Live map & trails
Follow aircraft across the map. Filter by airline, aircraft type or flight phase, and explore their recent tracks.
For iPhone, iPad & Android
Hear a plane?
Know where to look.
Find aircraft nearby, follow a journey and keep the sky a glance away. Start free, with no account and no ads.
Explore Watch the Sky
The sky, right on your screen.
Watch the Sky shows an aircraft near your saved place, its distance, direction and how high to look. No need to open the app just to find out what is overhead.
On your Home Screen
Watch aircraft near home, or see your next saved flight with its gate and departure time.
On your Lock Screen
On iPhone, choose a rectangular widget or a compact line to watch aircraft near your saved place, even when you have an upcoming flight.
Sky widgets are free. Readings update periodically; open Contrail for live tracking. Home Screen widgets are available on iOS and Android; Lock Screen widgets are for iPhone.
For the plane above you. And the journey ahead.
Explore live traffic, keep an eye on a trip, or build a logbook of the places you have been.
Flight details
See available routes, altitude, speed, aircraft photos and registration. Check the age of the latest position.
My Flights
Save a flight by number and date. Follow its status, gate, delays and the aircraft operating the inbound journey.
Search & airport boards
Find flights, registrations and airports. Browse available arrivals, departures, gates and local airport times.
Passport
Keep past journeys, maps and travel statistics. Import CSV from Flighty, Flightradar24 and OpenFlights, and export an OpenFlights-compatible CSV. iCloud logbook sync is available on iOS.
Weather & airspace
Explore airport weather, METAR observations, aurora forecasts and glider activity. Pro adds selected weather and airspace layers.
Coverage, timetables and aircraft details depend on the available data. Contrail is for exploration, not flight navigation.
Contrail Pro
Keep closer to the flights you care about.
Contrail Pro adds alerts, watchlists and more ways to explore. Check current plans, prices and any eligible trial in the app.
Flight alerts
Choose notifications for detected gate changes, delays, departures, arrivals and baggage updates.
Live Activities · iOS
Keep one journey on your Lock Screen and, on supported iPhones, in the Dynamic Island.
Discover & watchlists
Explore military, government and other notable aircraft. Get alerts when activity is detected for aircraft you follow.
Flight Cinema
Replay supported past flights in 3D. Explore the timeline and camera views; some routes are reconstructed or incomplete.
Specialist map layers
Explore SIGMET hazards, UK military airspace, holding patterns, activity corridors and the gliders-only filter.
Watch the Sky, basic tracking, Passport CSV import/export and emergency-squawk alerts remain free. A sky widget and a Pro Live Activity serve different purposes.
Explore Contrail Pro in the appAvailable on iOS
More languages. A clearer first flight.
Full English, Norwegian Bokmål, German, Spanish and French across the app, widgets and Help. A new welcome guide explains how to get more from Contrail, with improved virtual Fly along views.
These features are available in the current iOS release. Features and language support can differ by platform and version.
Start with what interests you.
1
Spot a plane
Open the map and tap an aircraft to explore its available details.
2
Follow a journey
Add a flight number and date to My Flights. Choose alerts separately if you have Pro.
3
Add a widget
Pick a saved place in the app, then add Contrail from your device’s widget gallery.
A little help looking up.
Find a plane, add a widget or bring your flight history along.
What plane is flying over me?
Identify a nearby aircraft with Contrail. Find its route, altitude and registration, then use Watch the Sky to see which direction to look.
A flight tracker widget for your patch of sky.
Set up Contrail’s free Watch the Sky widget on iPhone or Android. See nearby aircraft, direction and viewing angle, with iPhone Lock Screen options.
Bring your flight history with you.
Keep your travel history in Contrail’s Passport. Import CSV exports from Flighty, Flightradar24 or OpenFlights, review your flights and export a backup.
No account. No ads.
Explore without signing up. Optional notifications use the information needed to deliver your alerts. On iOS, your logbook syncs when iCloud is available for Contrail.
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