Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to PlaneTracker
Turn your phone into a live aircraft spotting radar
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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Tinfoil Pigeons▲120See the aircraft flying over you on a retro radar scope
Jun 2026 · tinfoilpigeons.com · its alternatives →
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Sup HN, So I got tired of bouncing between Flightradar, MarineTraffic, and Twitter every time something kicked off globally, so I wrote a dashboard to aggregate it all locally. It’s called Shadowbroker. I’ll admit I leaned way too hard into the "movie hacker" aesthetic for the UI, but the actual pipeline underneath is real. It pulls commercial/military ADS-B, the AIS WebSocket stream (about 25,000+ ships), N2YO satellite telemetry, and GDELT conflict data into a single MapLibre instance. Getting this to run without melting my browser was the hardest part. I'm running this on a laptop…
Mar 2026 · 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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DIY plane spotting with a Raspberry Pi and an Android phone
2025 · pilane.obviy.us · 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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A high performance ADS-B receiver that shows plane positions
2016 · shop.planefinder.net · 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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Wingbits AI▲266AI agents for real-time aircraft monitoring and alerts
May 2026 · wingbits.ai · its alternatives →
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ADS-B visualizer▲339I've created a web app for querying and visualization of ADS-B datasets: https://adsb.exposed/ Source code: https://github.com/ClickHouse/adsb.exposed/ The results significantly exceeded my expectations because the pictures are insanely beautiful, and the data is a treasure trove. It proves many statements that were not certain: - it is feasible to generate tiles by aggregation on a pixel level (instead of hexagons or rectangular grid); - it does not require JPG/PNG tiles - we can transfer raw bitmap data with zstd compression; - it is possible to…
2024 · adsb.exposed · its alternatives →
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I really like Stellarium and SkySafari but I felt like these are primarily geared towards exploring the sky but not so much "here are the long list of things I want to see, when can I see them tonight and where". There's also not really a great option I've found that combines sky object planning + location weather details while still being free so I built this. The UI's heavily inspired by NINAs sky atlas + Robinhood. Right now you can: View the altitude chart of objects and 3D view Create lists of objects of interest View the annual max/min daily altitude of an object to find the best…
2024 · astro.sshh.io · 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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Real-time object recognition with your iPhone
2014 · jetpac.com · its alternatives →
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Product Hunt analytics beyond the daily leaderboard
Jun 2026 · nodus-ai.app · its alternatives →
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Turn the sky into a live flight tracker.
Jul 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Flight logging and intelligence for drone operators
2015 · kittyhawk.io · its alternatives →
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