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

A window seat, somewhere over the world. A river shines below, then a lake, a town you have never heard of, a mountain in the snow. FlyETA shows you where you are: your place in the sky, on a 3D map of the whole planet, with the names of what you see and the time you land. FlyETA is an offline flight tracker and in-flight map for passengers. It runs from your own phone's GPS, in airplane mode. The whole planet is already inside the app, so it works with no cabin Wi-Fi and no download at all. WHAT IS DOWN THERE Look out, find it on the globe and read its name. Towns, lakes, rivers, peaks with their heights, borders and the countries under you are named as you fly over them, from more than 470,000 places that come with the app. Mountains, valleys and coasts are drawn in 3D. With a connection before you fly, FlyETA can add sharper terrain for your route. WHEN YOU LAND Your arrival time, the time to go and the distance to go. You see them on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island too. On routes with recent flights, the forecast follows the past flight most like yours: FlyETA collects these flights every day from open flight-tracking data, 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. THE VIEW Follow the airplane from behind, circle around it, or pinch in to the cockpit and look out at the wing, its engines turning and its lights flashing. Contrails at cruise height, and the stars and the Milky Way when you zoom out into space. The globe stops drawing when nothing moves, to save your battery. KEEP EVERY FLIGHT Tap Start following and FlyETA records the flight, with the screen locked too. After you land: - Find it in History and replay it at home, up to 300x - Collect a stamp for every airport and a page for every country in your Passport - Add a flight you took but did not record; it replays as a labelled simulation - Keep every recording as a readable file in the Files app FOR THE CURIOUS Altitude above sea level, ground speed and vertical speed from your phone's GPS, cabin pressure altitude, a turbulence reading, and GPS tools with every accuracy figure. Metric, imperial or aviation units, in 10 languages. TRY IT ON THE GROUND Pick any two of more than 4,000 airports and tap Simulate to watch the flight on the globe. A simulation is labelled Simulated, and values only a phone in the air can measure show "--". HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT SEES Position, height and speed come from your phone's own GPS, not from the aircraft, and a window seat gives it a better view of the sky. FlyETA follows the flight you are on: it shows no gates, delays or other aircraft. When it does not know a value, it shows "--" instead of a guess. FREE, AND YOURS Every feature is free: no ads, no account, no in-app purchases, no subscription and no limit on flights. FlyETA never sends your position and uploads no flight. With a connection it sends only what its lookups need: a flight number you type, your route's two airport codes, the map squares the route crosses, and the app and system version. 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. He loves to fly, and on every flight he wanted to know what was down there and when he would land.