Log every aircraft you spot
The photo-first plane spotting app for iPhone. Photograph an aircraft and SpotterLog identifies it, logs the sighting where you caught it, and pulls its registry, owner, and accident history — then alerts you when anything about it changes.
Sighting Log
Every aircraft you photograph, preserved forever.
Snap a photo and it's logged on the spot — identified, located, and dated automatically. Your personal collection of every aircraft you've ever caught.
- Phone camera capture — snap a photo, it's logged instantly.
- Auto GPS & time from the photo's EXIF — where and when you spotted it.
- Tail-number identification for the aircraft you photograph.
- Personal notes & context — “Saw this at Oshkosh 2024.”
- Search & filter your collection by date, location, type, or tail number.
- Bulk import your past sightings.
Spotting Map
See everywhere you've spotted.
Every sighting is pinned to where you were when you caught it, drawn from your photo's GPS. See each aircraft's last-seen location as a historical data point — your spotting map, not a live radar.
- See where you were standing when you spotted each aircraft.
- Each aircraft's last-seen location as a historical data point.
- Built from your photos — a map of your own spotting history.
Your Journey
Your aviation journey, quantified.
Total spotted, unique types, airports, countries, growth over time — your spotting life as stats. Earn badges, build a shareable profile card, and show off your rarest catches.
- Personal dashboard: total spotted, unique types, airports, countries, growth.
- Badges & achievements as your collection grows.
- A shareable profile card and collection analytics.
- An optional public profile and embeddable stats card.
Change Log & Alerts
Aircraft change constantly. Now you'll know.
The aircraft you've captured don't stand still — planes get sold, registrations get renewed, owners move, and sometimes there's an accident. SpotterLog monitors accidents, incidents, and registration changes 24x7x365 for every aircraft you follow, and sends a notification straight to your phone the moment something happens. You never have to go looking — the news finds you.
- Ownership change alerts on aircraft you've logged.
- Registration event tracking — active, deregistered, exported.
- NTSB investigation alerts — scoped to your collection and favorites only.
- Follow and build a watchlist of aircraft you care about.
What no other app can do
Just take the photo.
SpotterLog reads the aircraft straight out of your picture — even parked, military, or transponder-off planes that live radar apps never see.
No tail number to type. No live signal to catch. Snap the shot and the sighting identifies itself, pulls the location and time from the photo, and lands in a collection you keep forever.
Built for people who look up.
Spotters are putting their whole collection into SpotterLog.
“At airshows the sighting log with GPS auto-tagging is clutch. Logs the exact spot without me typing anything. My photo albums are finally accurate.”
“Spotter profile tracks my collection stats like a boss — total unique spots, countries, aircraft types. Love watching my numbers climb after a good outing.”
“Global map tracking of my favorite warbirds is addictive. I finally know where they are in the world. Nice to see history flying every day.”
“Blown away when it caught my RV-12 registration before I even got notice it processed. Faster than the FAA — how do they do it?”
“Punch in the N-number and boom — owner, type, history, instantly. Saves me hours chasing down aircraft.”
“Logged 200 aircraft in my first season. The stat tracking keeps me coming back to the field.”
“Caught a rare Connie at Oshkosh and it flagged it as my rarest catch instantly. Chills.”
“The change log told me my favorite DC-3 got a new owner before the news did. Unreal.”
“EXIF auto-tagging means I never lose track of where I shot a plane. Total game changer for my workflow.”
“My kid and I compete on unique types spotted. This app turned spotting into a family sport.”
“Went from a shoebox of photos to a searchable collection. Wish I had this 20 years ago.”
“The watchlist alerts are scoped to MY planes, not spam. Exactly what I always wanted.”
Start your collection today.
Free to download. Your next sighting could be your rarest yet.