Flyover Country

Name: Flyover Country
Rating: 4.1 (310 reviews)
Author: Regents of the University of Minnesota

By: Regents of the University of Minnesota App

offline flight tracking

Overview

Version:

2.6.5

Last updated: 2024-12-21

Ranking

#92,049 ▼ 133

Overall

Features & Capabilities

Flyover Country is an NSF-funded offline mobile app that turns your flight, road trip, or hike into a geoscience data tour. It tracks your location with GPS, caches only the data relevant to your current flight path, and presents offline base maps and interactive POIs—from fossils to georeferenced Wikipedia articles.

It is designed for offline use without wifi, ideal for window-seat observation or fieldwork. By integrating geologic maps from Macrostrat, fossil localities from Neotomadb.org and Paleobiodb.org, and Wikipedia articles, it reveals the world beneath and along your route, even when offline.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Education Navigation & Mapping Data

By:

Regents of the University of Minnesota

Rating:

4.10

(310)

Version:

2.6.5 Last updated: 2024-12-21

Version code:

871303298

Creation date:

2015-12-03

Compatible devices:

Size:

85.39MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-08-09

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 92,049 ▼ 133

Other platforms

Flyover Country - Inflight GPS (v2.6.5)

173,214 4.32

(777)

For Developers

Monetize with App Pass Boost with Extension Booster

Contact the developer

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Developed by:

Regents of the University of Minnesota

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flyover-country/id1059886913

Website:

https://flyovercountry.io

User Reviews

Flyover Country offers rich geoscience content and offline map features, with downloadable paths and guides that support travel and education. Users praise its unique geology-focused perspective and window-seat experience. However, recurring problems include GPS unreliability, saving/path-generation failures, iPad-specific bugs, and slow or hanging downloads when offline. The app has longevity and has improved over time according to long-time users, but technical reliability remains a hurdle for consistent use in-flight or off-grid scenarios.

Pros

Strong educational/science content (Wikipedia entries, field guides) backed by NSF funding.
Offline access: ability to download paths and map sets for off-grid use and long trips.
Unique geology-focused exploration with engaging window-seat viewing and science storytelling.
Longstanding user base and improving over time, indicating reliability and ongoing development.

Cons

GPS/location services are frequently unreliable or fail to locate GPS on many devices.
Saving paths and data often fails, with downloads stalling or operations blocked (e.g., 'save' bug, 95% hang).
iPad/iPadOS-specific bugs and orientation issues (e.g., iPad Mini 6 bug, portrait-only mode).
Offline downloads and map data can be slow or hang, reducing offline usability.

Recent reviews

When it works it is nice, but doesn’t allow downloading routes anymore so pretty useless

by Ca*****, 2026-07-18

I’ve loved taking this app with me when I travel. It’s provided insight into what I’m seeing just outside the window, whether it is by plane or by car. But it has some issues that are popping up and emails to the developers come back as undeliverable. I’m worried this app has been abandoned.