Flighty – Live Flight Tracker for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By S0uthpaw96

  Saved me HOURS of time! 6 Stars!!

  This app is one of the best in the entire App Store, and has been worth every penny I have spent on it. The user interface is blazing fast, and they have beaten every airline I have ever used with the speed of their notifications. Yesterday, I was preparing to layover for 2+ hours in ATL on my way to MCI. There was an earlier flight to my final destination, but Delta wouldn’t let me book it originally since it was supposed to take off too soon (~10 minutes) after my first leg was landing. Regardless, I decided to use Flighty to keep an eye on this earlier 2nd-leg flight. Maybe I would get lucky! Halfway through my first leg at 30,000 ft.,I got a notification from Flighty that the earlier 2nd leg was delayed by 15 minutes and that my flight was going to land early by 5 minutes. There was a chance I could make it! I rushed off the first leg flight as soon as it landed, and sure enough there was a standby seat available on that earlier second leg. I ran across the B terminal and made it just as main cabin was finishing the boarding process. I got to see my family earlier because of this app. Thank you Flighty devs!

  
  
• By Bdawgno1

  Best flight tracking app

  I have used a lot of other flight tracking apps. Flighty takes all of them combined and make them look amateurish. Been using the app for several years. Yearly fee is less than a dinner out. And so worth paying!! It has saved me on both domestic and international flights - updates faster than airport boards on status. I know exactly where my arrival plane is and can judge how fast I need to in line to board my flight. Simply the best!!!! Update: Flighty has become the best app on my iPhone. I am almost an Executive Platinum member of AA. Will be there by Jan 2023. I have seen this app update gate changes BEFORE boards on most airports across the U.S. and all of EU. Love it and if you don’t follow Leo Laporte and Johnny Jet podcasts along with Airplane Geeks, then I certainly recommend you do. This is why I have become so fond of this app. I am notified of literally everything…including how old the airplane is. On time arrivals, etc. must download and use this app even if you just fly few times a year.

  
  
• By Kguy18

  Air traveler must have app!

  This app has already paid for itself and I just started using it. Was notified of my cancelled flight HOURS before the airline even emailed me, I logged in to the airline app and see the cancellation and rebooking info. Because of the Flighty notification I was able to snag one of the last seats on a different flight same day, if I hadn’t I’d be stuck overnight waiting which is what they originally rebooked me on. Worth every penny. To the dev team: maybe I missed it but there doesn’t seem to be a way to jump directly to rating the app in the AppStore from the settings screen. I did get a prompt for rating after entering some flight info and checking the app again, but I dismissed it because I hadn’t had enough time with the app to really rate it. There is a feedback mechanism for sending you an email but I had to go to the AppStore to write the review, just a thought might be nice to copy Overcast and throw a rate the app button in there. :)

  
  
• By Sean J.

  Incredible, just a few feature requests! 🙏🏽

  There’s not much I can say that hasn’t already been said. The app is beautiful and does exactly what it needs to do, and far better than any others. I’ve been waiting for a successor to FlightTrack for a long time, and was overjoyed when it finally arrived in the form of Flighty! Before some suggestions, I have to mention that I especially love the calendar sync. It’s a small feature but I love the attention to detail, including the formatting of the title, the info in the notes section, etc. Thank you! Ok, just a few requests 🤗 1. More often than not I’m tracking flights of family members. I’d love to be able to specify the passengers on a flight (from address book or free-form) so that those flights are excluded from my flight stats. Right now every flight is assumed to be my own. This was a feature of FlightTrack that I miss. 2. An Microsoft Watch app please!! And complications would be delightful! 3. A more prominent (and ideally horizontal) progress bar with elapsed and remaining time. The current vertical one is very subtle and hard to gauge at a glance. It would be nice to have it persistent/sticky as well, so it’s always visible when digging into details. Thank you thank you for not making another app that’s just a fancy web view, littered with ads, or harvesting my personal data! ♥️

  
  
• By foldpages

  Good but not great

  I’ve been using the paid version for a few months now and initially really enjoyed it. However, over the last few months I’ve been running into more and more issues. The Live Activity tile will sometimes cripple my iPhone performance and cause significant lag on the Home Screen. As soon as I disable that feature for the tracked flight the performance is restored. On a recent trip the app got really confused with two flights having identical flight numbers going from LAX to MIA. The flight the previous day got delayed to the next day and Flighty couldn’t cope with that. The later scheduled flight didn’t even show up in the app anymore and the app merged both flights into one and the updates and notifications went crazy. At this point I just removed the flight from Flighty and went back to the airline app. I reached out to the developer for both issues but didn’t receive a response. It’s too expensive to have these kind of issues and I probably won’t be paying the annual fee again.

  
  

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