Flight-Viz
Shares rank 4 of 6 flight trackers by recommenders
Free browser app that draws thousands of flights on a 3D globe and renders fast. Common caveat: planes are hard to spot and zooming is hard to control.
Free browser app that draws thousands of flights on a 3D globe and renders fast. Common caveat: planes are hard to spot and zooming is hard to control.
11 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 5
- approval share
- 55%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Renders extremely fast
“It render extremely fast on my side”
Comment from 1 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Flight-Viz – 10K flights on a 3D globe in 3.5MB of Rust+WASM”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Planes and labels hard to see
“The planes should probably scale up a bit as you zoom though, they become impossible to spot.”
Comment from 1 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Flight-Viz – 10K flights on a 3D globe in 3.5MB of Rust+WASM” “the planes are practically invisible with their color and thin borders”
Comment from 1 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Flight-Viz – 10K flights on a 3D globe in 3.5MB of Rust+WASM” “the airline flight number attached to the icon is in dark color and should be visible”
Comment from 2 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Flight-Viz – 10K flights on a 3D globe in 3.5MB of Rust+WASM” - Comment from 2 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Flight-Viz – 10K flights on a 3D globe in 3.5MB of Rust+WASM”
Mouse-wheel zoom hard to control
“Zooming on a mouse wheel on windows is nearly unusable, it goes from whole of europe to town level in one mouse wheel notch.”
Comment from 1 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Flight-Viz – 10K flights on a 3D globe in 3.5MB of Rust+WASM” “ux bug: when i zoom in, it zooms into the middle of the browser window instead of where my cursor is.”
Comment from 1 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Flight-Viz – 10K flights on a 3D globe in 3.5MB of Rust+WASM”
Other flight trackers people recommend
The four most recommended other flight trackers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flighty | 42 | 16 | 72% | 6 | — | Approved |
| Airloom | 34 | 4 | 89% | 4 | — | Approved |
| ADS-B Exchange | 8 | 5 | 62% | 7 | — | — |
| Flight-VizThis page | 6 | 5 | 55% | 1 | — | — |
| airplanes.live | 6 | 2 | 75% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
9 of the 11 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the airline flight number attached to the icon is in dark color and should be visible”
“the icons basically become invisible”
“ux bug: when i zoom in, it zooms into the middle of the browser window instead of where my cursor is.”
“Zooming on a mouse wheel on windows is nearly unusable, it goes from whole of europe to town level in one mouse wheel notch.”
“The wasm file (flight_viz_bg.wasm) was 10.94 MB as reported by firefox.”
“when you pan around after zooming the planes shift their location”
“The planes should probably scale up a bit as you zoom though, they become impossible to spot.”
“the planes are practically invisible with their color and thin borders”
“It render extremely fast on my side”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.