What is Squawk?
Squawk is an iOS flight tracker built for plane spotters and military-aviation
watchers — the people who hear a jet and go outside.
The one-paragraph version
Squawk is a live flight-tracking app for iPhone. It shows every aircraft the volunteer
ADS-B network can see — airliners, general aviation, helicopters, and military — on a live
map with altitude-colored trails. What makes it different is what it does when you are not
looking at the map: it can push an alert to your lock screen when any aircraft enters an area
you care about, when jets or tankers depart a military base you watch, when a rare airframe
like a B-52 or U-2 is about to pass overhead, or when an aircraft anywhere in the world
declares an emergency.
Plain facts
- Platform: iPhone (iOS). Free download on the
App Store.
- Price: the core tracker is free. Squawk Pro is $4.99/month or $34.99/year,
and every new install starts with a 7-day trial of everything — no sign-up required.
- Free includes: the live worldwide map with military aircraft shown,
altitude-colored flight trails, 24-hour area replay, one alert zone, a spotting logbook with
stats and badges, live wildfire tracking, aircraft photos, per-flight altitude/speed charts,
and a day/night terminator.
- Pro adds: background push alerts, unlimited alert zones, military-base
movement alerts, rare-aircraft overhead pings, fleet watch, weather radar and aviation weather
layers (SIGMETs, PIREPs, winds and turbulence aloft), FAA airspace/TFR/VFR-sectional layers,
30-day replay and per-aircraft flight history, an AR sky view, shareable 4K trail posters, and
a radio transcriber for external ATC scanners.
- Data: community ADS-B networks, primarily
adsb.lol (ODbL). Coverage is strongest over North America and
Europe. Full data-source pledge.
- Web: a free, no-signup live tracker runs in any browser.
Who it is for
Spotters who keep a logbook. People who live near a base and want to know what just took
off. Avgeeks who want a ping when something rare is inbound instead of refreshing a map.
Anyone who has ever heard military traffic overhead and wondered what it was.
Get Squawk on the App Store
Try the web tracker
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