Overflight

Identify every aircraft in your sky.

iOS

Apple TV

Travel

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Love seeing polished indie iOS apps like this. As someone also building a solo iOS app, curious what your approach to App Store screenshots was — they look great. Congrats on launching!

the way it pulls live flight data and overlays direction-of-look on the map feels really polished, like the team actually thought about how a plane spotter holds their phone.

Finally tried this on my iPad and the Apple TV ambient mode is genuinely cool, just watching planes drift across the living room screen while I work. Route info for transcontinental flights has been spot on so far.

Love that it treats Apple TV as an always-on ambient display instead of just a second screen. Turning the TV into a living radar scope while you sit on the couch is such a thoughtful use of the form factor.

This is one of those apps you dont think you need until you try it. Identifying planes overhead is surprisingly satisfying. Does it work in real time or is there a delay from the ADS-B data?

Would love to see a simple AR overlay mode where you hold up your phone and it draws arrows right onto the sky pointing toward each plane's actual position, basically mapping the radar data onto the camera view so you don't have to figure out bearings from a 2D screen.

the "which way to look" part depends entirely on phone compass accuracy, and phone compasses drift constantly especially near buildings or in a car. have you had to build in some kind of correction for that, or does it just trust the raw magnetometer reading? that seems like the thing that'd make people distrust the app fastest if it's ever pointing you at the wrong patch of sky.

the always-on Apple TV mode is such a smart move, honestly feels like something out of a flight ops room but you know, in your living room. finally a use for that screen.

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.

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?

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 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.