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Track anything in the sky, on the rails, in the water, and overhead.
Spot turns your phone into a live radar for the world around you. Planes overhead, trains passing, the space station, wildlife in the ocean, earthquakes, wildfires, rocket launches. See it, tap it, log it. Your logbook and collection live on your phone and are yours forever.
LIVE MAP
A real-time map centered on you. Turn on the layers you want and everything stays in sync with the radar scope. Tap any target for a detail card, follow a plane as it flies, swipe up for the story behind it. Planes glide smoothly between updates instead of hopping. With your own free OpenSky key, scrub a plane's flight timeline back through where it has been.
RADAR SCOPE
A classic phosphor PPI scope centered on you, sweep arm and range rings and all. Same layers as the map. Set the range from 2 to 500 km with a pinch. It talks to plane feeds straight from your phone, not our servers.
SPACE
A 3D Earth you can spin and zoom. Pinch out past the Moon and ISS to the inner planets and the full solar system in one continuous move. Real planet surfaces, Saturn's rings, a glowing Sun, a faint Milky Way. Scrub time forward, share a card, and jump in from ISS alerts or the map.
SKY
Tonight's sky, or any night. Moon phase, planets, deep-sky objects, and double stars worth looking at, each with altitude, rise and set times, and whether you need eyes, binoculars, or a scope. An interactive star chart you can pan and scrub. A clouds card rates how good viewing is right now and tells you when golden hour and blue hour start.
SPOTDEX
Your collection. Numbered entries, a completion ring, stats, and your newest catch up top. Tap a catch for a full entry: portrait, stats, notes, and a sightings log for repeat spots. Things that flew over without a log show as ??? ghost entries until you catch them. Saw something for real? Hit Spotted it and a celebration sheet opens with a gold medallion, confetti on first catches, and a photo and note.
BADGES
90+ achievements grouped by milestones, logbook, craft, photos, habits, flyovers, and watchers. First catch, centurion, trainspotter, night owl, shutterbug, ghost hunter, and far more. Earn one and a gold banner slides in. Tap an earned badge for confetti, a haptic, and a sunburst medallion you can share as a card.
ALERTS
Spot counts what's around you and pings you when something gets close. Planes overhead, trains passing, ISS passes, emergency squawks, rare aircraft, earthquakes, storms, wildfires, launch countdowns. In-app banners animate per type, planes arc along a path, rails for trains, an orbital arc for the ISS. A live count can sit on your Dynamic Island, and a launch countdown runs as a Live Activity on your lock screen.
LAYERS
Planes, trains, buses, US Amtrak, the ISS, tagged wildlife from OCEARCH, crime heat from open police data, live emergency calls in supported US metros, USGS earthquakes, NWS severe weather, active wildfires, worldwide rocket launches, US flight restrictions, and sky direction pins that show where to look.
FOG OF WORLD
Optional and off by default. Turn it on and the map sits under fog that clears as you move, building an on-device record of the ground you've actually covered. Country and city leaderboards, chunky or fine blocks. Free, and nothing leaves your phone.
SKY SPOTTER
Point your camera at the sky and Spot labels the aircraft above you, locked onto the real plane. Pinch to zoom.
WIDGETS AND DYNAMIC ISLAND
A live overhead count on the Dynamic Island and lock screen while alerts are on. Home Screen widgets for your pins and a radar preview.
No tracking. No cloud for the core. Your collection is yours.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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What's New in Spot
1.0
July 9, 2026
Subscription plans
Spot Pro
Trains, ships, hazards and weather monthly
$0.991 Month




