FMC TYPER vs Sim Checklists
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FMC TYPER
Practice touch-typing with a retro flight computer interface. Engage in rhythm games, word challenges, and route navigation to improve your typing speed and accuracy.
- Retro flight computer interface
- Rhythm typing game
- Aviation word typing challenges
- Route navigation typing
- Multiple panel skins
- Original retro soundtrack
Read full descriptionHide full description
FMC TYPER is a retro typing trainer styled after an airliner's flight management computer. Every key of the panel sits exactly where your fingers expect it — practice touch-typing the aviation way, on a green CRT that feels like the real instrument. FOUR GAMES • TYPE TEMPO — rhythm typing on a flight-display note field. Notes drop down the lanes to original retro tracks: hit the number keys on the beat, hold the long notes, chase PERFECT on the magenta capture line. Pick your song, pick your difficulty, and trim your personal sync mid-play like tuning the real instrument. • WORD RAIN — aviation words fall down the CRT. Type them and press EXEC to shoot them down before they pile up. Reach a 10 combo to enter FEVER: words auto-fire the instant you finish typing them, as fast as your fingers can go. • WHACK-A-MOLE — tokens pop up beside the line-select keys. Type the token, smash its key, beat the 60-second clock. • ROUTE RUN — fly routes fix by fix on a navigation display, typing each waypoint to advance. Complete the leg and grease the landing. BUILT LIKE THE REAL THING • Faithful 1:1 panel scale on iPad Air 11" — real key pitch and layout for blind-typing practice • Three panel skins: the classic green-screen B737 CDU, a blue-grey A320 MCDU, and the E-JET MCDU — each with its own muscle-memory quirks • CRT glow, scanlines, phosphor trails, screen shake, and a warm-red FEVER mode • Original retro soundtrack and sound effects TRAIN FOR REAL Blind-type ICAO airport codes, waypoints, the phonetic alphabet, and procedure names. High scores are tracked per skin and per category, so your muscle memory has a scoreboard. FAIR AND SIMPLE The first rounds are ad-free, then a short ad appears every few completed rounds. One optional purchase removes all ads forever.
Sim Checklists
Read full descriptionHide full description
Flight Sim Checklists keeps the cockpit flow in your hand while you fly on the sim. Pick your aircraft, work the checklist challenge-and-response style, and tap each line as it's called — no scrolling a PDF on a second monitor, no losing your place halfway down the approach. Built for desktop simmers who fly with a phone or tablet propped up next to the yoke. AIRCRAFT INCLUDED • Airbus A320 / A330 — 11 sections, Cockpit Preparation through Securing the Aircraft • Airbus A300 — 9 sections, Before Start through Securing Aircraft • Boeing 737 NG — 10 sections, Preflight through Secure 158 items in total, written in the ACTION → RESPONSE layout used on the flight deck, so what you read matches what you'd hear. RUN A CHECKLIST • Tap any line to check it off — it dims so your eye lands on what's left • Mark a whole section complete in one tap, or unmark it to run it again • Move between sections with buttons labelled with the actual next and previous section names • Haptic feedback on every check, with a distinct confirmation when a section completes SEE WHERE YOU ARE • A progress ring on each aircraft card shows how far through the flight you are • The section menu colour-codes every section: not started, in progress, or complete • Reopen an aircraft and it drops you straight back at the first section you haven't finished • Aircraft with a flight in progress sort to the top of the home screen • Reset a single section or the whole aircraft whenever you want a clean start • Progress clears itself after a day of inactivity, so the next flight never starts half-checked BUILT FOR iPHONE AND iPAD • iPad runs a two-column layout — section list on the left, live checklist on the right • iPhone keeps the checklist full-screen with the section list one tap away • Portrait and landscape, so it works flat on the desk or clipped to a stand • Dark mode, Dynamic Type, and full VoiceOver labelling on every item NO STRINGS • Works completely offline — every checklist ships inside the app • No account, no sign-in, no subscription • No ads, no analytics, no tracking, nothing collected about you For flight simulation and training-familiarisation use only. Not for use in real-world aviation. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Airbus, Boeing, Microsoft, or any aircraft manufacturer or simulator publisher. Always fly the real aircraft by its official, current documentation.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Sim Checklists at none against FMC TYPER's shown. FMC TYPER's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | FMC TYPER | Sim Checklists |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Daily | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SEUNGHA MOON | Leon Nwankwo |
In-app purchases
FMC TYPER
No in-app purchases
Sim Checklists
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is FMC TYPER free?
Is Sim Checklists free?
Do FMC TYPER or Sim Checklists have ads?
Other comparisons















