Pilot EFB Desk puts weather, NOTAMs, flight time limits and your logbook on one screen, then builds on them: an Ops Map workbench, a Watch Desk that checks your rules for you, a severity-ranked NOTAM board, a spreadsheet-grade logbook editor, a roster board, wall displays and a keyboard command deck. Nothing capped, nothing to install.
A subscription of its own, separate from the App Store. One pilot, billed through Stripe. Crew rooms and flight departments are priced separately, with a demo first.
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Ops Map. A pasted route, its corridor and every field's NOTAMs on it.
Every frame on this page is a real capture of the web edition, in the light or dark appearance you pick.
Pro, then more
Seven things the phone does not have
Every module Pilot EFB Pro unlocks on the phone runs in Desk with nothing capped: weather, NOTAMs, the duty engine, the logbook, flight folders, every calculator. Beyond that, the web edition adds the surfaces below, none of which exist on iOS. They are the reason Desk is a product of its own, and the reason it costs more. The phone is for the day; the desk is for before and after.
Sign in with the account you use on the phone. With Cloud Sync on, a duty logged in the crew room is on the desk when you sit down, and a correction made at the desk is on the phone when you leave.
Separate subscription
Pilot EFB Pro on iOS and Pilot EFB Desk on the web are two purchases. Subscribing on iPhone or iPad does not unlock the browser, and a Desk subscription does not touch your App Store billing.
Same rules
Raw text first, sources and fetch times on every panel, "No data available" instead of a blank, and the same verbatim disclaimers. Desk changes the layout, never the rules.
One chart, every layer, and a time cursor they all obey
The Ops Map is the reason most pilots open Desk. A route engine that understands fixes and airways, a stack of weather, hazard, NOTAM, traffic and terminal layers you can switch on together, and one scrubber that moves all of them through time. Below, one pasted route, KJFK RBV Q430 SAAME J6 HVQ Q68 YOCKY GROAT PASLY5 KBNA, on the same workbench with different postures switched on, captured from the web edition.
Every frame on this page follows the switch.
Paste an airway route and the workbench draws it
KJFK RBV Q430 SAAME J6 HVQ Q68 YOCKY GROAT PASLY5 KBNA, pasted as filed. The engine resolves every fix, walks each airway from its entry to its exit and labels it, plots the arrival procedure's terminal fix and says plainly that the procedure itself is not expanded. A 100 nautical mile corridor then filters every layer to the route, so the NOTAM pills you see are the fields that matter to this flight.
Layers on in this capture
Route line
Fix labels
Alternates
NOTAMs
Station plots
100 nm corridor
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The departure field, with what is closed drawn on the pavement
Zoom to the departure and the NOTAM layer stops counting and starts drawing: the closed taxiways and runway segments at KJFK are hatched on the airport layout from the NOTAMs themselves, each with a strip-pinned chip reading what is closed, re-read against the time cursor. The station card opens beside it with the METAR, the runways and the ILS frequencies.
Layers on in this capture
Route line
Fix labels
Alternates
NOTAMs
Station plots
Day/night
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The airway picture, scoped to the corridor
The "Enroute hazards" posture: SIGMET, CWA and G-AIRMET polygons, PIREPs and ash or tropical-cyclone advisories, filtered to the corridor along the route so off-route noise drops away. Every advisory carries its vertical limits and its source; the map states when nothing is published rather than reading as clear.
Layers on in this capture
Route line
Fix labels
Alternates
Station plots
PIREPs
SIGMET / CWA / G-AIRMET
Ash / tropical cyclone
100 nm corridor
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The route from the side, surface to FL450
Dock the vertical cross-section and the route is drawn from the side: terrain bands from the model cells, the winds and ISA-deviation lattice at every level, shaded SIGWX areas labelled with their type and levels, the tropopause, and the advisory boxes the route crosses. Hover any point to read it out, and the source and fetch time of every band are written on the panel.
Layers on in this capture
Route line
Fix labels
Alternates
Vertical cross-section
Winds aloft
PIREPs
SIGMET / CWA / G-AIRMET
Ash / tropical cyclone
100 nm corridor
Winds at FL300
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Satellite, radar, winds and pressure on one clock
Satellite imagery, precipitation radar, the winds aloft barb field at a chosen flight level and surface-pressure isobars, all answering to the one time cursor at the foot of the map. Scrub it and the radar and satellite loop under it; press Now and every layer snaps back to live.
Layers on in this capture
Route line
Fix labels
Alternates
Winds aloft
Satellite
Radar
Surface pressure
Winds at FL300
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Ground awareness before a flight, in the United States
The community ADS-B traffic layer with its filters, trails and aircraft detail card, over ILS feathers and the FAA's published runway hot spots. Both of those are US-only and say so on their panels. The traffic layer is for awareness at the desk, never for separation, and the map keeps that line in the frame.
Layers on in this capture
Route line
Fix labels
Alternates
ILS feathers (US)
Airport hot spots (US)
Station plots
Traffic
Community ADS-B - incomplete and delayed. Not for traffic separation or collision avoidance.
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The chart linework over a photo of the ground
Swap the painted ground for satellite imagery, either the Blue Marble composite or one recent day of VIIRS true colour with its clouds, and keep every chart layer on top. Here the route, its fixes and the NOTAM pills sit over the day's cloud, so the picture and the paperwork read together.
Layers on in this capture
Route line
Fix labels
Alternates
Satellite
NOTAMs
Imagery basemap
VIIRS daily true colour
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The panel that drives it all
The pasted route at the top with every point plotted, then the layer rows in groups, each with a dim slider and its own source line, presets and your saved views, the corridor width, the label density, and the share section that mints a permalink of exactly this view. Every row has a bare-key shortcut, and "?" lists them all.
Layers on in this capture
Route line
Fix labels
Alternates
NOTAMs
Station plots
Day/night
100 nm corridor
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A route engine, not a line
Paste a route with fixes and airways and the workbench expands it, draws it, and lets the corridor filter every layer against it.
One moment in time
Radar and satellite loop under the scrubber, forecasts answer for the cursor, the cross-section follows it, and Now snaps everything back to live.
Permalinks and snapshots
A link restores the camera, the layer stack, the corridor and the time cursor for a colleague, and the map snapshot is burned into the briefing PDF.
It remembers your desk
Opens on your home base, keeps your layer stack between visits, and puts every layer on a single key with "?" to list them.
Not for navigation. The Ops Map is for planning at a desk, and every layer names its source and fetch time on the map.
Inside the desk
Seven desks, every one of them real
Each capture below is the web edition as it runs, signed in to a sample account based at Heathrow, with the live weather, NOTAM and watch feeds at the time of the shoot. Where a desk has more than one view, switch between them under the frame.
Desk 01 / 07
The Overview desk
What changed since you last looked
The web Home answers one question. A since-last-look strip counts what arrived while you were away, the live duty sits beside the station board of the fields you chose, and the NOTAM wall groups the alert queue by station and quotes the whole E-line.
A scope strip: which stations are watched, when they were fetched, what has synced, and how many alerts are unread
The active duty as a seven-cell stat strip, the same EASA and FAA engine the phone runs, live while you are on duty
A station board with category, wind, visibility, TAF trend, age and NOTAM count per row, and the raw METAR one click down
The NOTAM wall: every station's alert queue with a priority lens, critical first, and "No data available" said plainly when a field publishes nothing
The command deck on Cmd+K: your own records, stations and pages in one search, with a preview of the highlighted row
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Desk 02 / 07
Watch Desk
Rules, a ledger, and a handover
Write the conditions that matter in a fixed vocabulary the server checks every few minutes: a runway closed at a watched station, visibility below your number, a TAF going IFR around an ETA. Every recorded change lands in a timeline, and one acknowledgement counts on every device.
A rules builder with curated packs, from Destination closed to Lighting outages, every rule restated in plain English
Per-rule delivery: in-app alerts, browser push with the tab closed, immediate email, or the daily "What changed" digest
A lane chart of when events came in per station, a since-last-look counter, and stations that left the desk kept for 30 days
A handover since your last look or over the last 6, 12 or 24 hours, to print or email, and the timeline exported as CSV
The watch wall with your thresholds worded on every card, and an aircraft profile band with your crosswind and runway figures
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Desk 03 / 07
NOTAM board
Every station on the route, ranked, with nothing clipped
The stations on your route sit side by side, their NOTAMs ranked by severity, critical first. A When lens reads the set as it stands now, in the next 24 hours, upcoming, expired or between two times you pick. The full raw text sits beside every decode, and the board itself says that no NOTAM is not an all-clear.
A When lens and a clickable severity meter across the head of the board: click a tier to narrow to it
Station groups with new-since-last-look counts, pins, mutes and a 30-day history board per station
A detail pane with the full raw NOTAM, source and fetch time, decoded validity timeline, Q-code and every Q-line field
A print pack of the filtered rows for Save as PDF, with a scope line so a partial pack is never mistaken for the whole picture
Raw text first, always: decoded fields sit beside it, never instead of it
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Desk 04 / 07
Logbook at desk size
A grid you edit, a record you trust
The logbook becomes a sortable, filterable table, and edit mode turns it into a spreadsheet grid. Tick rows, set a field, fill down, find and replace, then read the before-and-after preview and commit it all as one transaction. Undo is one keystroke, and locked entries are never touched.
Set field, Find and replace, Duplicate and Delete across ticked rows or a filtered column, the affected count shown first
A preview of every before and after, with the currency and totals guardrail flagged per row
Grid keys: arrows move, Enter edits, Tab commits, Space ticks, Cmd+D fills down, Cmd+Z undoes the last batch
Insights and currency: career analytics with goals, rolling-window rules with next expiry, and every rating and medical dated
Logbook health: a clean-rate ring, severity counts, a triage rail and a paged ledger of findings
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Desk 05 / 07
Duty & FTL console
The same engine, a roster, a What-if
The EASA and FAA calculator the phone runs, its live FDP ring and cumulative ladders labelled with the rules they implement. Then two things the phone cannot do: a roster board that edits a month of duties in bulk, and a What-if that runs a planned duty beside the real one.
FDP elapsed and remaining, 7 and 28 day duty, block and required rest in one strip, and the ladders with their ORO.FTL references
Overview, Today, Roster, Reserve and What-if segments, each a bookmarkable URL
A roster grid you edit in place, with a bulk pane that sets crew complement and rest facility for a whole selection
What-if scenarios as chips: a later report, an extra sector, an hour's slip, compared against the baseline in one table
Roster import with a review step, a repeat-across-dates flow, and an import history kept per batch
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Desk 06 / 07
Briefing board, comparison, wall
Weather for a desk, and for a wall
Load the airports on your route and read them as cards or as one dense row each. Compare up to eight fields as columns with the facts as rows and no verdict attached. Then send the pinned stations to a chromeless display on a wall monitor, or pop a station out into its own window.
A briefing board of station cards, dragged or arrow-keyed into your order, with a list reading one click away
A comparison table: two to eight airports as columns, category, wind, visibility, ceiling and QNH as rows, no verdict attached
Ops display mode: chromeless and auto-refreshing, a poster-sized Zulu clock and category-tinted station cards, in fullscreen
Pop-out windows for the display or a single station, fed by the main tab and honest about when they last heard from it
Station history from the on-device METAR archive
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Desk 07 / 07
Flight folders and the brief
One folder per flight, one brief you can verify
Plan a city pair, or paste a whole airway route, and the folder pulls live weather, NOTAMs and the FDP into one hash-verified briefing. On a desk the folder reads as a record: the route head, the cells that state what is set and what is still an estimate, and a checklist of the fields that would sharpen the brief.
Upcoming and recent folders as a list or a calendar, each with its aircraft, sector count and status
Route weather, NOTAM counts by severity, FDP margin and readiness on the folder head, each opening its section
A brief trust line, Trusted, Aging or Gaps, and a reviewed mark for your own note
Watch this flight: one click opens the Watch Desk with a route rule prefilled for the folder
The Ops Map snapshot burned into the briefing PDF, with the crew bag for photos and documents
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Built for a keyboard
Hands on the keys, not the mouse
Every section has a shortcut, the command deck finds your own records as readily as an airport, the logbook grid takes the keys a spreadsheet would, and every Ops Map layer sits on a single letter. Press "?" anywhere and the sheet lists them.
The shortcuts sheet, over the logbook
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Everywhere
Open the command deck
⌘K
Jump to a section
⌘1to⌘9
New logbook entry
⌘N
Settings
⌘,
The shortcuts sheet
?
Logbook grid
Edit the focused cell
Enter
Tick the row
Space
Select a range
Shift+Click
Fill down the ticked rows
⌘D
Undo the last batch
⌘Z
Jump to the next error
F8
Ops Map
Map layers
NSWT
Built-in presets
Shift+1to3
Scrub time
,and.
Play the time-lapse
Space
Copy a link to this view
L
Watch timeline
Move between events
J/K
Expand the source text
Enter
Acknowledge
A
Everything else, too
The whole app comes along
The desk surfaces sit on top of the same modules the iOS app ships. Weather, NOTAMs, the EASA and FAA duty engine, the logbook, flight folders, every calculator and the airport reference all run in the browser, from the same local-first database, with Cloud Sync as the bridge to your phone.
Every module page describes the app; the same behaviour, laid out for a desk, is what Desk runs.
Said plainly
What stays on the iPhone
Desk is for the desk. The things that only make sense in a pocket or on a wrist stay in the iOS app, and we would rather tell you now than have you look for them.
Home and Lock Screen widgets, and the Live Activity
Siri Shortcuts, Spotlight and the Share extension
The app for Apple Watch
Downloadable offline map packs (Desk streams its chart data)
Photos inside an encrypted backup file (a web restore is data only; photos restore on iOS)
There is no update banner and no manual step. A new build is adopted the moment it cannot cost you anything: instantly on an untouched tab, never while you have unsaved work, and with a short notice when you are active.
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One tab at a time
The local database takes an exclusive lock, so Desk runs in a single browser tab. Open a second and it says so plainly, and closing the other tab lets the new one take over on its own.
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Offline-first, like the app
Your records, saved briefings and calculators work through a connection drop. Fresh weather, NOTAMs, roster data, sync and the Watch Desk's server-side evaluation need a connection.
One thing to keep in mind. Pilot EFB Desk is a personal planning and briefing tool, not a certified Electronic Flight Bag, so confirm anything you act on against official sources. Read the disclaimers.
Pricing
One plan for one pilot, two ways to pay
Everything in Desk is included in the subscription. No add-ons and no tiers inside the browser. The price below is personal pricing, for one pilot on their own account; crew rooms and flight departments are a conversation, not a card form.
Personal · one pilot, one account
Pilot EFB Desk
Billed via Stripe
Save 36%
Yearly
Launch price
$99.99per year
Twelve months at the monthly rate would cost $155.88.
$99.99 a year is Desk's launch price. We may withdraw it later, but if you subscribe while it stands, it stays your price for as long as you keep the subscription.
Monthly
$12.99per month
For a lower commitment. Switch to yearly whenever you like.
Free for 3 days, then $99.99 a year (launch price) or $12.99 a month. A payment card is needed to start; cancel before the trial ends and nothing is charged. One free trial per person and per payment card.
Ops Map workbench: route engine, every layer, time cursor, community ADS-B traffic
Sign in or create a free account first; checkout is inside the app.
Crew rooms, operators, schools
Corporate pricing is discussed, not listed
The $99.99 plan is not a corporate licence. If you are looking at Desk for a flight department, a crew-room wall, a training organisation or a club, write to us and we will talk through seats, the wall display and what you need, and price it for your group.
For larger customers weighing Desk up for several pilots we issue a time-boxed demo link. It runs on your own accounts with nothing billed and no card taken, the app shows how many days remain, and when it ends nothing anyone entered is lost.
Desk has no free tier. New subscribers get a 3-day free trial on either plan: a card is taken up front, nothing is charged if you cancel before it ends, one trial per person and per payment card. The free iOS app stays the no-cost way to use Pilot EFB, and it keeps your logbook viewable and exportable without any subscription.
Cancel anytime
From Settings, Subscription inside Desk, which opens the Stripe billing portal. Cancelling stops the renewal and your access runs to the end of the period you paid for.
Your data stays yours
CSV export is free on every edition and never gated. Subscribe, lapse, or come back later; the records are yours throughout.
The small print
Prices and tax
US dollars, per pilot, and the total you pay: we are not VAT registered, so no VAT is added. Any tax the law later requires us to collect is shown separately at checkout. Your card issuer may apply its own exchange rate.
Renewals and the launch price
Plans renew until cancelled; cancel any time from Settings, Subscription and access runs to the end of the paid period. The yearly plan is at its launch price: subscribe while it is and that price stays yours for as long as your subscription runs (terms, section 5b).
Two editions, two subscriptions
Desk is bought separately from the iOS app: subscribing on iPhone or iPad does not unlock Desk, and Desk does not touch your App Store billing. Your account and data are shared between the two.
What Pilot EFB is
An informational and organisational tool, not a certified EFB. Not for operational decisions, dispatch, primary navigation or regulatory compliance.
For organisations
Buy Pilot EFB Desk seats for your pilots
A flight school, club, charter or flight department buys a block of seats, invites its pilots and manages who holds one from a console in the browser. Each seat is a personal Pilot EFB Desk subscription, paid by the organisation. The console covers seats, roles and billing, and nothing else.
Desk sits beside the tools your operation already runs. Your pilots keep their own accounts, their own records and their own terms.
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Organisation
Example Air Training
People in the organisation and the seats they hold.
Seats in use
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Member
Role
Seat
Crew code
Head of Training
Admin
Seated
HOT
Crew Resources
Manager
No seat
CRW
Captain, A320
Member
Seated
A320-14
First Officer, A320
Member
Seated
A320-27
Training Captain
Manager
Seated
TRI-02
Captain, A320
Member
Seated
A320-08
First Officer, A320
Member
Invited
A320-31
First Officer, A320
Member
No seat
A320-33
Seats, roles and billing only. Pilot EFB does not show your organisation any pilot's records, and it does not plan, dispatch or authorise anything.
Schematic of the console's members view, drawn by this page. Not a capture; the names are roles, not people.
Seats
Invite pilots by email and assign or free a seat in one click. A seat reaches the pilot's account as soon as it is assigned on the web and on the phone's next launch, an invitation only takes one when it is accepted, and a freed seat is released after a 24-hour hold.
Roles
Admins run billing and settings, managers run members and seats, members hold a seat. The roster shows each person's name, email, role, seat status, join date and a crew code if you assign one, and nothing else about them.
Billing
One annual Stripe invoice for the whole block. Seat changes are requested from the Billing page and confirmed by us, and every change made through the console lands in an append-only audit log.
Seat pricing
Pricing is agreed per organisation. Contact support@pilotefb.com.
There is no listed price per seat. Tell us how many pilots you have, we quote a block on an order form, and once it is countersigned the console takes over. Seats are billed annually on one Stripe invoice.
How many pilots need a seat, now and over the year
Whether you are a school, a club, a charter or a flight department
Who will run billing and who will manage members
Personal Pilot EFB Desk subscriptions for one pilot are priced separately, above.
What this is not
Seats, roles and billing only: who holds a seat. Every pilot's logbook, duties, flight folders, weather and NOTAM activity and settings stay private to them
Not dispatch, crew control, rostering or compliance management. Your existing tools keep running those; Desk sits beside them
Not a certified Electronic Flight Bag. Each seat is the same personal, informational Desk every subscriber gets
We are not an ops platform; we sit beside yours.
What the pilot keeps
Their own account and email, on the same consumer terms as every other pilot
Their own data: a seat that ends never deletes anything, and export stays available
The right to leave from Settings at any time, or to subscribe personally instead
Shown to every pilot before they accept an invitation
If you accept, this organisation's admins and managers can see your name, email address, role, seat status, the date you joined, and a crew code if the organisation assigns one. They cannot see your logbook, duty records, flight folders, weather or NOTAM activity, settings, or any other content. Leave the organisation at any time from Settings - your account and your data stay yours.
Which edition
Pilot EFB on iOS, and Pilot EFB Desk
Two products, one account. The phone is the edition you carry; Desk is the edition you sit down at. Many pilots start with the free iOS app and add Desk when they want the same records and briefings on a big screen with a keyboard.
Pilot EFB on iOS
iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch
The one you carry. Free to start, built for the crew room, the gate and the flight deck.
Runs on
iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, from the App Store. Needs iOS 16.4 or later
Price
Free to start. Pilot EFB Pro is $39.99 a year or $4.99 a month
Free tier
Yes: 300 logged hours, 20 duties and 3 flight folders, with weather, NOTAMs and calculators unlimited
Where it earns its place
Logging a sector on the walk back to the crew room
The duty countdown as a Live Activity on the lock screen
Widgets, Siri and Apple Watch for the numbers at a glance
Sign in to Desk with the account the phone already uses. Desk works on its own with a free Pilot EFB account; the subscriptions are separate, and neither is required for the other.
Cloud Sync, both ways
A duty logged on the phone is on the desk when you sit down: every signed-in account backs its records up. An entry corrected at the desk reaches the phone when you leave with Pilot EFB Pro on iOS, which carries the live two-way sync. The database lives on each device, so both keep working through a connection drop.
The same modules underneath
Weather, NOTAMs, the EASA and FAA duty engine, the logbook, flight folders, the calculators and the airport reference are the same code on both. Desk lays them out for a desk; it does not fork them.
Side by side
Where a Desk row starts with "the same", the module is the one the phone runs; what follows is what a desk adds on top of it.
Pilot EFB on iOS
Pilot EFB Desk Web
The basics
Where it runs
iOS iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch
Desk Any modern browser, or installed from it as a web app
Price
iOS $39.99 a year or $4.99 a month for Pro, via the App Store
Desk $99.99 a year (launch price) or $12.99 a month per pilot, via Stripe; corporate pricing on request
Free tier
iOS Yes, usage-capped, no time limit
Desk No free tier; a 3-day free trial with a card up front, one per person; demos on request for crew rooms and operators
Account
iOS Works without one; Cloud Sync needs one
Desk Signs in with the same Pilot EFB account
Your records
Logbook
iOS Entries, currency, career views, PDF and CSV
Desk Adds The same records in a sortable table, plus a bulk editor, the Insights desk and a record-health console
Duty and FTL
iOS The EASA and FAA engine, roster import, Live Activity on the lock screen
Desk Adds The same engine on a console, plus a roster board for bulk editing and the What-if segment
Flight folders
iOS Route, brief, weather and NOTAM status in one place
Desk Adds The same folders, opened as a full brief page: route head, FDP margin, weather and NOTAM status, and the checklist that sharpens it
The briefing
Weather
iOS Decoded METAR and TAF, charts, history
Desk Adds The same, plus the briefing board, a comparison table, the ops display and pop-out panels
NOTAMs
iOS Decoded headlines, raw text kept, cached offline
Desk Adds The same, on a severity-ranked board with a When lens, a detail pane, a history board and a print pack
Watch
iOS Alerts on watched locations
Desk Adds The Watch Desk: server-evaluated rules, a cross-device ledger, a handover report, the watch wall and a daily digest
Charts and the map
iOS Offline chart map with downloadable region packs
Desk Adds The Ops Map workbench: route engine, corridor, time cursor, vertical section, weather and hazard layers, satellite imagery, community ADS-B traffic, permalinks
The workspace
Keyboard
iOS Not the place for it
Desk The command deck on Cmd+K, a shortcut for every section, grid keys in the logbook, bare keys on the Ops Map
Second screen
iOS One screen, plus the Watch
Desk The ops display and any pinned panel pop out to a second monitor; a chromeless mode for a wall screen
Appearance
iOS Light, dark and red-light modes
Desk Light, dark and red-light, set separately from the phone
On the flight deck
iOS Widgets, Live Activity, Siri, Apple Watch, red-light mode
Desk Not the place for it; that stays on the phone
Neither edition is a certified Electronic Flight Bag; both are informational and organisational tools. Prices in US dollars; see pricing for the iOS free tier and its caps.
Good to know
The questions pilots ask about Desk
Is Pilot EFB Desk included with Pilot EFB Pro on iOS?
No. They are two separate products with two separate subscriptions. Pilot EFB Pro is the iOS tier, bought through the App Store. Pilot EFB Desk is the browser edition, bought through Stripe at app.pilotefb.com. Subscribing to one does not unlock the other, and neither affects the other's billing. What they do share is your account and your data: sign in on both and your logbook, duties, flights and watched stations sync between them.
Is Desk just the iOS app in a browser?
No. Every Pro module runs in Desk with nothing capped, and Desk then adds surfaces that only exist in the browser: the Ops Map workbench, the Watch Desk with server-evaluated rules and a printable handover, the NOTAM board, the logbook bulk editor and record console, the roster board and What-if, the briefing board, comparison table, wall display and pop-outs, and a command deck on Cmd+K. The phone has none of these, and this page shows each one as a real capture.
Why does Desk cost more than the iOS app?
Because it is a different product for a different place. The iOS app is the companion you carry, and it is deliberately the bargain of the pair. Desk is built for a desk, a full screen and a keyboard, and it carries the surfaces above. It is priced as the professional desk tool it is: $99.99 a year (the launch price, see the next question) or $12.99 a month.
Will the price go up?
The yearly plan is at its launch price, and we may withdraw it later. What will not move is the price you joined at: subscribe to the yearly plan while it is $99.99 and your renewals stay at $99.99 for as long as you keep the subscription running. Let it lapse and come back later, and you pay whatever the price is then. The monthly plan is not locked in the same way, which is one more reason the yearly plan is the better deal of the two. This is not a marketing line we can quietly drop: the price lock is written into section 5b of the terms, and a later change to the terms cannot remove it from a subscription that already has it.
Is there a free tier or a trial in the browser?
There is no free tier, but there is a 3-day free trial on either plan. A payment card is needed to start it; cancel before the trial ends and nothing is charged, otherwise the plan you chose starts at the end of the 3 days. It is one free trial per person and per payment card, for accounts that have not subscribed to Desk before, and the checkout button only offers it when your account qualifies. After that, the monthly plan at $12.99 is the low-commitment way in for one pilot, and the free iOS app remains the way to use Pilot EFB at no cost. Demos are a separate thing: they are on request for larger customers, see the next question.
Can we see it before we buy it for a crew room or a flight department?
Yes. For larger customers, a crew room, an operator, a training organisation or a club weighing Desk up for several pilots, ask us for a demo. We issue a time-boxed demo link that runs on your own accounts, with nothing billed and no card taken; the app shows how many days remain the whole time. When it ends, nothing anyone entered is lost, and subscribing on that account carries it all over. We can also walk you through it on a call.
Is the price per pilot, or per company?
$99.99 a year (launch price) or $12.99 a month is personal pricing: one pilot, one account, paid by card through Stripe. It is not a corporate licence. If you are looking at Desk for a flight department, a crew room, a training organisation or a club, write to us and we will discuss pricing for your group separately, after a demo if you want one.
Are the screenshots on this page real?
Yes, all of them. Each is a capture of the web edition as it runs, taken on 10 September 2026 from a signed-in sample account based at EGLL, with the live weather, NOTAM, hazard and traffic feeds at the time. The Ops Map frames all carry one pasted route, KJFK to KBNA by Q430, J6 and Q68, expanded by the workbench itself. Every capture exists in the light and the dark appearance, and the switch beside each one flips all of them together. Nothing is mocked or retouched.
Does Desk have a dark mode?
Yes. Desk follows its own appearance setting, separate from the phone: light, dark, or follow the system, plus a red-light mode for the crew room at night. Dark is the default in the browser.
Do I need the iOS app to use Desk?
No. Desk works on its own with a free Pilot EFB account. Many pilots use both: the phone in the crew room and on the day, the desk edition at home or at a computer. Every signed-in account backs its records up, so a duty logged on the free iOS app reaches the desk. Live two-way sync on the phone, so that an entry corrected at the desk is on the phone when you leave, needs Pilot EFB Pro on iOS; the Desk subscription does not unlock it.
Does Desk work offline?
It is offline-first in the same way the app is. The database lives in your browser, so your records, saved briefings and calculators work through a connection drop, and it installs from the browser as a web app with an offline shell. Fetching fresh weather, NOTAMs and roster data, sync, and the Watch Desk's server-side evaluation need a connection.
How do I cancel?
From Settings, Subscription inside Desk, which opens the Stripe billing portal. Cancelling stops the renewal; your access runs to the end of the period you have paid for. Your data is yours throughout: CSV export is always available, and the free iOS app keeps your logbook viewable without any subscription.
Can I run it on two screens?
Yes, in two ways. The ops display and any pinned station panel can pop out into their own browser window for a second monitor, fed by the tab that owns the app. And the chromeless ops display mode, or its watch wall variant, is made for a wall screen in a crew room. The app itself runs in one browser tab at a time, and says so plainly if a second tab opens it.
Is Pilot EFB Desk a certified Electronic Flight Bag?
No. Pilot EFB, on iPhone and in the browser, is a personal planning and briefing companion, not a certified Electronic Flight Bag, and it is not meant to replace your operator's dispatch, navigation or compliance tools. Use it to prepare, keep records and stay oriented, and confirm anything you act on against official sources. The full wording is on the disclaimers page.
Is there a user guide for Desk?
Yes. The Desk user guide walks every desk module task by task, from signing in to the Watch Desk, the logbook table and the Ops Map, with real captures on every chapter. The iOS app has its own user guide.
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