Alternatives to SkyVector
A free online flight planner built on aeronautical charts, with current weather and fuel prices. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
SkyVector
A free online flight planner built on aeronautical charts, with current weather and fuel prices.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as SkyVector.
ForeFlight
An electronic flight bag app for flight planning, aviation weather, charts and airport information.
ForeFlight adds weather, charts and a logbook in an iPad and iPhone app plus web access, but it requires a paid subscription instead of SkyVector's free browser planner.
Garmin Pilot
Garmin's electronic flight bag app for pilots, with charts, IFR planning, aviation weather and dynamic mapping.
Garmin Pilot moves planning to an Android or iOS app with IFR planning, weather and synthetic vision, and it is paid with close ties to Garmin avionics.
SkyDemon
VFR flight planning and GPS moving-map navigation software built around its own vector charts.
SkyDemon uses its own vector charts with in-flight airspace warnings on Windows, Android and iOS, but it covers VFR only and is paid after a trial.
EasyVFR 4
A VFR flight planning and navigation app with a dynamic vector map, traffic and weather.
EasyVFR 4 is a freemium Android and iOS app with a vector map, device connections and flight plan filing, but it is limited to VFR flying.
AvPlan EFB
An electronic flight bag for flight planning and moving-map navigation, focused on Australia and New Zealand.
AvPlan EFB is a paid app on web, iOS and Android focused on Australian and New Zealand airspace, with NAIPS filing and NOTAM access.
FlyQ EFB
An electronic flight bag for flight planning, weather briefings and navigation with 3D and augmented reality views.
FlyQ EFB is a paid iOS app aimed at North American pilots, adding 3D and augmented reality views, glide rings and wind and fuel-price route optimisation.
AvareX
An open-source aviation charts and navigation app, a Flutter rewrite of Avare.
AvareX is a free, open-source app for desktop, mobile and Raspberry Pi that works as an EFB in the cockpit, though it is a smaller project than SkyVector.
RocketRoute
A flight planning and filing platform with mobile apps for pilots and operators worldwide.
RocketRoute focuses on worldwide flight plan preparation and filing through Android and iOS apps, largely aimed at commercial operators, with pricing not published.
Also worth comparing
These listings name SkyVector as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Little Navmap
A free open-source flight planner, moving map and airport information tool for desktop flight simulators.
SkyVector is a free browser flight planner on real aeronautical charts with current weather, but it is not built around supported flight simulators and needs a connection.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Windy
An interactive animated weather map with wind, waves and radar forecasts from several forecast models.
Stratux
Free software that turns a Raspberry Pi with USB radios into a low-cost ADS-B receiver for pilots.
FlightAware
A live flight tracking map and flight status service for airline and private flights.
XCSoar
An open-source tactical glide computer with a moving map and flight navigation for glider and paraglider pilots.
ADS-B Exchange
A live web map of aircraft positions fed by a global community network of ADS-B receivers.
