Planespotters Delight! Spotter Is Live!: The Best Digital Aircraft Log

The Aviation Hub has built its own aircraft spotting app for planespotters, and it is available today. Spotter is a Windows desktop program made for anyone who marks off a registration the moment they see it.

It costs £4.99. That price covers the software forever.

There is no monthly fee, no yearly renewal, and no surprise charge waiting twelve months from now. You pay once and Spotter is yours for life.

A Logbook Built For Planespotters

Most spotting apps ask you to choose between a paper notebook and a phone screen full of ads. Spotter takes a different approach.

It runs on your own PC, opens in seconds, and puts everything a spotter actually needs on one screen.

Type a registration, mark it as seen, and move on to the next aircraft. The whole app is built around that single moment at the fence or in the terminal, so nothing gets in the way of it.

Look Up A Registration In Seconds

Type a registration into the search box and Spotter looks it up for you, filling in the aircraft type and the operating airline automatically.

If all you caught was the Mode S code off a transponder, that works too. Spotter falls back to a hex lookup and fills in the same details.

You can always correct or overwrite what it finds, but for the vast majority of aircraft you will never need to type the type or the airline by hand again.

A Record Worth Keeping

Every sighting in Spotter can carry more than just a registration and a date.

Attach one photo or several to the same sighting, add a short note on the conditions, and Spotter remembers all of it.

A Static Visit toggle marks aircraft seen parked at an airshow or sitting in a museum rather than logged flying, so your record stays accurate.

Sightings can be grouped into named trips, each with its own mini report showing what you saw and where, and every day you log gets rolled up automatically into a diary view for a quick look back.

Know Where You Have Been As Planespotters

Spotter draws its own offline world map, plotting a pin at every location you have ever logged a sighting from, whether that is your local airport or somewhere you visited on holiday.

An analytics screen totals up your top aircraft types and locations, and a one click year in review turns a full year of sightings into a shareable report.

Spotter also flags the moments that matter on their own, quietly noting the first time you log a new type or a new location, and marking milestones as your total sightings climb.

Your Data Never Leaves Your PC

Nothing you log in Spotter is uploaded anywhere.

Every sighting, every photo, and every note stays on your own computer, in a plain file you control as Planespotters.

You can export your full logbook to CSV or Excel at any time, back it up manually before a big trip, or turn on a weekly automatic backup and forget about it entirely.

If you ever need to start again on a new PC, restoring that backup brings your whole history back exactly as it was.

Built For The Way You Actually Spot

Spotter fills in the small details too.

A one click weather lookup drops the current conditions straight into a sighting from wherever you are logging during your Planespotters trip.

A search box across the whole logbook finds a sighting by registration, type, airline, location, or a trip name, and every column in the logbook can be sorted with a click.

If you already track an airline’s fleet, Spotter can tell you how many of it you have actually seen and, more usefully, exactly which ones you still need.

No Subscriptions, Ever – Better Choice for Planespotters…

Plenty of spotting apps look free until you try to use them properly, at which point a subscription appears between you and your own logbook. Spotter does not work that way.

£4.99 buys the complete application, every feature included, with nothing held back behind a paywall and nothing billed again next month or next year.

It is a single payment for a piece of software you own outright.

Available Now

Spotter runs on Windows 8.1, 10, and 11, needs no separate software to work, and installs in moments, giving ease of use to Planespotters.

Buy it once for £4.99 and start logging your very next sighting. Head to the Shop page to get your copy today.

Continue to follow The Aviation Hub for more analysis and insight!