Comparison

Checkride Compass vs Crosscheck

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

Head to head
About

Checkride Compass

Prepare for your Private Pilot checkride with focused quizzes, flashcards, and real-world scenarios. This tool helps build confidence for oral exams, ACS standards, and written preparation.

Highlights
  • Practice quizzes
  • ACS flashcards
  • Checkride-style scenarios
  • Focused study experience
  • Build confidence
Features
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Checkride Compass helps student pilots prepare for their Private Pilot checkride with focused quizzes, flashcards, and real-world scenarios based on FAA ACS standards. Features: • Practice quizzes • ACS flashcards • Checkride-style scenarios • Focused study experience Build confidence and stay on course for your oral, ACS, and written prep. Disclaimer: Checkride Compass is an independent educational study tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the FAA.

About

Crosscheck

Prepare for your private pilot checkride with flashcards, mock oral exams, and flight data tools. Stay sharp after your checkride with currency tracking and progress reports. Your data remains on your device with no ads or tracking.

Highlights
  • 679 flashcards in 20 decks
  • Spaced repetition learning
  • FAA-written-style multiple choice questions
  • Examiner-style mock oral exams
  • Weight and balance calculator
  • Logbook with currency tracking
  • Lock-screen widget for progress
Features
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Pass your private pilot checkride, then stay sharp after it. Your knowledge decays when you stop studying. Crosscheck measures that. Skip two weeks and your readiness gauge drops, weak areas surface, and the daily plan rebuilds itself to get you back on pace for your checkride date. STUDY • 679 flashcards in 20 decks: weather, airspace, regulations, aerodynamics, systems, emergencies • Spaced repetition brings each card back right as you start to forget it • FAA-written-style multiple choice with shuffled answers • Trouble cards: miss a card three times and it moves to the front • A daily plan from your countdown: how many cards and orals per day to make the date MOCK ORAL • 10 examiner-style orals across the ACS Areas of Operation. 62 questions with model answers and likely follow-ups • Examiner mode reads each question aloud, runs a think timer, then speaks the model answer. Chair-fly on your commute. • Questions you miss feed your next study session FLY THE NUMBERS • Weight and balance with a live CG envelope and saved loadouts, including checkride day with your DPE aboard • V-speeds you edit to match your POH • Maneuver glance sheets: speeds, ACS tolerances, flow, common errors • Kneeboard mode: full-screen memory items and V-speeds for the yoke clip • Live METAR decode for your home field, plus practice METARs AFTER THE RIDE • Logbook with FAR 61.57 passenger-currency and flight-review countdowns • A one-page progress report you can hand your CFI • Lock-screen widget: cards due, streak, days to checkride • Cockpit night mode. No account, no ads, no tracking. Your data stays on your device. Crosscheck is a study aid. It is not flight instruction and not a source of operational flight information. Verify everything against your POH, the current FAR/AIM and ACS, and your instructor. Weather comes from aviationweather.gov and is not an official briefing.

Screenshots

Checkride Compass4 screens
Crosscheck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Checkride Compass at 5.0 against Crosscheck's 3.5. Checkride Compass also leads on ratings volume (8 vs 2). Crosscheck's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Checkride Compass holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Checkride Compass versus Crosscheck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCheckride CompassCrosscheck
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings) — better3.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJainik ParekhJared Kaeb

In-app purchases

None

Checkride Compass

No in-app purchases

None

Crosscheck

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Checkride Compass free?
Checkride Compass is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Crosscheck free?
Crosscheck is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Checkride Compass or Crosscheck?
Checkride Compass is rated higher. Checkride Compass averages 5.0 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Crosscheck averages 3.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Checkride Compass or Crosscheck have ads?
Neither Checkride Compass nor Crosscheck shows ads.

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