·4 min
How many miles do you have to fly around the world?
The equator is 24,901 miles, but a real round-the-world itinerary can be far shorter — as little as 19,700. Why circumnavigation distance depends entirely on latitude.
Every flight
you've ever taken.
Log the past, watch your globe fill up, and see how far you've really gone. Orbit turns a list of flights into a planet you can spin — offline, from a dataset that ships inside the app.
8,801airports offline
28badges to earn
0ads, ever
What Orbit does
Log the past
Even the flight from 2009
Add flights from any year. Two airport codes and a date is the whole entry — everything else is derived.
Watch it fill up
The globe does the arguing
Each flight draws itself on as a great circle arc. The shape of where you've been becomes obvious in a way a list never manages.
See how far
Laps, not just kilometres
Your total measured against the things it's worth measuring against: the circumference of the Earth, and the distance to the Moon.
How it worksThree airport codes in.
Three airport codes in.
A planet out.
Home
One number that means something
Your total distance, front and centre, counting up as you add flights. Underneath it, the only comparison that makes it real: how many times that is around the Earth, and how far to the Moon.
The globe
Your routes, drawn as arcs
Every flight becomes a great circle on a globe you can spin, pinch and tap. Not a flat map with lines bent across it — an actual sphere, where the short way to Tokyo really does go over the Arctic.
Trips
A logbook you'll actually open
Flights grouped by month, each with artwork generated from the destination itself. No stock photography, no empty rows — just a record that's pleasant to scroll through years later.
Any flight
Distance and hours, worked out for you
Enter two airport codes and a date. Orbit computes the great circle distance, the flying time, the countries and the continents — and tells you the moment a flight unlocks something.
You
Twenty-eight badges worth chasing
Polar routes, equator crossings, every continent, a million miles. Each one earned by where you've actually been. None of them purchasable, none of them cosmetic.
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Airports, offline
Searchable at 38,000 feet with the wifi off.
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Badges to earn
All by where you've been. None for sale.
0
Ads, ever
No tracking pixels either. You're not the product.
What's inside
Built by someone who kept the boarding passes.
Offline first
8,801 airports in your pocket
The whole airport table ships inside the app. Search it on a plane, in a tunnel, in a country where your roaming has given up. No spinner, no network, no account required to start.
Lon
LHRHeathrow · London
LGWGatwick · London
LCYCity · London
LTNLuton · London
Real geometry
Great circles, not straight lines
Distances are computed the way airlines compute them — along the shortest path over a sphere. That's why your route to Tokyo curves north, and why the arc on your globe looks right instead of looking drawn.
Cosmic scale
Earth, then the Moon, then Mars
Kilometres stop meaning much past a few thousand. So Orbit plots your total against distances that do mean something — one lap of the planet at 40,075 km, the Moon at 384,400.
The shelf
Twenty-eight badges. All of them earned.
Polar routes. Equator crossings. Every continent, Antarctica included. A million miles. There is no way to buy one and no way to grind one — the only route to a badge is having actually been there.
First flight
Log one flight
5 flights
Five in the book
3 countries
Three countries landed in
2 continents
Cross to a second continent
10 airports
Ten distinct airports
5 routes
Five distinct city pairs
10k miles
16,000 km in the air
3 continents
Three continents
Equator
Cross the equator once
Regular
Fly in three consecutive months
25 routes
Twenty-five distinct routes
50 airports
Fifty distinct airports
Ultra long
A single leg over 12,000 km
Polar route
Cross the Arctic or Antarctic circle
5 continents
Five continents
Equator ×4
Cross the equator four times
Around Earth
40,075 km — one lap
100k miles
160,000 km flown
All 7
Every continent, including Antarctica
Moonshot
384,400 km — Earth to the Moon
Million miler
1,600,000 km. Genuinely rare.
FAQ
Questions people actually ask
No. You can log flights and use the globe straight away as a guest. An account only matters if you want your logbook to survive a new phone, or to add friends.
Reading
All articles →Writing for people who like the flying part.
·4 min
What is on the exact opposite side of the world?
Dig straight down and you almost certainly hit ocean. The antipode of your city, why most of them are water, and the handful of airports that are near-perfect opposites.
·3 min
How to find every flight you've taken in your Gmail
The search operators that pull a decade of boarding passes out of an inbox in about twenty minutes — including the ones that are archived, in Promotions, or from an airline that no longer exists.
Your globe is empty. Let's fix that.
Add a flight you remember — even one from ten years ago. Orbit works out the distance, the hours and the countries, and draws it on.
On iPhone? Not long now.
Orbit is on Google Play today; the iPhone version is in development. Leave your email and we'll send exactly one message: the day it hits the App Store.