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title: "Here and Above - what's flying over you, right now"
description: "Here and Above is an iPhone app that shows the planes, ships and satellites above you, live, on a globe you can fly through, all the way out to Saturn."
url: https://hereabove.com/
updated: 2026-10-01
site: "Here Above"
---

# Here and Above

The planes, ships and satellites over you, live, on a globe you can fly through.

Contact form: https://hereabove.com/

2.5 km

## Every flight, where it really is

Positions stream in from ADS-B receivers every few seconds. Aircraft sit on the runway, climb out and turn over the city just as they do outside your window.

Tap a plane for its airline, aircraft type, route and a photo of the airframe.

![Newark airport at sunset with aircraft labels](https://hereabove.com/api/media/86c8339b-0b3e-46c8-8c2f-e2bea4c03682/airport.jpg)

![Newark airport at night with aircraft labels](https://hereabove.com/api/media/d1467a22-786a-4c85-a928-0c7f98d04682/airportnight.jpg)

3.7 km

## See it from the window seat

Tap a flight and take the seat by the window. The wing and engine hang outside while the city slides past below, exactly where that plane is right now.

Ships are there too: follow vessels in and out of the harbour from their AIS broadcasts.

![The view from a passenger window, with the wing and engine over New York](https://hereabove.com/api/media/e66ca345-02db-4f0e-91ac-71730cfb4a12/window.jpg)

9 km

## The ground, in three dimensions

Mountains, valleys and city blocks are real terrain and photographed scenery. The sun sits where it sits for you right now, so evening looks like evening.

![Innsbruck at sunset in 3D, with mountains either side of the valley](https://hereabove.com/api/media/f414172a-f35b-423c-9b4c-395408c15397/mountains.jpg)

407 km

## Today's clouds, not a stock photo

Cloud cover comes from NOAA weather satellites and refreshes every fifteen minutes. Pull back to the height of the space station and watch the weather move across the planet.

![The curve of the Earth under live cloud cover](https://hereabove.com/api/media/37ec7026-d4eb-41d3-a251-bc0c05c74e74/loworbit.jpg)

20,000 km

## Satellites in orbit, eclipses on the way

Hundreds of satellites trace their orbits around the globe, each placed from its published orbital elements.

Solar eclipses are plotted ahead of time. Scrub through one and watch the Moon's shadow cross the Earth.

![The globe wrapped in satellites](https://hereabove.com/api/media/285616aa-bb51-4028-8c0e-3203a799e9a8/satellites.jpg)

![The Moon's shadow crossing the North Atlantic during the 12 August 2026 total eclipse](https://hereabove.com/api/media/ae010f79-7fec-42c5-9c87-0a8c05b2308d/eclipse.jpg)

384,400 km

## Past the Moon, on to Mars

Keep pulling back and Earth becomes one world among several. Fly to the Moon or Mars and turn them in your hand.

![The Moon, close up](https://hereabove.com/api/media/9be00c43-7644-4faf-9856-7c68a7275052/moon.jpg)

![Mars, close up](https://hereabove.com/api/media/bb8d28a6-0978-4f5b-8f53-a7e250302c57/mars.jpg)

1.4 billion km

## The whole solar system

Jupiter's storms, Saturn's rings, and every planet on the orbit it is travelling today. Step back far enough and you can see all of them circling the Sun.

![Saturn and its rings](https://hereabove.com/api/media/8729a495-bdab-4276-bb67-33515232682e/saturn.jpg)

![Jupiter and the Great Red Spot](https://hereabove.com/api/media/0fa244eb-a09b-4da3-b7b7-3c9d4791ea88/jupiter.jpg)

![The inner planets' orbits around the Sun, seen from above](https://hereabove.com/api/media/f7683ce5-d977-492c-bd7e-a7cf57a06dae/solar-system.jpg)

## Made by the people who watch the sky

Everything in Here and Above comes from people who share what they see.

- **Aircraft** come from [ADSB.lol](https://adsb.lol/), fed by volunteers running receivers on their roofs and balconies.
- **Ships** come from AIS broadcasts relayed by volunteer receivers and coastal authorities.
- **Planets, moons, eclipses and aircraft models** live in an open repository on GitHub. Anyone can add one with a pull request, and preview it in the app before it is merged.
- **Maps** are drawn from OpenStreetMap, built by millions of mappers.

[Contribute on GitHub](https://github.com/Here-and-Above/hereabove-content)

## No account. No ads. No tracking.

Your exact location never leaves your phone. The app asks for the area you are looking at, not where you are standing, and it has nothing to sign up for.

[Read how Here and Above handles your data](https://hereabove.com/privacy)