Comparison

Utkik vs Overflight

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

Head to head
About

Utkik

Explore real-time aircraft and ship traffic on a dynamic map. Identify planes overhead with augmented reality and track your favorite vessels. A widget allows you to place a map view on your home screen.

Highlights
  • Live traffic map
  • AR aircraft identification
  • Ship and flight tracking
  • Search functionality
  • Favorites tracking
  • Home screen widget
Features
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What is flying over your home? Which ship is passing along the coast? Utkik brings sky and sea together on one living map, making it easy to explore the traffic around you or somewhere far away. Tap an aircraft or ship to get to know it better. See where it is heading, how fast it is moving, and other available information. Search for a particular flight, discover unusual aircraft, or find what is closest to you. When you want to look up, Spotter helps you see what is nearby. With AR, you can point your camera at the sky and identify aircraft passing overhead. You can also follow favorites and see their trails on the map. Utkik goes beyond the app. Place a chosen map view on your Home Screen with the widget. Utkik requires no account and contains no advertising. The app is available in Swedish and English. Live data comes from third-party services that Utkik does not control. They may change, limit or stop providing data at any time. Traffic data may be delayed, incomplete, or inaccurate. Utkik is intended for discovery and enjoyment and must not be used as the sole source for navigation, emergencies, or safety decisions.

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

Utkik4 screens
Overflight4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Utkik at 100% against Overflight's 67%. Utkik also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Overflight's advantage is ratings volume (20 vs 4) and device support (3 vs 1). 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. Utkik sells 1 one-off in-app purchase 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

Utkik holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Overflight has 20 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Utkik's written reviews are positive against 67% of Overflight's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Utkik versus Overflight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUtkikOverflight
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better4.6 (20 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings420 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid SvenssonDGR Labs

Customer experience

Utkik

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Overflight

All ratings20 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Utkik

One-time1
  • Buy me a coffee$3.99
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 Utkik free?
Utkik 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, Utkik or Overflight?
Utkik is rated higher. Utkik averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Overflight averages 4.6 from 20 ratings.
Do Utkik or Overflight have ads?
Neither Utkik nor Overflight shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Utkik or Overflight?
Utkik ships an update every 5 days, and Overflight every 5 days. Most recently, Utkik was updated on October 17, 2026 and Overflight on October 7, 2026.

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