SkyBrief vs Minimums
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SkyBrief
This app provides comprehensive preflight weather briefings, route planning, and weight & balance calculations for general aviation pilots. It summarizes conditions, highlights hazards, and assesses flight risks to ensure safe departures. Supports custom aircraft profiles and personal minimums.
- Weather briefings with AI summaries
- Route planning with hazard highlighting
- Weight & balance calculations
- Personal minimums and alerts
- Flight risk assessment (FRAT)
- Regional weather charts and NOTAMs
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SkyBrief — Preflight Weather Briefings for Pilots Honest, complete weather briefings you can trust before every flight. SkyBrief turns raw METAR, TAF, TFR and NOTAM data into a clear go/no-go picture — with no invented values and no guesswork. When a data source is unavailable, SkyBrief tells you plainly instead of filling the gap with made-up numbers. FREE • Live METAR & TAF for any U.S. airport, decoded into plain language • Automatic VFR / MVFR / IFR / LIFR flight category and a go/no-go read • NOTAM digest — active notices grouped by type, closures and restrictions first • Nearby stations, airport directory, and a 24-hour conditions trend • Weight & balance calculator with CG envelope • Flight logbook, currency tracker, and custom checklists • Home Screen widget — your home airport's conditions at a glance • Shareable briefing cards PRO • AI-powered plain-language briefings, with voice read-aloud • Route briefings with real FAA TFRs and true terrain profiles • Winds-aloft nav log and a best-altitude optimizer (compare time & fuel by altitude) • Live radar & satellite overlay on your route • Personal-minimums monitoring with optional push alerts • Kneeboard flight mode, W&B what-if scenarios, and PDF briefing export • Cloud-synced briefing history BUILT ON HONEST DATA Your decisions deserve honest inputs. SkyBrief shows real observations and forecasts from aviationweather.gov and the FAA — and is transparent whenever data is missing or a scan can't complete. ACCESSIBLE Full in-app text-size scaling and high-contrast, readable text in every lighting and sky condition. SkyBrief is a decision-support tool and is not a substitute for an official FAA weather briefing. Always obtain an official briefing before flight. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://skybriefapp.com/privacy.html SkyBrief Pro is an auto-renewable subscription. Monthly and annual plans are available with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings.
Minimums
This app decodes aviation weather reports and forecasts into easy-to-understand briefings. It allows pilots to set personal weather minimums and provides a Go/No-Go assessment before flights, with detailed explanations for any violations.
- Plain-English METAR & TAF decoding
- Personal minimums setting
- Go/No-Go assessment
- TAF forecast timelines
- Live CONUS weather map
- Crosswind calculator
- Nearby airports & favorites
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Weather against the limits you choose. Minimums brings airport METAR observations, TAF forecasts, runway winds and your personal limits into a focused iPhone check. See source age and the reasons behind each result. CHECK AN AIRPORT Read reported wind and gusts, visibility, ceiling, temperature, altimeter and density altitude. Compare observed values with your active limit set. Published runway headings support wind-component estimates; the app does not know your assigned or available runway. Inspect sustained and reported-gust crosswind separately. Keep favorites together, find nearby reports with optional location, and explore U.S. reporting stations on the map. USE YOUR OWN LIMITS Set your ceiling, visibility, sustained wind, gust and crosswind limits, plus flight categories you do not accept. Guided setup offers editable starting points. Keep up to five named sets for free and choose which set applies to a new check. Your prior limits become the first set when you update. A result describes only the values and assumptions shown; missing, invalid or stale required data cannot establish a passing comparison. PREVIEW AN AIRPORT-WINDOW TRIP Choose departure and destination airports and their time windows, with an optional return. Compare available TAF conditions with your selected limits for those airport windows. See source validity, conditional forecast periods and any uncovered time. Edit an affected window and run a new check; an earlier preview never silently becomes current. Reported weather phenomena are shown as source information, not rated against your personal thresholds. Current METAR observations remain separate from future forecasts. Trip checks do not assess en-route weather. KEEP CONTEXT WITH MINIMUMS PRO Save up to 20 trips and 20 dated reviews per trip on your device. A review freezes the trip inputs, selected limits and available forecast evidence used at that time. Reopen it to compare its saved limit values with your active set, and recheck for a new forecast preview. Rechecking does not revise the historical result. Existing records remain readable and deletable after Pro expires. Airport checks, named limit sets, raw reports and complete trip previews are free; Pro is required to save trips or new reviews. No Minimums account is needed. Local records do not automatically sync between devices. KNOW THE SOURCE Weather comes from the National Weather Service Aviation Weather Center. Runway geometry and field elevation may update from FAA publications separately from app releases; Data Sources shows their dates and status. New downloads require a connection. Choose light or dark appearance, local or UTC weather time, and share a weather summary through iOS. PURCHASE TERMS Minimums Pro is available through monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscriptions, or a lifetime one-time purchase. Current localized prices and eligible offers appear in the app and Apple's confirmation for your account and region. Restore Purchases is available. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel in App Store account settings. Lifetime is a one-time purchase. Privacy Policy https://flyminimums.app/privacy.html Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Minimums provides informational airport comparisons. GO is not a clearance or a determination that a flight is safe. Obtain an official weather briefing and review current NOTAMs, runway restrictions and all other information needed for your flight.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Minimums at none against SkyBrief's shown. Minimums also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 days). SkyBrief's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (18 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. SkyBrief sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Minimums sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Minimums holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SkyBrief has 18 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SkyBrief ships an update every 9 days, Minimums every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SkyBrief | Minimums |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (18 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #197 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rohith Velmurugan | Brandon Beals |
Customer experience
SkyBrief
Minimums
In-app purchases
SkyBrief
- SkyBrief Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- SkyBrief Pro (Annual)7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- SkyBrief Pro Monthly$4.99
- SkyBrief Pro Annual$39.99
Minimums
- Minimums Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
- Minimums Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
- Minimums Pro Lifetime$29.99









