ADS-B Radar

Turn your Mac into a live aircraft radar — right from your menu bar. ADS-B Radar visualizer gives you instant, real-time tracking of aircraft within range of your own ADS-B receiver.  • Menu bar: See how many aircraft are in range instantly • Dedicated Apple Maps interface: Smooth & Crisp graphics, Dark or Light Mode, all Map types supported • Appearance Control: Set colours for aircraft, trails, ATC boxes, text and contrast/brightness control for the Map • Detailed flight info: Callsign, altitude, speed, track, vertical rate, category, route, country of registration, and more • Aircraft trails: Display all aircraft trails simultaneously to spot unusual patterns, while trail colours show altitude changes • Custom alerts: Get notified based on callsign, type, altitude, squawk, speed, or distance — with optional wildcard matching • Share & Search: Instantly take a snapshot and share the radar view, or search by callsign, ICAO, registration, or type • Map Recording: Record all Map movements and share a time-lapse movie, compress hours of flight movements to minutes • Historic data: Log flights locally to your own SQLite database for analysis and interesting stats • Popular API support: • Enable adsbdb.com for extended info from planebase.biz & photos from aircraft-data.com • Enable Aeronautical charts from openAIP.net for a truly realistic ATC view • Enable Weather maps from OpenWeatherMap to show precipitation, clouds or wind • Enable Airplanes.live: Feed airplanes.live to boost your receiver to 250nm radar range • Track Specific Aircraft: With airplanes.live highlight military, interesting or special aircraft • Multi-station support: Expand your coverage by reading multiple ADS-B receivers Why you will love ADS-B Radar: • Super stable • Plug & Play setup • Low CPU & energy usage • Clean, smooth and crisp UI • Runs entirely private if preferred - no internet needed • Use your data the way you want ! • From macOS 12.4+, give an old Mac a second life as a radar station Requirements: Your own ADS-B hardware receiver with JSON output, such as: • Raspberry Pi + RTL-SDR running dump1090(fa) -> Recommended setup • macOS + Python + RTL-SDR running dump1090(fa) -> For experts • Jetvision Radarcape / Air!Squitter -> Commercial / Professional Not sure if this is the App for you? • Try our FREE ADS-B Radar Lite version first ! Visit adsb-radar.com for setup guides, details and more screenshots.