Think of Flighty as your personal air travel concierge. It monitors departure and arrival times, nudges you when it’s time to head to the airport, tells you all about the plane you’re about to board and even shows where you are on the runway. In short, it does pretty much everything but open your bag of pretzels.

What we love: When take-off is 25 hours away, Flighty goes to work and begins notifying you about your projected departure time, connection status, seat assignment and much more. (It even presents a chart showing how often your route has been delayed.)

Quick tip: To enter a flight, forward your airline confirmation emails, sync your TripIt account or enter flight numbers manually. Flighty offers live flight tracking; simply share a link with friends and family to let them see your location in real time – whether they have the app or not.

Meet the creator: Flighty was launched in 2019 by three self-described “flight nerds” who’ve now logged 1.8 million miles and visited every continent.