The flight companion Android deserves is now here!

✈️ Aviate 1.0 is here

NOTE: There will be another 1.0 update of Aviate sometime this week to address lots of bug fixes, revamp flight sharing and to enable the early adopter pricing. Stay tuned on our Twitter/X @GetAviate for the drop. This update will also introduce WearOS compatibility, as it is missing from the current Production build.

Credits

First of all, I'd like to thank RedCommand for the sleepless nights working on the Aviate Infrastructure, Thor_Storm and sloaxleak for the currently available translations and all other 1,000+ testers for testing this app.

Why I built Aviate

I started Aviate because Android travelers deserved better.

Flying already means checking an airline app, an airport website, a weather app, a boarding pass, and probably a few messages asking when you land. I wanted one app that brought those pieces together and actually felt like it belonged on Android. iOS had Flighty, we had nothing.

The first builds were much smaller. Scan a boarding pass, find the flight, and keep the details somewhere useful. Then came the trip dashboard, live tracking, airport maps, checklists, widgets, Passport, sharing, and all the smaller things that only become obvious when you are actually standing in an airport.

Aviate 1.0 is the result of building it, flying with it, breaking it, rebuilding parts of it, and putting unfinished versions in front of alpha testers who told me what broke.

Built with the people who used it

Alpha testing did more than find bugs. It changed how Aviate makes decisions.

We tried delay predictions, but users preferred official values over AI predictions. Fair enough. That lesson now carries through Aviate: official information always wins, predictions are clearly marked, and an empty field is better than a confident answer based on bad data.

It is why gate predictions only appear while an official gate is missing. The moment a confirmed gate arrives, the prediction gets out of the way.

We also tried keeping track of your expenses, but that made the app too cluttered, and we did not want a bad experience for our users. We wanted a clean, modern, material 3 UI.

Alpha users also brought years of real flight history, boarding passes from different airlines, unusual routes, overnight flights, return legs with the same flight number, and airports the original database had never heard of. That pressure made importing, matching, timezone handling, and airport search much better than they were in the first builds.

To everyone who installed an unfinished version, sent a screenshot, wrote an email, or told me when something felt wrong: thank you. Aviate would not be ready for 1.0 without you.

What Aviate 1.0 became

Before the airport, you can add a flight by number, scan a boarding pass, enter it manually, or import older history. Multi-leg trips, passengers, seats, documents, checklists, calendar events, and widgets stay connected instead of living in separate apps.

On travel day, Aviate shows the latest available gate, terminal, delay, cancellation, aircraft, route, and weather information. Optional live alerts and, on supported Samsung devices, Now Bar can keep a selected flight visible. Indoor maps for supported airports, Where's My Plane, Starlink checks, and clearly marked gate predictions add context when official information is still limited.

After landing, Aviate Passport turns past flights into searchable history, route maps, airport and country statistics, and yearly summaries. Pro adds Passport badges and achievements. You can also share directly with other Aviate users, or create a browser link or QR code for an entire trip with Pro.

That is not every feature. The complete breakdown is on the Aviate features page.

Free to start, with no ads

Core flight tracking, boarding-pass storage, trip organization, checklists, widgets, Passport, calendar sync, and direct sharing are free.

Aviate Pro adds features intended for frequent travelers, including live flight alerts, public trip links, airport indoor maps, inbound-aircraft tracking, gate predictions, Starlink checks, and more. Pro is available through short-term passes, a yearly plan, or a one-time Lifetime purchase.

The free version is not a trial waiting to become useless. There are no ads, Aviate does not use behavioral tracking, and optional crash diagnostics start turned off. You can compare everything on the pricing page.

Launch offers

Eligible alpha accounts receive 35% off Lifetime Pro.

If you are joining at launch, eligible early adopters receive 20% off Lifetime Pro through August 31, 2026. Your available offer and local price appear inside Aviate.

New release, new home

We also just acquired aviate.app.

The aviate.to domain carried us through the alpha, but launching 1.0 felt like the right time to give Aviate a home that matches its name.

New release, new domain. Same Aviate.

1.0 does not mean finished

Version 1.0 does not mean Aviate is perfect or that development stops here. It means I am ready to put it in front of everyone and stand behind what is there.

There will still be an airport with strange data, an airline that encodes a boarding pass differently, or a flight that does something none of the test cases expected. If you find one, report it. I read every bug report, I promise.

Aviate 1.0 is available now for Android. If you are waiting for the iOS version, the iOS waitlist is open, but today belongs to the Android release.

Download Aviate on Google Play

Now fly away ✈️