Crosswind

Pilot logbook for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch

Know you're current before you fly.

Crosswind logs your flights, works out night time and cross-country for you, tells you which currencies are about to run out, and turns your logbook into 8710/IACRA totals and a printable FAA or EASA logbook. No account, no server, no ads.

Coming to the App Store in the United States, the United Kingdom and EASA countries. iPhone and iPad with iOS 18 or later; Apple Watch with watchOS 11 or later.

Currency

Current today? One look.

Every rule, with the math

One card per rule with its expiry and days left. Tap it to see exactly which flights counted and why others didn't.

Free forever

Day and night passenger currency (61.57(a)/(b), FCL.060) and medical by class and age, BasicMed and EASA medicals.

With Pro

Instrument currency with the 6-month grace period and IPC, flight review, CFI recency (61.197), class and type rating expiry, and your own rules.

Reminders and widgets

Local reminders before anything expires and a Home Screen / Lock Screen widget with the currency that runs out first.

Logging

A logbook that fills itself in

Every column

All 61.51 and FCL.050 columns: OOOI in UTC and local, PIC, SIC, solo, dual, PICUS, instrument, approaches, holds and landings.

Night and cross-country, computed

Night time and night landings come from the sun at your airports and times. 72,000+ airports are built in and work offline.

Fast

Repeat last flight, templates, smart aircraft defaults, and your paper logbook totals brought forward in one entry.

Never lose a flight

iCloud sync, 90-day Recently deleted, an edit history on every flight, and backups you can restore with a preview first.

Auto-log (Pro)

Let the GPS and your Watch time the flight

  • Tap Start flight before engine start: Out, Off, On and In, airports, landings and night are recorded from the iPhone GPS. Works in airplane mode.
  • Block and flight timers on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with Mark approach and Mark hold buttons.
  • Out / Off / On / In buttons on your Apple Watch while the phone stays in your flight bag.
  • Nothing is saved until you review the flight. Optional automatic start when you taxi at an airport.
  • Build a flight from a GPX or KML track (ForeFlight, Garmin Pilot, Stratux, CloudAhoy).

Totals and paperwork

8710, career totals and a logbook you can print

Totals (free)

By category and class, type, tail and year; last 30/90/365 days; monthly chart. Every number drills down to its flights.

Form 8710-1 / IACRA (Pro)

Every cell computed from your logbook, with the flights behind each number, ready to copy into IACRA.

Progress and job totals (Pro)

Private, instrument, commercial, ATP and R-ATP requirements with the hours still missing, plus airline application totals.

Logbook PDF

Pro: full FAA or EASA layout with page totals, signatures and endorsements. Free: one-page summary, CSV and JSON export.

Endorsements (Pro)

Signed by your instructor, on your device

  • 32 endorsement templates from AC 61-65K.
  • Your CFI signs with a finger or Apple Pencil, with name, certificate number and certificate expiration or recency date. Any later edit voids the signature.
  • Instructor signatures on dual flights and countersignatures for PICUS/SPIC.
  • Scans or photos of paper endorsements, kept with your logbook.

Switching

Bring your whole logbook, free

Import from ForeFlight, LogTen, MyFlightbook, Logbook Pro, Safelog, CrewLounge / mccPILOTLOG, Garmin Pilot, any CSV spreadsheet, or a roster calendar (.ics). You see every column's totals before anything is saved, and you can undo a whole import later. Export is free forever, including CSV in the ForeFlight template.

Pricing

Crosswind is free to download. Every Pro feature is free while your logbook is under 100 hours, and the app warns you 10 hours before. Your logbook never becomes read-only.

Free

$0
  • Unlimited flights, iCloud sync
  • Every import, CSV/JSON export, PDF summary
  • Passenger currency, medical, totals
  • Backup and restore
Most popular

Pro Annual

$49.99 / year

14-day free trial for new subscribers.

Pro Monthly

$6.99 / month

Cancel any time.

Pro Lifetime

$149.99 once

No subscription.

Pro: instrument, flight review, CFI and custom currency; 8710/IACRA, certificate progress and job totals; endorsements and signatures; full logbook PDF; auto-log, Live Activity and Apple Watch; track import; weekly automatic backup. US prices; local prices vary. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period; manage them in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use.

Private by design

Your logbook is stored on your devices and synced through your own private iCloud. There is no Crosswind account and no Crosswind server, no analytics and no tracking. Location is used only on your device, to record flights. Privacy policy.