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Garmin Pilot is #10 in Weather Grossing in Brazil and charting in 8 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Full timeline · 25 events
- 📦Garmin Pilot updated to version 26.10.1- Added support for the MARQ 3 watch
- Resolved watch connection issues - ✏️Garmin Pilot added hidden keywords: efbwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Garmin Pilot entered the top 10Top Grossing · Weather · CA
- 📈Garmin Pilot hit #1Top Grossing · Weather · ID
- 📦Garmin Pilot updated to version 26.10.0- Enhanced U.S. Radar
- Expanded Radar Coverage for Canada and Japan
- New! Mexico Radar Coverage
- New! Forecast Cloud Coverage
- Flights Page Enhancements - 📈Garmin Pilot entered the top 10Top Grossing · Weather · FR
- 📈Garmin Pilot entered the top 10Top Grossing · Weather · IT
- ✏️Garmin Pilot added hidden keywords: efbwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Garmin Pilot entered the top 100Top Free · Weather · KR
- 📈Garmin Pilot entered the top 10Top Grossing · Weather · AU
- 📈Garmin Pilot entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Grossing · Weather · AU · Top Grossing · Weather · FR
- 📈Garmin Pilot entered the top 100Top Free · Weather · ID
- 📈Garmin Pilot entered the top 100Top Free · Weather · IN
- 📦Garmin Pilot updated to version 26.9.0- Improved fuel and speed calculations for flight planning accuracy
- Resolved latency issues encountered when filing flight plans through Leidos
- Fixed an issue that may result in excessive data usage
- Restored Direct-To from the Stratux and GDL 90 compatible devices
- Addressed several Clearance Delivery issues
- Restored access to Guided Visual charts for users with an active database subscription
- Fixed issues with the altitude selector
- Continued improvements to Database Concierge… more - 📈Garmin Pilot entered the top 10Top Grossing · Weather · KR
- 📈Garmin Pilot entered the top 10Top Grossing · Weather · IN
- 📈Garmin Pilot charting in a new country in 2 chartsAustralia · Italy
- 📈Garmin Pilot entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Grossing · Weather · DE · Top Free · Weather · SA
- 📈Garmin Pilot entered the top 10Top Grossing · Weather · ID
- 📈Garmin Pilot entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Free · Weather · BR · Top Grossing · Weather · CA
- 📈Garmin Pilot charting in a new countryGermany
- 🆕Garmin Pilot first spotted by AppInsider#44 in Top Grossing · Weather · United States
- 📦Garmin Pilot version 26.8.0No release notes
- 🆕Garmin Pilot: its developer released another app: Garmin AXIS Trainer
- 🆕Garmin Pilot released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Garmin Pilot at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-10-28. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Garmin Pilot is a free-to-download flight planning and navigation suite for general aviation and corporate pilots, offering integrated weather briefing, charting, and electronic logbook capabilities. The app holds the #1 spot in Weather Grossing on the Indonesian App Store and ranks within the top 50 in several other major markets including Brazil, Australia, and the US.
Similar apps: ForeFlight, Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro, Aviator's Guide
Garmin Pilot on the App Store
App details
Garmin Pilot downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Garmin Pilot'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.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| WeatherGrossing | #10 | |
| WeatherGrossing | #60 | |
| WeatherGrossing | #44 | |
| WeatherFree | #178 | |
| WeatherGrossing | #68 | |
| WeatherGrossing | #71 | |
| WeatherFree | #77 | |
| WeatherGrossing | #70 | |
| WeatherGrossing | #97 | |
| WeatherGrossing | #92 | |
| WeatherFree | #126 | |
| WeatherFree | #86 |
Apps near Garmin Pilot on the chart
Weather Grossing, around #10.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview 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 Garmin Pilot
From the 55 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users report significant instability, including frequent crashes, freezing during flight, and slow map loading that compromises safety. While some praise the integration with Garmin avionics and pricing, many are reverting to ForeFlight due to broken features like logbook syncing, database concierge errors, and poor user interface design.
Mixed (45% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and being easy to use. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and missing features or content. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Features & content: “The features are fantastic”
- Ease of use: “It’s easy to use and helps simplify flying in coordination with the built-in Garmin avionics”
- Price & subscription: “Plus the Garmin GDL anything is expensive”
- Speed & performance: “I came up with a lot of slow loading”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “In—app purchase is broken”
- Features & content: “These aren’t requests for fancy new features”
- Price & subscription: “I’m going to ask for my money back”
- Updates: “If you still have the “trip planning” page do not update”
About Garmin Pilot
Plan. File. Fly. Log.
Garmin Pilot is the most comprehensive suite of tools for the iPad designed specifically for general aviation and corporate pilots. Flight planning, charts, interactive maps, weather briefing resources and navigation capabilities; it’s all included. The app’s intuitive interface mirrors those on the newest Garmin touchscreen avionics so you can go seamlessly from preflight to inflight.
Plan
Garmin Pilot’s powerful capabilities start with pre-flight planning, providing pilots with the most comprehensive aviation weather information to make better-informed flight decisions. Pilots can check NEXRAD radar, visible and infrared cloud imagery, METARs, TAFs, AIRMETs, SIGMETs, PIREPs, NOTAMs, winds and temperature aloft, TFRs and lightning data. With Garmin Pilot, data can be displayed over Garmin’s interactive maps that support track-up navigation, VFR sectional or an IFR low or high en-route chart to visualize the weather for your route. Add text-based weather widgets and use the exclusive NavTrack feature to view weather along the planned route.
File
With Garmin Pilot, users can easily enter a flight plan and interactively edit it on the map. Pre-loaded forms make it quick to save and reuse data for frequently flown routes. And when the flight plan is ready, Garmin Pilot makes it simple to file, amend or close the flight plan via Leidos Flight Service or DUATS.
Fly
Garmin Pilot provides full en-route navigation capability on its moving map. Pilots can also navigate with Garmin’s patented panel, a GPS-driven instrument pack with a graphical HSI directional display and indicators for groundspeed, altitude and vertical speed. After takeoff, pilots can continue to view real-time weather in the U.S. and traffic information by wirelessly connecting to Garmin’s GDL 50 series portable ADS-B Receiver (sold separately).
Log
Garmin Pilot includes a comprehensive electronic logbook that syncs with flyGarmin. The logbook automatically generates entries based upon GPS data collected during the flight, tracks currency, supports manual entries, endorsements and creates reports.
Garmin Pilot U.S. Standard:
- Rich, interactive maps support Track-Up navigation
- Charts: VFR Sectionals, low and high IFR en-route, airport diagrams and approach procedures
- Ability to view Jeppesen Terminal Charts (Jeppesen echart subscription required)
- Weather Maps: Animated radar, Infrared and Visible Satellite, AIRMETs, SIGMETs, Lightning, TFRs and more!
- Extensive text products: METARs, TAFs, Winds Aloft, PIREPs, AIRMETs, SIGMETs, Area Forecasts and NOTAMs
- AOPA Airport Directory
- Weight and Balance
- Checklists
- Flight plan filing via Leidos Flight Services
- Garmin patented navigation panel
- Terrain and Obstacles
- Smart Airspace
- Fast Find predictive Waypoint Entry
- Logbook
- Optional VFR Premium: Synthetic Vision (SVX), Terrain and obstacle alerting, and Garmin SafeTaxi®
- Option
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