vishva.lol is a creative coding laboratory and playground for interactive web experiments, aesthetic productivity tools, and digital toys developed by Vishva Variya.

What kind of projects are on vishva.lol?

The site features a variety of experiments including an aesthetic Pomodoro timer, a startup pivot museum, a live flight tracker (Sky Spy), an AI model leaderboard (AI Battle), 3D character toys (Toodles), and engine sound simulators (Roar).

Is vishva.lol free to use?

Yes, all experiments and tools on vishva.lol are free to use and designed for browser-based interaction without requiring any downloads or signups.

Sky Spy is a real-time flight tracker that allows you to identify aircraft flying directly above you. It uses live ADS-B data to show flight paths, altitude, and aircraft details.

How do I track planes above me?

Open Sky Spy in your browser and it will automatically detect your sector to show live aircraft in your immediate vicinity on a tactical radar.

Is Sky Spy a free flight radar?

Yes, Sky Spy is a free online flight tracking tool that requires no registration or subscription.

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LIVE AIRSPACE MONITOR

SKY SPY

See what's flying above you right now.

Triangulating Local Signals

Tapping below asks your browser for precise GPS coordinates. We use them only in memory to query nearby aircraft via Airplanes.live and OpenSky Network. Coordinates are never stored or linked to your identity. See our privacy policy.

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Systems require a hardware handshake to synchronize ambient sonar engines.

About this experiment

Sky Spy — live overhead flight tracker

A browser-based ADS-B monitor that tells you what is flying directly above you, right now.

Sky Spy is a real-time flight tracker built around the question every window-gazer has asked: what plane is that? Tap a single button, share your location with the page, and the tactical HUD pulls live aircraft transponder data from public Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) feeds within a few seconds.

The result is an air-traffic radar tuned for civilians: callsigns, altitudes, ground speed, heading, airline logos, origin and destination airports — all stitched together from open data and presented in a minimal heads-up display.

How it works

When you tap Scan Airspace, the browser asks your device for GPS coordinates. Those coordinates are kept entirely in memory inside the page — they are never written to a database and never tied to an identity. Sky Spy then queries two public flight data APIs, Airplanes.live and the OpenSky Network, for every aircraft inside a small radius around you.

Each contact is enriched with a local 1,400-airline ICAO logo dictionary and rendered on a circular radar with bearing relative to your phone's compass (where supported). Tap any blip for a detailed flight card with route, model, and live telemetry.

What it is not

Sky Spy is a hobbyist tool, not a flight-safety product. ADS-B feeds occasionally miss military, private, or out-of-coverage aircraft. Treat results as best-effort. Do not use Sky Spy for navigation, traffic separation, or any decision where lives or property depend on completeness of data.

UFO mode

A second theme ("UFO mode") repaints the HUD in electric yellow and re-labels the interface for fictional deep-space contacts. It is purely visual — no fake aircraft are injected. Toggle it for a more cinematic plane-spotting session.

Frequently asked questions

Does Sky Spy store my location?: No. GPS coordinates live only in the browser tab. They are sent to the flight data APIs to scope the search, then discarded when you close the page.
Why do some planes disappear?: Aircraft drop off the feed when they leave ADS-B coverage, switch transponders, or fly too low to be received by ground stations. The data source decides what is visible, not Sky Spy.
Does it work on a desktop without GPS?: Yes. If precise GPS is unavailable, Sky Spy falls back to a coarse IP-based location so you still get a usable view of nearby traffic.
Can I use Sky Spy on mobile?: Sky Spy is designed mobile-first. On iOS and Android the compass rotates the radar in real time, so the plane on screen lines up with the plane in the sky.

Flight data: airplanes.live and the OpenSky Network. Airline logo dictionary compiled by Vishva Variya from public ICAO registries. All telemetry is read-only.

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