Supported devices
What HeliSense needs, and what works where.
Requirements
- iPhone and iPad: iOS / iPadOS 26 or later.
- Mac: macOS 26 or later, on a Mac with Apple silicon (M-series).
- Universal Purchase: buy once and use HeliSense on all your Apple devices.
- Online Flying: an internet connection, plus the Simulator or Pro purchase. Everything else in HeliSense works offline.
Features by platform
| Feature | iPhone / iPad | Mac |
|---|---|---|
| Orientation Trainer | Yes | Yes |
| Simulator (both modes) | Yes | Yes |
| Online Flying (up to 8 pilots) | Yes | Yes |
| Silhouette Recognition | Yes | — |
| Touch controls | Yes | — |
| USB transmitter input | — | Yes |
| WiFi & MFi Bluetooth input | Yes | Yes |
High-resolution scenery
Free-flight Skybox scenes ship at up to 16K on Mac. On iPhone and iPad the bundled scenes are 8K, and devices with enough memory can download the 16K versions free from the Content Store. If a device doesn’t have the memory for 16K, it stays on the crisp 8K scenes.
Languages
HeliSense is fully translated into 13 languages and follows your device language automatically — there’s no language setting to find:
English (UK and US), Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Spanish and Ukrainian.
Not sure whether a feature or input works on your device? Ask us — happy to check.