SkyPocket: the pocket cockpit that works in flight mode
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Free on both stores · £0.99 £0 until Sunday 26 July
BFS
BCN
Flight mode on. Everything works.
Your flight, from the inside.
SkyPocket turns your phone into a pocket cockpit: live ground speed, altitude, track and an offline world atlas, all while your phone is in flight mode. Record the whole flight with the screen locked, film the view with your stats burned in, then replay it and share it.
Get it free — until Sunday<br>See it fly
iPhone and Android · Nothing leaves your phone
How is this possible
GPS only receives. Like a radio.
Your phone listens to satellites and never transmits, so flight mode does not switch it off. SkyPocket pairs that signal with the barometer and motion sensors, and packs the whole world map, the CIA World Factbook and every World Heritage Site inside the app. Nothing is sent, fetched or tracked.
0 bytes sent anywhere
100% works offline
1,245 heritage sites aboard
Instruments
A glass cockpit for seat 23A.
Offline world atlas
Coastlines, seas, mountain ranges, rivers, 7,000 towns and 1,245 World Heritage Sites, packed inside the app. Pan the planet mid-ocean; tap anything to read about it.
Whole-flight recorder
Tap once, or let takeoff detection offer for you. It records with the phone locked, survives force-quits, and lands in your logbook automatically.
A camera with a memory
Photos stamped with your speed, altitude and position. Clips with a live stats marquee. A timelapse turns two hours of cruising into a four-minute film.
Every flight, a story
Wheels up, top of climb, borders crossed, the sunset you flew through, touchdown: derived from the data alone and told as a timeline.
Lock-screen live stats
Speed, altitude, distance and the country below, live on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island while you doze.
The world, readable
The CIA World Factbook, bundled whole, split into countries you have overflown (it counts) and countries you have not. Yet.
On the flight deck
Every screen, exactly as it flies.
The cockpit, in flight
The world atlas
Wheels down
Replay any flight
Countries, collected
Your logbook
Photos and clips
Photos with stats
After landing
Every flight becomes a story.
Flights name themselves from 4,000 airports: BFS to BCN, not just a date.
A story timeline: wheels up, borders crossed, the sunset you flew through.
Replay flies the whole route in thirty seconds, numbers ticking as it goes.
Stitch your clips into one flight film, stats burned in as a marquee.
One tap renders a flight card ready for wherever you brag.
CSV and GPX export, and iCloud backup on iPhone.
Before you board
Questions, answered.
How can it work in flight mode?<br>GPS is receive-only, like a radio. Your phone listens to satellites and never transmits, so flight mode does not turn it off. SkyPocket sends nothing anywhere: the map, the airports and the country facts are all packed inside the app.
Does it need an internet connection?<br>No. Everything works offline, mid-ocean included.
Does recording drain the battery?<br>It uses GPS the way a run tracker does. A long-haul flight typically costs a modest slice of battery, and the screen can stay locked the whole time.
Do I need a window seat?<br>It helps. GPS struggles through a metal fuselage, so near a window is best. If the signal drops, SkyPocket estimates your position honestly, marked in amber, until the fix returns.
What if I delete the app, or lose my phone?<br>On iPhone, completed flights back themselves up to your iCloud automatically: reinstall the app and your logbook comes back down on its own, with no account beyond the iCloud you already have. On Android, one tap sends your whole logbook out as a zip through the share sheet, wherever you want to keep it.
Where is the Android version?<br>It's here. SkyPocket is on Google Play, with the same features as the iPhone version.
YOU → ANYWHERE
Window seat recommended
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