# SkyTrackPro — Track and plan flights

> Track and plan flights (iPhone/iPad app by Jerome Kaegi.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/skytrackpro/id6756193792 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Jerome Kaegi](https://appshunter.io/developer/957331657)
- Category: Sports, Navigation
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.6 · 64 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-01-09
- Data updated: 2026-09-04
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/skytrackpro/id6756193792/reviews.md

## What is SkyTrackPro?

SkyTrackPro is a simple, reliable companion for pilots — whether you fly high-level competitions, long XC routes, or just for fun on the weekends.

Our goal is not to overwhelm you with gimmicks. Instead, SkyTrackPro focuses on the basics that matter: accurate tracking, clear flight information, and tools that help you improve over time.

What SkyTrackPro helps you do

• Record flights with precise GPS logging
• See live navigation information during flight
• Advanced XC Guide
• Load and follow competition tasks
• Review flight paths and performance afterwards
• Keep everything organized in one place

SkyTrackPro is designed to work offline, uses efficient battery logic, and keeps your data lightweight — so you can focus on flying, not on managing an app.

For every kind of pilot

SkyTrackPro is built for:

• Competition pilots
• XC explorers
• Club pilots
• Recreational flyers
• Anyone learning and improving

If you enjoy tracking flights and having clear situational awareness, SkyTrackPro fits right in.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.8.1 — 2026-08-31

Pilot Notes
• New battery level trigger to alert you when your device is running low in flight
• Choose any emoji as the note icon for instant recognition at a glance
• Note sets have been removed for a simpler, cleaner setup
• Notes hide with the toolbar in the layout editor

Exports
• Save to device is now offered alongside Share for every export

Flight Data
• Barometric and GNSS altitude are now recorded as two independent references, for better analysis and IGC quality

Landscape
• Bottom sheets keep content reachable in landscape mode

Under the hood
• Go Router updated with icon updates
• Stability and reliability improvements

### 1.8.0 — 2026-08-24

Hike and Fly Mode
• Brand new Hike and Fly mode: a single recording for a whole day of walking and flying
• The day is always available to open, with alerts only firing when you are actually airborne
• Replay counters and a flowing Hike and Fly banner
• Demo now shows the day so you can preview the flow

Pilot Notes
• New Pilot Notes system with in flight reminder widgets
• Text to speech that follows your phone voice settings
• Reusable note sets for different types of flight
• Turnpoint approach triggers with tuned speech timing
• Mirroring to ActiveLook smart glasses
• Restyled note editing with an audit pass on races and speech lifecycle

Traffic
• FLARM and FANET traffic from the vario now shown on the flight map

Airspace Alerts
• Progressive vertical airspace warning that scales with climb rate

Tasks
• Import a task from a QR code image via the file picker
• Task editor: clearer task times layout with a start block and optional takeoff open fix
• Optimized crossing near a turnpoint is now solved again so line and countdown stay exact

Cockpit
• Edge linear bars always render white outlined labels for readability over any background
• Tile info popup no longer swallows taps while it is showing

Performance
• Per fix cost of the rolling flight metrics reduced
• One great circle distance, on one sphere, across the app
• Narrower rebuild scope, cached radar label layouts and a const sweep

Pilot Manual
• Manual now covers 1.8.0

Under the hood
• Package updates and dependency upgrades
• Stability and reliability improvements

### 1.7.4 — 2026-08-12

Flight Radar
• Goal lines are now drawn on the Flight Radar
• New corner metrics: thermal average, current L/D and required L/D
• "Target shortest" phrasing for cleaner readability

Task Radar
• Goal line angle and a tighter fit for the overall layout
• Line now starts at the start cylinder for a cleaner geometry
• Direction chevrons on the optimised line
• Line solve restarts from the start when needed, with wider corner values

Task Study
• Reliable point gestures for placing and moving turnpoints
• Faster drags
• New app bar shortcut

Maps
• Added the Terrain map style, ported from the website

Layout Editor
• Resize handles pulled in from the screen edges so they no longer conflict with system gestures

Tile Labels
• Show full wording when there is room, and initials when there is not, so tiles stay readable at every size

Pilot Manual
• Flight Radar chapters updated in all locales

Under the hood
• Stability and reliability improvements

### 1.7.3 — 2026-08-08

Map Fonts
• Restored missing map fonts so labels on the map render correctly again
• Added Noto Sans Italic and Noto Sans Devanagari font packs so more scripts display properly

Under the hood
• Package updates
• Stability and reliability improvements

### 1.7.2 — 2026-08-04

Flight Radar
• The thermal assistant tile is now the Flight Radar
• Bigger fonts and stronger cylinders for readability at a glance
• Core box sits on the actual thermal core
• Target aims at the route crossing, with a calm edge only indicator
• Target cylinder uses the map's rim fade fill for a consistent look
• Configurable corner values with an optimized line target colour and smoother cylinder rim
• Choose value placement: corners or on the arrows
• Vario corner now labelled, preview honours the tile units setting, 0.1 zoom steps

Task Radar
• Brand new Task Radar tile
• Thermal map layer on the Task Radar

Map
• The map itself is now a tile you can delete or arrange like any other

Task Engine
• Route now solves once per fix (or once per leg where possible), and only when shown, for smoother in flight response
• Shortest line to the target displayed on the map and in the cockpit

Speed to Fly
• Fixed polar collapse
• Fixed wind correction
• Fixed auto McCready behaviour

Thermal Maps
• Switched to XYZ addressing, so downloaded thermal maps now work offline

Cockpit
• Airspeed now shown even without a task and without a device heading

Replay
• Orientation aware layout fallback and a new layout picker
• Fixed the overlay race when scrubbing a replay with a task

Pilot Manual
• New in depth Pilot Manual as a static site
• Editions in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese
• Chapters cover the new Flight Radar, Studying a task and much more

Under the hood
• Package updates
• Stability and reliability improvements

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## More apps by Jerome Kaegi

- [Live Chat 3](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/live-chat-3/id1229573974)
- [HelpDesk 3](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/helpdesk-3/id1493908765)
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All apps by Jerome Kaegi: https://appshunter.io/developer/957331657

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