Cockpit: Live Flight Tracker
Kovan Apps Travel & Local In-app purchases
Live flight radar and plane finder with ACARS pilot messages and emergencies
- Downloads
- 9+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- In-app purchases
- Updated
- Oct 29
- 2026 · v1.0
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About Cockpit: Live Flight Tracker
Cockpit is a live flight tracker and plane radar that tells you what is actually happening in the sky. Use it as a flight radar and plane finder for the aircraft around you, read the ACARS messages pilots send to their airline, and know the moment an aircraft declares an emergency, all explained in plain English.
EVERY PLANE, EXPLAINED
- A calm, fast ADS-B flight radar of the airplanes around you, updated every few seconds
- Tap any plane for its route, the track it has flown since takeoff, altitude, speed and aircraft type
- An AI summary on each flight tells you in one line what it is doing
- A plane tracker for airliners, business jets, military aircraft and helicopters, built for plane spotting
PILOT MESSAGES (PRO)
Airliners send short text messages to their airline over a datalink called ACARS: maintenance reports, weather requests, diversions, medical calls. Cockpit decodes these pilot messages and explains each one in plain English, next to the flight on the map. See what happens on the flight deck, in words you understand. Personal details are removed before anything is stored or shown.
AIRPORT RADAR
Tap an airport to see every plane on the ground and in the pattern, drawn on the real runways and taxiways, with delays and closures. Listen live to air traffic control (ATC) on the tower or ground frequency with a transcript: 3 free minutes a day, unlimited with Pro.
AI EXPLAINED
Airport weather and forecasts (METAR and TAF) decoded into plain words, and NOTAMs translated from pilot shorthand into sentences anyone can read.
EMERGENCIES, THE MOMENT THEY HAPPEN
When an aircraft squawks 7700, 7600 or 7500, diverts, or an airport issues a ground stop, Cockpit opens an event with a clear headline, a plain English story, a timeline and the flight on the map. Latest emergencies are open to all.
ALERTS, IN YOUR OWN WORDS (PRO)
- Get notified about emergencies near your home or anywhere in the US
- Write your own rule in plain English, like "military aircraft near Denver"
- A weekly summary of what happened in your skies, included for everyone
FOLLOW A FLIGHT (PRO)
Follow any flight with a live notification that updates while it is in the air, plus home screen widgets for planes nearby and your followed flight.
WEATHER AND AIRSPACE LAYERS (PRO)
Weather radar, pilot reports of turbulence and icing, SIGMETs and AIRMETs, and temporary flight restrictions on the flight tracker map.
COCKPIT PRO
The live flight tracker, airports and the latest emergencies come without a subscription. Pro adds the event feed, pilot messages, alerts, followed flights, live notifications, map layers and unlimited airport listening. Choose monthly, yearly or lifetime.
Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Manage or cancel any time in Google Play > Payments & subscriptions.
Privacy Policy: https://kovanapps.com/apps/cockpit/privacy-policy/
Terms of Use: https://kovanapps.com/apps/cockpit/terms/
Delete your data: https://kovanapps.com/apps/cockpit/delete-data/
Support: [email protected]
ABOUT THE DATA
Cockpit is an independent app by Kovan Apps, not affiliated with or endorsed by the FAA, NOAA, the National Weather Service, any airline, airport or air navigation service provider, and not an official source of flight information.
Sources: aircraft positions from adsb.lol community ADS-B data (ODbL); flight data, NOTAMs, delays and airspace from the FAA; airport weather from the Aviation Weather Center (NOAA / NWS); pilot messages from volunteer-operated ACARS receivers, with personal details removed; airport audio from publicly accessible live streams of volunteer-operated receivers near each airport; aircraft photos from planespotters.net, credited to each photographer; airports from OurAirports; map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Cockpit does not operate transmitters or receivers.
Feeds may lag or go offline. AI summaries can contain mistakes. For entertainment and education only, not for navigation or operational use.
EVERY PLANE, EXPLAINED
- A calm, fast ADS-B flight radar of the airplanes around you, updated every few seconds
- Tap any plane for its route, the track it has flown since takeoff, altitude, speed and aircraft type
- An AI summary on each flight tells you in one line what it is doing
- A plane tracker for airliners, business jets, military aircraft and helicopters, built for plane spotting
PILOT MESSAGES (PRO)
Airliners send short text messages to their airline over a datalink called ACARS: maintenance reports, weather requests, diversions, medical calls. Cockpit decodes these pilot messages and explains each one in plain English, next to the flight on the map. See what happens on the flight deck, in words you understand. Personal details are removed before anything is stored or shown.
AIRPORT RADAR
Tap an airport to see every plane on the ground and in the pattern, drawn on the real runways and taxiways, with delays and closures. Listen live to air traffic control (ATC) on the tower or ground frequency with a transcript: 3 free minutes a day, unlimited with Pro.
AI EXPLAINED
Airport weather and forecasts (METAR and TAF) decoded into plain words, and NOTAMs translated from pilot shorthand into sentences anyone can read.
EMERGENCIES, THE MOMENT THEY HAPPEN
When an aircraft squawks 7700, 7600 or 7500, diverts, or an airport issues a ground stop, Cockpit opens an event with a clear headline, a plain English story, a timeline and the flight on the map. Latest emergencies are open to all.
ALERTS, IN YOUR OWN WORDS (PRO)
- Get notified about emergencies near your home or anywhere in the US
- Write your own rule in plain English, like "military aircraft near Denver"
- A weekly summary of what happened in your skies, included for everyone
FOLLOW A FLIGHT (PRO)
Follow any flight with a live notification that updates while it is in the air, plus home screen widgets for planes nearby and your followed flight.
WEATHER AND AIRSPACE LAYERS (PRO)
Weather radar, pilot reports of turbulence and icing, SIGMETs and AIRMETs, and temporary flight restrictions on the flight tracker map.
COCKPIT PRO
The live flight tracker, airports and the latest emergencies come without a subscription. Pro adds the event feed, pilot messages, alerts, followed flights, live notifications, map layers and unlimited airport listening. Choose monthly, yearly or lifetime.
Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Manage or cancel any time in Google Play > Payments & subscriptions.
Privacy Policy: https://kovanapps.com/apps/cockpit/privacy-policy/
Terms of Use: https://kovanapps.com/apps/cockpit/terms/
Delete your data: https://kovanapps.com/apps/cockpit/delete-data/
Support: [email protected]
ABOUT THE DATA
Cockpit is an independent app by Kovan Apps, not affiliated with or endorsed by the FAA, NOAA, the National Weather Service, any airline, airport or air navigation service provider, and not an official source of flight information.
Sources: aircraft positions from adsb.lol community ADS-B data (ODbL); flight data, NOTAMs, delays and airspace from the FAA; airport weather from the Aviation Weather Center (NOAA / NWS); pilot messages from volunteer-operated ACARS receivers, with personal details removed; airport audio from publicly accessible live streams of volunteer-operated receivers near each airport; aircraft photos from planespotters.net, credited to each photographer; airports from OurAirports; map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Cockpit does not operate transmitters or receivers.
Feeds may lag or go offline. AI summaries can contain mistakes. For entertainment and education only, not for navigation or operational use.
What’s new
Version 1.0 · Updated October 29, 2026
• Listen live to the tower, 3 minutes a day for everyone • Live captions of tower and ground radio • The player stays with you on every tab • Screen stays on while Cockpit is open • Many fixes