Comparison

FlightTracky vs Overflight

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

FlightTracky

Monitor flight statuses in real-time. Get updates on departures, arrivals, and delays for your journeys. Essential for travelers to stay informed.

Highlights
  • Real-time flight tracking
  • Departure and arrival monitoring
  • Delay notifications
  • Traveler information
  • Status updates
Features
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Track your flights

About

Overflight

Visualize live aircraft in your visible sky with a radar-style scope. Get details like flight number, altitude, and type. Upgrade for spoken traffic alerts and route information.

Highlights
  • Radar-style scope of visible sky
  • Live aircraft details (flight number, altitude, type)
  • Military and special-interest traffic highlighting
  • Spoken traffic and inbound alerts (Pro)
  • Live routes, origin, and destination (Pro)
  • Universal app for iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV
Features
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Look up! Overflight names the aircraft flying over you right now: airline, flight number, and type, with a live readout of altitude, speed, and track, and a radar scope of everything else in your sky. Around it, a radar-style scope plots the whole visible sky. Swipe to bring any other aircraft into focus, or just watch the one overhead. When the sky is quiet, a calm idle state waits for the next arrival. FREE • One aircraft always in focus, chosen from what you can actually see rather than a flat radius • Airline, flight number, and aircraft type, with altitude, vertical speed, ground speed, track, bearing, and distance • A live radar scope of the whole visible sky, north-up or heading-up • Military and special-interest traffic highlighted the moment it enters your sky • An aircraft declaring an emergency jumps straight into focus, flagged EMERGENCY • Helicopters and general aviation name their operator when it's one worth naming: police, fire, medevac, NASA • Tap the aircraft type to read about the airframe on Wikipedia, without leaving the app • Overhead, Near, Normal, and Far reach presets to tune how much sky you see • A universal app for iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV OVERFLIGHT PRO • Live routes, origin to destination, for every aircraft: airports spelled out by name • Spoken traffic: each aircraft called out aloud as it comes into focus, hands-free ("Traffic, two o'clock, twelve miles, southbound, a heavy Boeing 777, United flight 12, Denver to Tokyo"). • Notable inbound alerts: a pre-warning and a "look northwest" cue when interesting traffic is approaching • Indefinite always-on for an unattended ambient display when connected to a charger Your first aircraft's route and your first notable-inbound alert are free, so you can see what Pro does before deciding. The yearly plan starts with a 7-day free trial. There's a monthly plan too, or unlock everything once with a lifetime purchase. Powered by worldwide, community-run ADS-B data. No account, no sign-up. Your location is used only to find the aircraft above you. Not every aircraft broadcasts its position (some military flights fly dark), so the sky you see is the sky that's broadcasting. Overflight Pro is a monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase; the price is shown in the app before you buy. A subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://dgrlabs.co/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

FlightTracky3 screens
Overflight4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FlightTracky at none against Overflight's 3. FlightTracky also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Overflight's advantage is ratings volume (24 vs 1) and chart position (#183 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Overflight sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. FlightTracky asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

FlightTracky holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Overflight has 24 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FlightTracky ships an update every 5 days, Overflight every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
FlightTracky versus Overflight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlightTrackyOverflight
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.7 (24 ratings)
Positive reviews—80.0% of reviews
Number of ratings124 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
Best chart rank—#183 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS2617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKush ShahDGR Labs

In-app purchases

None

FlightTracky

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Overflight

Subscriptions2
  • Overflight Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Overflight Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Overflight Pro Lifetime$69.99

Questions

Is FlightTracky free?
FlightTracky is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Overflight free?
Overflight is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, FlightTracky or Overflight?
FlightTracky is rated higher. FlightTracky averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Overflight averages 4.7 from 24 ratings.
Do FlightTracky or Overflight have ads?
Neither FlightTracky nor Overflight shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FlightTracky or Overflight?
FlightTracky ships an update every 5 days, and Overflight every 4 days. Most recently, FlightTracky was updated on November 5, 2026 and Overflight on November 10, 2026.

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