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Honest comparison.
No mudslinging.
We stack up against Logger, ForeFlight Logbook, LogTen, MyFlightbook, and Logbook Pro, axis by axis. Where we lose today, we say so — and we tell you what we're shipping next.
Where we lose today
- ·Airport detail (not breadth). We ship 84,000+ airports out of the box — more than Logger's 40k and competitive with anyone — but ForeFlight has years of hand-curated per-airport detail: taxi diagrams, FBO data, fuel pricing. Row count we have. Detail behind each row is on our roadmap. See credits for sources.
- ·Named airline-roster connectors. Some logbooks integrate directly with operator systems. We deliberately ship a generic CSV/XLS importer first — named connectors come later, scoped per request.
- ·EFB features. Charts, weather, route planning, briefing — not on our roadmap. Use a real EFB for that. We log what you flew; we're not trying to fly it for you.
- ·Years of polish. Logger and the older apps have had years to refine every screen. We're newer. We're closing the gap fast, but we won't pretend we've already done it.
See something missing? Tell us. The roadmap is shaped by what working pilots ask for.
Head to head
A note on Logger
Logger is the closest spiritual cousin we have in the market — also founder-led, also pilot-built, also genuinely good design. If you fly an iPhone-and-Mac flight deck and the only thing that matters is "best-looking iOS logbook today," Logger is a fair answer and we won't pretend otherwise.
We solve a different problem in three concrete ways:
- ✓Pricing math. Every figure in this bullet, ours included, is USD — a payback period is a division, and it only holds if both sides are in the same currency. The category bills by the year. LogTen Pro — the closest thing to a like-for-like professional logbook — is $129.99/yr; against our $199 USD once, you're ahead of it in about 18 months — and we never bill you again. APDL is $199.99/yr, so: one year. LogTen's Basic tier is $79.99/yr, about thirty months. ForeFlight's logbook rides inside an EFB subscription at $130 / $260 / $390 a year by plan — not a like-for-like comparison, because you're buying charts and briefing with it. And the candid worst case is Logger, the cheapest paid subscription we compared, at $29.99/yr: against that you're the best part of seven years in before you come out ahead. If you know you'll stop flying before then, Logger is the cheaper answer — we'd rather you heard that from us than worked it out after paying us.
- ✓Platform freedom. Logger is iPhone, iPad, Mac, and syncs through iCloud, so it lives on Apple devices. Aviator Archive is Windows and Linux now, Android and iOS in private testing, macOS in development. One license covers every platform we ship, so switching hardware ecosystems never means buying again.
- ✓Sync architecture. Logger relies on iCloud. We sync device-to-device over your local network with mTLS — no relay, no cloud round-trip, works in airplane mode on the hotel Wi‑Fi.
None of this makes Logger bad. It makes us different. Pick the tool whose tradeoffs match how you actually fly.
On these figures. Competitor prices verified 2026-09-24 and quoted in USD — as is our $199, because the payback periods above are arithmetic that only holds in a single currency. Buying from the EU, the UK, or Canada? The button at the foot of this page, and the purchase page, both show what you will actually be charged. We're also not the only one-time option in the market: Safelog sells a $999.99 lifetime licence, and Logbook Pro Desktop is a $99.95–$199.95 perpetual Windows licence, depending on edition; its iOS and Android companion apps are a separate subscription. Third-party pricing moves without notice; if any number here has gone stale, tell us and we'll correct it.
Where we win
- ✓You stop paying every month. $199 USD once, no subscription — no clock running in the background while you sleep.
- ✓Your data stays on your device. The whole logbook is one file you can copy, encrypt, hand to your spouse, or open with
sqlite3. - ✓Sync that works without a server. Phone-to-tablet over your hotel Wi-Fi when their cloud is having a Tuesday.
- ✓Every platform we ship. One license covers them all, including the ones still to come: Windows and Linux now, Android and iOS in private testing, macOS in development.
- ✓Honest support. A founder reads your email. Usually before lunch.
- ✓Capture from the flight deck. Photograph an ACARS OOOI page or the FMC/MCDU screen and your block times — with date and flight number — read straight into the flight, on-device. Mobile only: iOS and Android (in private testing); part of Pro.
Switching
Your history in. Your logbook out.
Bring your flights in from the spreadsheet or export you keep now — the importer matches the columns and shows you every row before it commits. Watch an import.
And when someone asks for your logbook on paper, the print-ready PDF (Pro) lays it out in your authority's page format, totals carried forward page to page.
Try it once. Own it forever.
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