SkyTrackPro vs Parakiter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SkyTrackPro
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SkyTrackPro is a complete flight companion for pilots, whether you fly big XC lines, FAI competitions, hike and fly, or a Sunday thermal with your friends. We care about the basics that make a flight go well: accurate tracking, a cockpit you can read in the air, honest navigation and tools that help you learn from every flight. Everything else has to earn its place. What SkyTrackPro helps you do Precise flight tracking • Reliable GPS recording from launch to landing • Barometric and GNSS altitude recorded as two independent references • IGC export and detailed replay • Offline capable, built to save battery on long days A cockpit built for you • Freeform flight layouts with movable buttons and resizable tiles • Ten ready to fly built in screens, including portrait radars • Flight Radar, Task Radar, Next Airspace, Side View and many more tiles • Refreshed Cockpit design with flat tile cards, uppercase labels and values that lead • Customizable flight puck, glide line and a wing and pilot marker designer Live tracking and sharing • Public live tracking, or private with a personal link • Live photos and short clips sent to the live map as you fly • PureTrack mirroring in parallel • Flight presence outside the app, with a live view on your lock screen Competition pilots • Load tasks via QR code, file or shared link • On final glide banner with wind corrected arrival margin • FAI Section 7 compliant goal line and elevated goal • Competition messenger with race direction chat, push notifications and an urgent alert siren • Retrieve in the chat with driver cards and send my location • XC Guide with routes, challenges, leagues, records and a live feed Hike and fly • A single recording for a whole day of walking and flying • Hike and Fly race day with land and sign turnpoints and GAP style competitions Soaring • Wagga mode for a dedicated touch and go session on a fixed screen Airspace and weather • Airspace v1.5 with NOTAM activation windows and section based colours • Progressive vertical airspace warning that scales with your climb rate • Weather with live wind stations in Switzerland, Austria, Spain and Slovenia Maps • Topo, Terrain, Satellite and Dark map styles • Offline Maps v2 with freeform 1 degree cell selection • Thermal maps overlay and obstacle warnings Hardware integrations • ActiveLook smart glasses from Engo Eyewear • Vector Vario and Calypso Ultrasonic over BLE • FLARM and FANET traffic shown on the flight map Thirteen languages English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese for Portugal and Brazil, Czech, Polish, Japanese, Korean, Turkish and Slovenian. The complete Pilot Manual is included in each language. For every kind of pilot • Competition pilots • XC explorers • Hike and fly pilots • Soaring pilots • Club and school pilots • Recreational flyers • Anyone learning and improving If you want precise tracking, a cockpit you can trust and tools that keep up with how you fly, SkyTrackPro fits right in.
Parakiter
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Parakiter walks with you through every stage of a flying day — from the first sign that conditions are coming good, to keeping in touch with the pilots you met when you packed up. Built by pilots, for pilots. TAILORED FORECASTS Generic regional forecasts tell you it's "10–15 knots and westerly". Useless. Parakiter takes your wing, your weight and your personal wind window, then crunches live RASP, Open-Meteo and tidal data against YOUR setup at YOUR site. The answer it gives you is the one you actually need: today's a fly, or today's a write-off. WING SETTINGS Pick your wing, set your all-up weight, and that's it. Every forecast from then on is calibrated to your personal wind range — no mental maths at the trail head, no second-guessing whether today's a small-wing day or a big-wing day. CUSTOM ALERTS Don't want to keep checking? Tell Parakiter the conditions you want and the sites you care about, then get on with your week. When the forecast lines up, your phone buzzes — Wednesday afternoon is going to fire at your local, take the day off. Never miss a great day again. SITE FINDER Coastal dunes, ridge sites and soaring spots across the UK — with the Netherlands, France, Denmark, Portugal and Spain rolling out now. Find new sites within range of where you already go. Coastal sites have tide gates baked in, so you won't drive an hour to find your launch underwater. SESSION CHATS Who else is going? Lift to share? Where's everyone meeting? Session chats put you in a thread with every pilot planning to fly the same site that day. Pull up to the site already knowing who's there. WIND FLOW See where the lift is. See where the rotor is hiding. Our wind flow system overlays animated streamlines on satellite imagery of your site, calibrated to today's forecast wind direction and speed — a highly accurate picture of what the wind will be doing right at launch. Pick your launch point, spot the danger zones, fly with confidence. BUDDY SYSTEM First on site and don't want to wait for the others to land before you launch? Pick a buddy in the app before you go up. If you don't confirm a safe landing within 5 minutes, they get an alert with your last GPS location, your what3words address, and emergency-services guidance. Solo flying, with someone watching your back. FLIGHT LOGS You flew. The barometer noticed. By the time you've packed up, today's flight is in your logbook — takeoff, landing, full track on a map, personal bests, and a running total of your airtime. That airtime total matters: it's how you know when your wing is due a service. Your career, logging itself in the background. MEDIA GALLERIES Every shot from every site, in one place. Drop your photos and clips into the day's session chat — share with the exact pilots who were there with you. Look back on a season and remember why you do this. PILOT COMMUNITY The session ends, but the chats don't have to. Stay in touch with the pilots you met today through site groups, regional threads, or private chats with your usual crew. Build a network of pilots wherever you fly. COMING SOON Kit reviews, tutorials, classified ads, and more. Parakiter is shaped by what pilots actually ask for — so tell us what's missing. WHO IT'S FOR Every Parakite pilot, from your first flight onwards. Built by pilots, for pilots. PRIVACY AND DATA Your wind window, AUW, sessions and chats stay yours. We don't sell your data. Forecasts are computed on our infrastructure; chat is private to your group. SUBSCRIPTION 3 months free, then £2.49 / month for full access to site forecasts, custom wind alerts, wind flow, flight tracking, buddy safety, pilot logbook, pilot chat and coastal tide gates. Auto-renews monthly until cancelled. Cancel any time from your device's Subscriptions settings. Get in touch via the in-app chat — we read every message. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SkyTrackPro at none against Parakiter's 2. On price, update cadence, ads 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. Parakiter sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. SkyTrackPro asks for nothing beyond the download.
SkyTrackPro ships an update every 6 days, Parakiter every 5 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | SkyTrackPro | Parakiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 93 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jerome Kaegi | Matt Gough |
In-app purchases
SkyTrackPro
No in-app purchases
Parakiter
- Parakiter Pro$0.991 Month
- Parakiter Pro3 Months trial$2.991 Month
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