Well Spotted: Plane Spotting

Never miss the rare one again. Well Spotted reads every arrival and departure at your airport and shows you the rare planes worth the trip to the fence.

Most days it's the same old 737s and A320s. Then a Kuwait A350, a brand-new airline or a jumbo freighter turns up, and you only hear about it once it has gone. Well Spotted is the plane spotting app that finds those flights for you before they land.

RARE PLANES, RANKED FOR YOU

Every flight gets a rarity mark, weighed against a year of real flights at that airport: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Very rare or Exceptional. Rarity looks at the airline, the aircraft type and the two together. First visit shows when this exact aircraft hasn't been there in a year, and Rare? when a flight looks rare but who's flying isn't confirmed yet. Tap a flight to see why it's rare, such as "Their A350 · 17 visits in a year".

EVERY ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE IN ONE FEED

Today and tomorrow at your airport, in time order: airline, flight number, aircraft type, registration, and where it's coming from or going to. Delays show the way airport boards do, with the expected time. Once a flight has landed or taken off, you see the runway it used. The week strip shows each day's rarest flight, and the time on the edge of the list takes you to any hour.

LIGHT AND WEATHER FOR THE SHOT

A gold camera marks every flight that arrives in golden hour. Each flight carries the sky for its hour, and the top of the day shows the weather and wind now, sunrise, sunset and golden hour, and the runways seen in use, so you know when to go.

FILTERS FOR WHAT YOU CHASE

Only the gems. Only arrivals or only departures. Wide-bodies, narrow-bodies, regional jets, turboprops or cargo. Golden-hour flights. Your favourite airlines and aircraft types. Mix them as you like.

PLANE SPOTTING AT 225 AIRPORTS

Across the UK and Europe, the Americas, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, including London Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Dublin, Amsterdam Schiphol, Frankfurt, Paris CDG, Madrid, Rome, Zurich, New York JFK, Chicago O'Hare, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Toronto, Vancouver, Tokyo Haneda and Narita, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Bangkok, Taipei, São Paulo and Cape Town.

WELL SPOTTED PRO

See the rare ones coming all week. Pro shows the whole week ahead, follows multiple airports a tap apart, and reminds you 15 minutes to an hour before a flight lands or leaves. Monthly or yearly, with the first week free on yearly. Rarity, filters and golden hour for today and tomorrow stay free.

MADE FOR PLANE SPOTTERS

For aviation photographers, avgeeks and anyone who looks up when a jet goes over. A light theme for spotting in daylight and a dark one for the evening. No ads and no sign-in.

WHERE THE DATA COMES FROM

Rarity is measured on a year of ADS-B flight history from the volunteer receivers of ADSB.lol (© ADSB.lol contributors, ODbL). Weather from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0) and NOAA. Well Spotted is for aviation enthusiasts; it is not a flight-status or navigation service.