Fly · iPhone App Store review
Fly from Chicago
to Pluto.
A free flying game for iPhone. Take off from the real downtown Chicago, set on a small glass planet, and keep climbing: out of the atmosphere, past the Moon, to Saturn and all the way to Pluto, where the real sky puts them today. No ads. No account.
Noted. One email when Fly ships, nothing else.
Free · iOS 17 or later · in App Store review now
What it is
Familiar places. Unfamiliar planets.
Two Chicagos
The real downtown on a small glass planet, river and lake in liquid methane. Or the same city on a glass deck floating in space, with room to fly low and fast between the towers.
The whole solar system
Fly straight up and you are in space. The sun, the Moon and every planet out to Pluto sit where the real sky puts them.
Choose your ride
Hover over the city in a space fighter, climb out of the atmosphere, or take a helicopter between the towers.
Leave the cockpit
Jump out, walk, run and glide through the world. Call your craft back when you are ready to fly again.
One hand
Portrait controls keep flight within reach of your thumb. Left-handed layout, and a map to pick your next destination.
Built from open data
4,194 Chicago road records and 8,729 buildings from OpenStreetMap, USGS elevation, JPL ephemeris for the planets, the HYG star catalog. The adapted data is a free download.
Actual gameplay
Keep climbing.
When
On the App Store as soon as review clears.
Fly 1.0 is in App Store review. The page gets the link the day it is approved, and so do you.
Requirements. iPhone, iOS 17 or later. Portrait only. Anonymous gameplay recordings are opt-in on first launch and can be turned off in the pause menu.
One email, at launch
Tell me when Fly ships.
No newsletter, no reminders. The address goes nowhere else.
Noted. One email when Fly ships, nothing else.
Questions
Questions
When is it out?
Fly 1.0 is in App Store review. The page updates with the link the day it is approved, and the email list hears the same day.
What does it collect?
Nothing unless you opt in. On first launch you can choose to share anonymous gameplay recordings (controls, craft position, frame timings) to improve the game. They carry no name or device ID.
Where is the map data from?
OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), USGS 3DEP elevation, USDA NAIP imagery, JPL DE440 for the planets, the HYG star database. Full credits ship in the app, and the adapted Chicago records are a free download.
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