Flight Intelligence

What your airline
won't tell you.

Departa monitors your flight from the moment it's booked to the moment you land — alerting you to problems before the airline admits they exist. For iOS and Android.

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Pricing

Simple, honest pricing

Start free. Unlock what you need. A fraction of the cost of Flighty — on both platforms.

Free
Free
$0
forever
Real-time tracking with no credit card required.
  • Search and track any flight worldwide
  • Near real-time departure and arrival times
  • Where's My Plane? — inbound aircraft tracking 25h out
  • Basic airport status
Download free
Core
Core
$1.55
per month
Everything the serious traveler needs, every trip.
  • Everything in Free
  • Gate and baggage carousel info — live updates
  • Push alerts for delays, cancellations, gate changes
  • Flight map with live aircraft position
  • Calendar sync and email import
  • Home and lock screen widgets
  • Past flight import
Get Core
Best Value
Core Lifetime
$55
once — yours forever
Pay once, own Core permanently. No recurring charge, ever.
  • Everything in Core
  • Permanent access — no subscription
  • All future Core feature updates included
  • Saves vs. monthly after just 3 years
Buy Lifetime — $55
Premium
Premium
$15.55
per month
AI intelligence, connections, friends, and full travel history.
  • Everything in Core
  • AI delay predictions — hours before the airline
  • Connection Assistant with risk rating and walk time
  • Friends — track others privately with pickup countdowns
  • Travel Passport — lifetime stats, airline scorecards
  • Weather radar on the flight map
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Capabilities

Built for the
informed traveler

Every feature exists for one reason: you should know what's happening to your flight before the departure board does.

Real-time flight tracking
Position, altitude, ground speed, and trajectory — updated live. Know exactly where your plane is before you reach the airport.
Free
Where's My Plane?
Tracks your inbound aircraft up to 25 hours before your flight. If it's running late at its origin, you'll know before the gate agent does.
Free
Push alerts — faster than airlines
Gate changes, delays, and cancellations pushed to your device the moment data changes — often minutes before the airline app catches up.
Core
Gate and baggage carousel
Live gate assignments and baggage claim carousel numbers — updated in real time so you always know exactly where to go.
Core
Calendar sync and email import
Flights auto-populate from your booking confirmations and calendar. Your itinerary appears in Departa without any manual entry.
Core
Home and lock screen widgets
Glanceable widgets showing your next flight's status, gate, and countdown — right on your home or lock screen. No app-open required.
Core
Core Lifetime — own it forever
A single $55 payment unlocks all Core features permanently across all your devices. No recurring charge, ever. Pay once — yours forever.
Lifetime — $55
AI delay predictions
Machine learning trained on millions of flights surfaces delay risk hours before the airline announces it — with the specific reason why.
Premium
Connection Assistant
Running late? The AI evaluates your connection window against real-time delays, gate-to-gate walk times, and your onward flight status.
Premium
Friends tracking
Track colleagues and family privately, with pickup countdowns. See their flight status on one screen — even when they're on different planes.
Premium
Travel Passport
Lifetime flight stats, airline scorecards, and aircraft history — a living record of every flight tracked through Departa.
Premium
Weather radar on the map
Live weather radar overlaid on your flight map — see exactly what weather your plane is routing around and why.
Premium
iOS and Android — true parity
Full feature parity across both platforms. The only flight intelligence app built for Android as a first-class citizen — not an afterthought.
Differentiator
Competitive Edge

Not just another
flight tracker

Flighty set the bar on iOS. We're raising it — on both platforms, at a fraction of the price.

  • 01

    Android. First-class, not an afterthought.

    Flighty is iOS-only with no Android timeline. Every Departa feature ships on both platforms simultaneously from day one.

  • 02

    Faster than airline apps. Every time.

    We pull from multiple upstream data sources and push the moment something changes — not when the airline decides to tell you.

  • 03

    A $55 lifetime option that actually makes sense.

    Own Core forever for one payment. No subscriptions nags, no annual renewals. Just the app — yours permanently.

  • 04

    AI that predicts, not just reports.

    Delay prediction before it's official. Connection risk scored in real time with gate-to-gate walk times. Intelligence that acts.

Feature Departa Flighty Airline App
Android support✓✗✓
Free live tracking✓✗~
Where's My Plane?✓✓✗
AI delay prediction✓✓✗
Connection Assistant✓✓✗
Friends tracking✓✓✗
Weather radar✓✓✗
Lifetime option$55✗✗
Monthly entry price$1.55$4.99Free
Support

Help & guidelines

Everything you need to get the most out of Departa.

Getting started
  1. 1
    Download Departa
    Free on the App Store (iOS) and Google Play (Android). No account or sign-in required to begin tracking.
  2. 2
    Search for your flight
    Enter your flight number (e.g. AC780) or search by route. All major and regional airlines worldwide are supported.
  3. 3
    Add it to My Flights
    Tap the bookmark icon to save any flight. It appears on your home screen with a live status summary.
  4. 4
    Unlock Core or go Lifetime (optional)
    Core is $1.55/month or $55 once for lifetime access. Either unlocks push alerts, gate info, and widgets across all your devices.
  5. 5
    Enable push notifications
    When prompted, allow notifications so Departa can alert you to gate changes and delays faster than your airline app.
Tracking flights
You can save flights up to 14 days before departure. Where's My Plane? activates 25 hours before your flight, tracking the inbound aircraft from its origin. Live position tracking begins approximately 2 hours before your scheduled departure.
The plane that operates your flight first arrives from another city. Departa automatically identifies and tracks that inbound aircraft from 25 hours out — so if it departs late or encounters a problem at its origin, you know immediately, long before your gate agent is aware.
Departa aggregates data from multiple aviation data providers and ADS-B receiver networks, refreshed every 30–60 seconds in flight. Coverage may be reduced over remote oceanic routes where ground receivers are sparse.
Yes — past flight import is a Core feature. Go to My Flights → Import and follow the prompts to load historical flight records. These feed directly into your Travel Passport stats if you're on Premium.
Alerts & notifications
Airlines have internal processing delays before pushing updates to customer apps. Departa monitors multiple independent data feeds — including ADS-B tracking and third-party airport data — and sends a push notification the moment any change is detected, without waiting for the airline to publish it.
With Core unlocked: gate changes, delays (with configurable threshold), cancellations, boarding commencement, departure, and landing. All alert types can be individually toggled in Settings → Notifications.
First confirm push notifications are enabled for Departa in your device system settings (iOS: Settings → Departa → Notifications; Android: Settings → Apps → Departa → Notifications). Then confirm the flight is saved to My Flights and the specific alert type is toggled on in the app. If issues persist, contact our support team.
Premium features
Departa's model is trained on millions of historical flights and considers: historical on-time performance for the route, aircraft type, time of day, originating airport congestion, current weather at origin and destination, ATC delays, and inbound aircraft status. A risk score from Low to High is shown on the flight detail screen and updated every 30 minutes.
If your first flight is delayed, the Connection Assistant calculates whether you will make your connecting flight based on current expected arrival, your connecting airport's gate-to-gate transit times, minimum connection time, and whether your onward flight is also delayed. You'll see: "You'll make it with 18 min to spare" or "Risk — your connection may require rebooking."
Go to the Friends tab and tap the + icon. Share a link to invite someone — they need a free Departa account to appear in your feed, but they don't need Premium themselves. Once connected, any flight they save to My Flights shows in your Friends view with pickup countdown.
Travel Passport is your lifetime aviation record: total miles flown, countries visited, airlines used, on-time rate by carrier, aircraft types flown, and more. It builds automatically from every flight tracked in Departa and supports past flight import to fill in your history.
Account & billing
Both unlock the same Core features. Core monthly is $1.55/month — cancel anytime. Core Lifetime is a one-time $55 payment that gives you permanent access to all Core features on all your devices, forever, with no further charges. It pays for itself compared to monthly after just under 3 years.
Yes. Your Core or Premium access is tied to your Departa account, not a single device. Sign in with the same account on any iOS or Android device and your purchase is recognized automatically. Tap "Restore Purchases" in Settings if it doesn't appear immediately.
Core monthly and Premium are billed through the App Store or Google Play. Cancel anytime: iOS — Settings → your name → Subscriptions; Android — Google Play → Profile → Payments & subscriptions. You retain access until the end of the current billing period. Core Lifetime is a one-time purchase and has no subscription to cancel.
Not yet — business and team pricing is on the roadmap. If you manage a team of frequent travelers and want to discuss early access, reach out via the contact form below.
Troubleshooting
Pull down on the flight detail screen to force a manual refresh. If data still looks incorrect, the issue may be upstream with our data providers — this is rare but can happen for regional or charter carriers. A yellow dot in the top-right corner of the flight card indicates degraded data coverage for that specific flight.
Departa uses push notifications rather than continuous background polling, so active tracking should have minimal battery impact. If you notice unusual consumption, check that Location access is set to "While Using" rather than "Always" unless you rely on widgets. Report persistent issues to support with your device model and OS version.
Sign in with your Departa account and tap Settings → Restore Purchases. Ensure you're signed in with the same Apple ID or Google account used at the time of purchase. If the issue persists, contact support with your order confirmation and we'll restore access manually.
Go to Profile → Export My Data. Departa will compile your profile, tracked flights, past flight history, travel stats, and preferences into a JSON file and open the native share sheet so you can save or send it. If there's no data to export yet, start tracking flights to build your history.
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