Wingtrace: Live Plane Tracker

Wingtrace shows you the aircraft above you — right now.

WHAT IS THAT PLANE UP THERE?
Point your phone at the sky and Wingtrace draws the aircraft onto the camera
image with callsign, altitude and distance — and a photo of that exact
aircraft. Only the ones you can actually see: the app accounts for the
curvature of the Earth and for how large the aircraft appears from where you
are standing, so an airliner 46 km away is included while a dot at 100 km is
not.

THE WORLD MAP IS BUILT IN
The whole map lives inside the app — coastlines, lakes, borders, 34,000 towns
and 14,844 runways. There are no map tiles to download, so the map is there
the moment you open it, and the only thing that costs data is the aircraft
positions themselves. You will notice it on roaming. Turn on "Detailed map"
if you want roads and more place names while you are online.

EVERY FLIGHT, THE WHOLE STORY
Tap an aircraft for the strip: callsign, type, altitude and speed. Pull it
all the way up for the full picture — a photo of the aircraft, the route
drawn as a great circle with how far there is left to go, and the raw numbers
from the transponder: the altitude selected on the autopilot, indicated and
true airspeed, mach, and the wind and temperature at the aircraft's altitude.
Other apps charge a subscription for that data.

THE AIRPORTS
Tap an airport to see what it looks like, how long the runways are, what they
are surfaced with, and which radio frequencies are in use. More than 2,000
airports have a photo.

FOLLOW A FLIGHT
Put a star on an aircraft and be told when it takes off or lands — even while
the app is in the background.

NEAR ME
See the closest aircraft with distance and bearing. Your location stays on
the phone and is not sent to anyone.

ENGLISH AND DANISH
Wingtrace speaks English. If you would rather have Danish, you can choose it
for this app alone, without changing your phone's language.

FREE — AND HONEST ABOUT IT
Wingtrace is free and paid for by ads. There is no paywall, no account, and
nothing locked away.

WHERE DOES THE DATA COME FROM?
Aircraft broadcast their own position over ADS-B. The signals are picked up
by a network of volunteers with antennas on their roofs and made available by
adsb.lol under the Open Database License. Airport data comes from OurAirports
(public domain), route data from VRS standing data, departure and arrival
times for Norwegian airports from Avinor, aircraft photos from Planespotters
and airport photos from Wikimedia Commons.

PLEASE NOTE
Aircraft positions are fetched over the network. Without a connection the map
is still there, but there are no aircraft on it.

Coverage is uneven. Aircraft below a couple of thousand feet and aircraft
without ADS-B are missing. Military aircraft appear only when they broadcast,
and as a rule they do not. Positions may be delayed, incomplete or wrong.

Wingtrace is not affiliated with any airline, airport or authority, and must
not be used for navigation, flight planning or any other operational purpose.

Recent changes:
Look at the sky. Point your phone at the sky and see the aircraft drawn
onto the camera image — with a photo of that exact aircraft, and only the
ones you can actually spot.

Airports now have a photo of their own, next to the runways and frequencies.

The detail sheet has been rebuilt. Pulled all the way up it gives you a
photo, the route with progress, three instruments and every transponder
reading.

The map remembers where you left it.