AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Plane Above Me
What's that plane?
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Plane Above Me launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Plane Finder AR▲126Look in the sky and see info about the flight overhead
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Flight Follower▲114Ad free flight tracking for aviation enthusiasts
Jan 2026 · flightfollower.app · its alternatives →
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Skyty▲69Your flight's altitude, ground speed, nearest airport + ETA
Apr 2026 · skyty.app · its alternatives →
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Maps overhead aircraft live, alerts when planes are near you
Jul 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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SkyGuru▲292Explains what is going on during your flight in real time.
2016 · myskyguru.com · its alternatives →
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byAir▲162Your friendly mobile airports navigator and flight tracker
2023 · byairapp.com · its alternatives →
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Tinfoil Pigeons▲120See the aircraft flying over you on a retro radar scope
Jun 2026 · tinfoilpigeons.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · whatsmyaircraft.com · its alternatives →
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Flighty 4.0▲296Live flight tracker w/ the world's fastest delay alerts
2024 · flighty.com · its alternatives →
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DIY plane spotting with a Raspberry Pi and an Android phone
2025 · pilane.obviy.us · its alternatives →
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Descent▲160Set a budget and get alerted when flights get cheap
Mar 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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AI predicts if flight prices will drop or rise
2025 · airtrackbot.com · its alternatives →
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I've been working on this for a while now, and I'm happy to share! I've been into launching weather balloons for a few years. One aspect of the hobby that really drew me in was the tracking side of things. Tracking systems let you follow the balloon's position throughout the flight and, most importantly, know exactly where it lands so you can recover the instrumentation. APRS is what I started out using during my first few years in the hobby, after I got my amateur radio license in 2020 (W0MXX). I designed a few small boards using the trackuino…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello, I'd like to share a 3D plane tracking web app that I developed called: skies-adsb. Living near KMIA (a very busy airport), I spend a lot of time plane spotting and thought it would be cool to track planes in 3D. In October 2021, I built a prototype 3D ADS-B flight tracker called skies-adsb using p5.js. In April 2022, I released version 1.0 of skies-adsb, rewritten in Three.js. However, this release still relied on manual editing of GeoJSON layers. By late 2024, I had learned enough about GIS and GeoPandas to automate map creation using custom GeoJSON layers. During the Christmas…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Flight Tracker. The best TripIt alternative yet
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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See exactly what plane is flying over you from your Mac.
Apr 2026 · aboveme.app · its alternatives →
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