Comparison

Yonder vs Airframed

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

Head to head
About

Yonder

Explore the skies with a live 3D flight tracker and radar. See aircraft positions on a detailed satellite map, view flight information, and discover planes overhead. Includes airport data and Apple Watch integration.

Highlights
  • Live 3D flight tracking
  • Compass-based radar
  • Flight search by callsign/registration
  • 3D airport maps and data
  • Find aircraft overhead
  • Apple Watch integration
Features
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Meet Yonder, the flight tracker built by pilots. Explore live aircraft, airport departures and arrivals, and the stories behind the flights. FOLLOW FLIGHTS IN 3D Watch aircraft on an interactive map. Open a flight for its callsign, aircraft type, altitude, speed, registration and available route details. Follow aircraft in 3D and explore satellite scenery and mountain terrain with Premium. EXPLORE AIRPORTS Browse departure and arrival boards with a globe showing flight destinations. Discover airport information, runway layouts, weather and frequencies. UNDERSTAND THE EVENTS Premium brings together noteworthy aviation reports, including TCAS advisories and ACARS messages, with available aircraft context and event replays. Reports may be preliminary; causes and outcomes are not always confirmed. DISCOVER WHAT'S OVERHEAD Find nearby aircraft, search flights and airports, and explore aircraft types. Includes an Apple Watch companion. Some features require an optional Premium subscription. Coverage and data availability vary. Yonder is for information and exploration, not operational navigation. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Airframed

Features
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Point your phone at a plane. Take the photo. Airframed works out what it was. Every aircraft you photograph becomes a catch: a ticket stub printed with the type, the airline, the airport you saw it at, and the registration on its tail when it can be read. Common types fill in quickly. An A380 does not. ONE TAP, THEN GET ON WITH IT The camera opens, you take the shot, and the catch is saved immediately. Identification happens afterwards, on its own. You are never left waiting on a spinner while an aircraft flies out of frame. Framing guides help you get the whole aircraft, and its registration, in shot. WORKS WITH NO SIGNAL Capture needs nothing but the camera. Photograph a plane on a runway, on a hillside, or at 35,000 feet with the radios off — your catches queue up and identify themselves the next time you have a connection. STAMP YOUR PASSPORT Every aircraft family you catch is a stamp in your passport. See how many variants of each you have, and which you are still missing. RARITY THAT IS COUNTED, NOT INVENTED An A380 is Epic because fewer than 200 still fly. A 747 is Rare for the same reason. Every grade comes from real counts of how many airframes of that type are actually in the air, so a rare catch is genuinely rare. COLLECT INDIVIDUAL AIRCRAFT Where the registration is readable, Airframed records the specific airframe — not just "an A380", but that A380. Photograph the same tail twice and it knows. RACE OTHER SPOTTERS Join the leaderboard to be ranked by the XP your identified photos earn — this week or all time, everywhere or at your home airport. It is opt-in: nobody sees you until you choose a name. YOUR PHOTOS STAY YOURS Every photo is saved on your phone, and a copy goes to your photo library if you allow it. Photos are sent to Anthropic's Claude to identify the aircraft and are not stored on our server. The airport tag comes from your location, which never leaves your phone. WHAT YOU GET • One-tap capture that never waits on a network • Automatic identification: type, variant, family, airline, registration • Every catch tagged with the airport it was taken at • Rarity grades counted from real fleet sizes • A passport of stamps, one per aircraft family • XP, ranks, week streaks and badges • An opt-in weekly leaderboard • Share any catch as a card No ads. No subscriptions. No tracking.

Screenshots

Yonder4 screens
Airframed4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Airframed at every 2 weeks against Yonder's every 8 months. Yonder's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Yonder ships an update every 8 months, Airframed every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Yonder versus Airframed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYonderAirframed
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size141 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRadical SlothNitanshu Lokhande

In-app purchases

None

Yonder

No in-app purchases

None

Airframed

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Yonder free?
Yonder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Airframed free?
Airframed is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Yonder or Airframed have ads?
Neither Yonder nor Airframed shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Yonder or Airframed?
Yonder ships an update every 8 months, and Airframed every 2 weeks. Most recently, Yonder was updated on November 5, 2026 and Airframed on November 6, 2026.

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