What is the best flight tracking app for iPhone?

Flightradar24 | Flight Tracker, S tier, ranked #1 of 13, rated 4.8 by 672,332 people.

Which flight tracking apps are free?

13 of 13 are free to download: Flightradar24 | Flight Tracker (S), FlightAware Flight Tracker (S), Flight Tracker + (S), Flighty - Live Flight Tracker (S) and more. 8 of them sell in-app purchases. 1 reports no in-app purchases.

Which flight tracking app has the best App Store rating?

FlightAware Flight Tracker at 4.9 from 389,647 ratings.

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Best Flight Tracking Apps for iPhone (2026)

13 apps ranked S through F · Updated 2026-10-19 · Ranked by AppTierList, computed, never sold · JSON

Flightradar24 | Flight Tracker is the top-ranked of 13 flight tracking apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.8/5 from 672,332 ratings.

1
Flightradar24 | Flight TrackerS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 672,332 ratings · score 99
2
FlightAware Flight TrackerS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 389,647 ratings · score 98
3
Flight Tracker +S
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 290,862 ratings · score 97
4
Flighty - Live Flight TrackerS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 157,745 ratings · score 97
5
Plane Finder ⁃ Flight TrackerS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 61,117 ratings · score 96

What belongs in this list

Look up the live status and position of a flight to know when it will arrive, depart or be delayed.

Not here: A flight booking or ticket search alone; A map of airports alone; Live location tracking of people or vehicles alone; Satellite tracking alone; A travel log or trip itinerary organizer alone

How we pick

For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →

None at A yet

None at D yet

Flight Tracker Expert

Compare every app

1
Flightradar24 | Flight TrackerS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 672,332 ratings · score 99 · best in class
2
FlightAware Flight TrackerS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 389,647 ratings · score 98 · best in class
3
Flight Tracker +S
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 290,862 ratings · score 97 · best in class
4
Flighty - Live Flight TrackerS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 157,745 ratings · score 97 · best in class
5
Plane Finder ⁃ Flight TrackerS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 61,117 ratings · score 96 · best in class
6
Planes Live - Flight TrackerS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 93,014 ratings · score 95 · best in class
7
Flight Radar, Plane Tracker 24S
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 10,645 ratings · score 93 · best in class
8
Flight BoardS
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 30,727 ratings · score 90 · best in class
9
Flight Update ProB
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 5,282 ratings · score 79 · good
10
Flightview - Flight TrackerB
Free + IAP · ★ 3.6 · 6,368 ratings · score 72 · good
11
FlightStatsB
Free · ★ 4.8 · 79,545 ratings · score 71 · good
12
CheckMyTrip - Travel ItineraryC
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 5,018 ratings · score 67 · situational · provisional
13
Flight Tracker ExpertF
Free download · ★ 4.3 · 2,614 ratings · score 38 · avoid · provisional

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Questions people ask

What is the best flight tracking app for iPhone?: Flightradar24 | Flight Tracker, S tier, ranked #1 of 13, rated 4.8 by 672,332 people.
Which flight tracking apps are free?: 13 of 13 are free to download: Flightradar24 | Flight Tracker (S), FlightAware Flight Tracker (S), Flight Tracker + (S), Flighty - Live Flight Tracker (S) and more. 8 of them sell in-app purchases. 1 reports no in-app purchases.
Which flight tracking app has the best App Store rating?: FlightAware Flight Tracker at 4.9 from 389,647 ratings.
How many flight tracking apps reach S or A tier?: 8 of 13. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.