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Flighty
Subscription flight tracking for iOS with predictive delay alerts
As of 1 September 2026, Flighty's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. An iOS-only flight tracking app that pushes gate, delay and cancellation alerts, and tries to predict delays before the airline confirms them. Softwr lists it under Aviation. Flighty is made by Flighty Inc., available on iOS.
Overview
What Flighty does
Flighty tracks commercial flights from booking to landing, pulling FAA and ADS-B data plus its own delay prediction model to warn travellers of likely delays before airlines announce them. It shows gate assignments, baggage claim, taxi time, weather at both airports, and can auto-import flights from email confirmations or connected calendars. The distinguishing choice is platform and pricing rather than feature depth. Flighty is iOS-only, has never shipped an Android app, and runs entirely on subscription with a limited free tier that tracks far fewer flights than the paid product. That is a narrower bet than Flightradar24 or FlightAware, which are free-first and cross-platform with ads or a light premium tier; Flighty instead sells accuracy and notification speed to frequent flyers who already own an iPhone. Buyers are individual business travellers and frequent flyers, not airlines or agencies, and family plans exist for households tracking each other. The trade-off is straightforward: paying a recurring fee for a single-platform app when free cross-platform trackers exist, in exchange for predictive alerts and a lifetime purchase option most competitors do not offer.
What people use it for
- A frequent business flyer who wants a delay warning before the gate agent announces it
- An iPhone user willing to pay for a single well-maintained app instead of a free ad-supported one
- A family wanting to see at a glance where a travelling relative currently is
- A traveller who wants automatic flight import from confirmation emails without manual entry
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Flighty.
- It is iOS-only, so a mixed-platform household or an Android user cannot use it at all.
- The free tier tracks very few flights, so anyone who flies more than occasionally is pushed toward the subscription almost immediately.
- Delay predictions are a probability model, not a guarantee, and can be wrong in either direction.
- It depends on the same underlying ADS-B and airline feeds as free trackers, so the raw position data is not exclusive to Flighty.
- A lifetime purchase is expensive relative to a year or two of the annual plan, so it only pays off for someone certain they will use it for years.
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Pricing
What Flighty costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Flighty Plus
$9.99 /mo
- Unlimited tracked flights
- Delay prediction alerts
- Gate, baggage and taxi data
Flighty Plus Annual
$49 /yr
- Same features billed yearly
Flighty Lifetime
$299 /one-time
- One-time purchase, no renewal
Capabilities
Features
Delay prediction
Modelled delay risk shown before the airline confirms a change
Gate and baggage alerts
Push notifications for gate changes, boarding and baggage claim
Auto flight import
Flights added automatically from confirmation emails and calendars
Taxi and weather context
Taxi time estimates and departure and arrival weather shown per flight
Trip statistics
Personal flying history, miles, airports and time in the air
Family sharing
Track flights for other people on a shared family plan
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Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Is there an Android version?
No. Flighty has only ever shipped for iOS.
Can I use it for free?
A limited free tier exists but tracks very few flights; regular use requires the Plus subscription or the lifetime purchase.
How is it different from Flightradar24 or FlightAware?
Those are free-first, cross-platform trackers with ads; Flighty is a paid iOS-only app that adds predictive delay alerts.
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