Flight trackers
They answer a question you did not ask: is this one flight late? You already knew which flight you were hoping for.
Commute MagicPrices every flight that could still get you there, not the one you had in mind.
DOT BTS live 20 years of calibrated flight records Terminal aerodrome forecasts FAA traffic management, beside the odds
For airline crew who commute to base
Will you make report time?
Every flight that could still get you there, priced against your own report time — and the one to take. With the hour by which the choice stops being yours.
Open the web app What it costs
Refuses to guessNo history, no numberA flight it has never seen is named, never given a percentage
Shows its workingEvery % carries its nNo probability reaches the screen without the flights behind it
Names the hourDecide byThe time after which the choice is no longer yours to make
Free to startFree, no cardPlan by hand on the free plan, on the same calibrated numbers
In closed testing on Google Play. Not yet public — the web app runs today in any browser.
ORD → EWR · rpt 13:00All clear
Take UA2301, 08:40lands 11:58
On time, on 255 flights95%
Decide by07:26 Thu
Safest, UA1409 06:00, 236 flts99%+
All five options fail, over 7,339 multi-option days0.01%
One call
Not another flight tracker
A tracker answers a question you did not ask: is this one flight late? You already know which flight you were hoping for. What you do not know, at 21:00 the night before, is whether the morning is good enough or whether you should be paying for a hotel room tonight. Commute Magic answers that one, and puts a deadline on it.
Airline apps
Built for a passenger with a seat. They know your booking; they do not know your report time, and they never weigh one option against another.
Commute MagicScores each option against the slack it actually leaves before report.
Crew lifestyle tools
Rosters, trip trades, per-diem maths. Useful, and none of it tells you whether tomorrow morning is good enough.
Commute MagicOne verdict, and the hour by which the choice stops being yours.
Features
What it does
Everything here is shipped. Where something is on the paid tier it says so, and where the app deliberately stops short it says that too.
Prices every option
Every flight that could still get you there
Scored against the slack it leaves before your report time, not against a generic on-time figure.
- Steppable: walk the whole set, earlier and later
- Sort by time, or by risk
Names the pick
The one to take, and the safest alternative
Usually two different flights. The app names the earlier, safer option and says how much earlier it lands.
- “Lands 1h 2m before report”, in plain words
- Both carry their own percentage and their own sample
Gives a deadline
The hour the choice stops being yours
Computed from the earliest option you would actually board, not from the flight you hope to take.
- Shown on the plan, and on the duty in your calendar
- When the app cannot pin it down, it says the deadline is approximate and why
Pro · wakes you
An alarm that rings through vibrate
It needed a custom native module: on Samsung phones no notification channel can ring through vibrate, whatever its settings claim. On iPhone the alarm rings through silent on iOS 26 and later.
- Hourly briefings in the run-up to the deadline
- On Android now; the iPhone app is in App Store review — the browser cannot do this
When there is no direct
It finds the way round
One-stop routings through hub airports, ranked, with each leg priced against its own deadline.
- A connection the day's delays have already made impossible is dropped, not listed
- Both legs carry their own miss figure and flight count
Pro · live board
The airline's own departure board
Delays, terminals, cancellations and revised times, read live.
- A revised time shows the published one struck through beside it, the way airline apps do
- Terminal and gate changes land on the same strip
Beside the odds
Live FAA ground stops and delay programmes
Shown next to the answer and deliberately not folded into it. None of the model's calibration includes them, and the app says so rather than letting you assume otherwise.
- “Now, not a forecast” — the app labels which is which
- The terminal aerodrome forecast for both airports sits beside it
Counts, never names
How many other crew are on it
A number, and the split between pilots and cabin crew. That is the whole feature.
- No name, email or account id ever leaves your account
- Nothing about who they are, where they are going or what they fly
Your own record
A month of duties, a widget, and your data back
A month-view duty calendar, a home-screen widget, and a personal track record that unlocks after five answered commutes.
- Export everything the service holds that is yours, as one JSON file
- The export names what it leaves out, rather than quietly omitting it
The answer
Seven verdicts, and one of them is “no verdict”
The whole day's reasoning comes down to one of these seven. They are the app's own words, and there are no others.
Signal green
ALL CLEAR
Every option you would accept carries enough margin.
It still prints the chance they all fail and the days it is measured on.
Caution amber
DON’T RELY ON THE MORNING
The morning of the duty is not carrying the margin you need.
Look at what leaves the evening before.
Caution amber
DON’T RELY ON SAME-DAY
Not the morning, and not later in the day either.
Travelling on the day itself is the part that does not hold.
Danger red
GO THE NIGHT BEFORE
Nothing on the day carries the margin. Book the room.
The deadline is the hour you must commit by.
Reroute blue
NO DIRECT — CONNECT
No direct flight works, so it ranks one-stop routings instead.
Each leg is priced against its own deadline.
Reroute blue
CONNECT, NIGHT BEFORE
A connection works, but not on the day. Travel the evening before and connect.
Any connection the day’s delays have already broken is dropped.
Withheld
NO VERDICT
It does not know enough to answer, so it says so instead of guessing.
A report time already in the past is refused outright.
Refusals
Trust is the product
You are numerate, you are carrying the cost if the answer is wrong in the reassuring direction, and you will notice a number that has nothing behind it. So these are rules, not preferences.
No percentage without its sample
No probability appears anywhere without the number of past flights behind it. The API enforces it: a figure arriving without its sample fails validation and never reaches the screen.
No history, no number
A flight the record has never seen is named, and left without a percentage. A route whose flight-to-flight correlation has never been measured is flagged rather than assumed.
It says which question each figure answers
The chance every option you would accept fails, and one flight’s own chance, are different questions with very different answers. Both are labelled rather than left to be conflated.
It never implies a seat
It predicts whether a flight operates and arrives in time. It has no loads, no standby position and no jumpseat knowledge. It reports odds; it is not operational advice and never replaces crew scheduling.
Screens
What it looks like
Five screens from the Android app, captured on a real release build signed in against production. Every flight number, percentage and sample size in them is real.
Captured on a real release build. Nothing in these images is mocked up, retouched or redrawn.
Pricing
What it costs
Flat price, no per-seat pricing, and a free tier that does the thinking.
Free
$0
no card, no time limit
Plan a commute by hand:
- The same calibrated numbers
- The same seven verdicts
- The same refusals — it will not guess for a free user either
- Every probability with its sample size
- The full option set, and the safest alternative
- The decision deadline
- Your duty calendar and your track record
- Export everything as one JSON file
Optional
Pro
$2.99
a month, or $19.99 a year
Everything in Free, plus:
- Hourly briefings in the run-up to your decision deadline
- The deadline alarm, which rings through a phone set to vibrate on Android, and through silent on iPhones with iOS 26 or later
- The airline's live departure board: delays, terminals, cancellations and revised times
$19.99 a year for the paid tier, and the free plan never expires. No per-seat pricing, no card to look at the free one.
The Pocket App Company is the seller. The deadline alarm and the hourly briefings are Android features; the live departure board works in the browser too.
Availability
Where to get it
Android and any web browser. Be straight about the rest: the Android build is in closed testing, and the iPhone app is in App Store review, so there is nothing to install on an iPhone yet.
Web
Any browser
On a phone or a desk, and on an iPhone's browser. This is the version anyone can use today.
Open the web app
Android
In closed testing
In closed testing on Google Play. Not yet public, so there is no store link to give you — anything claiming to be one is not ours. Email us if you fly and want to test it.
Ask to join the test
iPhone
Coming soon: in App Store review
The iPhone app has been submitted to Apple and is in App Store review. It is not available yet, and there is no release date. Until then, an iPhone's browser opens the web app and runs the same numbers.
Support
Support and legal
The privacy policy and terms live here, and these are the pages Google Play and the app itself point at: privacy policy · terms of service · how to delete your account.
support@thepocketappcompany.comCan I get it yet?
Not publicly. Commute Magic is in closed testing on Google Play and has no public store listing, so there is no store link to give you. The web app runs today at https://commutemagic.com/app/ in any browser, including an iPhone's. Email support@thepocketappcompany.com if you fly and want to test it.
Is there a free plan?
Yes. Free plans your commute by hand, with the same calibrated numbers and the same refusals — no card, no time limit. Pro is $2.99 a month or $19.99 a year and adds hourly briefings before your decision deadline, the deadline alarm, and the airline's live departure board.
Does it get me a seat?
No, and it never claims to. It predicts whether a flight operates and arrives in time for your report. It holds no loads data, no standby list position and no jumpseat knowledge, so nothing it says is a promise that you will get on.
Where do the numbers come from?
Twenty years of US Bureau of Transportation Statistics flight records, live terminal aerodrome forecasts, and the FAA's traffic management feed. The model is calibrated, and every probability is shown with the number of past flights behind it.
What does the percentage actually mean?
Two different numbers, and the app labels which is which. The verdict band covers every option you would accept: the chance that all of them fail. The figure on a single flight is that one flight's own chance. They are answers to different questions and they look very different.
Does the live FAA data change the odds?
No, and that is deliberate. Live FAA ground stops and delay programmes are shown beside the odds and are never folded into them — none of the model's calibration includes them. The app says so on the screen rather than letting you assume the percentage already knows.
What happens when it does not know?
It says so. A flight with no history behind it is named but never given a percentage, a route whose flight-to-flight correlation has never been measured is flagged rather than assumed, a report time already in the past is refused outright, and a forecast it cannot read produces no sentence at all. The seventh verdict is NO VERDICT.
Can other crew see my commute?
Only as a count. Other crew on the same flight see how many people are on it and the split between pilots and cabin crew. No name, no email and no account id ever leaves your account.
Does it tell me what to do?
It names a flight and a deadline, and it reports odds rather than giving advice. It is not operational guidance and it does not replace your airline's crew scheduling.
Does it work on iPhone?
In the browser, yes. Commute Magic runs on Android and in any web browser, and an iPhone's browser opens the web app at https://commutemagic.com/app/. The iPhone app has been submitted to Apple and is in App Store review; it is not available yet and there is no release date.
Can I export my data?
Yes. Settings, then Account, then Export my data gives you one JSON file with your settings, duty roster, the flights you said you were on, your outcome answers, your roster corrections and your subscription state. The file names what it leaves out: credentials, diagnostics, and the model's own per-flight working.
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Stop reading gate screens at 5am
Know the night before whether the morning holds, and the hour by which you have to decide.
Open the web app Questions crew ask
In closed testing on Google Play. Not yet public — the web app runs today in any browser, including an iPhone’s.