Faster startup The app now opens straight to the sky, with no Game Center sign-in on the way. Three new leaderboards See how you stack up against friends on Airlines Collected, Types Spotted and Countries Spotted. Your scores start with everything already in your logbook, so nothing you've spotted is lost. Turn on Compare with friends in the logbook to join in. Four new achievements Departures Board, Seven Day Streak, Widebody Bingo and Rotorhead. Planes already in your logbook count toward them. Also Helicopters are now identified, and more flights show their route.

We optimized some performance around achievements and leaderboards when opted in to comparing with friends.

We made some changes to increase the reliability of leader boards when you've opted to compare your log book with others.

Plane and Simple now remembers every plane you spot. Your Logbook Tap a plane and it goes in your logbook for good. See every airframe, airline and type you have spotted, with photos of the real aircraft. Your logbook syncs to iCloud, so it survives a new phone. Rare finds Each aircraft is rated against how many of its kind fly worldwide. A 787 is common. An A380 is not. You will know when you have seen something special. Achievements Twenty to earn, from your first sighting to your first four-engine jet. A few are hidden. Share what you saw Make a card from your own view of the sky, with the plane marked and its route across the top. Ready for Messages, Instagram or anywhere else. Compare with friends Turn on Game Center from the logbook and your achievements and aircraft count appear to your friends, with two leaderboards: all time, and new aircraft this week. Off by default, and your logbook itself never leaves your phone. Get the camera up faster Planes do not wait. Add Spot a Plane to Control Center, the Lock Screen or the Action Button, or just ask Siri. The camera opens straight away, no splash screen. Also Increased accuracy around positions in AR view. The app opens faster and the first flight you tap loads much sooner. Eleven missing airlines, including easyJet, Qantas and Qatar Airways. The logbook and achievements use the full screen on iPad.

Plane and Simple now remembers every plane you spot. Your Logbook Tap a plane and it goes in your logbook for good. See every airframe, airline and type you have spotted, with photos of the real aircraft. Your logbook syncs to iCloud, so it survives a new phone. Rare finds Each aircraft is rated against how many of its kind fly worldwide. A 787 is common. An A380 is not. You will know when you have seen something special. Achievements Twenty to earn, from your first sighting to your first four-engine jet. A few are hidden. Share what you saw Make a card from your own view of the sky, with the plane marked and its route across the top. Ready for Messages, Instagram or anywhere else. Compare with friends Turn on Game Center from the logbook and your achievements and aircraft count appear to your friends, with two leaderboards: all time, and new aircraft this week. Off by default, and your logbook itself never leaves your phone. Get the camera up faster Planes do not wait. Add Spot a Plane to Control Center, the Lock Screen or the Action Button, or just ask Siri. The camera opens straight away, no splash screen. Also Increased accuracy around positions in AR view. The app opens faster and the first flight you tap loads much sooner. Eleven missing airlines, including easyJet, Qantas and Qatar Airways. The logbook and achievements use the full screen on iPad.

Plane and Simple now remembers. A LOGBOOK Every aircraft you tap is recorded permanently, including the airline, the airframe, the route, and where you were standing. Browse what you've collected by airline or by aircraft type, each one with a photograph of the machine you actually caught. RARITY THAT MEANS SOMETHING Types are measured against more than 91,000 airframes worldwide, so you know whether you've caught something everyday or something with 270 left flying. NINETEEN ACHIEVEMENTS Two of them secret. The best ones can't be hunted (catching the same aircraft on two different days, or the same route in both directions). SHARE WHAT YOU SAW Any sighting becomes a card built from your own photo of the sky, the aircraft marked and its contrail pointing the way it was flying. ICLOUD SYNC Your collection follows you to a new phone. Free, and always will be. ALSO - Eleven airlines added, including Qatar Airways, Qantas and easyJet - Aircraft types no longer split across spellings, so rarity is finally accurate - Better use of the screen on iPad, in both orientations - Fixed distances that could be wildly wrong from a stale location

We've added photos and the make & model of the planes you see (when available).

We've added and updated thousands of routes and built a new, clearer AR overlay and route map view.

We added a tip jar to support ongoing development.

Where's that plane headed? Tap any flight to find out! We've added origin and destination info for hundreds of thousands of flights, redesigned the details screen, and added support for 11 languages. Now go outside and look up!

We've added a flight detail view! Tap on a flight and see where it is on the map as well as all the details.