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Yes, and the free tier is deliberately substantial. The entire training suite is free — 938 practice questions across 8 certificate tracks from Sport through ATP, mock written exams, weak-area drills, 616 flashcards, and the DPE gouge.
So is the whole logbook — including GPS flight tracking, track replay, 61.109 progress and CSV import — every weather chart, and core METARs, TAFs, flight rules, winds and runway crosswinds. No trial clock on any of that.
Pro covers the interpretation and planning layer: the plain-English briefing and the full Go / No-Go verdict, route briefing with nav log and winds aloft, the XC Wizard, weight & balance with CG envelope and performance, the SIGMET/AIRMET alert feed, NOTAMs and PIREPs, preflight monitoring, forecast timeline and departure windows, personal-minimums alerts, kneeboard, briefing history and PDF export.
Pricing is set in the App Store and varies by country. There's a free trial, and you can see current pricing on the paywall inside the app.
No. SkyBrief is a supplemental planning aid. Always obtain an official weather briefing from an approved source — 1800wxbrief.com or Flight Service — before every flight.
SkyBrief does not file flight plans, and it is not the source of record for NOTAMs or TFRs. Treat it as a faster way to understand the picture, not as the legal briefing.
METARs, TAFs, PIREPs, AIRMETs, SIGMETs and chart imagery come from aviationweather.gov, the public API operated by NOAA and the National Weather Service.
The app has a Data Sources screen listing every feed and how current each one is, so you can check what you're looking at rather than take our word for it.
It is not a language model. A rule-based engine runs entirely on your device, applying published aviation weather thresholds — flight-rule categories, wind and crosswind limits, icing and convective criteria — to the raw observations, then explaining what it found.
Because the logic is deterministic, the same weather always produces the same call, and every conclusion traces back to a specific rule and a specific report. Nothing is invented, and interpreting your flight data is never outsourced to a third-party service. For a safety-critical decision we think that's worth more than fluent prose.
Partly, and the split is what you'd expect. Fetching current weather needs a connection.
Everything stored on your device stays available offline: personal minimums, saved aircraft and W&B profiles, your logbook, checklists, and the entire training and checkride-prep library — that content is bundled with the app rather than streamed, so it works in a hangar with no signal.
Not yet. SkyBrief is iOS only today, on iPhone and iPad. If you want Android, say so at skybrief.app@gmail.com — demand is how it gets prioritized.
SkyBrief is built around US airspace and FAA rules today. The airport database, regulatory content, currency rules and checkride question banks are US-focused, and the weather feeds are NOAA.
You can download it anywhere, but if you fly under another authority, expect US-centric content for now.
Common GA types ship with built-in profiles — the Cessna 150/152/172 family, Piper PA-28 variants, and others including the DA20, DA40 and SR20.
You can also build custom aircraft with your own empty weight, arm and CG envelope straight from your POH, which is what most renters end up doing for their specific tail number.
No, and it isn't trying to be. SkyBrief has no moving map, no in-flight georeferenced charts, no ADS-B integration, and no flight plan filing.
It's a preflight decision and training tool at a fraction of a full EFB's price. Plenty of users run both — and if you're a student who doesn't yet need a moving map, it covers the parts you actually use. There's a longer comparison here.
Yes. Independent instructors get Pro free while they have at least one registered student, including the student roster, dispatch review, lesson assignment and endorsement tools.
If you're a school rather than an individual instructor, see SkyBrief for flight schools.
Subscriptions are billed by Apple, so cancel in your App Store account settings under Subscriptions — we can't cancel it for you from our side.
Cancelling stops the renewal. Pro stays active until the end of the period you already paid for.
From Settings inside the app. Deleting removes your account and the profile data associated with it. Data stored only on your device is removed when you delete the app.
If you'd rather we handle it, email skybrief.app@gmail.com from the address on the account.
No — we don't sell personal information for money, and we never sell your flight or weather activity.
We do use Meta and TikTok advertising SDKs to measure whether our ads work. Under some US state privacy laws, sharing advertising identifiers for that purpose can be treated as a "sale" or "share," so we'd rather say it plainly than hide behind the word. Declining the App Tracking Transparency prompt stops the advertising identifier from being shared, and nothing in the app stops working if you do.
The privacy policy lists every data flow, who receives it, and how to opt out.