Comparison

Knot vs Overhead

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

Head to head
About

Knot

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Knot turns your map into a journal. Every place you've been holds something. The friend you met there. The conversation that stuck with you. The ordinary afternoon you'd otherwise forget. Knot gives you somewhere to put it. Drop a pin, write down what happened, and your map slowly becomes a record of your life as you actually lived it. WHY A MAP Most journals organize memories by date. But that isn't how we remember. You walk past a coffee shop and the whole evening comes back. You see a street name and remember who lived there. Place is the thread that pulls memory loose. Knot is built around that idea. Instead of scrolling backward through entries, you look at where you've been and everything comes with it. WHAT YOU CAN DO Drop a pin anywhere and attach a memory to it Note the people you were with and how you know them Write as much or as little as you want, from a sentence to a full entry Watch your map fill in over time as a picture of where your life has actually happened Revisit any pin whenever you want to remember FOR PEOPLE, NOT JUST PLACES Knot started as a way to keep track of people. Where you met someone, what you talked about, what they mentioned they were working on. It's the kind of detail that matters and disappears fast. Pin it, and it's there the next time you're in touch. YOUR MEMORIES STAY YOURS Knot stores everything on your device. Your pins, your notes, and your people never leave your phone. There's no feed, no followers, and nothing to perform. This is a private record, kept for you. QUIET BY DESIGN No streaks. No notifications nagging you to log your day. No metrics telling you how you're doing at remembering your own life. Open Knot when you have something worth keeping, and close it when you're done. Start with one pin. See what your map looks like in a year.

About

Overhead

Explore the sky with an augmented reality view that overlays aircraft, celestial bodies, and space events onto your surroundings. Track flights, identify stars, and get real-time sky event notifications.

Highlights
  • Augmented reality flight tracking
  • Real-time star and planet identification
  • ISS and celestial event forecasts
  • Clear-sky prediction
  • Live aircraft details and photos
  • Airport mode with live arrivals/departures
  • Learn to Spot aircraft identification guide
Features
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Overhead is a flight radar and a star map in one AR view. Hold up your iPhone and every aircraft overhead appears at its true position, next to the sun, moon, planets, stars and the International Space Station. Sky events list ISS passes, eclipses, meteor showers and aurora watches for where you stand, such as the Leonids on 17 November and the Geminids on 13 December. Hold your iPhone up and the sky explains itself. Every aircraft overhead appears in augmented reality at its true position, airline, type, destination, even a photo of the exact airframe. The sun, the moon at tonight's phase, the visible planets, 1,600 stars and their constellations, and the International Space Station share the same sky, all placed by on-device astronomy that's accurate to a fraction of a degree. Then Overhead does something no other app can: it predicts when a plane will cross the face of the moon or sun from exactly where you stand, and counts you down to the moment, shutter ready. • Clear-sky forecast: every dark hour scored for cloud, darkness and moonlight, with your best window to look up, and an optional heads-up before a genuinely clear evening. • Live aircraft with routes, photos, and honest data: when a flight is visibly landing somewhere other than its filed route says, Overhead tells you. • Airport mode: pick any airport and fly over it in 3D, with every arrival and departure moving live. • Favorites and Focus: follow one flight with a find-it arrow, in the Dynamic Island, and on your lock screen. • Sky sounds: every nearby plane becomes a 3D-positioned engine hum. Close your eyes and point at the sound. Best with AirPods. • Sky events: solar and lunar eclipses computed for YOUR location, meteor showers, full moons, narrated by on-device intelligence. • ISS transit forecasts: Overhead works out, days ahead, the exact second the Space Station will cross the sun or moon from where you stand. • Ask Siri: "What's flying over me?" or "Will it be clear tonight?" • StandBy moon clock for your nightstand. Apple Watch shows your next ISS pass. • Dark-sky mode: the full star map with the camera off, kind to your battery and your night vision. • Learn to Spot: an illustrated guide under Profile to 47 aircraft types, by nose, wings, tail and engines. Tick them off when you see them and earn rare-plane medals. OVERHEAD PRO: YEARLY, MONTHLY OR LIFETIME Everything above stays free, always. Overhead Pro is optional: — Time Machine: set the whole sky to any date within a year. Stand under next month's eclipse tonight. — Event previews: see any sky event in your sky, right from its page. — Unlimited aircraft details and unlimited favorite airports. Every future Pro feature is included. Choose yearly (7-day free trial), monthly (3-day free trial) or a one-time lifetime purchase. Yearly and monthly renew automatically until you cancel in your Apple Account settings. Pro is shared through Family Sharing, and purchases can be restored from the Overhead Pro page. Terms of Use: https://celestial-beacon-site.lovable.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://celestial-beacon-site.lovable.app/privacy No account. No ads. No tracking. The sky is computed on your iPhone; live aircraft come from public flight feeds.

Screenshots

Knot4 screens
Overhead4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Knot at none against Overhead's 3. Knot also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). Overhead's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price 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. Overhead sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Knot asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Knot versus Overhead: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKnotOverhead
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWilliam SuelingHemal Modi

In-app purchases

None

Knot

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Overhead

Subscriptions2
  • Overhead Pro Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Overhead Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Overhead Pro$24.99

Questions

Is Knot free?
Knot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Overhead free?
Overhead is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Knot or Overhead have ads?
Neither Knot nor Overhead shows ads.

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