Comparison

GEARUP PILOT vs NFC Forge

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

Head to head
About

GEARUP PILOT

Features
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GearUp Pilot : Your flight school in your pocket. Built for student pilots, licensed pilots, and instructors at flying clubs and ATOs (Approved Training Organisations), GearUp Pilot brings everything you need for your aviation life into one beautifully designed app. PLAN YOUR FLIGHTS • Browse your club's full schedule with month, week, day and timeline views • Book aircraft and instructor slots in seconds • See aircraft availability, weather windows and reservation conflicts at a glance • Get real-time notifications for confirmations, changes and cancellations DIGITAL LOGBOOK • Log every flight directly from your phone — no more paper logbooks • Auto-filled data from your reservation: aircraft, route, times, instructor • Instructor validation with electronic signature • Track total hours, PIC time, dual time, IFR time and more • Export your logbook anytime TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS • Follow your training progress in real time • View upcoming sessions, completed milestones and exam readiness • Access lesson briefings and debriefings • Stay on top of every step toward your PPL, CPL, IR or rating LICENSES & MEDICAL • Centralise your pilot license, medical certificate, language proficiency and ratings • Receive automatic alerts before any document expires • Never miss a renewal again DOCUMENTS • Aircraft manuals, MEL, checklists, club bulletins — all in one place • Available offline for your flights • Always the latest version pushed by your school STAY CONNECTED • Direct messaging with your instructors and flight school staff • Club announcements and operational notices • In-app notifications for everything that matters DESIGNED FOR PILOTS, BY PILOTS GearUp Pilot is built in close collaboration with French and European flying clubs. Every feature solves a real problem from real pilot workflows. The interface is fast, clean, works in both portrait and landscape, and respects your privacy. REQUIREMENTS Your flight school must be a GearUp customer to give you access. If your club doesn't use GearUp yet, ask them to get in touch — we'd love to onboard them. SUPPORT & PRIVACY Questions? Reach us in-app or at support@gearup.cloud. Your data stays yours : we never sell or share it. See our privacy policy for full details.

About

NFC Forge

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NFC Forge is an open-source toolkit for reading, writing, duplicating, and managing NFC tags with your iPhone. No ads, no accounts, no trackers, and no cloud. Everything stays on your device. READ • Identify the chip family and decode NDEF records • Inspect lock status and security configuration • View the raw memory of supported tags and export a full .bin dump WRITE • Web links, plain text, phone numbers, email, locations, and FaceTime or WhatsApp shortcuts • Contact cards (vCard), calendar events, App Store links, and social profiles • Payment links (Venmo, PayPal, Cash App), Wi-Fi network tokens, and Bluetooth pairing records • Small embedded files and custom raw NDEF records • Stage several records and write them together as one multi-record NDEF message, with a capacity check against NTAG213, NTAG215, and NTAG216 DUPLICATE • Scan a source tag, save it to your on-device library, and write it to one or more blank tags TOOLS • Erase and format tags • Lock tags permanently to make them read-only • Password-protect supported NTAG tags • Byte-level memory editor, .bin backup and restore, and a raw command console for advanced users • Optionally use your iPhone as an NFC reader for your Mac over your local Wi-Fi network SAFETY FIRST NFC Forge protects lock bytes, capability containers, and password pages during normal writes to help prevent accidentally bricking a tag, and it warns you before any permanent action. SUPPORTED TAGS • Full read and write: NTAG213/215/216, MIFARE Ultralight, and ISO 15693 (ICODE SLIX and others) • NDEF and command passthrough: ISO 7816 Type 4 tags, DESFire, and FeliCa • MIFARE Classic: UID detection only PRIVACY NFC Forge collects no data. Tags you choose to save stay in the app's on-device storage. The source code is available on GitHub under the MIT License. Requires an iPhone with NFC. Some record types, such as Wi-Fi, write a text token that other apps can scan; iOS does not automatically join a network from an NFC tag.

Screenshots

GEARUP PILOT4 screens
NFC Forge4 screens

Verdict

The call

GEARUP PILOT and NFC Forge are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
GEARUP PILOT versus NFC Forge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGEARUP PILOTNFC Forge
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size110 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGEAR UPSusan Hamilton

In-app purchases

None

GEARUP PILOT

No in-app purchases

None

NFC Forge

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GEARUP PILOT free?
GEARUP PILOT is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NFC Forge free?
NFC Forge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do GEARUP PILOT or NFC Forge have ads?
Neither GEARUP PILOT nor NFC Forge shows ads.

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