Squawk is the live flight tracker for people who look up — worldwide ADS-B traffic, altitude-coloured trails, 30-day replay, and push alerts the moment something worth seeing enters your sky.
Every aircraft broadcasting ADS-B or MLAT, rendered on one fast canvas — smooth at any zoom, from a single pattern at your local field to the whole planet.
Fighters, tankers, bombers, Chinooks, drones, balloons — aircraft draw as what they are, coloured by role: cyan airline, red military, orange firefighting.
Full flight history per aircraft, split by leg, coloured by altitude. Tap any plane for its route, photos, squawk and profile.
Dedicated military tracking with type recognition, plus worldwide 7700 / 7600 / 7500 emergency-squawk monitoring.
Scrub any region of Earth back in time and watch every flight re-fly at up to 120×. The last 24 hours are free.
Plug in a radio scanner and get live on-device AI transcription of tower and approach — no audio ever leaves your phone.
Point your phone at a contrail and get callsign, type, altitude and distance floating over the real sky.
One tap on any aircraft opens the whole story — no hunting through menus.
Squawk's alert engine runs in the cloud, so alerts reach your Lock Screen whether or not the app is open. One alert zone is free; Pro adds unlimited zones, base movements, rare aircraft and worldwide emergency squawks.
Pick your watchers — one clean push each:
Add a flight number and Squawk takes it from there — it finds your aircraft, follows it automatically at takeoff, and keeps you ahead of the airline.
Log sightings in two taps. Badges, share cards, CSV export — your records stay yours.
Curated spots at major airports and bases with notes and frequencies, plus your own pins.
The leaderboard and spot pages are built from real logged sightings only — no invented users, no fake likes.
Hotspots, named incidents nationwide, perimeters, airtanker bases and orange-highlighted firefighting aircraft.
Weather radar, FAA airspace and live TFRs, turbulence & SIGMETs, winds aloft, VFR sectionals; METAR/TAF on every airport page.
Launch schedule with countdowns, trajectory chips and plume-visibility forecasts for your location.
A red-flag wind event, an exercise at the base, a presidential movement — pin up to 25 aircraft and watch the whole operation unfold on one screen. Coloured trails per aircraft, callsign chips, and a one-tap camera that captures a clean framed shot ready to post.
The big trackers are built for airline passengers. Squawk is built for people who actually watch the sky — so it shows the things they hide.
The three emergency codes, how often they happen, and how to watch one play out live.
Read →Match it on a live map in seconds — plus the clues contrails, engines and paint give away.
Read →Refueling tracks, training areas and pattern work — and how to look up exactly what it is.
Read →Squawk for iOS is out now — free on the App Store, with a 1-week free trial on Pro yearly.
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