Airmate vs Lufty
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Airmate
This app provides pilots with comprehensive flight planning tools, including weather forecasts, airport data, and navigation charts. It enhances situational awareness with a moving map, traffic displays, and terrain elevation views. Pilots can also file flight plans and record their flights.
- Flight planning and weather forecasts
- Airport data and aviation maps
- Moving map with aircraft location
- Traffic and terrain elevation display
- Flight plan filing and management
- Flight recording and replay
- ADS-B traffic and weather reception
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Airmate is a free and easy to use flight planning and weather app for pilots, improving situational awareness and providing instant access to airport data and aviation maps, up to date weather and NOTAMs, traffic around. IFR and VFR airport plates are freely available in US (FAA charts), Europe, and more than 200 other countries. Many of them are georeferenced and could be overlaid on the aviation chart. A powerful Plate Manager allows to download in advance all airport plates in a country, they could be easily printed and viewed. During the flight, the moving map will display the aircraft location along the route, show airports and aeronautical data details and traffic around, warn you if your planned route is crossing restricted areas. A profile view is available to display terrain elevation, crossed areas and forecasted weather across the route. Airmate can also display a backup aircraft attitude indicator and flight parameters in an EFIS-like view. In the whole world, Synthetic Vision displaying in the EFIS-like view the ups and downs of rolling terrain ahead is available. In selected countries, Airmate can display scenery if this option is purchased. Airmate includes a worldwide aeronautical database updated free of charge with airports, navigation beacons, waypoints, airways, obstacles, regulated and restricted areas. Topographic maps and elevation data for most countries may be downloaded free of charge, as well as additional aviation map overlays such US Sectionals. A procedure database provide details of departure (SID), arrival (STAR) and instrument approaches in the USA, and you could add those procedures to your planned flight route (the procedure database includes all US airports, we are workding to add airports in other countries). Once loaded, the procedure path is displayed on the aeronautical map, including curved paths and racetracks. When coupled with a supported external ADS-B received, Airmate will display nearby traffic on the moving map, and receive FIS-B weather and NOTAM during the flight. To improve safety, Airmate can display neighbouring traffic received over mobile network. Such traffic include commercial airlines and transponder-equiped aircrafts, FLARM gliders, aircrafts whose pilots are using Airmate and other users using other safety broadcasting equipment. Airmate is able to transmit the flight plan data to supported avionics such Dynon SkyView. Thanks to the Auto Route feature, you could search and select the best route for your flight, and then file your VFR or IFR flight plan. Once filed, your flight plan could easily be managed, delayed or cancelled. Airmate will also record your flights and allow to replay them later or export the flight path in gpx format, you could take pictures from the app during flights. Pilot log entries are automatically computed from flown flights. A Satellite map display mode in flight planning or replay mode allows to familiarize with significant landmarks. Airmate will save planned and flown flights, user waypoints and user aircrafts in the cloud and sync them between your devices and Airmate web flight planning. Airmate brings numerous social features to the community. Pilots may leave ratings, tips and comments to share their experience with fellow pilots, and report fuel prices and landing fees. They could find friends, instructors, flight schools, aviation events and aircraft to rent near their home airport or any visited airport. Airmate may be connected to most flight simulators to keep flying skills sharp, and will manage also AHRS and simulated traffic data transmitted by the flight simulator. Planned flights and personal waypoints may be imported and exported. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Lufty
This app provides offline in-flight navigation and planning tools for glider pilots. It offers task planning, numerous navigation instruments, and integration with logging devices and the gliding community. Enjoy a free trial before committing to a subscription.
- Offline maps and airspaces
- Intuitive task planning
- 29 navigation instruments
- WeGlide integration
- Bluetooth/Wi-Fi LXNAV integration
- Free 60-day trial
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Brand new in-flight navigation & planning app for glider pilots Lufty application was designed to help you chase your sporting goals as well as to keep you safe while flying. Lufty's main features: • Designed to work without any connection to the internet (airspaces, maps, terrain elevation model of 88 countries available for download) • Intuitive task planning • Ready for AAT, FAI, Racing tasks as well as just for flying for fun • 29 navigation instruments (everything you would expect from AAT's task Delta time to Final Glide instrument) • WeGlide integration for sharing your flights with the gliding community • Declaration to loggers ••• integrates via Bluetooth with LXNAV devices ••• integrates via Wi-Fi with LX navigation devices ••• more integrations coming very soon Terms of use: https://lufty.app/terms-of-use/ Privacy Policy: https://lufty.app/privacy-policy/ Lufty subscription: First 60 days are free of charge. In order to use Lufty you need to register in the app and select one of our subscription plans. First 60 days are free of charge. If you continue using the app after this period, you will be charged according to selected subscription plan. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Airmate at 75% against Lufty's 20%. Airmate also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.7) and ratings volume (545 vs 3). On price, update cadence, 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. Airmate sells 21 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per year and Lufty sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $34.99 per 6 months. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Airmate holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Airmate has 545 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Airmate's written reviews are positive against 20% of Lufty's.
Airmate ships an update every 6 weeks, Lufty every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Airmate | Lufty |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (545 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 545 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 220 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Myriel Aviation SA | Lufty.app |
Customer experience
Airmate
Lufty
In-app purchases
Airmate
- Airmate Premium$24.991 Year
- Photorealistic terrain display$47.991 Year
- Flight plan filing token$1.99
- Token for 1 year chart access$3.99
- Support Airmate development!$4.99
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- Argentina Center VFR 2022$4.99
- Chile North VFR chart 2022$4.99
- Chile Santiago VFR chart 2022$4.99
- Argentina/Chile South VFR 2022$4.99
- Support Airmate development!$8.99
- Chart download token$8.99
- Italy North Avioportolano 2022$11.99
- Support Airmate development!$17.99
- Airmate Pro version$22.99
- Tunisia VFR Air Million 2024$24.99
- Skyguide Swiss VFR Airport Plates (with one year updates)$36.99
- Airmate Dispatcher$44.99
- Avioportolano VFR Airfield Plates for Italy (one year subscription)$46.99
- Airport Plates premium browser$54.99
- UAE 2023 Rogers Data$79.99
- UAE 2025 Rogers Data$89.99
Lufty
- 6-Month Subscription2 Months trial$34.996 Months
- 12-Month Subscription2 Months trial$49.991 Year









