CatchFlights: Plane Spotter

Turn the real aircraft flying near you into a collection. CatchFlights is a nearby-aircraft radar, collecting game, and personal plane-spotting logbook in one.

FIND AND CATCH NEARBY AIRCRAFT
Use your current location to see airborne aircraft around you. Tap a radar contact to view available details including type, registration, operator, route, distance, altitude, and speed. Catch the sighting to save it to your collection.

GROW AN AVIATION COLLECTION
Collect manufacturers, aircraft families, models, registrations, airlines, airports, and routes. Search your discoveries, explore aircraft facts and photos when available, and complete curated sets built around aircraft families and themes.

EARN XP, LEVELS, AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Each new discovery can earn XP. Keep a daily catching streak, unlock achievements, and progress through levels. Level rewards expand your radar range and introduce features such as Fast Catch, Approach Radar, Catch All, Long Range, Automatic Catch, and Double XP.

PLAY THE DAILY CHALLENGES
A Type Rating quiz, Dispatch assignments, and a fly-off wait every day. Earn a type rating for each aircraft family by answering questions about its types, and win perks by completing daily and weekly assignments. The fly-off deals six aircraft to place in the category where each one does best; challenge friends to a fly-off on the aircraft you have both caught and compare type ratings with them.

PLAY WITH FRIENDS
Add friends by link or QR code. A player new to CatchFlights who joins through your invite starts with Tech Points and a pack of passes, and you earn rewards as they play: a pass with their first catch and Tech Points once they reach level 5. Catch the same aircraft as a friend within a day, wherever each of you is, and the relay earns you both XP. Friends and invites use the optional Community account.

BUILD A PERSONAL FLIGHT LOGBOOK
Every catch is saved in your logbook. Browse sightings by date, search or filter entries, switch to a map view, and revisit an aircraft's previous catch locations and observed routes.

SKYWATCH: A WATCH POST THAT KEEPS LOOKING
Skywatch is free and starts with your first Skywatch node in the tech tree. It keeps watching while the app is closed and notifies you when an aircraft you are still missing reaches your radar range. The post follows where you last had the app open, rounded to about a kilometre, or stays pinned to a spot you choose; switch it off at any time. Skywatch uses the optional Community account.

SHARE YOUR HIGHLIGHTS
Generate a visual card for a catch, a completed set, a streak, a new level, your daily Type Rating, or a fly-off win, and share it with other apps. Cards show the aircraft and your progress without including your precise catch location.

CHOOSE YOUR VIEW
Rotate the radar with your device compass or keep north at the top. CatchFlights supports light and dark appearance and includes English and German in-app languages.

REQUIREMENTS AND LIMITATIONS
CatchFlights needs an internet connection and foreground location access to find aircraft near you. Radar coverage and aircraft, route, and photo information come from third-party sources, so availability and accuracy vary by location and time. Some gameplay features unlock at higher levels. Optional notifications are used for daily streak reminders and, with the optional Community account, friend, relay, and Skywatch alerts.

Open the radar and see what is flying near you.