See what's flying over your location.
Overhead is a native Mac app that tracks every aircraft near your home in real time — on a live map, in desktop widgets, and with a heads-up before something passes overhead.
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Everything in your sky
Live positions from community ADS-B receivers, updated every five seconds — no account, no API key, nothing to configure beyond your address.
Live map
Every aircraft near you, pointing the way it's flying, with trails behind it. Standard, muted, satellite, or hybrid maps.
Spot it
Each aircraft tells you exactly where to look — "Look WSW, 38° up" — so you can step outside and find it.
Fly-over alerts
A notification up to two minutes before something passes nearly overhead — plus military, helicopter, low-altitude, and watchlist alerts.
Photos & routes
Click any aircraft for a photo of that exact airframe, its operator, type, and where the flight is coming from and going.
Logbook
Overhead quietly counts what passes by: aircraft per day, your sky's busiest hours, and every new type you've seen.
ATC audio
Listen to live air traffic control while you watch — paste any stream and Overhead keeps it a click away.
Widgets for your desktop
Three radar-scope widgets keep the sky visible without opening the app — in any accent color you like.
- Nearest Aircraft — the closest plane, its type, distance, and altitude
- Sky Radar — every aircraft plotted at its true bearing and distance
- Sky Board — the scope plus the five nearest aircraft
- Click any widget to open that aircraft in the app
Install in a minute
- Download the disk image and drag Overhead into your Applications folder.
- Open it and enter your address — or let it use your Mac's location. It's only ever used to ask "what's flying near this point?"
- To add widgets: right-click your desktop, choose Edit Widgets…, and search for Overhead.
Private by design
No account, no analytics, no tracking — just an app that looks up what's in the sky above one point you choose.
No account, ever
Nothing to sign up for and nothing to sign in to. Download it and it works.
Stays on your Mac
Your home location and every setting live locally. Only coordinates and a radius are ever sent — to ask what's flying there.
Community data
Positions come from volunteer ADS-B receivers — the same open networks that make this hobby possible.
Aircraft data from adsb.lol and adsb.fi. When you select an aircraft, its photo comes from Planespotters and its route from adsbdb.
Questions, a bug, or an aircraft you can't identify? Email me — I read everything.
Release notes
Every version, newest first. Overhead updates itself — this is just what changed.
1.2.52026-08-20
- Overhead now updates itself from seeoverhead.app, its new home on the web
- Release notes now live on the website, and open there from Help → Release History
- Widget images on the website center properly on smaller screens
1.2.42026-08-19
- New Style button on the map switches between Standard, Muted, Satellite, and Hybrid
- Map controls are easier to see over bright satellite imagery
1.2.32026-08-19
- Sidebar filters and search now apply to the map as well — the list and map always show the same aircraft
- Alerts and the logbook still watch all traffic, even while filtered
1.2.22026-08-19
- Update notifications now show what's new in each release
- Release history link in the About window and Help menu
1.2.12026-08-19
- Fixed map controls covering the Apple Maps logo and Legal link
1.22026-08-19
- Automatic updates: Overhead now updates itself (Overhead menu → Check for Updates…)
- ATC Audio: listen to live air-traffic-control streams from the toolbar
- Aircraft photos, flight routes, and operator names in the detail card
- "Spot it" guidance: which way to look and how high, for every aircraft
- Full aircraft make/model names throughout (Boeing 737-900 instead of B739)
- Flight trails with adjustable length and width
- Altitude color-coding with an on-map key
- Sidebar filters: emergency, military, helicopters, airliners, GA, low altitude — in any combination
- Alerts: fly-over prediction, military/helicopter/low-altitude/watchlist rules, alert range, launch at login
- Logbook: daily sighting counts, busiest hours, and newly spotted types
- Widget accent color; distance units (mi/nm/km); text size and accessibility options
- Redesigned Settings with General, Map, Alerts, Accessibility, and Privacy panes
1.12026-08-19
- Universal app: runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs
- Notarized by Apple for safe distribution
1.02026-08-18
- Initial release: live aircraft map and list around your home, desktop widgets,