If you have an old phone or tablet sitting in a drawer, GlassOut‘s latest update might give it a new job. The 1.15 series, which developer Artur Kumszczynski calls the biggest GlassOut release so far, turns phones and tablets into proper cockpit displays that start and stop together with the rest of your setup.
We first covered GlassOut back in May, when it entered public beta. It comes from FlyingArt, the one-person studio that also made Cabby and SimBox. GlassOut reads instrument panels directly from MSFS 2020 and 2024 and sends them to extra monitors, phones, tablets or browsers on your network, without any manual pop-outs. Touch panels stay interactive, so a tap on your tablet counts as a real click in the sim.
Phones and tablets join the profile
The main change in 1.15 is that you can now assign a screen to each phone or tablet directly inside a profile’s layout. Press Start, and every device opens its own panel, fragment or template automatically. Close the profile, and they all go back to the menu. If a profile uses a device that isn’t connected, the Home tab now warns you before you take off.
The iOS and Android apps also got a good amount of work:
- Silent reconnect: the app remembers your PC and goes straight to your panels on launch.
- Live thumbnails: you see a preview of each panel before you open it.
- Swipe down to exit: fullscreen panels close with a swipe from the top. The close button is now hidden by default, so it doesn’t cover touch instruments mid-flight.
- Hide empty panels: the same cleanup option the PC app already had.
Better touch, more precise templates
Touch input now runs through a small agent inside the sim, which Artur says makes taps, swipes and drags much steadier. There’s also a new touch click delay setting, 100 ms by default, which you can change for each profile. The developer says touch cockpits like the Fenix A320’s EFB now work well from a tablet.
For home cockpit builders, the template editor now lets you lock an item’s aspect ratio, snap it back to its original proportions, or type exact position and size values instead of dragging things around.
Less maintenance
The in-sim add-on that GlassOut relies on now updates itself automatically. If another add-on in your Community folder conflicts with GlassOut, the app tells you which one by name. The rest of the 1.15 series focused on polish, including better image quality on large displays, better CPU use and a smoother setup process.
Price and where to find it
GlassOut is still in public beta and costs $22 as a one-time purchase, with $29 listed as the regular price. That includes all updates for this major version and a 14-day refund window. A free demo mode lets you try everything, with a watermark on the panels.
GlassOut is available at glassout.flyingart.dev, with companion apps on the App Store and Google Play.
