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Every aircraft in the sky.
On your map, in seconds.

Squawk is the flight tracker built for people who watch the sky — live traffic worldwide, altitude-colored trails, push alerts for the aircraft you care about, historical replay, wildfire aviation and an AR view that names what's overhead.

iOS 17+ · Free to use · Every install starts with 7 days of full Pro
Squawk live map — real aircraft silhouettes over San Diego
GLOBAL ADS-B & MLAT COVERAGE1–2 SECOND LIVE CADENCEPUSH ALERTS EVEN WHEN CLOSED30-DAY WORLD REPLAYLIVE WILDFIRE AVIATIONNO ADS, EVER
Global
Unfiltered ADS-B + MLAT
1–2 s
Live update cadence
230+
Military bases watched
30 days
Of world replay
7700
Emergencies watched worldwide
49,000+
Airports indexed
AR
Point your phone, name the plane
0
Ads or data brokers, ever
7 days
Full Pro on every install
See it in action

The whole sky, in your pocket

Live map of every plane in the sky
Tap any flight for route, aircraft and history
Instant push alerts for aircraft near you
Wildfires tracked live with air tankers
Your flight tracked gate to gate
Rewind the sky up to 30 days
Airport intelligence with live boards and runway winds
Swipe to explore →
The map

A live picture of the entire 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.

🛩️

Real silhouettes

Fighters, tankers, bombers, Chinooks, drones, balloons — aircraft draw as what they are, colored by role: cyan airline, red military, orange firefighting.

🧵

Altitude-colored trails

Full flight history per aircraft, split by leg, colored by altitude. Tap any plane for its route, photos, squawk and profile.

🎖️

Military & emergencies

Dedicated military tracking with type recognition, plus worldwide 7700 / 7600 / 7500 emergency-squawk monitoring.

Historical replayPRO 30-DAY

Scrub any region of Earth back in time and watch every flight re-fly at up to 120×. The last 24 hours are free.

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ATC scannerPRO

Plug in a radio scanner and get live on-device AI transcription of tower and approach — no audio ever leaves your phone.

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AR sky viewPRO

Point your phone at a contrail and get callsign, type, altitude and distance floating over the real sky.

The plane sheet

Tap any plane. Get everything.

One tap on any aircraft opens the whole story — no hunting through menus.

  • Live flight data — speed, altitude, vertical rate, squawk, position age
  • Rarity at a glance — a 5-tier chip tells you instantly if it's something special
  • Altitude-colored trail + a scrubbable altitude & speed profile chart
  • Route & destination — where it's headed, drawn on the map
  • Flight history — every leg this airframe flew in the last 30 days PRO
  • Photos, operator & airframe details — built year, serial, registered owner
Squawk plane sheet — live flight data, rarity chip and trail
Alerts

The sky comes to you

Squawk's alert engine runs in the cloud. Every alert fires in-app for free; Pro pushes them to your Lock Screen — the app doesn't need to be open, or even running.

Squawk alerts — zones, lifelist, tracked aircraft, type takeoffs and base movements

Pick your watchers — one clean push each:

  • Zones — draw a circle anywhere on Earth; filter it by type, tail or category
  • Lifelist — the planes you're hunting, pinged when one is nearby
  • Tracked aircraft — specific tails, pinged at takeoff worldwide
  • Type takeoffs — know when any B-52 or U-2 gets airborne
  • Base movements — departures & recoveries at 230+ military bases PRO
  • Fleet watch — presence alerts for a whole operator fleet, like every Boeing 757 an airline flies PRO
  • Automatic — worldwide emergency squawks, rocket-launch visibility, rare aircraft headed over you
My Flights

Your own flights, done properly

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.

  • Gates, terminals & delays — with the reason when the airline publishes one
  • A real ETA — computed from the aircraft's actual position, not just the schedule
  • Lock Screen Live Activities — boarding, takeoff, descent and landing at a glance
  • Inbound-aircraft intel — see where your plane is before your flight, and get warned when a late inbound puts your departure at risk
  • Airport ground view — a live airport diagram with your gate and taxi traffic
  • Flightbook — every flight you've flown: routes, hours, distance, on-time stats
  • Friends in the air — share your flight and see friends' flights live PRO
Squawk My Flights — past flights over a route map
For spotters

Built around the logbook

📓

Lifelist & logbook

Log sightings in two taps. Badges, streaks, share cards, CSV export — your records stay yours.

📍

Spotting locations

Curated spots at major airports and bases with notes and frequencies, plus your own pins.

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Real community

The leaderboard and spot pages are built from real logged sightings only — no invented users, no fake likes.

🔥

Fire Tracker

Hotspots, named incidents nationwide, perimeters, airtanker bases and orange-highlighted firefighting aircraft.

🌦️

Weather & airspacePRO

Weather radar, FAA airspace and live TFRs, turbulence & SIGMETs, winds aloft, VFR sectionals; METAR/TAF on every airport page.

🚀

Rocket launches

Launch schedule with countdowns, trajectory chips and plume-visibility forecasts for your location.

📌

Pin the mission

Pin up to 25 aircraft at once — pinned planes keep colored trails, survive filters, and line up as cards for a frame-shot of the whole picture.

Pinned aircraft with colored trails on the Squawk map

Made for the days something's happening

A red-flag wind event, an exercise at the base, a presidential movement — pin everything involved and watch the whole operation unfold on one screen. Colored trails per aircraft, callsign chips, and a one-tap camera that captures a clean framed shot ready to post.

  • Live & military modes, category filters, altitude & speed rails
  • Emergency squawks pulse on the map worldwide — 7700, 7600, 7500
  • Share any plane as a data card with a live tracking link
Why Squawk

Not just another flight tracker

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.

 
Typical trackers
Squawk
Military aircraft
Filtered out
Never hidden
Emergency squawk alerts
Worldwide
Wildfire & air-tanker tracking
Free
Rewind the sky (replay)
Rarely
Up to 30 days
AR "what's overhead"
Built in
Ads & trackers
Everywhere
None, ever
Pricing

Free to fly. Pro to go deeper.

Free
$0
Everything you need to watch the sky
  • Full live map with altitude-colored trails
  • In-app alerts: an alert zone, a tracked aircraft & type takeoffs
  • 24-hour area replay
  • Logbook, lifelist, badges & community
  • Fire Tracker, rocket launches, flight tracking
  • 6 pinned aircraft & day/night + oceanic-track overlays
Squawk Pro
$4.99/month
or $34.99/year (save 42%) · 7-day free trial · billed via Apple
  • Push alerts to your Lock Screen, even with the app closed
  • 30-day historical replay + per-aircraft flight history
  • Base movements, fleet watch & rare-overhead alerts
  • Live ATC scanner with on-device transcription
  • Weather radar, FAA airspace & TFRs, SIGMETs, winds aloft, VFR sectional
  • AR sky view, trails posters, up to 25 pins & more alert zones
Field guide

For the curious

FAQ

Questions, answered

Where does the flight data come from?
Community-run, unfiltered ADS-B networks — primarily adsb.lol, open data under the ODbL license. If a transponder broadcasts it, you'll see it.
Do alerts work with the app closed?
With Pro, yes. The alert engine runs server-side and delivers native push notifications, so zone entries, takeoffs and emergencies reach you even if you haven't opened the app in days. On the free tier, all the same alerts fire while the app is open.
Is my location tracked?
No continuous tracking, no ads in the app, no analytics brokers. Location is used on-device for the map and AR; proximity alerts store only the coordinates you choose. The only third-party measurement is Apple's anonymous SKAdNetwork install counting for our own App Store ads — no advertising identifier, no cross-app tracking. See the privacy policy.
What do I need for the ATC scanner?
Any radio scanner with audio out (a Uniden BC125AT works great) plus a USB audio interface into your iPhone. Transcription runs entirely on the phone.
Can I cancel Pro anytime?
Yes — it's a standard Apple subscription, managed in Settings › Apple ID › Subscriptions. Cancel anytime and keep Pro until the period ends.

The sky is busy. See all of it.

Squawk for iOS is out now — free on the App Store, with 7 days of full Pro included.

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Flight data © adsb.lol (ODbL) · Maps © OpenStreetMap · Wildfire data: NASA FIRMS, NIFC & CAL FIRE