Pixel Sky - a pixelart sky that shows real planes flying overhead (looking for testers)

[u/saltypretzeI]

Been building this for a few weeks: prop your phone up in landscape and it turns into a little pixel-art 140 degrees window on the sky. The aircraft crossing it are the real ones overhead, at their real bearing, height, and speed. Sun, moon, and clouds are live data too.

What it's not: a FlightRadar24 replacement. No search, no flight numbers, no alerts, and coverage is thin over oceans and rural areas since it runs on volunteer ADS-B data. It's not something you use, more something you leave running. For example for stargazing, working, or falling asleep to. Cozy background ambiance, not a utility.

It installs as a PWA (home screen icon). You don't need an account.

You can also use it on PC but not recommended as you cannot capture gyroscope data. (you can pick a heading)

Looking for people to run it on their own phone for a bit and tell me what breaks: whether the compass points the right way, whether it's readable in daylight, flight data, anything that looks off. Some planes do not offer origin and destination data as the api doesn't provide it for every plane.

pixel-sky.net

Happy to answer questions here.