Inside the app
Designed like cockpit instruments.
Brief Aero borrows from cockpit interface design language. Cool blacks, amber accents, monospace data fields. Information at a glance.
The professional pre-flight assistant for serious pilots. Smart aircraft checklists, FAA-ready logbook, and maintenance tracking — in one premium iPhone app.
Brief Aero combines the three apps every serious pilot needs into a single, focused experience designed for use before, during, and after every flight.
Pre-flight, run-up, emergencies. Built for your specific aircraft, with a full-screen cockpit-night execution mode.
Track every flight with currency alerts for Flight Review, IFR proficiency, and medical certificates.
ADs, annual inspections, 100-hour services. Brief Aero alerts you 30 days before any deadline.
Cessna 172, Piper PA-28, Cirrus SR22, Diamond DA40, Beechcraft Bonanza. Pre-built, FAA-accurate checklists for the aircraft you fly.
The execution screen forces dark mode and keeps your screen on during your run. Designed for low-light cabin use.
Single intuitive control: swipe right to check, swipe left to undo. No accidental fires, no double-taps. Built for cockpit ergonomics.
Local notifications 30 days before your Flight Review, IFR proficiency, or medical expires. Never miss a renewal.
Browse, clone, and adapt checklists shared by other pilots. Includes emergency procedures specific to your aircraft type.
Your aircraft, checklists, and logbook entries sync automatically across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Encrypted end-to-end.
Brief Aero borrows from cockpit interface design language. Cool blacks, amber accents, monospace data fields. Information at a glance.
Free to install with generous limits. Upgrade to Pro to unlock the full experience.
All prices in USD. Subscriptions auto-renew via Apple. Cancel anytime in your iPhone Settings.
On the ramp
I've spent 12 years in aviation maintenance, all of it at flight schools — keeping training fleets airworthy, mostly Cirrus SR20s and SR22s, along with Diamond DA40/DA42s and Tecnams. I run my own maintenance business. I'm not a line pilot; I'm the person who takes these airplanes apart, inspects them, and puts them back together.
Working at flight schools, I saw the same problem for years: paper checklists and logbooks that get torn, left in a flight bag, or buried somewhere in the cockpit at the exact moment you need them. Friction at best, a safety issue at worst.
But here's the part only a maintenance tech sees. When we open an aircraft up for inspection, the cabin is where we find the most FOD — foreign object debris. Pens, loose paper, the binder rings off paper checklists. Removing paper from the cockpit removes several sources of FOD in one move. That's not a marketing angle — it's what I pull out of airframes.
So I built the tool I wished those cockpits had: checklists, a logbook, and currency tracking in one clean, native iOS app. The goal is simple — lower a pilot's mental load so they can focus on flying, and take one more source of debris out of the airplane.
— Quentin Quaizac · FounderBrief Aero is in private beta with selected US pilots. Public testimonials coming soon.
Quotes above are placeholders pending public launch. Want to join the beta? Get in touch.
No, and it's not designed to be. ForeFlight is a complete electronic flight bag (EFB) with charts, weather, and flight planning. Brief Aero is a focused productivity tool for the things ForeFlight doesn't do well: smart aircraft-specific checklists, a clean digital logbook, and maintenance tracking. Many pilots use both apps together.
Brief Aero is a productivity tool, not a safety-critical avionics device. It is not FAA-certified, not a replacement for your aircraft's official Pilot Operating Handbook (POH), and not a replacement for proper pilot training. Always cross-reference your aircraft's official documentation. Use Brief Aero as a supplement to, not a substitute for, established procedures.
At launch, the library includes pre-built checklists for Cessna 172, Piper PA-28, Cirrus SR22, Diamond DA40, and Beechcraft Bonanza A36 — covering both normal procedures and key emergency procedures (engine failure, CAPS deployment, etc.). The library expands with every release based on user requests.
No, the core experience runs fully offline. Internet is only needed for iCloud sync between your devices and to download new community templates. All checklist execution, logbook entries, and currency calculations work without a connection.
The free tier includes one aircraft, three checklists per aircraft, and five clones from the community library. It's designed to let you genuinely test Brief Aero on a few real flights before deciding to upgrade. The free trial on the annual plan adds 14 days of full Pro access.
Brief Aero uses Apple's iCloud private database with end-to-end encryption. Your pilot profile, certificate numbers, currency dates, and logbook entries are encrypted on Apple's servers and only readable on devices signed into your Apple ID. We don't run our own backend, so we don't have access to your personal data. We don't sell or share data, and there are no third-party analytics or trackers.
Not at this stage. Brief Aero is built natively in SwiftUI to take advantage of Apple's frameworks (CloudKit, StoreKit 2, Sign in with Apple, native haptics). An Android version would require a complete rewrite. We're focused on making the iOS experience the best it can be first.
The community library lets you publish your custom checklists for any pilot with the app. A "submit template" feature is coming in a future update. For now, you can build your own checklists privately on your account.
Available on iPhone. Built by aviators, for aviators.
Free to install · 14-day free trial on the annual plan