SpottingLog combines the Plane Spotting Database, your personal sightings log book, fleet checklists, photo galleries and trip reports into one beautifully designed app.
Every feature in SpottingLog has been built and refined with real spotters at airports around the world.
Enter the registration and SpottingLog auto-populates the airline, aircraft type, MSN and current status from a verified Plane Spotting Database of over 600,000 aircraft.
See exactly which aircraft you've logged for any airline, with live progress percentages, filters for active or stored aircraft, and one-tap missing-aircraft views.
Group sightings by trip, airport or your own custom spotting location. Print branded trip reports or export to CSV for offline storage.
Attach a photo to every sighting, browse a beautiful full-screen lightbox, and crop directly inside the app to a clean 1024×683 aspect ratio.
Search your own sightings, all spotters' sightings or the master Plane Spotting Database — by registration, MSN, aircraft type, airline or airport.
Airports visited, airlines seen, aircraft logged, duplicate-entry checks — all branded, printable and exportable to CSV.
Bring decades of Plane Spotters log book data with you. Auto-detected columns, smart trip grouping, live progress and per-trip approval.
Add SpottingLog to your iPhone, iPad or Android home screen and log sightings from the fence — no app store install required.
Submit ideas, vote on what you want next and follow comments. The roadmap is shaped directly by Plane Spotters using the app.
SpottingLog has been engineered around speed. From your phone at the fence to your desktop at home, every interaction is designed to keep up with you.
The fleet checklist is the secret weapon of every serious Plane Spotter. Pick an airline, see every aircraft in their fleet, and know at a glance which ones you've logged and which ones you still need to chase.
SpottingLog turns a list of sightings into a beautifully presented record of your spotting career. Trip pages combine sightings, photos, dates and locations into branded reports you can print or export.
Yes. SpottingLog works in any modern mobile browser and installs as a Progressive Web App (PWA) on iPhone, iPad and Android. Plane Spotters often log registrations, photos and trip details while still at the viewing location.
Yes. Choose an airline to see which registrations you have already logged, filter by aircraft status, and open a missing-aircraft view to plan your next spotting session.
Enter a registration and SpottingLog fills airline, aircraft type, MSN and status from the Plane Spotting Database — saving typing and reducing errors when you log a busy day at the airport.
Yes. Use the standard CSV importer or the advanced importer that detects columns, parses dates and groups rows into trips by airport and date — ideal for migrating spreadsheets or legacy logs.
No. SpottingLog is built for every level — from beginners logging their first airliner at a local airport to experienced Plane Spotters tracking entire airline fleets.
More answers in our full FAQ and plane spotting guides.