SkyPocket

John M Mckay

About this app

SkyPocket is a simple app for anyone who flies, and it works entirely in flight mode with no ads, sign ups, user analytics or in-app purchases. Buy it once and it's yours for life. A window seat is recommended for the best results.

The Aviation Nerd:
• Live ground speed, altitude, track and vertical speed on cockpit-style tapes
• An offline moving map with coastlines packed inside the app. Mid-ocean included
• Cabin pressure altitude from the barometer: watch the cabin climb to 7,000 ft on its own schedule
• Turbulence, g-force and bank angle from the motion sensors
• The country below you, its local time and a fact to read as you cross it
• The sun's position, so you know which side of the plane to sit on
• 41,000 named peaks and 3,000 lakes on the chart, with a layer panel to tune what you see
• Pick a destination for distance to go, live ETA and your arrival time
• Share a flight card, or export CSV and GPX
• Replay flies the whole route in thirty seconds, numbers ticking as it goes

The Nervous Flyer:
• Tell SkyPocket what you're flying, or let it work it out with you: seats across, engines, windows, even the A320's famous barking dog
• Every phase explained as it happens, with your aircraft's own numbers: takeoff roll, gear up, the sudden quiet a minute after takeoff, cruise at its usual Mach
• Two dozen cabin sounds decoded, and the ones nervous flyers ask about wear a calm NORMAL badge
• 65 aircraft with the numbers, spotting clues and trivia that make them themselves, from the A220 to the Queen of the Skies

The Storyteller:
• Photos stamped with your speed, altitude and position; clips with a live stats marquee
• Flight notes: a thought at 36,000 feet, saved with the moment it happened
• Turn the flight into a 9:16 reel: route, records, shots, clips and notes, in the order they happened. You pick every ingredient
• In flight, the tab bar becomes a flight deck: photo, clip, note, one thumb

The Globetrotter:
• Flights name themselves from 4,000 airports: BFS to BCN, not just a date
• A logbook counts your lifetime flights, hours airborne and kilometres flown
• A ten-language phrasebook, spoken aloud, with a sentence builder and the answers to listen for

Record the whole flight:
Tap once before takeoff. SkyPocket keeps recording with your phone locked in your pocket, shows live stats on the lock screen, and detects the landing by itself. Force-quit, crash, dead battery: your flight survives and offers to resume.

In your language:
English, Arabic, Japanese, Italian, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese in both scripts, Korean, Ukrainian, Russian, Hebrew and Polish: the whole app and the whole bundled World Factbook, so all 238 countries can be read about in your language while you fly over them.

What’s new

A round of fixes from a friend's flight into Stansted. The destination search shows each airport's own name, so London Stansted, Heathrow, Gatwick and City no longer read as four rows saying LONDON, and typing "stansted" finds it. The country facts say where they come from and when they were last checked. A shared reel opens on its first scene instead of a black frame. And the airport list is refreshed from the latest OurAirports data.