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Flightradar24 vs Gods Eyes: an honest comparison
The short answer
- Pick Flightradar24 to check a specific flight: scheduled and actual times on airport boards, native phone apps, and playback of past flights on its paid plans.
- Pick Gods Eyes to watch the live world on one globe: flights with ships, satellites, quakes, fires, weather and live cameras, plus live military aircraft and emergency squawks.
- Many people use both.
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 | Flightradar24 | |
|---|---|---|
| Airport boards and schedules | No schedules, gates or delays. Live "landing now" estimates and official METAR/TAF weather on airport pages, without scheduled times | Airport arrival and departure boards with scheduled and actual times (source) |
| Flight data | ADS-B from volunteer receivers via ADSBHub and adsb.lol | Not checked |
| 3D view | 3D globe with Black Clearance; free 2D map and a 60-second 3D preview | Has a 3D view (source) |
| Military and privacy 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 | Not checked |
| Ships, satellites, weather, cameras | Ships (AIS), satellites, earthquakes, fires, weather warnings and licensed live cameras on the same globe | Not checked |
| Apps | Web only: runs in the browser, nothing to install | iPhone and Android apps (source) |
| Plans | Free 2D map; Black Clearance $9.99 a month or $79 a year; Command $69.99 a month | A free tier, plus paid Silver, Gold and Business plans (source) |
Checked on ; we recheck monthly. Flightradar24 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 Spot something out of date?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].
Where Flightradar24 is better
If you are meeting a flight or catching one, Flightradar24 is the better tool: its airport pages list arrivals and departures with scheduled and actual times, which Gods Eyes does not have at all. It has native iPhone and Android apps, a 3D view, and playback of past flights on its paid plans. It is also a long-established service that many travelers already know.
Where Gods Eyes is different
Gods Eyes is built for watching everything at once rather than one flight: aircraft share the globe with ships, satellites, earthquakes, fires, weather warnings and licensed live road cameras. It has an Ops Center of live incidents, airport pages with official METAR and TAF weather, a public military flight tracker and a live list of emergency squawks. It runs in the browser with nothing to install.
Does Flightradar24 show all planes?
No flight tracker shows every aircraft. Planes without ADS-B, planes out of receiver range, and aircraft whose owners asked to be hidden won't appear, and mainstream trackers also filter many military and government flights. Gods Eyes filters too: we withhold aircraft in the FAA's LADD and PIA privacy programmes, and show broadcasting military aircraft on our military page.
What's the Flightradar24 equivalent for ships?
Ships broadcast their position over AIS, much as planes use ADS-B, and dedicated ship trackers map that data. Gods Eyes shows AIS ships on the same globe as aircraft, so you can watch a port and its airport together; see our ship tracker. Coverage is best near coasts, where the receivers are.
Our live coverage right now
4,979 aircraft in the air on our map (2,013 over the US) and 67 military aircraft broadcasting, as of .
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