WinBid Schedule vs mechcounter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WinBid Schedule
This app helps airline crews organize their schedules and trips. It allows for downloading and managing flight pairings, logging flight hours, and generating reports. It supports specific airlines and offers features for personalizing trip details and themes.
- Schedule and trip organization
- Download entire line and pairing packages
- Save crew names, notes, and details
- Filter pairings by parameters
- Legal logbook with recency totals
- Import logbook and pairings
- Print and email formatted pairings
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WinBid Schedule is the all-around schedule and trip organizer for airline crews. It is the iPad equivalent to WinBid Schedule for Windows. ** Supports ONLY the following airlines **: - AA Pilots and flight attendants - all crew bases, aircraft - Contact developer to add your airline • Pairing times are in crew base local time. No need to calculate timezones • Download entire line and pairing packages for your aircraft and crew base in seconds • Select a line as your own awarded line and pairings, where crew names, notes, departure/arrival gates and passenger loads can be permanently saved • Browse lines and pairings • Filter pairings that match your parameters • Logbook feature to maintain a legal logbook with instant totals for recency (including FAR 117 reporting) • Seed logbook legs with your pairings (only make minor changes for actual time etc.) • Import logbook from Little Red Book from WinBid (Windows) • Import personal and split pairings from WinBid (Mac/Windows) • Easy setup – nothing else needed (stand-alone, WinBid desktop not required) • Scheduled pairings shared with WinBid Mac, WinBid 8 for Windows, WinBid Pairings 2 for iPhone, and WinBid Schedule (Mac and Windows) • Logbook shared with WinBid Pairings 2, WinBid Logbook on Mac as well as WinBid Logbook iPhone, and Windows • No charge for monthly downloads. No recurring fees. • Print fully formatted color pairings • Send pairings in email as fully formatted color attachments • Personal color theme selection • Personal calendar event color options • Prepares trip and monthly FFDO activity reports
mechcounter
Track flights in real-time with detailed information including remaining time, flight plans, and landing estimates. View your aircraft's position on a map with altitude and speed data.
- Real-time flight tracking
- Flight plan display
- Landing time estimates
- Altitude and ground speed
- Map view of aircraft position
- Origin and destination times
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See the time remaining, flight plan (when available), landing time, altitude, ground speed, times at origin and destination, and your plane on a map.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: mechcounter at Free against WinBid Schedule's $29.99. mechcounter also leads on update cadence (every 11 days vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (11 vs 2). WinBid Schedule's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). On review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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
mechcounter is free to download; WinBid Schedule costs $29.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
WinBid Schedule holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: mechcounter has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
WinBid Schedule ships an update every 6 weeks, mechcounter every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WinBid Schedule | mechcounter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $29.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.5 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SafiSoft | Jeffrey REISBERG |
Customer experience
WinBid Schedule
mechcounter
In-app purchases
WinBid Schedule
No in-app purchases
mechcounter
No in-app purchases
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