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ADS-B Exchange vs Gods Eyes: what's different
The short answer
- Pick ADS-B Exchange if you want everything its receivers hear, unfiltered, or if you need its data products and API.
- Pick Gods Eyes for a privacy-filtered live globe that puts flights next to ships, satellites, quakes, fires, weather and live cameras, with a live public military page.
Disclosure: we make Gods Eyes. To keep this fair, every fact about another service is dated and linked to the page we checked it on, anything we couldn't check is left out, and we say where they are the better pick.
Side by side
| Gods Eyes | ADS-B Exchange | |
|---|---|---|
| Filtering | Withholds aircraft whose owners opted out (FAA LADD, PIA). Military aircraft that broadcast are live on a public military page and a paid map layer | Says it shows aircraft broadcasts as they are received, without filtering them out (source) |
| Data for developers | No public data product | Sells data products (live and daily positions and operations) and has an API (source) |
| Feeders and community | We read open networks; we do not run a feeder program | A community platform for individuals and feeders (source) |
| Ships, satellites, weather, cameras | Ships (AIS), satellites, earthquakes, fires, weather warnings and licensed live cameras on the same globe | Not checked |
| Plans | Free 2D map; Black Clearance $9.99 a month or $79 a year; Command $69.99 a month | Not checked |
Checked on ; we recheck monthly. ADS-B Exchange is a trademark of its owner. We are not affiliated with it, and it does not endorse us. Spot something out of date? [email protected].
Filtered vs unfiltered: what's the difference?
Unfiltered trackers publish nearly everything their receivers hear, including aircraft whose owners asked not to be shown and military flights. Filtered trackers hold some of those back. Gods Eyes sits between: we withhold aircraft in the FAA's LADD and Privacy ICAO Address programmes everywhere, and we show military and government aircraft that broadcast openly.
Which flight tracker shows military aircraft?
Community trackers that don't filter, such as ADS-B Exchange, show military aircraft that broadcast. Most mainstream apps hide many of them. Gods Eyes lists broadcasting military aircraft live on its public military flight tracker, and Black Clearance members can follow them in the app's Military layer. Many military flights don't broadcast at all, so no tracker sees them all.
Where ADS-B Exchange is better
If you want the rawest view of what receivers hear, including aircraft we deliberately hold back, ADS-B Exchange is the one to use. It also sells data products and has an API for developers and businesses, and it runs a feeder community: if you own a receiver and want to share it, it is built for that.
Where Gods Eyes is different
Gods Eyes is a whole-world picture rather than a flight database: flights share the globe with ships, satellites, earthquakes, fires, weather warnings and licensed live cameras, with an Ops Center of live incidents and public pages for airports, quakes and wildfires. Owners who opted out of display stay hidden, and military aircraft are on a page of their own.
Our privacy rules
- Aircraft in the FAA LADD or PIA programmes are never shown, anywhere.
- Military and government aircraft that broadcast are shown live on the military page; members see them on the map.
- We never show registrations or owners, and never predict where an aircraft is going.
Our live coverage right now
5,118 aircraft in the air on our map (1,999 over the US) and 67 military aircraft broadcasting, as of .
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