About Us
FlyingOver started at a window seat. I fly a lot, mostly between Argentina and Europe, and I spend most of every flight looking out the window, trying to work out which country or city is passing underneath. As soon as the phone went into airplane mode, there was no way to find out.
I looked for an app that could tell me. There are excellent apps for flight alerts and others for aviation fans, but none were made for the hours you actually spend in the air. So I started writing one, mostly in airports and between layovers.
That became FlyingOver, for iPhone, iPad and Android, with an app for Apple Watch. You add your flight before takeoff, while you're still online, and the app prepares an offline map along your route. Then, in airplane mode, it shows where you are and what you're flying over. It doesn't use GPS. FlyingOver combines several data sources, such as airline and airport data, weather, on-time statistics and historical averages, in real time, and from them estimates where your plane is, usually with a high degree of accuracy. The most detailed map needs about 500 MB of free space; with less, the app saves a lighter one.
Testing it was the expensive part. More than once I paid €20 for in-flight Wi-Fi on a ticket that had cost €30, just to watch the app run in the air and catch the bugs that only show up there.
Over time the map grew into a full flight companion: flight status and gate changes, connection guidance for tight layovers, and FlightBook, a log of every flight you've taken. Today it covers more than 400 airlines and speaks twelve languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, Indonesian and Malay.
It's free for one upcoming flight plus your past flights. Premium adds more saved flights, detailed flight and aircraft information, connection guidance, map themes and FlightBook. You can get it on the App Store and Google Play.
You'll probably see updates often. Most aren't fixes: I'm a bit obsessed with making the app faster and more accurate, and the reviews so far tell me it's worth it. FlyingOver is made by Comprafy App SAS.
I hope it makes your next window seat a little more interesting.
How we write our guides
The FlyingOver Editorial Team publishes the travel guides on this site in English, Italian, German, Spanish and French. They are researched and drafted with the help of AI tools, and every guide follows the same rules:
- Official sources only. Facts come from governments, regulators, EU institutions and airports' own websites, and each guide lists its sources at the end.
- No invented numbers. If an airport or regulator doesn't publish a figure, such as a minimum connection time, the guide says so instead of guessing.
- Dated. Each guide shows when its facts were last checked, and rules that are about to change are marked as not yet in force.
- Honest about the app. FlyingOver doesn't use GPS: it estimates your position, and like any estimate it can differ for a while. Guides describe only what the app actually does.
- Not legal advice. Guides about passenger rights explain the rules; they don't replace an airline, a regulator or a lawyer.
- Check before you rely on it. Official sources change over time and a guide may not be updated right away, so confirm important details directly with the source or your airline.
'C152 - SADM.'
'El futuro llego hace rato'