Comparison

Utkik vs Spot

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

Spot

Discover and track a wide range of real-world phenomena, from aircraft and trains to celestial bodies and natural events. Customize your map view, build a personal logbook, and receive custom alerts for nearby occurrences. Your data remains private and on-device.

Highlights
  • Live radar map
  • Customizable map layers
  • Detailed object information
  • Personal logbook and collection
  • Customizable alerts
  • Sky and astrology tracking
  • On-device data privacy
Features
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Spot is a spotter's logbook for everything that moves. Planes overhead, trains and buses going past, ships offshore, tagged wildlife, the ISS at dusk. See what is around you, bank what you catch, and build a collection. THE MAP Aircraft, with helicopters, military, emergency and privacy-flagged flights called out. Trains, buses and ships. Airports. The ISS and upcoming rocket launches. Earthquakes, wildfires, lightning and severe weather. Road incidents, roadwork and events. Tagged sharks from OCEARCH. Landmarks. Confirmed ALPR camera locations from public OpenStreetMap data. Flight restriction zones. Tonight's sky objects on real geography. RADAR SCOPE The same contacts on a plan position scope centred on you. Range rings, a rotating sweep, phosphor afterglow and colour coded blips. Pinch to set the range, 2 km to 500 km. SENSOR Your own movement, from the phone's GPS, barometer and accelerometer. Live speed on a dial, altitude, climb rate, g-force, heading and position. All on the device, so it works in a tunnel, on a train, or in airplane mode. Choose mph, km/h or knots. JOURNEYS Hit record, put the phone in your pocket, and Spot writes the whole trip down: route, speed, altitude, climb and g-force. It keeps going with the screen off and pauses itself when you stop. Every journey lands on a globe you can spin, each mode in its own colour Replay a trip with a time scrubber, or watch a long flight play back on the globe Lay your live stats over video you filmed on the trip and save it to Photos Export any journey as a GPX file LIVE ACTIVITIES Pin a flight and follow it on the Dynamic Island and Lock Screen: position, altitude, speed and arrival. Start a nearby radar and watch the count of aircraft around you change. A recording journey gets its own Live Activity with a stop button. SPOTDEX Every kind you have caught, laid out like a dex. Dex numbers, first and last seen, flyover tallies, notes and photos. Uncaught entries stay silhouettes until you find them. BADGES Over a hundred badges across milestones, logbook, craft, places, photos, habits, flyovers, watchers and journeys. FOG OF WORLD The ground you have walked is cleared from a fog layer over the map. Fold the world into a globe, see the countries and cities you have set foot in, and climb the explorer ranks. Journeys clear fog as you travel. SKY AND SPACE What is up tonight from where you are: the Moon and its phase, planets, bright stars, meteor showers and comets, with rise and set times and a watchlist. Then the solar system in 3D, with the ISS on its live orbit. SPOTTER AR Hold the phone up and Spot overlays nearby aircraft and the ISS on the real sky, so you know which light you are looking at. ALERTS A tracked plane or train passing overhead. Emergency squawks nearby. Rare aircraft and special callsigns. The ISS overhead or due. Earthquakes, wildfires, lightning and severe weather near you. Launch countdowns. Entering a flight restriction zone. A followed shark surfacing again. A watched wildfire growing, contained, or out. PRIVACY Location stays on the device. One tap on the kill switch shuts down every GPS read across the app, and a blur option hides your exact pin for screenshots. Nothing is posted anywhere unless you share it. WORKS OFFLINE The Sensor readout, journey recording, Fog of World, the globe, the sky chart and your whole logbook all run with no connection. ICLOUD Sightings, photos, badges, fog, follows, watchlist and journeys sync through your own private iCloud database. You choose what carries. SHORTCUTS AND WIDGETS Widgets for your pins and the radar. Siri shortcuts to pin a flight, start a radar, or ask what is overhead. SPOT PRO Spotting, pinning, the logbook, badges, Fog of World, the sky chart, Sensor and Journeys are free. Spot Pro adds the server backed feeds and their alerts, monthly. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

Utkik4 screens
Spot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Utkik at 5.0 against Spot's 4.2. Spot's advantage is review sentiment (89% vs 50%) and iOS requirement (17.2 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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 Spot sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 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 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 9 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Utkik's written reviews are positive against 89% of Spot's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Utkik ships an update weekly, Spot every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Utkik versus Spot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUtkikSpot
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better4.2 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews88.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings49 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.017.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid SvenssonWilliam Whitehouse

Customer experience

Utkik

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

Spot

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Utkik

One-time1
  • Buy me a coffee$3.99
1 purchases

Spot

Subscriptions1
  • Spot Pro$0.991 Month

Questions

Is Utkik free?
Utkik is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Spot free?
Spot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Utkik or Spot?
Utkik is rated higher. Utkik averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Spot averages 4.2 from 9 ratings.
Do Utkik or Spot have ads?
Neither Utkik nor Spot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Utkik or Spot?
Utkik ships an update weekly, and Spot every 5 days. Most recently, Utkik was updated on October 25, 2026 and Spot on October 24, 2026.

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