Skypane — Offline Flight Tracker for Android

Features

Everything runs on the device

The entire map, every instrument, and every label is computed locally from GPS and sensors — nothing is fetched, ever.

Offline vector map

Mountains, lakes, rivers, oceans, cities, airports, and borders — a full vector basemap bundled in the app, zero network requests.

AR landmark camera

Live camera view that labels the real mountains, lakes, and cities passing beneath the plane, in real time.

Flight instruments

Ground speed, altitude, heading, and compass — a live instrument panel driven entirely by your phone's own sensors.

Sun & window-side indicator

Know exactly which side of the aircraft the sun is on, so you always pick the right window for the view.

Trip tracking + GPX export

Record your full flight path in the background and export it as a standard GPX file to keep or share afterward.

Flight Postcard

Turn your route into a shareable postcard-style image — a clean souvenir of exactly where you flew.

Screens

What it looks like mid-flight

Real screens from the app. No network calls behind any of them.

Skypane offline map screen with live position, heading, and distance

Offline mapLive position, heading, and distance from a fully bundled vector map.

Skypane flight instruments screen with heading compass and flight data

Flight instrumentsGround speed, altitude, heading, and vertical speed straight from GPS.

Zero setupNo account, no sign-in — nothing beyond the location and camera permissions.

Privacy

No internet permission. Not a policy — an architecture.

Airplane wifi is expensive or unavailable, so Skypane was built to need none of it. That's not a promise in a privacy policy — it's a permission the app never asks the operating system for.

No INTERNET permission in the manifest

Android requires apps to declare network access up front. Skypane simply doesn't — it is structurally incapable of sending or receiving data.

No ads, no analytics, no trackers

There's no SDK to phone home because there's no way for anything to phone home.

Verifiable, not just claimed

The app's declared permissions are visible on its Play Store listing — anyone can check that "Internet" isn't among them.

AndroidManifest.xml

<uses-permission android:name="ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />

<uses-permission android:name="CAMERA" />

// not present — no code path in this app can reach a network

How it works

Three steps, zero signal

Open the app

Launch Skypane before takeoff. It works exactly the same with airplane mode on — nothing changes.

Check the map or camera

Browse the offline map, glance at your flight instruments, or point the camera out the window for AR landmark labels.

See live data

Landmark labels, flight instruments, sun position, and your tracked route, all updating in real time, fully offline.