ships an update every 3 days, Tomato Planes fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Pilot Reach versus Tomato Planes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPilot ReachTomato Planes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (10 ratings)4.8 (33 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings1033 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB157 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperYaw WorksTrue Course LLC (Florida)

Customer experience

Pilot Reach

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

Tomato Planes

All ratings32 ratings
Positive96.9%
Neutral3.1%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Pilot Reach

Subscriptions6
  • Pilot Services 1 Month$7.991 Month
  • Pilot Reach Plan - 1 Month7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Pilot Reach Plan Retired - 1m$9.991 Month
Show 3 more
  • Pilot Services 1 Year1 Year trial$9.991 Year
  • Pilot Plan Retired 1 Year$34.991 Year
  • Pilot Reach Plan - 1 Year$49.991 Year
One-time4
  • Pilot Reach Consultation$49.99
  • Flight Instructor Preperation$79.99
  • CFI Services$79.99
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  • Pilot Pathway Lifetime$999.99
6 purchases

Tomato Planes

Subscriptions5
  • Premium Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Tomato Planes Premium7 Days trial$15.991 Month
  • Tomato Planes Ultimate7 Days trial$19.991 Month
Show 2 more
  • Tomato Planes Premium7 Days trial$139.991 Year
  • Tomato Planes Ultimate7 Days trial$172.991 Year
One-time1
  • Ultimate Lifetime$299.99

Questions

Is Pilot Reach free?
Pilot Reach is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tomato Planes free?
Tomato Planes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pilot Reach or Tomato Planes?
Tomato Planes is rated higher. Pilot Reach averages 4.6 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Tomato Planes averages 4.8 from 33 ratings.
Do Pilot Reach or Tomato Planes have ads?
Neither Pilot Reach nor Tomato Planes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pilot Reach or Tomato Planes?
Pilot Reach ships an update every 3 days, and Tomato Planes fortnightly. Most recently, Pilot Reach was updated on October 30, 2026 and Tomato Planes on October 31, 2026.

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