Comparison

Spot vs OverFlight Intelligence

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

Head to head
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

About

OverFlight Intelligence

Identify aircraft overhead with live data, including airline, type, origin, and destination. Track flights on a map, view airport boards, and receive alerts for specific aircraft. Log your sightings and build collections of aircraft and airlines.

Highlights
  • Live aircraft identification
  • Real-time flight map
  • Airport arrival/departure boards
  • Customizable alerts and watchlists
  • Digital logbook and collection building
  • Augmented Reality (AR) Sky View (Pro)
  • Tail number scanning
Features
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OverFlight Intelligence turns the sky above you into something you can read. Point your attention up and instantly know what's there – the airline, the aircraft type, where it came from, where it's headed, how high and how fast. OverFlight pulls live ADS-B data and dresses it up into a clean, glanceable display, then remembers everything you've seen. SEE WHAT'S OVERHEAD • Nearest-aircraft display – the closest flight, front and center, kiosk-style • Live map of every aircraft around you, sized and labeled by type • Tap any aircraft for full detail: route, altitude, speed, heading, squawk, and a photo • Rare and unusual aircraft highlighted automatically • AR Sky View – point your phone at the sky and watch live labels lock onto the aircraft overhead (free; Pro updates positions more often for sharper tracking) AIRPORT BOARDS • Real arrival and departure boards for any airport • See what's scheduled, delayed, and inbound NEVER MISS ONE • Watchlist: get a push notification when a specific aircraft is heading to your airport – even with the app closed • Wishlist: get alerted when a specific aircraft type – or a specific airline – is scheduled in or out of an airport or city • Alerts for rare aircraft you'd otherwise miss YOUR LOGBOOK & COLLECTION • Log every sighting, with photos and automatic date, time, and location • Build collections: aircraft types, airlines, countries, and airports • Earn achievement badges as your life list grows • Sync across all your devices with iCloud BUILT FOR SPOTTERS • Look up any aircraft by tail number or flight number • Snap a tail number and OverFlight reads the registration for you • Worldwide coverage – airlines and airports around the globe • Imperial or metric units, with speed in knots, mph, or km/h • Clean Light and Dark themes throughout • Works on iPhone and iPad OverFlight Pro Upgrade to Pro for an ad-free experience, the weather map layers (radar, clouds, satellite, precipitation), flight-track drawing, unlimited watchlist and logbook, faster live updates (which also sharpen AR Sky View tracking), the full nearby list, aircraft type and airline alerts, iCloud sync, tail-number scanning, and logbook export. OverFlight is free to use, supported by ads, with an optional Pro subscription. OverFlight Pro is an auto-renewing subscription: $7.99 per month or $39.99 per year. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings after purchase. Terms of Use: https://api.overflightintelligence.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://api.overflightintelligence.com/privacy

Screenshots

Spot4 screens
OverFlight Intelligence4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: OverFlight Intelligence at 5.0 against Spot's 4.2. Spot's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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. Spot sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month and OverFlight Intelligence sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

OverFlight Intelligence holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spot has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spot ships an update every 5 days, OverFlight Intelligence every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Spot versus OverFlight Intelligence: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpotOverFlight Intelligence
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (9 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.2 — better26.4
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWilliam WhitehouseJeffery Reeves

Customer experience

Spot

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

OverFlight Intelligence

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Spot

Subscriptions1
  • Spot Pro$0.991 Month
2 purchases

OverFlight Intelligence

Subscriptions2
  • OverFlight Pro+ Monthly$7.991 Month
  • OverFlight Pro+ Annual$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Spot free?
Spot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is OverFlight Intelligence free?
OverFlight Intelligence is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Spot or OverFlight Intelligence?
OverFlight Intelligence is rated higher. Spot averages 4.2 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while OverFlight Intelligence averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Spot or OverFlight Intelligence have ads?
OverFlight Intelligence shows ads; Spot does not.
Which is updated more often, Spot or OverFlight Intelligence?
Spot ships an update every 5 days, and OverFlight Intelligence every 3 weeks. Most recently, Spot was updated on October 24, 2026 and OverFlight Intelligence on October 24, 2026.

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