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✈️ Aviate 1.0 is here

The flight companion Android deserves is now available on Google Play. That sentence took a year and a half to write...

What started as a boarding-pass scanner in January 2025 has grown into the Android flight companion I wanted to use myself, shaped by our community of +1,000 testers, +10,000 flights tracked, and over 400 bug reports & feature requests.

The essentials are free, there are no ads, and Aviate Pro is optional.

A new release deserves a new home too: we also just acquired aviate.app.

Download Aviate on Google Play

✈️ Aviate 1.0.0 Pre-Release 7

This pre-release is for Android. It is mostly about giving you a clear choice before Aviate turns something on or shares anything outside the app.

New controls

• Report a public profile, account, member, or group, and optionally block the account when reporting a person
• Review and unblock accounts from Public Profile settings
• Manage push notifications, optional crash reports, indoor-map location, and the Wear OS companion separately
• Choose live updates for each flight and stop tracking directly from the notification

Privacy and security

• Push notifications and crash reports now stay off until you choose to enable them
• Blocking is respected in signed-in profile and community views, group invitations, community notifications, and direct flight sharing
• Sign-in tokens are moved into Android's secure Keystore and are no longer copied to Wear OS
• Airline Connect, parking, ride pickup, indoor maps, and diagnostic logs now explain what is shared before you continue
• Account deletion cleans up more connected data, including community records and report attachments

Smaller improvements

• Parking no longer captures your location automatically
• Live tracking no longer silently restarts after a reboot
• The Jet Lag Advisor no longer recommends medication or presents an estimated adjustment time as a promise
• Screen scanning gives clearer explanations and errors, and gallery saves work correctly on Android 8 and 9

Before updating

Account-linked push alerts and Wear OS syncing start turned off in Pre-Release 7. Re-enable either one you use from Preferences → Data & Notification Controls after updating.

🚪 Gate predictions are here.

Aviate Pro can now show a likely departure or arrival gate when no confirmed gate is available yet.

Predictions are based on recent gate history and clearly marked as Predicted. Official data always wins, so the prediction is replaced as soon as Aviate receives a confirmed gate.

If there isn't enough useful history, the field stays empty. A bad guess isn't better than no guess.

✈️ Aviate 1.0.0 Pre-Release 6

Pre-Release 6 is probably one of our biggest releases

New features

• Gate predictions for Aviate Pro when we don't have an official gate yet
• Import up to 25 boarding-pass screenshots at once on Android
• Keep aircraft, registration, seat, and cabin class from supported CSV imports
• Fill in missing aircraft or tail details on flights you own
• Search more than 8,250 airports by IATA, ICAO, name, city, or region
• In-flight trivia is now available to every signed-in traveler

Improvements and bug fixes

• Live tracking is matched against the exact date and route more carefully
• Home, widgets, and notifications move on from completed flights properly
• Check-in reminders no longer arrive too early for some travelers
• The turbulence card no longer calls a flight "Smooth" when we don't have enough data
• Missing seat data no longer appears as undefined

Removed

Expense tracking and trip budgets have been removed. Updating also removes their locally stored records and receipt images. If you still have an older build with anything important in Expenses, save it before updating.

📱 Aviate is coming to iOS. (but not today)

We've received countless emails from users asking for a proper iOS waitlist. Today, it's finally here.

If you want to be among the first to know when it's ready, you can join now. The waitlist is free, emails will be rare, and you can unsubscribe anytime.

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