Capabilities

Everything your receiver hears, made beautiful.

Plane-spotting hardware deserves better than a utilitarian web page. Overhead 1090 gives your feeder the interface it always deserved.

Live radar map

Every aircraft your antenna can hear, rendered on a gorgeous dark map and updated every few seconds — headings, trails, and range rings around your receiver. Watch traffic pour down the airway over your roof, or catch the helicopter orbiting the next town over.

Aircraft HUD

Tap any target: callsign, squawk, altitude with live climb/descent rate, ground speed, heading, distance from home — plus altitude and speed profile charts drawn from its track history.

All your receivers, one app

Point the app at your receiver's address and you're live — and if you run more than one (the attic, the beach house), add them all and filter by who heard what. Works with dump1090-compatible feeders, including the Raspberry Pi setup you probably already run.

Filters & radius

Dial the detection radius from 5 to 300 km. Filter the board by airline, country, or airborne vs. ground — from "everything" to "just the interesting stuff" in two taps.

The living-room big board

The Apple TV app turns your largest screen into a command-center radar display. Guests will stand in front of it and point at the sky.

Demo mode

No receiver yet? Explore the full app with realistic sample traffic while your Raspberry Pi is in the mail.

How it works

Three steps to your own radar.

Run a receiver

Any ADS-B receiver on your network that serves dump1090-style data works — most Raspberry Pi feeder builds do this out of the box on 1090 MHz.

Hardware: ~$50 if starting fresh

Point the app at it

While you're home on Wi-Fi, enter your receiver's local address once. Overhead 1090 connects directly — no cloud in the middle, no account to create.

Setup time: under a minute

Watch the sky

Hear a jet? Glance at your iPhone, iPad, or the big board on Apple TV and know its callsign, altitude, and where it's headed — while it's still overhead.

Latency: seconds, not minutes

Why local wins

Internet trackers show you their sky. This is yours.

Internet flight trackers

Positions delayed, smoothed, and aggregated
Some traffic filtered or blocked from display
Your viewing habits are their product
Useless when your internet is down

Your receiver + Overhead 1090

Aircraft appear the moment they're received
Unfiltered — if it broadcasts, you see it
Everything stays on your own network
Works entirely over your LAN

Privacy

Built like it's nobody's business. Because it isn't.

No accounts. No analytics. No ads. No tracking SDKs. Aircraft data goes from your antenna to your screen and nowhere else.

◆ App Privacy: Data Not Collected

Platforms

One purchase. Three screens.

iPhone

The sky in your pocket. Hear it, see it, know it — anywhere in the house.

iPad

A full-screen kneeboard radar. The dedicated spotting station your desk wants.

Apple TV

The big board. Live traffic over your house, on the biggest screen in it.

One-time purchase · No subscription · Universal purchase across all three

Look up. Then look closer.

Overhead 1090 is in active development for iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV. The sky above your antenna is about to get a lot more interesting.

Coming soon to the App Store