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24 alternatives to Waterbomber Wildfire Tracker

App to spot all fire fighting related aircrafts

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Waterbomber Wildfire Tracker launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1IM
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 →
2
Firespot Wildfire Scanner▲77
An app for viewing, tracking and receiving wildfire alerts
2021 · its alternatives →
3
FireStop▲79
iPad app for firefighters to make faster decisions
2014 · its alternatives →
4
Overflight▲116
Identify every aircraft in your sky.
Jul 2026 · dgrlabs.co · its alternatives →
5
Wildfire▲159
Front page of the 5 miles around you
2017 · its alternatives →
6
AeroNautical 2.0▲68
An all in one app for aviation enthusiasts ✈️
2019 · its alternatives →
7
App in the Air 5.0▲143
Flight Tracker. The best TripIt alternative yet
2015 · its alternatives →
8
Plane Finder AR▲126
Look in the sky and see info about the flight overhead
2017 · its alternatives →
9IB
I built a DIY plane spotting system at home▲207
2025 · pilane.obviy.us · its alternatives →
10
Flight Follower▲114
Ad free flight tracking for aviation enthusiasts
Jan 2026 · flightfollower.app · its alternatives →
11
Flighty 4.0▲296
Live flight tracker w/ the world's fastest delay alerts
2024 · flighty.com · its alternatives →
12
Watch Duty▲205
Get real-time alerts of wildfires and firefighting efforts
2025 · watchduty.org · its alternatives →
13
App in the Air▲76
Flight Tracker with Airport Guides
2014 · its alternatives →
14
wildbirds▲106
Birdwatchers app to share and discover birds socially
Jun 2026 · wildbirds.io · its alternatives →
15
OnlyFlights▲121
Flight tracking made easy
Nov 2025 · onlyflights.app · its alternatives →
16
Flight▲85
A Beautiful Flight Tracking App
2014 · its alternatives →
17SA
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 →
18
Plane Above Me▲96
What's that plane?
2022 · its alternatives →
19
Rainy Skies 2.0▲146
Your weather app, now with Radar and Apple Watch App
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
20
Skyhop▲69
A digital flight log for general aviation
2020 · its alternatives →
21
Flighter▲66
A Slack app to find the cheapest flights for your trips
2020 · its alternatives →
22SR
Safe Routes. real time turbulence data, ML predictions with an iPad▲126
2024 · skypath.io · its alternatives →
23
Plane Finder▲92
Identify airplanes with iPhone
2014 · its alternatives →
24
Flighty▲22
Flight Tracking Made Easy
2019 · its alternatives →

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