Alternatives to AvPlan EFB

An electronic flight bag for flight planning and moving-map navigation, focused on Australia and New Zealand. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

  • AvPlan EFB

    An electronic flight bag for flight planning and moving-map navigation, focused on Australia and New Zealand.

    PaidProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as AvPlan EFB.

  • ForeFlight

    An electronic flight bag app for flight planning, aviation weather, charts and airport information.

    PaidProprietaryiOSWeb

    ForeFlight offers planning, weather, charts and logbook with optional Jeppesen charts, but its mobile app is iPad and iPhone only, with no Android version.

  • Garmin Pilot

    Garmin's electronic flight bag app for pilots, with charts, IFR planning, aviation weather and dynamic mapping.

    PaidProprietaryAndroidiOS

    Garmin Pilot provides charts, IFR planning and aviation weather on Android and iOS with close Garmin avionics integration, but no web version and no free tier.

  • SkyDemon

    VFR flight planning and GPS moving-map navigation software built around its own vector charts.

    PaidProprietaryWindowsAndroidiOS

    SkyDemon covers VFR only, with in-house vector charts and graphical NOTAMs aimed at European pilots, and runs on Windows PCs as well as tablets and phones.

  • EasyVFR 4

    A VFR flight planning and navigation app with a dynamic vector map, traffic and weather.

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroidiOS

    EasyVFR 4 is VFR only with a free tier on Android and iOS, offering graphical NOTAMs, automatic mass and balance and flight plan filing.

  • AvareX

    An open-source aviation charts and navigation app, a Flutter rewrite of Avare.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinuxAndroidiOS

    AvareX is free and open source, running on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, but it is a smaller project with little published detail on features.

  • FlyQ EFB

    An electronic flight bag for flight planning, weather briefings and navigation with 3D and augmented reality views.

    PaidProprietaryiOS

    FlyQ EFB is an iPad-only paid app aimed at North American pilots, with weather-focused planning, 3D views and support for more than 20 ADS-B systems.

Also worth comparing

These listings name AvPlan EFB as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • RocketRoute

    A flight planning and filing platform with mobile apps for pilots and operators worldwide.

    PaidProprietaryAndroidiOS

    AvPlan EFB offers NAIPS flight plan filing and VFR and IFR charts on web, iOS and Android, but is aimed mainly at Australian and New Zealand airspace.

  • SkyVector

    A free online flight planner built on aeronautical charts, with current weather and fuel prices.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    AvPlan EFB is a paid app on web, iOS and Android focused on Australian and New Zealand airspace, with NAIPS filing and NOTAM access.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.

  • Stratux

    Free software that turns a Raspberry Pi with USB radios into a low-cost ADS-B receiver for pilots.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

  • Windy

    An interactive animated weather map with wind, waves and radar forecasts from several forecast models.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb