Pilot Flows vs Abeam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pilot Flows
Create interactive checklists by overlaying numbered steps on cockpit photos. Practice procedures through guided modes, quizzes, or random challenges. Track progress and organize complex flows for any aircraft.
- Interactive cockpit checklists
- Practice and quiz modes
- Progress tracking
- Customizable subflows
- Exportable checklists
- iCloud sync
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Pilot Flows - Learn Your Plane Master your cockpit flows by building interactive checklists directly on your cockpit photo. How it works: • Import a photo of your cockpit, then tap to place numbered steps on switches, knobs, and displays. Organize steps into color-coded subflows with section dividers. Connect the dots (literally) with automatic flow arrows that show the sequence at a glance. Practice until it's second nature: • Practice Mode: follow along step by step with on-screen prompts • Quiz Mode: test yourself from memory with no hints • Random Find-It: locate steps in shuffled order • Slideshow: present flows step by step for classroom instruction • Track your scores and progress over time Built for pilots, by a pilot: • Works with any aircraft: GA, turboprop, jet, or simulator • Multiple subflows per procedure (Pilot Flying, Pilot Monitoring) • Section dividers to organize complex flows • Export as image or print-ready PDF checklist • iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad • Dark-themed UI designed for readability A subscription is required to use the application. Pilot Flows Pro: $5.99/week or $49.99/year: • Unlimited aircraft and flows • Clean exports without watermark • Payment is charged to your Apple ID. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage subscriptions in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. T&C: https://github.com/SebastianRubina/pilotflows-legal/blob/main/terms-and-conditions.md Privacy Policy: https://github.com/SebastianRubina/pilotflows-legal/blob/main/privacy-policy.md EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Abeam
This app helps pilots build a daily study habit with short quizzes and engaging games. It features an ATC radio simulator for practicing readbacks and allows users to generate personalized quizzes from their own study materials.
- Daily aviation quizzes
- Realistic ATC radio simulator
- Custom quiz generation from study materials
- Gamified learning for aviation topics
- Progress tracking and study streaks
- Tailored content for VFR, IFR, Commercial, CFI
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Studying for a checkride — or trying not to forget everything you learned for the last one? Abeam turns aviation knowledge into a daily habit: five-minute sessions for student pilots working toward a rating, and for certificated pilots staying sharp between flights. Abeam is built for pilots — in training and staying current. Your next flight review, IPC, or unfamiliar towered field shouldn't be a scramble. Short, focused quizzes you can finish on a coffee break. Streaks that keep you flying through your study material. Games that make the hardest topics stick. And a realistic ATC radio simulator that lets you practice readbacks before you ever key the mic. A RADIO SIMULATOR THAT ACTUALLY TRAINS YOU 195 scenarios across 13 tracks — taxi clearances with hold-shorts and runway crossings, IFR clearance delivery, departures, enroute, approaches, go-arounds, and emergencies. Every scenario starts with a situation brief and, on the ground, an airport diagram showing your position, your taxi route, and exactly where to hold short. Listen to AI-generated ATC with realistic controller voices, key up, speak your readback, and get graded against real-world standards — the grading accepts proper phraseology variations the way a real controller would. Pass a level's scenarios to unlock the next difficulty, all the way to checkride-strict. DAILY QUIZZES TAILORED TO YOUR RATING Choose your track — VFR, IFR, Commercial, or CFI — and get questions calibrated to where you are in your training. Questions are grounded in FAR/AIM regulations and aeronautical references, with citations for every explanation. GAMES THAT TEACH Symbology: airport signs, runway markings, light gun signals, and VFR/IFR chart symbols — untimed visual recall with instant feedback, and IFR chart content that appears when your training calls for it. Weather Decoder for METAR/TAF practice. Phonetic Sprint for alphabet speed. The kind of practice that's painful with flashcards becomes addictive in short game loops. AI-POWERED CUSTOM QUIZZES Upload your study materials — manuals, study guides, FAR/AIM excerpts — and Abeam generates personalized quiz questions from them. Your study material becomes your test prep. STREAKS AND PROGRESS Build a daily study habit with calendar-day streaks, XP, and progress tracking that shows which topics you've mastered and where you need more reps. BUILT BY A PILOT, FOR PILOTS Created by an instrument-rated pilot working toward commercial. Abeam is a study companion, not a replacement for your CFI or formal flight training — but the daily reps make checkride prep feel like maintenance instead of a sprint. About the name: in aviation, "abeam the numbers" is the moment on downwind when you commit to landing — flaps down, descent begun, eyes on the threshold. The moment when training meets action. Abeam is named for that moment. Practice every day so when yours comes, you're ready. Try Abeam Premium free for 7 days. After that, $14.99/month or $119.99/year unlocks the full radio simulator, unlimited AI-generated quizzes from your documents, mastery tracking, and full analytics. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.flyabeam.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Abeam at 100% against Pilot Flows's 0%. Abeam also leads on rating (4.0 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (9 vs 1). Pilot Flows's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Pilot Flows sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Abeam sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Abeam holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Abeam has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Pilot Flows's written reviews are positive against 100% of Abeam's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pilot Flows | Abeam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sebastian Rubina | JORGE LUIS RUIZ-ORTIZ |
Customer experience
Pilot Flows
Abeam
In-app purchases
Pilot Flows
- Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Pro Annual$29.991 Year
- Lifetime Pro$49.99
Abeam
- Abeam Premium7 Days trial$14.991 Month
- Abeam Premium7 Days trial$119.991 Year









