Set it on your desk or pull it from your pocket. Skyby instantly shows what is flying overhead: airliners, private planes, helicopters, and more. No searching, no typing, no menus.
Skyby identifies it all: the airliners crossing your sky, the private planes and business jets, the helicopters overhead. Airliners show their route and flight details; general aviation and helicopters show the aircraft type and operator. Prefer to keep it to the airlines? Flip on Commercial Only in settings.
Whatever is above you appears the moment you look. No searching, no typing. Airline or operator, aircraft type, and altitude, right there.
Set an alert for the aircraft you care about and Skyby chimes the moment one flies over. A380 and 747 alerts are built in, free.
Tap any catch in your logbook and Skyby makes a broadcast-style chyron for it: airline, flight, route, aircraft and tail. Save it straight to Photos and lay it over your own shot. Free for everyone.
See when a flight is coming into range, so you know something's about to cross your patch of sky.
Use your current location, drop a pin to watch the skies over home while you're at work, or set the pin to live and Skyby follows you as you move. The location screen also shows live air traffic, so you can see what's nearby and what's headed your way. Planes turn green when they're inside your radius.
Skyby runs on iPhone, iPad, and Android. Propped up on a desk or shelf, a tablet's bigger screen is the best seat in the house.
Planespotting photographer? At the fence, your hands are on the camera. Skyby runs alongside you and logs every arrival that crosses your patch: tail, type, route, and the time it passed. Get home and the captions are already written. Not a photographer? The log still fills itself. Every catch, kept.
An iPad on a shelf, a chime, and a 747 overhead. This is Skyby doing its job while nobody touches anything.
Free identifies everything overhead. Pro adds the photos, the reach, and the history.
| Free | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Identifies everything overhead: airliners, GA, bizjets, helicopters | ||
| Unlimited catches | ||
| Inbound indicator | ||
| Set your spot or roam | ||
| Built-in A380 and 747 alerts | ||
| Takeoff and landing icons | ||
| Chyron for your photos and videos | ||
| Catch radius | 3 nm | 20 nm |
| Logbook history | 24 hours | 90 days |
| Real aircraft photos | ||
| Custom alerts for any airline, type, flight, or tail | ||
| Logbook search and filters | ||
| Stats | ||
| Bookmarks | ||
| Export your logbook as CSV |
No ads on either tier, ever.
Nothing to set up, nothing to search. Just look up.