DocuNet Viewer vs Airbus WIN
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DocuNet Viewer
Access flight operations manuals offline on your iPad. This app provides fast, intelligent searching, bookmarking, and filtering for your entire manual library, ensuring you always have the latest information from all manufacturers.
- Offline manual access
- Tabbed multi-document viewing
- Fast intelligent searching
- Bookmarking
- MSN/audience filtering
- Layered manuals
- Automatic updates
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For airlines using Vistair's acclaimed industry leading Flight Operations Technical Publications service, this is the iPad application that you can deploy to your crew to enable them to access their flight operations manuals offline. *This app requires your airline to have a DocuNet contract with Vistair to function in an operational environment* Functionality includes tabbed, multi-document viewing, fast intelligent searching across your manual library with highlighted results, bookmarking, MSN/audience filtering and Layers for applicable manuals and access to your latest manuals of all manufacturers including Boeing and Airbus from the Vistair technical publications service. Updates are delivered directly to your iPad. Simple to use and navigate, its quick access and elegant design gives you access to your manual library wherever you are. The Vistair DocuNet service includes the full back-end management of content to all devices in your fleet and visibility of update and revision status down to each device with full access control.
Airbus WIN
This application provides pilots and instructors with essential flight operations and training information directly from Airbus. Access videos, presentations, and articles, with the option to download content for offline viewing. Information is updated periodically and organized similarly to official flight manuals.
- Flight operations and training information
- Videos, presentations, and articles
- Downloadable content for offline access
- Search function for specific topics
- Periodic content updates
- Structured like flight operation manuals
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The objective of the Airbus Worlwide Instructor News application (Airbus WIN) is to provide Instructors, and largely speaking all pilots, with information from the Airbus Flight Operations and Training Standards department. The access is free, with no authentication. You will find videos, presentations, and articles that deal with flight operations and training topics that Airbus considers necessary to highlight. You can read media, or download them for a later consultation. Information is posted on a periodic basis and is maintained up to date. The information is displayed in a structure similar to the Airbus flight operations manuals (FCOM/FCTM). New information is highlighted in the main page, with links to the relevant media. You will also have the possibility to search for information on specific subjects, or relevant to a specific Airbus aircraft via the “search” function. Any suggestion on the content of the application is welcome. You have a dedicated “Suggestions” form for that. However, technical questions should always be submitted via “Tech Request” tool, the dedicated channel available for Airbus Operators. Finally, please always keep in mind that the operational documentation is the reference. Enjoy navigating through Airbus WIN and learning as much as you can to boost your flight operations and training standards!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Airbus WIN at 53% against DocuNet Viewer's 10%. Airbus WIN also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). DocuNet Viewer's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 10 months). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Airbus WIN holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 10% of DocuNet Viewer's written reviews are positive against 53% of Airbus WIN's.
DocuNet Viewer ships an update every 6 weeks, Airbus WIN every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DocuNet Viewer | Airbus WIN |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 9.8% of reviews | 52.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 166 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Vistair Systems Ltd | Airbus Group |
Customer experience
DocuNet Viewer
Airbus WIN
Bugs and requests
DocuNet Viewer
Reported bugs
33 issues- App freezes and locks up after making a selection or completing an action
- Selecting a search result loads a different page
- App crashes on M1/M2 Macs
- Highlights and bookmarks are difficult to differentiate
- App crashes instantly upon launch on Macbook
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- Freezes for 5+ seconds every time the app is opened or switched to
- App scrolls up and down by itself
- Update deleted all saved bookmarks
- App scrolls by itself
- Title pages disappear making it difficult to switch documents
- Automatic scrolling feature does not work
- Touch targets are too small and close to other functions
- Latest update does not work with iOS 14.2
- Cannot swipe left to right to change pages
- Navigation pane disappears in portrait mode
- Search results disappear when opening a new tab
- Page won't shrink to fit in landscape mode
- Directory/subdirectories tree is randomly on the top right
- Pinned panel and bar doesn't stay
- Search doesn't work properly or highlight correctly
- Audience filter drop down not wide enough
- Page fwd/back icons get in the way
- Library list opens on random page of document
- Update function is ridiculous
- Cannot login
- New iOS does not support this version
- No box for password on login screen
- Menu browser disappears after selecting an item
- AirPrint compresses text
- Cannot add new bookmarks
- Annotation system does not save the order of rearranged bookmarks
- Contextual menu disappears in portrait mode
- Pressing button to go back to library list works erratically
Requested features
7 requests- Dark mode overhaul
- Widget for favorites/bookmarks
- Ability to collapse side library
- Improve dark mode for pictures
- Update to support iPad Pro screen sizes
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- Update manuals when iPad is asleep
- Allow split screen function for iOS
Airbus WIN
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
DocuNet Viewer
No in-app purchases
Airbus WIN
No in-app purchases
Questions
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