About FlyBud
A flight tracker for people who don’t love flying. It forecasts the bumpy air on your route and says what it will actually feel like — where, for how long, and why the aircraft is designed for much worse.
Most of the fear of flying is not knowing.
Not knowing what that bump was. Not knowing whether the delay means something, what the aircraft is, or when you will actually be on the ground. The information exists — it is in weather models, in airline feeds, in the reports pilots file from the flight deck — but it is written for people with a licence, and by the time it reaches a passenger it has usually turned into either jargon or a shrug.
FlyBud was built to put those answers in your hand before you have to ask for them. A turbulence forecast for your exact route, read at your altitude, hour by hour, and written in the words a person would use. Live status from the airline. The weather where you are landing, at the hour you land. The story of the aircraft you are sitting in.
It does not tell you not to worry. That is the least convincing sentence in the language. It tells you what is going to happen, and lets the specifics do the work an instruction cannot.
The whole app, in four lines
- ✓A turbulence forecast for your route, minute by minute, with why it will feel the way it will.
- ✓Live flight status — gates, delays, take-off and landing — and a push the moment something changes.
- ✓The aircraft you are on, the weather where you land, and where your plane is coming from.
- ✓A logbook of everywhere you have flown, and a live link for whoever is picking you up.
Need help? Write to us.
A real person reads it, and we answer within two working days. From inside the app, Settings → Contact us opens an email with your app version already filled in, which saves us both a round trip.
The questions support gets most
How do I cancel FlyBud Pro?
Apple and Google bill the subscription, so it is cancelled with them rather than with us. On iPhone: Settings → your name → Subscriptions → FlyBud. On Android: Google Play → Payments and subscriptions → Subscriptions. You keep Pro until the end of the period you have already paid for.
I bought Pro but the app still shows the free version.
Open Settings → Subscription in FlyBud and tap Restore purchases, signed in with the same Apple ID or Google account you bought it with. That resolves almost every case. If it does not, write to us and say which store you bought from.
Can I get a refund?
Refunds are handled by Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com, or by Google Play, under their own policies. We are not able to issue them ourselves — we never receive the payment directly.
How do I delete my account?
In the app: Settings → Account → Delete account. It removes the account, your tracked flights and your logbook. There is a full description of what deletion covers on the account deletion page.
How accurate is the turbulence forecast?
It is computed from three global weather models — NOAA's, ECMWF's and the German weather service's — and checked against reports filed by pilots in flight. It is a forecast, which means it can be wrong — and FlyBud says so when the models disagree rather than quietly picking the scarier one. Always follow your airline and your crew.
My flight is not found.
Check the airline, the flight number, and that the date you entered is the local DEPARTURE date rather than the arrival date — that is the usual cause on an overnight flight. Flights more than a couple of days out show the timetable until the live record for that day appears.
Do I need an account to use it?
No. You can track a flight and read its turbulence forecast without signing up. An account exists so your flights and your logbook follow you to a new phone.
Where the information comes from
FlyBud does not measure anything itself. It reads public and licensed sources, blends them, and translates the result into something a passenger can act on — so it is only fair to say which ones.
Flight data from FlightAware AeroAPI (contains AeroAPI data © FlightAware LLC 2026) and AeroDataBox. Aircraft positions from the adsb.lol community. Weather and turbulence from NOAA, ECMWF (contains modified ECMWF data, CC-BY 4.0), Deutscher Wetterdienst (based on data from Deutscher Wetterdienst, CC BY 4.0), Open-Meteo and aviationweather.gov. Tropical cyclone tracks from the US National Hurricane Center and Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Airports from OurAirports (public domain); airlines and routes from OpenFlights (ODbL). Maps © Mapbox © OpenStreetMap contributors. City photos from Pexels.
Airline names and logos belong to their owners and appear only to identify the airline.
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