How Sky Duty Compares

Aviation software splits into three rough categories. EFBs handle charts, approach plates, weather, and flight planning — that's ForeFlight's territory, and they're very good at it. Logbooks handle career hour tracking with airline integrations and currency calculations — LogTen Pro and MyFlightbook live in that lane. Operations platforms handle the day-to-day work of running aircraft: who's flying which tail, when the next inspection is due, what the trip cost, who has the keys this weekend. Sky Duty is in the third category.

That means Sky Duty includes a logbook, but the logbook is one capability among many. The product is built around scheduling, the digital logbook, maintenance tracking, expenses, fleet, and crew — the loop a flight department actually operates on. We don't replace your charts app and we're not trying to. Plenty of Part 91 and charter operators run ForeFlight on the iPad for charts and Sky Duty for everything else, and that combination works well because the two apps solve different problems.

Read the matrix below as a category map first, then a feature-by-feature comparison second. If you're looking at this page wondering whether Sky Duty is "another logbook," the matrix should make clear it isn't.

Use ForeFlight when you need IFR charts, approach plates, advanced weather layers, and full flight planning. ForeFlight is the right answer for the pilot-in-the-cockpit job: navigation, briefing, situational awareness in the air. The ForeFlight comparison walks through where the two apps overlap and where they don't — most operators run them side-by-side rather than pick one.

Use a dedicated logbook when career hour tracking is the entire job. Airline pilots with deep schedule integration needs and an Apple Watch in the rotation tend to be best served by LogTen Pro's feature depth. Pilots looking for free, cross-platform logging with a long history of community use often pick MyFlightbook. Both are solid in their lane. See the LogTen Pro comparison and the MyFlightbook comparison for the specifics on what each handles better than Sky Duty and where the tradeoffs sit.

Use Sky Duty when you operate aircraft in a department context — Part 91, charter, or owner-flown with one to ten tails. You want scheduling, multi-leg trips, crew assignment, maintenance against Hobbs and tach, expense tracking with receipt scanning, custom form templates, and a logbook that talks to all of it. You want it offline-first because cell coverage at most GA fields is a coin flip. That's the workflow Sky Duty was built around.

Sky Duty is priced per aircraft, which is the right unit when you're running a fleet. A single tail at $39 per month gets the full feature set with unlimited users on that aircraft — pilots, owners, dispatchers, and mechanics share access without paying per seat. Adding a second tail scales the price predictably per aircraft, with no separate accounting tier or per-user surcharge to track.

That model is unusual in aviation software, but it's honest for departments where the workload scales with airframes, not employees. See the pricing page for current tiers and what's included. The matrix above shows what's in scope versus out of scope at any tier — there are no hidden "Pro" gates on the features the comparison covers. For the broader picture of what ships in the app, all features lays it out by capability.