Flight Document System vs Challenge Turnaround
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flight Document System
This app provides a paperless solution for airlines and flight crews, allowing pilots to replace physical documents with electronic versions on their iPads. It supports various file types and offers features like document search, messaging, and offline access.
- Paperless document replacement
- Supports PDF, JPG, GIF, MP4, MOV
- Document search and favorites
- Admin messaging to crew
- Offline document access
- Night mode and full-screen view
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Paperless solution for Airlines and crew using EFB class 1, 2 (iPad). Flight Document System allows pilots to replace many paper documents to electronic. FDS Features: - admin can allow/disallow to update documents via cellular; - user can specify files to update primarily; - launch documents inside FDS; - tracking EFB locations; - admin can send messages to EFB; - add documents to favorites; - search; - supported files: PDF, JPG, GIF, MP4, MOV; - PDF-file’s bookmarks support; - full support for the Russian language; - several files simultaneous downloading; - night mode; - user can set up english interface for FDS; - Full-screen view for documents; - admin can allow/disallow for EFB-user to open the document in a third-party application (Send to...); - admin can allow/disallow for EFB-user to send the document via e-mail; - admin can allow/disallow for EFB-user to print the document; - ability to set own start up wallpaper for each customer.
Challenge Turnaround
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Challenge Turnaround enables your company to control, improve and collect data on your turnarounds. Guide your turnaround coordinators with an overview of current and future turnarounds. Get reminders and alerts to prevent oversights and enhance your turnaround performance. Make predictions to estimate time and delays. Get an online view to check progress of turnarounds online in any station. Export your data to Excel and to PDF for reporting. For more information: itproject.chh@challenge-group.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Challenge Turnaround at every 5 weeks against Flight Document System's every 6 months. Challenge Turnaround also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Flight Document System's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On price, 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.
Flight Document System ships an update every 6 months, Challenge Turnaround every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flight Document System | Challenge Turnaround |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EFB-Software, LLC | Challenge Group |
In-app purchases
Flight Document System
No in-app purchases
Challenge Turnaround
No in-app purchases
Questions
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