Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Plane Club

Capture your plane sightings - Private by default.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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   I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights▲1,539

   Hey HN! Pilots everywhere are required to keep a logbook of all their flying hours, aircraft, airports, and so on. Since I track everything digitally (some people still just use paper logbooks!), I put together some data visualizations and a few 3D globes to show my flying history. This globe is probably my favourite so far: https://jameshard.ing/pilot/globes/all If you’ve got ideas for other graphs or ways to show this kind of data, I’d love to hear them!

   2025 · jameshard.ing · its alternatives →

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   I built a DIY plane spotting system at home▲207

   DIY plane spotting with a Raspberry Pi and an Android phone

   2025 · pilane.obviy.us · its alternatives →

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   Plane Finder▲74

   Track real-time air traffic worldwide

   2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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   Flight Follower▲114

   Ad free flight tracking for aviation enthusiasts

   Jan 2026 · flightfollower.app · its alternatives →

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   Overflight▲116

   Identify every aircraft in your sky.

   Jul 2026 · dgrlabs.co · its alternatives →

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   Logmytrip▲71

   Keep track of your flights and hotel stays

   2021 · logmytrip.net · its alternatives →

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   Corporate Private Jet Tracker▲30

   Create a Quiver account

   2020 · quiverquant.com · its alternatives →

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   Waterbomber Wildfire Tracker▲89

   App to spot all fire fighting related aircrafts

   2021 · waterbomber.app · its alternatives →

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   Plane Above Me▲96

   What's that plane?

   2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Plane Finder AR▲126

    Look in the sky and see info about the flight overhead

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    App in the Air▲76

    Flight Tracker with Airport Guides

    2014 · lifeintheair.com · its alternatives →

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    OnlyFlights▲121

    Flight tracking made easy

    Nov 2025 · onlyflights.app · its alternatives →

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    Logbook by Veryfi▲82

    Vehicle Mileage Tracking Logbook on Auto-Pilot

    2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Airtrac▲130

    Pilots, Track Your Air Travel

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    OtherATC▲18

    Plane spotting made easy for everyone

    Jul 2026 · otheratc.com · its alternatives →

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    Skies-adsb 2.0 – my 3D plane-tracking web app▲59

    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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    Abuse inflight WiFi APIs to track your flight▲105

    A flight tracker made in 6 hours on a flight home from OuterNet - NalinPlad/OuterFlightTracker

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Bluelane▲100

    Real-time route tracking and sharing for iPhone

    2018 · bluelane.io · its alternatives →

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    Flight▲85

    A Beautiful Flight Tracking App

    2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Plane Finder▲92

    Identify airplanes with iPhone

    2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Skyhop▲69

    A digital flight log for general aviation

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    What's My Aircraft?▲73

    2019 · whatsmyaircraft.com · its alternatives →

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    Flight Logger X▲10

    Your flight tracking companion

    2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Max Planes▲74

    Watch ADS-B plane traffic live on macOS

    2019 · mtlabs.com.au · its alternatives →

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