Labels on the live sky
Callsign, airline, type and altitude drawn over the camera, positioned from the aircraft’s own broadcast and your phone’s compass. Busy approach? Labels keep out of each other’s way.
For iPhone · Free · Ireland first
Point at a plane.
Name it.
Hold your phone up to the sky and Skylark tells you what is flying over: the airline, the flight, where it came from and where it is going, the aircraft type, its height and speed. Live, on the camera, as it passes.
Download on theApp Store- No ads
- No account
- Camera never leaves your phone
- Built in Ireland
2×a second, every aircraft around you is refreshed
10 kmis all the app sends about where you are
€0to download. No ads. No account.
How it works
Three seconds from “what’s that?” to knowing.
- 01
Point
Open Skylark and hold your phone up to the plane. Every aircraft in the camera view gets a label that follows it as you pan.
- 02
Read
Flight, airline, aircraft type, where it left and where it lands, height and speed. If it has passed out of frame, an arrow says which way to turn.
- 03
Keep
Tap I saw it and the sighting goes in your logbook with the time, the type and your own photo. Share it, or replay the flight later.
What you get
Made for the person who always looks up.
Know where to look
A list of everything nearby, nearest first, each with a direction and a distance. Chevrons at the screen edge mark aircraft just out of view, so the sky never reads as empty.
A logbook that grows with you
Every sighting kept with the date, aircraft type, registration and your photo. Counts by type and airline, a search box, and a CSV export for your own records.
Share the moment
Send a sighting card with the flight, the route and your photo to the family chat, without exposing where you were standing.
Replay the flight
Watch the whole track of a plane you spotted, from the coast to the runway, and see the day’s traffic over Dublin play back in 3D.
Spoken highlights
Leave Skylark open on the garden table and it reads out the notable arrivals: the widebodies, the visitors, the rare types.
Private by design
The camera view and your exact position never leave your phone. The aircraft feed sees an area rounded to about 10 km, nothing more. No account, ever.
Coming next
AR trail, zoom and steady lock-on
A trail behind each aircraft so you can see where it has been, pinch to zoom on the distant ones, and a lock that keeps a label steady while you follow a plane across the sky.
For spotters
The instrument you were missing at the fence.
Real ADS-B positions, registration and type at a glance, altitude and ground speed in the units you use, and a logbook that exports cleanly. Drag a label onto the airframe once and the compass is corrected for everything else in the sky. No subscription wall in front of the data.
For the curious
Answer the question the kids keep asking.
“Where is that one going?” Now you can say. Hold up the phone, read it off, and keep the ones you liked. It works from a back garden, a beach in Portmarnock or a bench in the Phoenix Park, and it needs no setup beyond letting it use the camera.
Coverage
Dublin today. Ireland next. Then the UK.
Live
Dublin and around
Aircraft over Dublin and its approaches are named today, from the same volunteer receivers that feed Skylark’s live web tracker.
Next
Island of Ireland
Cork, Shannon, Knock, Belfast and everywhere between, as the receiver network and the feed agreements grow.
Then
United Kingdom
Heathrow, Manchester and the rest follow once the Irish coverage is solid.
Positions come from aircraft position reports and are estimates, usually a few seconds behind the real thing. Skylark is for curiosity, not navigation. Not on iPhone? The live Dublin sky works in any browser.
From the beta
What early testers say
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Questions
Before you download
Is Skylark free?
Yes. Skylark is free to download and use, with no ads and no account. Optional extras may come later; the sky lens and the logbook stay free.
Where does Skylark work?
Skylark names aircraft around Dublin today, and the whole island of Ireland is next, then the UK. Anywhere else you still get the camera and the logbook, but the sky stays unlabelled until coverage arrives.
How does it know which plane I am looking at?
Most aircraft broadcast their position, altitude and identity by radio (ADS-B). Volunteer receivers on the ground pick that up and share it. Skylark combines those positions with your phone’s location and compass to work out which aircraft sits where in your camera view, then looks up the flight, route and airline.
How accurate is it?
Usually within a finger’s width at arm’s length. Positions arrive a few seconds late and phone compasses drift, so if a label sits beside the plane, drag it onto the aircraft once and everything else lines up. Skylark is for curiosity, not navigation.
Is there an Android version?
Not yet. Leave your email below and choose Android to be told when there is. The live Dublin sky at skylark.watch works in any browser today.
What does Skylark send off my phone?
The camera view and your exact position never leave your phone. To fetch nearby aircraft the app sends only an area rounded to about 10 km. Your logbook and photos stay on the device. The full privacy policy is short and in plain English.