Watch Tower Pro vs Overhead 1090

Watch Tower Pro maps 686,000+ publicly documented surveillance cameras worldwide — government CCTV, police license-plate readers (ALPR), speed and red-light enforcement, traffic monitoring, and dome cameras — and alerts you before you walk or drive into range. Most people pass a dozen cameras a day without noticing. Watch Tower Pro is a privacy-awareness tool: it shows you what's documented so you can make informed decisions about where you go and how you get there. WHAT'S NEW IN 1.6 • Refreshed worldwide database: 686,631 cameras, rebuilt from OpenStreetMap on November 3, 2026, with more than 20,000 newly mapped cameras. • Follow: an optional map button that keeps the map centered on you as you move. • Settings spells out exactly what works offline and what needs a connection. WHAT IT DOES • The camera database works offline. All 686,000+ camera locations ship inside the app, so camera lookups and proximity alerts work with no signal and no server to query. The background street map, place search and live camera images need a connection. • Color-codes every camera by type so you can tell an ALPR from a traffic cam at a glance. • Optional proximity alerts: a local notification when you enter the range of an alert-eligible camera. Choose which types alert you and how close. • Travel mode widens coverage automatically when you're driving so alerts fire at highway speed. • Nearby list ranks every documented camera within 8 km by distance, with the operator where known. • Directions to any camera, plus a link to its public source record. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO • No accounts. No login. No analytics. No tracking. No ads. • The app never sends your GPS position anywhere. Alerts use iOS region monitoring entirely on the phone. • BlackFox Media runs no server for the app. The only things we ever receive are emails you choose to send us, such as camera reports. • We do not include residential cameras (Ring, Blink, Nest, etc.). Their locations aren't public, and aggregating them would be wrong. NETWORK USE, PLAINLY The street map is downloaded from OpenFreeMap for the area on screen, so OpenFreeMap's servers can see that area and your IP address. Place search sends only the text you type to Apple. A live traffic-camera image is loaded directly from the government agency that publishes it. If you turn on Follow, streets keep downloading as you move, so OpenFreeMap can see the areas along your route. Without a connection, camera markers and alerts keep working; the streets behind them do not load. LIMITATIONS Public databases lag reality. A missing marker does not mean there's no camera there — treat all public space as observed. Reported cameras are reviewed by a person and added in the next data update, never posted automatically. DATA SOURCES Almost every location comes from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), including the plate-reader locations, which are ordinary OpenStreetMap nodes. A smaller set comes from camera feeds published openly by government transportation agencies. Each camera's detail screen credits its source and links to the original record. Watch Tower Pro is informational, not legal advice. By using it you agree to use it for lawful, defensive privacy-awareness purposes only. Made by BlackFox Media LLC.

Overhead 1090 turns your own ADS-B receiver into a beautiful live radar picture of the sky above you. No accounts. No subscriptions. No aircraft data leaving your network. If your antenna can hear it, Overhead 1090 shows it — with the low-latency, unfiltered view that only a local receiver can deliver. WHAT YOU GET • Live radar map — every aircraft your receiver hears, updated in real time on a gorgeous dark map • Aircraft details — callsign, registration, type, altitude, speed, heading, and distance from home • Reports — traffic by hour and day, busiest hours, top operators and types • Sightings — a feed of the notable stuff: military contacts, low passes, rare types, new airframes, closest approaches • Logbook — a searchable log of every flight your receiver has heard, each with its ground track • All your receivers — run more than one antenna? Add them all and filter by who heard what • Built for iPad — a full-screen radar display • Apple TV — the living-room big board. Put the sky above your house on the biggest screen you own • Mac — record every flight from the menu bar, with a live chart, Logbook, alerts and desktop widgets • Designed for iPhone Duo — half-fold it for the map above the traffic list • One purchase unlocks iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac WORKS WITH YOUR RECEIVER Overhead 1090 connects to ADS-B receivers on your local network that expose dump1090-compatible data — including popular Raspberry Pi feeder setups. Setup is as simple as pointing the app at your receiver's address; it can even find it for you. No receiver yet? Demo mode lets you explore the full app with realistic sample traffic. WHY LOCAL IS BETTER Internet flight trackers filter, delay, and aggregate. Your receiver doesn't. Overhead 1090 shows exactly what's broadcast over your head the moment it's received — including traffic that never appears on the big tracking sites. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your aircraft data stays on your network. Overhead 1090 has no analytics, no ads, and no accounts. The app's privacy label is "Data Not Collected." — Overhead 1090 is for hobbyist and educational use. It is not certified for real-world navigation, air traffic control, or safety-of-life use. Requires a dump1090-compatible ADS-B receiver on your local network for live data (demo mode works without one). The app logs traffic while it is open.