Tools for pilots and aviation

We're tracking 23 of these, and 23 are still live today.

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Overflight

Live

iOS/tvOS app that identifies every aircraft visible in the sky above you in real time.

Free

What to know▼

How it works: Live radar overlay shows airline, flight number, route, and altitude for visible aircraft
Pricing: free, with Pro for route details
Best for: Plane spotters and curious sky-watchers

Watched for 5 days · last checked today

Boston Aerospace AI

Live

Predictive-maintenance software for aircraft engines that forecasts remaining useful life and explains its predictions with source-attributed reasoning.

What to know▼

How it works: A 6-model machine learning ensemble predicts an aircraft engine's Remaining Useful Life, with SHAP explaining why and an AI orchestrator investigating further using live web search.
What's different: Built entirely solo.

Watched for 4 days · last checked today

Hydron

Live

An AI coding assistant trained specifically on embedded, robotics and drone/UAV codebases, aimed at engineers dealing with hardware constraints that general AI coding tools misunderstand.

What to know▼

How it works: An AI coding assistant with a pre-indexed knowledge graph of UAV, robotics and embedded hardware artifacts, giving suggestions that account for memory constraints, hardware registers and RTOS scheduling instead of guessing.
What's different: Trained and rooted in hardware datasources rather than general web/application code, and includes a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) feature to close the loop between hardware and software.
Best for: Firmware, driver, and low-level systems engineers working on UAVs, robotics, IoT, or semiconductors where general AI coding tools tend to hallucinate.

Watched for 18 days · last checked today

SkylineSim

Live

Lets aviation fans manage a single-player airline simulation instead of requiring an always-online game.

Watched for 1 day · last checked 1d ago

WindUp

Live

Lets kitesurfers, sailors, and drone pilots get alarms based on live wind conditions instead of relying on time-based alarms alone.

What to know▼

How it works: Powered by 10,000+ global stations for real-time wind speed alerts.
Best for: kitesurfing, sailing, drone pilots, weather watchers

Watched for 1 day · last checked today

42Ah Anode-Free Cell

Live

A high energy-density solid-state battery cell spec'd for drones (UAVs) and custom battery builds, a hardware component, not consumer software.

Domain registered 4 months ago

What to know▼

How it works: A 42Ah, 3.85V solid-state anode-free battery cell rated for 3C continuous and 5C pulse discharge, operating from -43°C to 55°C, spec'd for UAVs and custom battery systems.
Best for: Engineers building drone (UAV) or custom battery systems who need a high energy-density cell rated for wide temperature extremes.

Watched for 14 days · last checked 2d ago

LEVANI — AI Second Pilot for UAVs

Live

An AI copilot for drone/UAV operators that runs voice-guided preflight checks and flight analysis, built solo by a veteran and released open source.

Open source

What to know▼

How it works: Performs voice-guided preflight inspections for UAVs, analyzes flight parameters, and responds to live voice commands in Ukrainian; evolving toward a real-time AI copilot for an entire flight mission.
What's different: Built solo by a military veteran and released open source.
Best for: Drone/UAV pilots.
Watch out: Very early stage — described as going from a file on a laptop to a running prototype in one week.

Watched for 14 days · last checked 8d ago

ARDAR - AR Flight Tracker

Live

Points your iPhone camera at the sky and overlays live flight data on real aircraft above you — for plane spotters and aviation enthusiasts, not industry professionals.

5.0★ 5 ratings on the App Store

What to know▼

How it works: An AR app that overlays live flight data on nearby aircraft when you point your iPhone camera at the sky.
Best for: Plane spotters, aviation fans, and travelers who want to identify what's flying overhead.

Watched for 18 days · last checked 2d ago

OtherATC

Live

A tracking app for plane-spotting hobbyists to log spotted aircraft, browse curated collections, and use airport data to plan spotting trips.

What to know▼

How it works: Helps plane spotters discover curated aircraft collections, track their spotting progress, and use airport intelligence to plan their next spotting trip.
Best for: Plane-spotting hobbyists.

Watched for 12 days · last checked 6d ago

ATCpal

Live

Lets aviation enthusiasts practice ATC communications with an AI controller instead of real radio training.

Watched for 1 day · last checked 1d ago

PlaneTracker

Live

Lets aviation enthusiasts track live aircraft near them instead of relying on generic flight trackers.

What to know▼

How it works: uses live ADS-B data for radar scope, map and notifications

Watched for 1 day · last checked today

FlexTrip Alerts

Live

Free flight-price monitoring service that emails you when a fare drops below your set budget for a chosen route.

Domain registered 1 month ago

Free

What to know▼

How it works: Watches round-trip fares on your route/dates and emails you when price drops below your limit
Pricing: free

Watched for 4 days · last checked 4d ago

Aironprice LLC

Live

A travel-support service for booking flights and handling cancellations, refunds and baggage issues across airlines, customer support for travelers, not an airline itself.

What to know▼

How it works: A travel booking and support platform for searching and comparing flights and getting help with cancellations, refunds, baggage issues and itinerary changes across multiple airlines.
Best for: Travelers who want a single point of support for flight bookings and changes rather than dealing with each airline directly.

Watched for 18 days · last checked 2d ago

Overhead

Live

A free browser-based live flight tracker and night sky map with 3D simulators, for people curious about what's overhead without installing an app.

Domain registered 11 days ago

Free

What to know▼

How it works: Live flight radar and real-time sky map in the browser
Pricing: Free, no signup

Watched for 5 days · last checked 4d ago

Antenna Experts

Live

A manufacturer of ILS and localizer antennas for airports, aimed at aviation ground-infrastructure teams dealing with maintenance downtime, not a software product.

What to know▼

How it works: Manufactures ILS and localizer antennas for airports, built from high-grade, rust-resistant materials designed not to need adjustment once installed.
Best for: Airport ground-infrastructure teams dealing with maintenance downtime on localizer or ILS antennas.

Watched for 13 days · last checked 11d ago

Gulfstream G650 Aircraft Model

Live

This shop handcrafts custom, museum-quality Gulfstream G650 model aircraft from a customer's own photos and specifications for pilots, owners, and collectors.

What to know▼

How it works: Builds custom replicas from aircraft photos and specifications instead of selling mass-produced models.
Best for: Aircraft owners, pilots, aviation businesses, and collectors.

Watched for 15 days · last checked 7d ago

UAV Mission Control

Live

A flight-planning and weather app built specifically for drone pilots: GO/NO-GO checks, wind-at-altitude, an RTH calculator and a flight logbook, for iOS and Android.

What to know▼

How it works: Gives drone pilots an instant GO/NO-GO flight verdict along with mission planning, wind-at-altitude data, an AR Sun Tracker, an RTH calculator, and a cloud flight logbook, on iOS and Android.
What's different: Positions itself as a full mission cockpit for drone pilots rather than just a weather app.
Best for: Drone pilots who need pre-flight go/no-go decisions and mission planning in one app.

Watched for 18 days · last checked 2d ago

Rotate Pilot

Live

Exam prep material for FAA and aviation certifications, written by a working airline pilot. For pilots-in-training studying toward an aviation exam.

What to know▼

How it works: Provides exam prep material for FAA and aviation certification exams.
What's different: Written by a real, working airline pilot rather than generic test-prep content.
Best for: Pilots-in-training studying toward an aviation exam.

Watched for 18 days · last checked 8d ago

overwatch.earth — watch the planet live

Live

Free real-time 3D globe visualizing live global signals like aircraft, ships, wildfires and internet outages.

FreeNo sign-up

What to know▼

How it works: A real-time 3D globe streaming aircraft, ships, trains, earthquakes, wildfires, lightning, submarine cables, internet outages, satellites, the Starlink constellation, air quality, and rocket launches.
Pricing: Free, no login.

Watched for 3 days · last checked 2d ago

LuggageValidator

Live

A tool that checks whether your luggage meets baggage size and weight limits for a given airline.

FreeNo sign-up

What to know▼

How it works: Checks whether your luggage meets baggage limits for 172 airlines and connecting flights, with data updated every 7 days from 510 traveller reports.
Pricing: Free, no signup required.

Watched for 10 days · last checked 4d ago

Matthew Slack Perth - Business Growth

Live

A personal consulting profile for an executive advisor on corporate governance and strategic growth across industries like healthcare, mining, and government — not a software product.

What to know▼

How it works: A personal profile page for an executive advisor on corporate governance and strategic business growth, describing work across commercial enterprise, healthcare, government, mining, infrastructure, aviation, and Indigenous economic development.
Best for: Organizations seeking executive advisory on corporate governance and strategic growth.

Watched for 13 days · last checked 2d ago

MEGA Aviation

Live

A private jet charter, medevac, and jet card service for the Middle East based in Riyadh.

What to know▼

How it works: Provides private jet charter, medevac, and jet card services with 24/7 worldwide availability.
What's different: ARGUS Platinum certified with senior-led operations.
Best for: Private jet travel to/from Riyadh and the Middle East.

Watched for 3 days · last checked 2d ago

Airway Connect

Live

Career platform focused on flight dispatchers, combining job listings, resume tools and airline directories.

What to know▼

How it works: Combines dispatcher job listings, resume tools, interview prep, and Part 121/135 airline directories in one platform.
What's different: Unlike generic aviation job boards, it's built specifically for flight dispatchers.
Best for: Aspiring and active flight dispatchers.

Watched for 3 days · last checked 2d ago

Tools for pilots and aviation — the short answers

Every number here comes from our own daily check — not from a vendor list.

Tools for pilots and aviation — how many are there?: Tablif is tracking 23 of them. 23 answered our check today.
Which ones are still maintained?: Tablif knocks on every door once a day and records the answer. 23 of these 23 responded on the latest run, so that number is what "still here" means on this page — not a review score.
Are any of them free?: 5 of the live ones say so in their own words, and 2 let you start without making an account. Tablif records the claim the product makes; we don't verify pricing.
Any open-source options?: 1 of the live ones on Tablif mention being open source.
What's the newest one?: SkylineSim — Tablif first saw it yesterday.
Did a person actually look at these?: 23 of them Tablif opened and read, then wrote a one-line summary in our own words instead of reusing the founder's tagline. The rest carry keyword labels we haven't confirmed by reading yet — and we say so rather than hiding it.