SkyDot vs FlyETA

The offline flight tracker that works in Airplane Mode. SkyDot follows your own flight in real time using your iPhone's GPS, with no signal and no inflight Wi-Fi. See your plane on the map with live altitude, speed and arrival countdown, even at 38,000 feet. Cities, airports and the world map live on your device. Turn on Airplane Mode, keep Location Services on, open SkyDot and see exactly where you are, whether that's over an ocean, a desert or the pole. WHY FLYERS USE SKYDOT - Works fully offline. Your GPS position keeps updating without any connection. - Know your ETA. A great-circle route line shows distance remaining and a live countdown to your local arrival time. - Real flight instruments. Live ground speed, altitude and heading, like a GPS altimeter and speedometer in your pocket. - See the sky. A day-night terminator and sunrise/sunset almanac tell you when to expect that window-seat sunset. FEATURES - Live GPS flight tracking on a world map, no internet required - Great-circle route with distance remaining and arrival countdown - Speed, altitude and heading instruments - Day-night terminator and sunrise/sunset almanac - Flight log with stats: distance, duration, max altitude, top speed and countries crossed - Visited-countries world map to track where you've been - Shareable flight summary cards - Multi-leg trips with per-leg ETA - Flight number entry for quick route setup - Offline city and airport database with 69,000 cities BUILT FOR TRAVELERS Frequent flyers, nervous passengers who like knowing exactly where they are, and aviation fans who love the numbers all get the same thing: a window seat that feels like mission control, with or without a connection. FREE TO START Offline flight tracking is free and supported by ads. Your first 5 saved flights are included. Watch a rewarded ad to unlock one more save, up to 10 extra. Rewarded ads need an internet connection. SKYDOT PREMIUM Premium removes all ads and unlocks all your flights [CHECK: and every offline map region]. Signed-in Premium users also get cloud backup of their flight log. - Monthly: $2.99 per month - Yearly: $12.99 per year, save over 60% compared to monthly - Lifetime: $19.99, one payment, no subscription Prices are in US dollars and may vary by country. YOUR FLIGHT PATH STAYS ON YOUR PHONE GPS is processed on your device. Cloud backup stores flight summaries only, never raw coordinates or the route line. GOOD TO KNOW GPS reception varies by device, aircraft, and seat. A window seat works best, and updates may pause when the signal is weak. Follow your airline's rules for electronic devices. Download SkyDot to track your flight, even in Airplane Mode. LEGAL Monthly and Yearly subscriptions start with a 7-day free trial. When the trial ends, the subscription starts automatically and payment is charged to your Apple ID. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your App Store account settings. Lifetime is a one-time purchase and does not renew. Privacy Policy: https://skydotapp.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://skydotapp.com/terms

When do we land, and what is that down there? FlyETA answers both from your phone's own GPS, in airplane mode, on a 3D globe of the whole planet that is already inside the app. Look out at a river, find it on the globe and read its name. Check your arrival time and settle back. It needs no cabin Wi-Fi and works with no download at all. WHAT IS DOWN THERE - Towns, lakes, rivers, peaks and borders named on the 3D globe as you fly over them, and the countries under your track - More than 470,000 named places in the map that comes with the app: cities, mountain peaks, lakes, ranges and seas - Terrain for the whole planet from Copernicus elevation data and ESA WorldCover land cover. Sharper terrain for your route downloads when you set up a flight with a connection: always, on Wi-Fi only or never, as you choose in Settings. WHEN YOU LAND - Arrival time, time to go and distance to go - On routes with recent flights, the forecast follows the past flight most like yours. FlyETA collects these flights every day from open ADS-B data, for more than 20,000 routes, and loads your route's when you set up the flight with a connection. - Without them it uses a general flight model, which cannot see wind or holding - Flight phase: on the ground, climb, cruise, descent - The phase, arrival time and time to go on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island THE WHOLE PLANET IN 3D - Chase the airplane, orbit it, or pinch in to the cockpit and turn to the wing, with its engines turning and its lights flashing - Contrails at cruise height, the atmosphere on the horizon, and the stars and the Milky Way when you zoom out into space - Your past flights glow on the home globe and fly again as it turns - At most 30 frames a second, fewer when the phone runs warm and none while the globe is still, to save battery FOR THE CURIOUS - Altitude above mean sea level, ground speed, vertical speed and track - Cabin pressure altitude and a turbulence reading - GPS tools: heights above sea level and the ellipsoid, every accuracy figure, and a map with the accuracy ring - Metric, imperial or aviation units, globe layers for cities, countries, borders, rivers, peaks and airports, and 10 languages KEEP EVERY FLIGHT - Start following and FlyETA records the flight, with the screen locked too - If the app is closed in the air, the recording resumes when you open it again - Replay any flight at 1x, 10x, 60x or 300x - A passport with a stamp for each airport, a page for each country, and badges - Add a flight you took but did not record. It counts in the passport and replays as a labelled simulation. - Every recording is a readable JSON file in the Files app TRY IT BEFORE YOU FLY Pick any two of more than 4,000 airports and tap Simulate to watch the flight on the globe. Its heights and speeds are modelled, and the flight is labelled Simulated. Values only a phone in the air can measure show "--". HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT CAN SEE Position, height and speed come from your phone's own sensors, not from the aircraft. Reception varies with your phone, the aircraft and your seat; a window seat gives the phone a better view of the sky. FlyETA follows the flight you are on: it shows no gates, delays or other aircraft. Where a value is unknown, it shows "--" instead of a guess. FREE, AND YOURS Every feature is free: no in-app purchases, no subscription, no ads, no account. FlyETA never sends your position and uploads no flight. With a connection it sends the route's two airport codes, the names of the terrain squares the route crosses and the app and iOS version to tower.flyeta.app, and a flight number you type to api.adsbdb.com. In airplane mode it sends nothing. REQUIREMENTS iPhone 15 or newer, or an iPad with an A13 chip or newer, on iOS 26 or iPadOS 26 or newer. Live following needs GPS: an iPhone or iPad Wi-Fi + Cellular. A Wi-Fi-only iPad can simulate and replay flights. FlyETA is a personal project by Nick Bubelich, who wanted these two answers on every flight he took.