XPPanels: Turn Your iPad into a Custom X-Plane Cockpit Interface

XPPanels turns your iPad into a fully customizable control panel for X-Plane 11 and 12. Design your own cockpit layouts, then drive your simulator in real time over Wi-Fi. Create as many canvases as you need for radios, lights, engine start, overhead and more. Add buttons, toggles, rotary selectors, labels, status indicators and dataref monitors, then resize, recolor and rearrange everything with simple touch gestures – no coding required. Perfect for home cockpit builders, streamers and VR pilots who want tactile, aircraft-style controls without complex hardware. Use XPPanels to trigger commands, flip virtual switches and watch live simulator values update as you fly. Build layouts for specific aircraft, save different profiles and quickly switch between them during a session. Requires X-Plane 11 or 12 running on the same network, with the free companion plugin/UDP connection enabled. XPPanels is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Laminar Research.