Identify every aircraft in your sky
Scope
The sky, instrumented
Overflight polls live ADS-B data for the traffic around your position, runs every return through a visibility model, and plots the aircraft you could actually see on a radar scope.
The most prominent aircraft is highlighted first on the scope and its details shown. The rest wait in a carousel, ranked. Swipe through them to see the details for each of them.
Live traffic: A Southwest 737 out of Santa Rosa, the rest of the sky ranked behind it
Incoming
Interesting inbound
Military and otherwise unusual traffic is highlighted separately. When one of these is closing on your position and holds on a steady track across consecutive sweeps rather than merely nearby, the instrument turns amber, the carousel pauses, and a countdown runs to overhead.
Amber means one thing in Overflight: something interesting this way comes. Interesting inbounds are part of Overflight Pro, but the first one is free on every install.
A C-17 Globemaster III, eight miles out, T−1:15
Range
Not just distance, but visibility
The scope's range isn't just a flat radius, because sight lines aren't flat. Visibility is slant range: a widebody at cruise is visible from far beyond a turboprop at pattern altitude, and standing at 8,000 feet in the mountains is not the same as standing at sea level at the beach. The model accounts for both, and the RANGE setting (NEAR, NORMAL, FAR) scales how much of the visible sky it admits.
Apple TV
An instrument for the living room, or the lounge
On Apple TV, Overflight is an ambient display with optional voice announcements. One aircraft is automatically tracked until it leaves your sky, then the next one is selected. Use your Siri Remote to manually choose targets.
It's as much at home in an office or an FBO lounge as in a living room. The TV's own coarse location is enough to start; for precise position and direction, the app generates a QR code you can scan with your iPhone.
More on the Apple TV version →
Live traffic: A United 737 inbound to LAX, on the big screen
Spoken traffic
Don't just see what's up there, hear it
For the visually impaired there's full VoiceOver support. But even without accessibility controls, Overflight provides optional spoken ATC-like traffic callouts:
Spoken traffic call ▶ Play"Traffic, two o'clock, twelve miles, nine degrees high, a Boeing seven thirty-seven eight hundred, flight level three three zero, Southwest flight fourteen fifty-nine, Bozeman to Denver."
Data
What it runs on
PositionsLive ADS-B: the transponder signals aircraft broadcast, received by a worldwide community of volunteer ground stations.
RoutesAirline route lookups via AeroDataBox, with adsbdb as fallback, geometry-checked before display.
ElevationOpen-Meteo terrain lookup, so the visibility model knows how high you're standing.
LocationYour coordinates leave the device only to query nearby aircraft and terrain elevation, and during the optional Apple TV pairing handoff, which the server deletes within minutes. Details in the privacy policy.
AccountNone. Nothing to sign into.
PriceFree for limited functionality. Overflight Pro adds routes on every aircraft, spoken traffic, interesting inbounds, and always-on with no idle timeout, all for $3.99/month or $19.99/year, each with a 7-day free trial, or $69.99 once. What's included in Pro →
On the App Store
Get Overflight
Overflight is on the App Store now. It's free to download and works out of the box; Overflight Pro unlocks the full instrument.
iPhone iPad Apple TV
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