AirTrail
Personal flight tracking system.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 40 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v3.13.1 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Maps and Global Positioning System (GPS): Google Maps alternatives, Life360 alternatives.
At a glance
AirTrail quick facts
- Health score
- 93/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 1,680
- Last commit
- 6 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v3.13.1, Oct 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "A web application that allows users to track their flights and view their flight history."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
AirTrail scores 93/100, #5 of 20 in Maps and Global Positioning System (GPS): 40 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v3.13.1, 6 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 1,680 stars add 12.9 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 7.1 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
40 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v3.13.1 released 6 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 12.9 / 20
1.7k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 40
- Last 90 days
- 270
- Last 12 months
- 6 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #5 of 20 tools in Maps and Global Positioning System (GPS) by health , between wanderer (#4) and OpenRouteService (#6) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Docker, Nodejs |
| Latest release | v3.13.1 · 6 days ago |
| Stars | 1,680 |
| Open issues | 14 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | johanohly/AirTrail ↗ |
AirTrail vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with AirTrail (Maps and Global Positioning System (GPS)), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dawarich | 96 | 11k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| AdventureLog | 94 | 3.8k | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| TileServer GL | 94 | 2.9k | BSD-2-Clause | 7 days ago |
| wanderer | 94 | 4k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| AirTrail (this tool) | 93 | 1.7k | GPL-3.0 | 6 days ago |
| OpenRouteService | 93 | 2k | GPL-3.0 | today |
AirTrail: common questions
Is AirTrail still maintained?
AirTrail had 40 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 6 days ago; the latest tagged release, v3.13.1, is from 6 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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