ForeFlight Mobile EFB Downloads & RevenueForeFlight Mobile EFB · App Store
ForeFlight Mobile EFB is #1 in Weather Grossing in India and charting in 14 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperForeFlight
CategoryWeather
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.4 (3.3k)
Version18.8.5
Age rating4+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)100k+ worldwide
ForeFlight Mobile EFB update history & changes
Last change · 31 events since 16 Dec 2009Full timeline ↓📈Entered the top 10✏️Added hidden keywords: atc, flightradar, charts✏️Added hidden keywords: weekly📈Entered the top 10📦Updated to version 18.8.5📦Updated to version 18.8🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 31 events
- 📈ForeFlight Mobile EFB entered the top 10Top Grossing · Weather · US
- ✏️ForeFlight Mobile EFB added hidden keywords: atc, flightradar, chartswords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️ForeFlight Mobile EFB added hidden keywords: weeklywords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈ForeFlight Mobile EFB entered the top 10Top Grossing · Weather · DE
- ✏️ForeFlight Mobile EFB added hidden keywords: predictwindwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈ForeFlight Mobile EFB entered the top 10Top Grossing · Weather · FR
- 📈ForeFlight Mobile EFB hit #1Top Grossing · Weather · CA
- ✏️ForeFlight Mobile EFB added hidden keywords: planewords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦ForeFlight Mobile EFB updated to version 18.8.5The 8th major release of the year has landed! Faster, smoother, more stable than ever — built to keep your flights on course. Thanks for flying with us.
- ✏️ForeFlight Mobile EFB added hidden keywords: insightswords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈ForeFlight Mobile EFB entered the top 10Top Grossing · Weather · ID
- ✏️ForeFlight Mobile EFB added hidden keywords: planwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦ForeFlight Mobile EFB updated to version 18.8The 8th major release of the year has landed! Faster, smoother, more stable than ever — built to keep your flights on course. Thanks for flying with us.
- 📈ForeFlight Mobile EFB entered the top 10Top Grossing · Weather · AE
- ✏️ForeFlight Mobile EFB added hidden keywords: airportwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈ForeFlight Mobile EFB entered the top 10Top Grossing · Weather · IT
- ✏️ForeFlight Mobile EFB added hidden keywords: xcweatherwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈ForeFlight Mobile EFB hit #1Top Grossing · Weather · SA
- 📈ForeFlight Mobile EFB entered the top 10Top Grossing · Weather · BR
- 📈ForeFlight Mobile EFB entered the top 100Top Grossing · Weather · IT
- 📈ForeFlight Mobile EFB entered the top 100Top Grossing · Weather · AU
- ✏️ForeFlight Mobile EFB added hidden keywords: realfeelwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️ForeFlight Mobile EFB added hidden keywords: airportwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈ForeFlight Mobile EFB entered the top 10Top Grossing · Weather · SA
- 📈ForeFlight Mobile EFB entered the top 100 in 4 chartsTop Free · Weather · AU · Top Grossing · Weather · DE · Top Free · Weather · FR · Top Grossing · Weather · JP
- 📈ForeFlight Mobile EFB charting in a new countryJapan
- 📈ForeFlight Mobile EFB entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Grossing · Weather · FR · Top Free · Weather · IT
- 📈ForeFlight Mobile EFB charting in a new countryItaly
- 🆕ForeFlight Mobile EFB first spotted by AppInsider#2 in Top Grossing · Weather · Canada
- 📦ForeFlight Mobile EFB version 18.7.5No release notes
- 🆕ForeFlight Mobile EFB released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.4 ★
3.3k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#1
Weather GrossingMeasured
New ratings a week
4.5
▲ +22% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
ForeFlight Mobile EFB at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-07. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
ForeFlight Mobile EFB is a comprehensive electronic flight bag application for VFR and IFR pilots, offering flight planning, weather briefing, charting, and logbook features. The app holds strong positions in the Weather category across multiple international markets, ranking #4 in Canada and #11 in the US by gross revenue, indicating high commercial value despite being free to download.
Similar apps: Garmin Pilot, Aviation Weather Center, SkyDemon
ForeFlight Mobile EFB on the App Store
App details
App ID
333252638
Publisher
ForeFlight, LLC
On the store since
Dec 2009
16 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 18.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad · Watch
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
3
EN FR DE
Size
621 MB
Also listed in
Navigation
App privacy Measured
ForeFlight Mobile EFB’s App Store privacy label declares 0 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 5 linked to your identity and 0 collected anonymously.
Used to track you
0
Linked to you
5
Not linked to you
0
Linked to your identity
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
ForeFlight Mobile EFB downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where ForeFlight Mobile EFB's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in ForeFlight Mobile EFB before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Not in an overall Top Grossing chart, only in category charts: each category position is converted to the overall position it corresponds to, then priced on the same rank-to-revenue curve, inside the part of each market the charted apps leave over.
Business model: Subscription-led
How ForeFlight Mobile EFB makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchases
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Starter US - 1 Year subscription | |
| 2 | Essential US - 1 Year subscription | |
| 3 | Basic Plus US - 3 months subscription | |
| 4 | Premium US - 1 Year subscription | |
| 5 | Premium US - 1 Year subscription | |
| 6 | Starter ME & SA - 1 Year subscription | |
| 7 | Starter CA - 1 Year subscription | |
| 8 | Starter EUR - 1 Year subscription | |
| 9 | Essential CA - 1 Year subscription | |
| 10 | Starter APAC - 1 Year subscription |
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| India | WeatherGrossing | #1 |
 United States | WeatherGrossing | #9 |
 Italy | WeatherGrossing | #3 |
 Japan | WeatherGrossing | #16 |
| Canada | WeatherGrossing | #5 |
 Saudi Arabia | WeatherGrossing | #5 |
| United States | WeatherFree | #43 |
 United Arab Emirates | WeatherGrossing | #6 |
 Brazil | WeatherGrossing | #18 |
 France | WeatherGrossing | #27 |
 South Korea | WeatherGrossing | #64 |
| South Korea | WeatherFree | #70 |
| India | WeatherFree | #55 |
| Canada | WeatherFree | #66 |
 United Kingdom | WeatherFree | #158 |
 Indonesia | WeatherGrossing | #51 |
| Brazil | WeatherFree | #94 |
 Germany | WeatherFree | #168 |
| France | WeatherFree | #139 |
| Italy | WeatherFree | #113 |
 Australia | WeatherFree | #174 |
| United Arab Emirates | WeatherFree | #106 |
Apps near ForeFlight Mobile EFB on the chart
Weather Grossing, around #1.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.4 ★
3.3k ratings
Measured
Ratings
3.3k
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
4.5
▲ +22% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
1.2
US App Store
Lifetime rating
4.4★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
73/100
faster than 83% of Weather apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about ForeFlight Mobile EFB
From the 57 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users report a significant decline in app performance and reliability following the private equity acquisition, citing increased bugs, lag, and removed features. There is widespread anger over aggressive price hikes, reduced subscription discounts, and perceived degradation of customer support.
Mixed (26% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being useful, and good value. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and recent updates.
What people like
- Useful: “It’s a great app and has been super helpful”
- Price & subscription: “So I don’t pay the real fee on my iPhone but I’m going to do the trial”
- Customer support: “Excellent customer support”
- Login & account: “Was having trouble changing my email and password due to some personal memory issues”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “Was good, now just a waste of money”
- Updates: “I’ve been trying to download updates FOR”
- Speed & performance: “ForeFlight is definitely going downhill fast”
- Features & content: “When will the option open up?”
About ForeFlight Mobile EFB
Download for a 30-day free trial of our top subscription plan! Visit our website for more information on available plans and add-ons.
ForeFlight is the leading flight app for VFR and IFR pilots everywhere, making flight planning and flying easier, safer, and more enjoyable.
FLIGHT PLANNING, BRIEFING, & FILING
Plan flights with Touch Planning on the Map or full-featured form-based Flights view. Tap out a route in seconds and quickly see if flights will be affected by weather or TFRs. Helpful Route, Altitude, and Procedure Advisors make planning easy and accurate. Generate a graphical preflight briefing and file your flight plan directly from the app. Print a professional-grade Navlog for inflight reference.
WEATHER
Interactive weather layers include animated radar, global satellite and winds aloft, global icing, turbulence, and surface analysis, graphical AIR/SIGMETs, flight category, visibility, and more. View decoded METARs, TAFs, and MOS forecasts. Thoughtfully organized Imagery view puts a full range of forecast tools at your fingertips.
PLATES, CHARTS, & MAPS
Both VFR and IFR operations are covered with all of the essentials required for planning and navigation: data-driven Aeronautical Maps, VFR Sectionals, High/Low Enroute charts, SIDs, STARs, approach and taxi charts, and terrain, satellite, and street map views.
GEO-REFERENCED APPROACHES & TAXI CHARTS
Plates and taxi charts enable the real time display of your GPS location on the chart. They can also be overlaid on the Maps view along with weather and hazards for the ultimate situational awareness.
GLOBAL HAZARD AWARENESS TECHNOLOGY
Plan and fly with more confidence in all conditions and terrain. Top-down-view Hazard Advisor map layer, Terrain Profile View, and 3D Synthetic Vision seamlessly integrate into the map display to depict a clear picture of terrain and obstacle hazards anywhere in the world. When paired with an AHRS source, Synthetic Vision provides a backup attitude display.
LOGBOOK
Logbook makes it easy to log and share flights, track hours, review currency, record certificates and ratings, receive electronic instructor endorsements, and create experience reports. Your data is automatically synced across all your devices and protected in secure cloud storage.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES INCLUDE:
Built-in documents catalog with FAR/AIM, charts supplements, and more
Airport, FBO, and fuel price information for thousands of locations
Dynamic data-driven Aeronautical Maps
Weight & Balance
Glide Advisor
Automatic chart and data data updates
Chart color inversion for better night flying experience
Access to web planner
ForeFlight is the leading flight app for VFR and IFR pilots everywhere, making flight planning and flying easier, safer, and more enjoyable.
FLIGHT PLANNING, BRIEFING, & FILING
Plan flights with Touch Planning on the Map or full-featured form-based Flights view. Tap out a route in seconds and quickly see if flights will be affected by weather or TFRs. Helpful Route, Altitude, and Procedure Advisors make planning easy and accurate. Generate a graphical preflight briefing and file your flight plan directly from the app. Print a professional-grade Navlog for inflight reference.
WEATHER
Interactive weather layers include animated radar, global satellite and winds aloft, global icing, turbulence, and surface analysis, graphical AIR/SIGMETs, flight category, visibility, and more. View decoded METARs, TAFs, and MOS forecasts. Thoughtfully organized Imagery view puts a full range of forecast tools at your fingertips.
PLATES, CHARTS, & MAPS
Both VFR and IFR operations are covered with all of the essentials required for planning and navigation: data-driven Aeronautical Maps, VFR Sectionals, High/Low Enroute charts, SIDs, STARs, approach and taxi charts, and terrain, satellite, and street map views.
GEO-REFERENCED APPROACHES & TAXI CHARTS
Plates and taxi charts enable the real time display of your GPS location on the chart. They can also be overlaid on the Maps view along with weather and hazards for the ultimate situational awareness.
GLOBAL HAZARD AWARENESS TECHNOLOGY
Plan and fly with more confidence in all conditions and terrain. Top-down-view Hazard Advisor map layer, Terrain Profile View, and 3D Synthetic Vision seamlessly integrate into the map display to depict a clear picture of terrain and obstacle hazards anywhere in the world. When paired with an AHRS source, Synthetic Vision provides a backup attitude display.
LOGBOOK
Logbook makes it easy to log and share flights, track hours, review currency, record certificates and ratings, receive electronic instructor endorsements, and create experience reports. Your data is automatically synced across all your devices and protected in secure cloud storage.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES INCLUDE:
Built-in documents catalog with FAR/AIM, charts supplements, and more
Airport, FBO, and fuel price information for thousands of locations
Dynamic data-driven Aeronautical Maps
Weight & Balance
Glide Advisor
Automatic chart and data data updates
Chart color inversion for better night flying experience
Access to web planner
Latest updates
18.8.5
The 8th major release of the year has landed! Faster, smoother, more stable than ever — built to keep your flights on course. Thanks for flying with us.
18.8
The 8th major release of the year has landed! Faster, smoother, more stable than ever — built to keep your flights on course. Thanks for flying with us.
18.7.5
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