LogTen Pro alternative

LogTen is a powerful, Apple-only logbook, and power users tailor it to a fine edge. This is the opposite bet: run anywhere, handle more than one authority out of the box, and let you own it outright. If you’d rather your logbook just worked on a laptop and a phone than spend a weekend configuring one, this is the trade for you — here’s where the difference lands.

Every device, nothing to install

Your logbook opens in a browser, so the work laptop that runs Windows, the shared computer at the flying club, the Android phone in your pocket — each shows the same logbook, because there’s nothing to install and nothing tied to one platform. A native Apple app keeps everything on one device; a logbook you can reach from any of them is the one you’ll actually keep up to date.

Currency that already knows the rulebook

Being legal under the FAA tells you nothing certain about EASA, and a passenger-currency window under one authority isn’t the same window under another. This tracks currency and rolling flight-time limits — the last 28, 90 and 365 days under CARs, FAR 117 and ORO.FTL — for each authority you fly, from one set of flights, and turns a window amber before it lapses rather than after. The regimes arrive already built; you don’t spend an evening wiring them up.

Print in your regulator’s column layout

When you need it on paper, export a PDF in the arrangement the authority in front of you expects: the FAA layout, the EASA standard column order from AMC1 FCL.050, or the Transport Canada layout — the same underlying flights, laid out the way an examiner reads without translating. It’s a formatting convenience for handover, not a certified filing, and it covers several frameworks so you aren’t keeping a second tool for the odd authority out.

An import that proves itself first

Most apps import your history and ask you to trust it worked. This one reconciles before it saves. Point it at your LogTen export, a spreadsheet, a CSV or an Apple Numbers file — headers in another language included — and it maps the columns, then checks its totals against the ones you already keep: total time, PIC, night, approaches. If a figure is off by an hour, you see it before anything is committed, not three months later when a form disagrees with you.

Own it, don’t rent it

A logbook is a record you’ll want for forty years, and one that stops opening the month a payment lapses is a strange thing to trust with a career. So there’s a way to own it: free to your first 100 flights, then $4.99 a month or $49 a year if you’d rather pay as you go — or $249 once, and you never see a bill again. Export the whole logbook anytime, in a format another app can read; coming or going, nothing is stranded.

Where LogTen still wins

Two things, said plainly: if you’re all-Apple and want to tailor every field and calculation to the last detail, LogTen goes deeper than this does; and its import reads an airline crew-scheduling feed directly, which a spreadsheet-based import can’t. If your roster arrives that way, that alone can decide it. Everywhere else — devices, multiple authorities, price, setup — the trade runs the other way.