Airspace Alerts vs Mini Radar

Airspace Alerts lets you define custom geographic areas and get push notifications the moment a real aircraft enters them. Whether you're a pilot monitoring traffic near your home field, live under a busy approach path, or just want to know what flies over your backyard — Airspace Alerts keeps you informed without watching a screen. HOW IT WORKS Create an alert by choosing a name, picking a location on the map, setting a radius, and an altitude range. When monitoring is on, the app watches for flights and notifies you in real time. Create alerts for anything: • Your home airport's traffic pattern • A departure corridor you want to track • Your neighborhood, job site, or park where you fly drones • Any location — coverage depends on ADS-B availability in your area • Real-time push notifications when aircraft enter your zone • Custom altitude filtering — target specific traffic by setting a min and max altitude • Visual map editor to precisely place and size your alert area • Location search to quickly center alerts anywhere • Flight log with a history of every matched aircraft • Multiple alerts for different locations and purposes • Auto-off timer — monitoring sessions stop automatically so you don't have to remember AIRSPACE ALERTS PRO Free includes one alert, 5 km radius limit, 30-minute monitoring sessions, and 24 hours of flight history. Upgrade to Pro for: • Up to 25 simultaneous alerts • Unlimited alert radius • 24-hour monitoring sessions • Background monitoring • Full unlimited flight history • Unlimited daily push notifications Pro is $4.99/month or $29.99/year with a 7-day free trial. Subscriptions auto-renew until canceled. Manage or cancel in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Prices may vary by region. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Mini Radar shows the aircraft flying around you, live, on a clean radar scope. It's built on adsb.fi — a free, community-run ADS-B network. Volunteers around the world run small receivers and share what they pick up, and that shared feed is what you see. No account, no subscription, no ads. WHAT YOU GET • A live radar centered on you — or anywhere you search • Tap any aircraft for details: type, registration, altitude, speed, heading, squawk, and route (origin to destination) when available • Switch between a classic radar scope and a satellite map backdrop • Pinch, double-tap, or drag to zoom — from a few miles out to 250 NM • Color aircraft by type (commercial, private, helicopter, glider, military…) or by altitude, or switch on distinct per-type icons • North-up or heading-up — one tap on the compass button rotates the scope (radar or satellite) so the direction you're facing is up • A live contacts list and class filters, right on the scope • Sweep or pulse animation — your choice • A nearest-aircraft compass that always points to the closest plane POINT AT THE SKY • AR Sky View — hold up your phone and see the aircraft overhead, labeled in real space; pinch to zoom in ON YOUR WRIST • A standalone Apple Watch radar — zoom with the Digital Crown, tap a plane for details ALWAYS-ON GLANCE • Dynamic Island and Lock Screen tracking for what's overhead — your favorites, or any aircraft nearby, with a live bearing arrow FAVORITES & ALERTS • Star aircraft by tail number, callsign, or hex — they're highlighted whenever they appear nearby • Optional alert when a favorite comes within 10 NM of you (opt-in; uses background location only while it's turned on) SAVED PLACES • Save and name locations to jump between them • Choose what the radar opens to: your live location, the nearest airport, or a saved spot MADE TO READ EASILY • Colorblind-friendly palette • Light, dark, or automatic theme A NOTE ON COVERAGE Because the data comes from volunteer receivers, coverage is best where people are feeding and can have gaps elsewhere. Not every aircraft broadcasts ADS-B, and route lookups aren't available for every flight. Mini Radar is for curiosity and learning — not for navigation or any operational use. Want better coverage where you live? Anyone can become a feeder with a Raspberry Pi, an RTL-SDR dongle, and an antenna. There's a short how-to inside the app. Data by adsb.fi. Route information by adsbdb.