SpotterLog vs AeroLog
Gamified logging is fun. SpotterLog makes it automatic — and permanent.
AeroLog turns spotting into a game: log an aircraft, build a collection, unlock achievements and level up. SpotterLog is after the same collection, but it removes the typing and adds the memory. Instead of entering aircraft from real-world data, you photograph the plane and SpotterLog identifies it, pulls GPS and time from the image, and files it automatically — then keeps watching every tail you've logged for ownership changes and its full NTSB history. And it's an app and a full-featured website, not app-only.
What AeroLog does
AeroLog makes spotting feel like a game: log an aircraft using real-world data, build a personal collection, track your spotting locations and unlock achievements as your stats climb. It's a polished, gamified logbook — but the logging is still something you drive by hand, and it stays inside the app. SpotterLog starts from the photo instead: snap the aircraft and it's identified, dated and geolocated for you, drawn from a database of over 400,000 registered aircraft. From there it does what a manual logbook can't — alerts you when an aircraft you've logged changes owner or registration, surfaces its complete NTSB accident history, adds a live radar map, and keeps your whole collection on a full-featured website as well as your phone.
- Gamified achievements & leveling
- Personal aircraft collection
- Log using real-world data
- Track spotting locations
The SpotterLog difference
- 400K+
- Registered aircraft in our database
- 4,000+
- Aircraft in our catalog
- 150K
- Flight positions logged every day
- Complete
- NTSB accident investigation history
Why spotters choose SpotterLog
AeroLog and SpotterLog both want you to build a collection you're proud of. AeroLog gets you there through gamification and manual logging; SpotterLog gets you there automatically. Photograph an aircraft and it's identified, dated and geolocated straight from the image — no typing — and then it keeps working: change alerts on the tails you've logged, the complete NTSB history for each one, and a live radar map built in. And because SpotterLog is a full-featured website as well as an app, your collection follows you everywhere.
- Photo-first capture — snap the plane and it identifies and logs itself, no manual entry.
- GPS and time pulled automatically from the photo's EXIF.
- Ownership, registration and NTSB change alerts on every tail you've logged.
- A live radar map and a full-featured website — not just an app.
Comparison based on publicly available information and may change over time.
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