Overflight
Identify every aircraft in your sky.
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Overflight - Identify every aircraft in your sky.

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A live radar scope of the sky above you. Every aircraft you can actually see, plotted, with airline, flight number, route, altitude, and which way to look. iPhone and iPad in your pocket, Apple TV as an always-on ambient display. Free, with Pro for routes.

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Hey, PH, dev here. I'm Charlie Wood, and DGR Labs is my a one-person shop. You might remember me from Spanning Sync, Spanning Backup, or Numerous. Overflight started with a personal compulsion: when a plane flies over my house I have to know what it is. Like, always. But every flight tracker wants to show me a map of the whole country and I wanted the opposite: just my visible sky and details about the aircraft in it. During beta testing, the Apple TV version emerged as its own thing: an ambient, always-on instrument. iPhone sessions average under a minute. Apple TV sessions average around 30 minutes. Huh! I use them both all the time: the iPhone version to answer the "What's that?" question, and the Apple TV version in my office to give me ambient awareness of my local airspace. The spoken traffic feature is IMO the hidden gem. Try it and see if you get hooked. Also try to "Precise location & direction" feature on Apple TV. I think it's pretty novel. The app is free, with a Pro tier for routes, spoken traffic, always-on mode, and "inbound interesting", a special mode for incoming military aircraft. Lots more info at Let me know what you think.I'll be around in the comments.

the 30 min avg Apple TV session vs under a minute on iPhone tells you everything about who this is for. one's a quick lookup, other's basically a screensaver you actually want on.

"inbound interesting" mode sounds like it could get concerning fast.

no mention of Android or a web version anywhere, is that international given the Apple TV ambient angle or just where bandwidth ran out first.

Love the Apple TV angle here. Turning local airspace into an ambient display feels way more natural than another big map you have to actively check.

"inbound interesting" is hilarious and a little terrifying.

The session split is not just two audiences. It puts your funnel and your engagement on opposite screens.

Almost everything in Pro is Apple TV value. Always on, ambient routes, spoken traffic, inbound interesting. That is the surface with the thirty minute sessions, so it is where the reason to pay actually forms. But the sub minute iPhone session is the one where someone answers what is that and puts the phone away, and that is the surface where paying is easy. The screen that earns the upgrade is the awkward one to buy on, and the screen that is easy to buy on is the one nobody lingers in.

Which makes the interesting move handing the moment off rather than trying to close it on the TV. Capture the intent while the ambient session is running, because that is when it exists, not eight seconds into the next lookup on the phone.

Does the tvOS app take the purchase directly, or does it send people to the phone to finish it?