Comparison

Dotted vs Overflight

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

Head to head
About

Dotted

Automatically maps your travel history by scanning your photos. See which countries you've visited light up on a world map and revisit past trips with a visual timeline. Share your adventures with custom cards or AirDrop entire trips to friends.

Highlights
  • Automatic country mapping from photos
  • Visual travel timeline
  • Personalized world map
  • Trip sharing features
  • Home screen widgets
  • iCloud sync across devices
Features
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Your camera roll is already a travel journal. Dotted just shows it to you, country by country. Scan your photos once and watch every country you've visited light up on a world map made of dots. No typing, no spreadsheets, no forgotten trips. Years of travel, mapped in seconds. YEARS OF TRAVEL, MAPPED IN SECONDS • See every country you've visited without typing a single name • Photos auto-grouped into trips by date and location • Forgotten that long weekend in Lisbon? Dotted finds it • Private by design: photos never leave your device WATCH YOUR WORLD FILL WITH DOTS • Your personal atlas, drawn as a dot-by-dot world map • Every country you've been to lights up • Spin the globe or flatten the map with one tap • 265 countries and territories to discover A TRAVEL DIARY THAT WRITES ITSELF • Browse every trip on a visual timeline, grouped by year • Tap any trip to revisit the photos from that time • Your wanderlust, archived SEE HOW MUCH OF THE WORLD YOU'VE EXPLORED • The exact percentage of the world you've covered • Country, continent, and year-over-year progress • Stats that make you want to book the next trip SHARE YOUR STORY • Beautiful share cards built for Instagram Stories, TikTok, and Threads • AirDrop entire trips to friends in seconds • Friends can add your shared trip to their own map with one tap YOUR MAP, ON YOUR HOME SCREEN • Widget with your travel map at every unlock • Country count and next trip countdown widgets EVERYWHERE YOU ARE • Travel data syncs via iCloud • Pick up on iPhone or Mac without missing a beat FOR EVERY KIND OF TRAVELER Weekend wanderers, backpackers, digital nomads, or anyone who wants to see how much of the world they've explored. If you've got a camera roll, Dotted works for you. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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

Dotted4 screens
Overflight4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Overflight at 80% against Dotted's 0%. Overflight also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (23 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Dotted sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Overflight sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Overflight holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Overflight has 23 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Dotted's written reviews are positive against 80% of Overflight's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dotted ships an update weekly, Overflight every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Dotted versus Overflight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDottedOverflight
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)4.7 (23 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings223 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
Best chart rank—#188 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperINNCODER ASDGR Labs

Customer experience

Dotted

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Overflight

All ratings23 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Dotted

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly Pro$1.997 Days
  • Yearly Pro3 Days trial$11.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Plan$24.99
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 Dotted free?
Dotted is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Overflight free?
Overflight is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Dotted or Overflight?
Overflight is rated higher. Dotted averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Overflight averages 4.7 from 23 ratings.
Do Dotted or Overflight have ads?
Neither Dotted nor Overflight shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dotted or Overflight?
Dotted ships an update weekly, and Overflight every 4 days. Most recently, Dotted was updated on October 26, 2026 and Overflight on October 31, 2026.

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