Prepware Instrument Pilot

• Price: $9.99

Last verified 5 Aug 2026

2.6 43 ratings · App Store

1. 3/5Definitely not 100% accurate

   Now don’t get me wrong Prepware is one of my favorite apps when it’s comes to studying for writtens I use it for everything. Private pilot, airframe mechanic, powerplant mechanic, general written exam for mechanics, and now my instrument. So I’m very familiar with this app and it’s accuracy for writtens and usually it is spot on when it comes to question answers and wording but for my instrument rating airplane it was different. I studied hard on it taking quizzes and scoring 90’s so I said it’s time for the real written to be taken. I went I took it I failed and I was amazed how many questions I had never seen. So I beat myself up and studied harder and went back to take the written again and once again I saw questions I had never even seen before and got an even lower score after studying even more. So I did what I didn’t want to do cause I don’t care for the software and switched to Sheppard air and I have to admit almost 80%+ of the questions on there were worded entirely different and there’s 200+ more questions to study. So not only did prepware let me down with the wording of questions but it also doesn’t have the entire written question bank. All I ask from prepware is to make sure all their software is up to date and has all the questions the FAA has for each written.

   CarNerdLogan · 5 Aug 2026

2. 1/5Terribly optimized for iPad, missing core features

   I am really disappointed with the Prepware app on iPad. The programming feels very old-fashioned and lacks features that should be standard for test prep software, such as the ability to focus specifically on previously incorrect answers. The formatting issues make studying very difficult. Text frequently gets cut off depending on how you hold the device. I find myself constantly switching between portrait and landscape modes just to read full questions because the app cannot dynamically scale text. I hope the developers push out a major update to fix these basic functionality and display bugs soon. When addressing that to the support, I didn‘t receive a follow up reply after their initial standard reply.

   PhilHeli · 5 Aug 2026

3. 2/5Needs HUGE update for recent FAA changes

   I hate to give ASA a negative rating, because July 2016, their Private Pilot test app was DEAD ON!!! Questions were verbatim. I scored 98%. With the recent evolution to the FAA testing, this Instrument app question bank was no where near to some of the questions on the Instrument Airplane written exam. I'm not here to slam ASA, because they have great products, but just FYI, do not use this as a sole study method to pass the Instrument Airplane exam. Dauntless was my main app for studying, and even their question bank was lacking, it is an awesome app on explanations of correct answers and teaching principles. It is quite more expensive than ASA, but I owe Dauntless for my 90% score yesterday on the Instrument exam. But beware, the changes to the FAA question bank is real. The test was not easy at all. I've even heard Sheppard Air hasn't caught up to the recent changes. Good luck to all.

   Go Bama13 · 5 Aug 2026

4. 3/5Doesn’t support iPhone X yet

   Taking my test soon so I’m not sure how well it has actually prepared me yet. Complaints were made that it was out of date, seems there was an update after most of those reviews were written.

   C_Levert · 5 Aug 2026

5. 2/5New Question Bank

   This app’s questions are out-dated. I took my instrument written in November of 2018 and there were maybe only 5 questions from the ASA test prep on there. My buddies who studied from (a different well known company) said that all of their questions were pretty much the same. I’m pretty disappointed as I loved the ASA’s Private Pilot app, but I think from now on I’m going to switch to a different company to study from for my commercial.

   Luke3423423943 · 5 Aug 2026

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