DocuNet Viewer vs Flight Crew View
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.
Flight Crew View
This app provides pilots and flight attendants with real-time flight information, schedule management, and legal compliance tools. It also offers hotel details, weather forecasts, and crew chat features to enhance work life.
- Real-time flight information
- Flight schedule management
- Legal compliance calculations
- Hotel and local information
- Weather forecasts
- Crew chat messaging
- Offline schedule viewing
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Welcome to Flight Crew View, the essential companion for pilots and flight attendants. With over 40,000 crews currently using the app, this app simplifies your work life, putting everything you need right at your fingertips. Key Features: - Real-Time Flight Info: Stay up-to-date with real-time flight information, including inbound flights and NAS status alerts. Tap any flight number for instant EDCT lookup. - Flight Schedule Management: Effortlessly download and store your flight schedule from FLICA directly on your phone. Keep your schedule at your fingertips, even when offline. - Crew Assistant: Your personal Crew Assistant works 24/7, monitoring flight changes, highlighting vital data, and providing timely notifications. - Legal Compliance: US Part 117 calculations and Canadian flight/duty limits are at your fingertips. Monitor your legality with cumulative lookbacks, daily FDP duty-off times, and block limits. - Hotel Information: Access updated hotel details, amenities, and local restaurants, bars, and attractions, all curated by fellow crew members. Find a new amazing restaurant? Even you can add it to the list! - Weather Forecasts: Plan your layovers better with a 10-day weather forecast for each destination. - Mobile Accessibility: Save your schedule for offline viewing, refresh it with one touch, and set alarms directly from your report time. - Crew Chat: Stay connected with your friends and crew members through in-app messaging without giving up your phone number. - Airline Support: We currently support several airlines, including Air Wisconsin, Delta Air Lines, Endeavor Airlines, Frontier Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, Jazz, JetBlue, Mesa Airlines, Piedmont Airlines, PSA Airlines, Republic Airlines, Spirit Airlines, Virgin America, WestJet, and Westjet Encore. If your airline uses FLICA, you can give our app a try and provide feedback for potential support. More Features: Discover even more features, including tracking friends, airport information with maps/restaurants, KCM, crew discounts, and much more! Experience a seamless, organized, and connected work life with Flight Crew View. Join our community of aviation professionals today. We value your feedback; please reach out to us at support@flightcrewview.com with any questions or suggestions. PRICING $2.29/month $24.99/year Subscriptions will be billed and will automatically renew through your iTunes account unless you turn off auto-renew in your iTunes account at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can turn off auto-renewal at any time through your iTunes account settings. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during an active subscription period. Our Privacy Policy can be found at https://flightcrewview.com/?page_id=172 Use of this app is governed by the Terms and Conditions at https://flightcrewview.com/?page_id=253
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Flight Crew View at 72% against DocuNet Viewer's 7%. Flight Crew View also leads on rating (4.9 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (7.1K vs 4). DocuNet Viewer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Flight Crew View sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.29 per month. DocuNet Viewer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Flight Crew View holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flight Crew View has 7.1K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 7% of DocuNet Viewer's written reviews are positive against 72% of Flight Crew View's.
DocuNet Viewer ships an update every 6 weeks, Flight Crew View every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DocuNet Viewer | Flight Crew View |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (4 ratings) | 4.9 (7.1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 7.1% of reviews | 71.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 7.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Best chart rank | — | #113 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 166 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Vistair Systems Ltd | Flight Crew Apps, LLC |
Customer experience
DocuNet Viewer
Flight Crew View
User reviews
DocuNet Viewer
From 4 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Search and filter functions work well
- 👍 App works acceptably for iPad
Room to improve
- 🐛 Keeps crashing
- 🐛 Freezes and locks up
- 🐛 Very slow to open
- 🐛 Unresponsive and clunky
- 🐛 App crashes instantly upon launch on Macbook
Flight Crew View
From 7.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Convenient and user-friendly
- 👍 Comprehensive and informative
- 💡 Helpful features like crew chat and flight tracking
- 🚀 Responsive and frequently updated
- 👍 Indispensable tool for airline crew
Room to improve
- 💰 Expensive subscription
- 🐛 Inconsistent performance and bugs
- 🔄 Requires manual schedule refreshing
- 🚫 Incompatibility issues with some airlines
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
Flight Crew View
Reported bugs
3 issues- Frequent crashes and freezes
- Inaccurate or missing schedule information
- Syncing issues with airline scheduling apps
Requested features
4 requests- Automatic schedule updates and notifications
- Integration with more airline scheduling systems
- Improved crew management and communication tools
- Expanded hotel and layover information
In-app purchases
DocuNet Viewer
No in-app purchases
Flight Crew View
- Full Access1 Month trial$2.291 Month
- Full Access6 Months trial$24.991 Year
Questions
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