SAFE Toolkit vs Flight Test X20
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SAFE Toolkit
This app offers essential news and resources for Certified Flight Instructors (CFIs), including endorsement details, experience requirements, and test codes. It also provides flight test applicants with insights from Designated Pilot Examiners and features a weekly blog and industry news notifications for all pilots.
- CFI endorsements, experience requirements, test codes
- Flight test insights from DPEs
- Weekly SAFE blog
- Industry news push notifications
- Pilot resources
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SAFE Toolkit provides "go-to" news and resources for CFIs: (endorsements, experience requirements, and test codes), but also "Checkride Ready™ for flight test applicants (the inside story from DPEs). Pilots enjoy the SAFE blog every week and push notifications of industry news. Download and stay up to date; "We are here to help! ALl we "sell" is safety!"
Flight Test X20
Prepare for FAA knowledge tests with this comprehensive study platform. It offers top-off preparation for various pilot and aviation professional written exams, including instrument rating and ATP.
- FAA knowledge test preparation
- Pilot study course
- Dispatcher study course
- Instrument rating preparation
- Instructor written test prep
- ATP written test prep
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Flight Test X20 is Sheppard Air's latest student study course learning platform for FAA knowledge tests. It allows those students studying for pilot, dispatcher, instrument rating, instructor, flight engineer, ATP, and interviewee written tests to do their top-off preparation for the final knowledge test.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Flight Test X20 at none against SAFE Toolkit's shown. Flight Test X20 also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 7 months) and review sentiment (61% vs 38%). SAFE Toolkit's advantage is rating (4.2 vs 3.9) and device support (3 vs 1). On price 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SAFE Toolkit holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flight Test X20 has 93 ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 38% of SAFE Toolkit's written reviews are positive against 61% of Flight Test X20's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
SAFE Toolkit ships an update every 7 months, Flight Test X20 every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SAFE Toolkit | Flight Test X20 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (18 ratings) — better | 3.9 (93 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 37.5% of reviews | 61.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 18 | 93 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David St. George | Sheppard Air, Inc. |
Customer experience
SAFE Toolkit
Flight Test X20
In-app purchases
SAFE Toolkit
No in-app purchases
Flight Test X20
No in-app purchases
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