Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Tinfoil Pigeons
See the aircraft flying over you on a retro radar scope
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.
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E-ink bird frame for Raspberry Pi - real-time bird detection by audio, fully local AI, rendered as real, hand-cut 1800s bird illustrations. - arnegiacomo/fugleramme
Sep 2026 · 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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Wingbits AI▲266AI agents for real-time aircraft monitoring and alerts
May 2026 · wingbits.ai · its alternatives →
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Cardinal▲132The world's first autonomous surveillance drone for home
2016 · acausal.space · its alternatives →
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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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The #1 Augmented Reality Pigeon game in the world
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Pigeon News▲174Discover, upvote, and share your favorite newsletters
2020 · pigeonnewsletters.com · its alternatives →
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Turn your phone into a live aircraft spotting radar
Jul 2026 · planetracker.cozartconsulting.com · its alternatives →
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Pigeon▲81The 'new tab' that shows you headlines from the web
2016 · chromewebstore.google.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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Pollution monitoring birds above the skies of London
2016 · topbandb.com · its alternatives →
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What IS that bird you just saw? Merlin knows.
2015 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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AstroAlert▲113Know exactly when satellites pass above you.
Nov 2025 · astroalert.app · 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 logging and intelligence for drone operators
2015 · kittyhawk.io · 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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Birdi▲69Visualise drone-captured images & video on maps for insights
2023 · birdi.io · its alternatives →
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