Alternatives to SkyDemon
VFR flight planning and GPS moving-map navigation software built around its own vector charts. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
SkyDemon
VFR flight planning and GPS moving-map navigation software built around its own vector charts.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as SkyDemon.
EasyVFR 4
A VFR flight planning and navigation app with a dynamic vector map, traffic and weather.
EasyVFR 4 is also VFR-only with a vector map, airspace activations and graphical NOTAMs, and it adds a free tier but limits desktop access to some plans.
ForeFlight
An electronic flight bag app for flight planning, aviation weather, charts and airport information.
ForeFlight combines planning, weather, charts and a logbook with optional Jeppesen charts and a web version, but its mobile app runs only on iPad and iPhone.
Garmin Pilot
Garmin's electronic flight bag app for pilots, with charts, IFR planning, aviation weather and dynamic mapping.
Garmin Pilot covers IFR planning, charts and aviation weather on Android and iOS with Synthetic Vision, works best alongside Garmin avionics and has no Windows version.
AvPlan EFB
An electronic flight bag for flight planning and moving-map navigation, focused on Australia and New Zealand.
AvPlan EFB offers VFR and IFR charts and flight plan filing on web, iOS and Android, but it focuses on Australian and New Zealand airspace rather than Europe.
FlyQ EFB
An electronic flight bag for flight planning, weather briefings and navigation with 3D and augmented reality views.
FlyQ EFB adds 3D and augmented reality views and fuel-price route planning, but it runs only on iOS and is aimed at North American pilots.
AvareX
An open-source aviation charts and navigation app, a Flutter rewrite of Avare.
AvareX is free and open source and runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, but it is a smaller project with few published feature details.
RocketRoute
A flight planning and filing platform with mobile apps for pilots and operators worldwide.
RocketRoute focuses on worldwide flight plan preparation and filing with approach plates, with much of it aimed at commercial operators and no desktop apps listed.
SkyVector
A free online flight planner built on aeronautical charts, with current weather and fuel prices.
SkyVector is a free browser planner with sectional and IFR charts, weather and fuel prices, but it is browser only and offers no in-flight moving map.
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.
Windy
An interactive animated weather map with wind, waves and radar forecasts from several forecast models.
Little Navmap
A free open-source flight planner, moving map and airport information tool for desktop flight simulators.
Flightradar24
A live flight tracker that shows aircraft positions around the world on a map.
