Overhead Long Beach
Document aircraft noise
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Built by neighbors under the Long Beach flight path. Capture the plane, the noise, the time, and then send it from your own Mail app to the people who can act.
Quieter skies, signed by you.
Overhead is a free, neighborhood-built app for residents who live under the Long Beach Airport flight path. One tap captures an overhead plane, the time, your location, your altitude estimate, and the actual decibel level of the noise. Then — when you're ready — Overhead opens your own Mail app with a pre-filled report addressed to the right people. You review it. You hit Send. The complaint goes out from your account, in your name, as constituent correspondence.
That last part matters. In January 2026, a court tossed out a neighborhood lawsuit demanding stricter enforcement of LGB's noise ordinance. The judge ruled the city only has to act on noise it can individually prove. One resident, one email, one signed concern is exactly that. Anything an app sent on your behalf would land as "just an app" and get filtered out — yours can't.
WHO THIS IS FOR
California Heights, Bixby Knolls, Los Cerritos, and the rest of the neighborhoods that hear flight schools doing touch-and-go loops over their backyards from 6:30 AM to 11:45 PM. If that's you, this app was built for you.
WHAT YOU GET
• Tap to capture: photo or up to 8 seconds of video
• Live decibel meter measures the actual noise level on capture
• ADS-B + registry lookup pulls the aircraft's tail number, type, and owner/operator when available
• Time, location, altitude, and ordinance status are recorded automatically
• One-tap dispatch: opens your Mail app with the report pre-addressed
• Real map of every report you've sent, color-coded by ordinance status
• Compile any month into a single PDF for AAC public comment
• Works offline — reports queue locally and send when you're back online
PRIVACY THAT'S ACTUALLY PRIVATE
Overhead has no visible account, no ads, and no analytics SDKs. Your full reports, photos, videos, decibel readings, coordinates, and notes live on your phone unless you choose to send a report through Mail. The app also sends a tiny anonymous tally row to our Supabase backend so the public observatory can count neighborhood activity. No tracking, no advertising IDs, no third-party analytics.
NOT AFFILIATED with the City of Long Beach, Long Beach Airport, the FAA, or any government body. Overhead is an independent civic-tech project built by neighbors who got tired of waiting.
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Hello, neighbor.
This update makes Overhead faster when you hear a plane but do not
have time to capture photo or video evidence:
• New "I heard it" Lock Screen widget for quick no-media logging
• New Home Screen widget with the same one-tap logging shortcut
• Time-aware widget copy that highlights quiet-hours captures
• More reliable widget-launched report review, close, and delete flow
• Production credential support for the WidgetKit extension
Widget reports still create drafts only. Nothing records, sends, or
uploads until you open the app and choose what to do next.
The developer, Alexander Saldivar, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Diagnostics
- Other Data
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Alexander Saldivar
- Size
- 43.2 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Alexander Saldivar