Growth · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Plane Finder Radar
A high performance ADS-B receiver that shows plane positions
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites. Plane Finder Radar launched in 2016; 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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We built the smallest dual-band aircraft trackerfrom $48/mo▲95I grew frustrated with closed source ADS-B receivers a few years ago, and wanted to build a true low cost embedded ADS-B receiver from scratch for low power applications. I ended up developing a custom radio frontend that uses RP2040 PIO for Mode S preamble detection and demodulation, and also released the first open soruce implementation of UAT decoding on an RF MCU from TI (which works somewhat beyond the publicly stated specs for the chip). Today, ADSBee is a fully featured dual-band ADS-B receiver, with Mode S, ADSB, UAT ADSB, UAT TIS-B / FIS-B, a ton of configurable reporting…
Aug 2026 · pantsforbirds.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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Flighty 4.0▲296Live flight tracker w/ the world's fastest delay alerts
2024 · flighty.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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Radar By Paved▲189The most comprehensive real-time newsletter sponsorship feed
2024 · paved.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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Simple yet powerful tool that lets you watch the planes
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Skyscanner▲248Compares millions of flights to find you the cheapest deal
2014 · skyscanner.com.sg · its alternatives →
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Wingbits AI▲266AI agents for real-time aircraft monitoring and alerts
May 2026 · wingbits.ai · its alternatives →
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Radar is a menubar app that works on macOS, Windows & Linux. It lets you check the things that matter to you without leaving the app you are working on.
2021 · getradar.co · its alternatives →
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