NOD

The head tracker built specifically for X-Plane 12 pilots on Mac

Look around.
Fly naturally.

Turn your Mac’s camera into a head tracker for X-Plane 12. Move your head naturally to look around the cockpit — no iPhone or dedicated tracking hardware required.

Download NOD Desktop Get Core — $9.99 Add Pro — $4.99/month

NOD Desktop: Mac with a camera · macOS 14 or later · X-Plane 12 with the NOD plugin (installed from the download) · free NOD account to activate · 10 free minutes, then NOD Core $9.99 once-off · NOD Pro $4.99/month adds Flight History, Replay Approach and Pilot Review, renews monthly until cancelled, and requires a separate Core purchase

Buy with the email you will sign in with, or from inside the app. Flying with your iPhone instead? NOD for iPhone · All downloads · Help

  • Mac camera
  • X-Plane 12
  • 6DoF
  • No subscription
NOD for iPhone with X-Plane 12 on Mac. NOD Desktop uses your Mac’s camera instead.

More than just head tracking.

All of it on the iPhone you already own

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    6DoF head tracking

    Lean in, glance across, look over your shoulder — the cockpit viewpoint follows your head in all six degrees of freedom. This is what NOD is for. Everything below exists to support it.

  • NOD’s CENTER and PAUSE TRACKING controls

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    One-tap control

    CENTER sets your neutral wherever you actually sit. PAUSE holds the view when you step away.

  • NOD’s live PFD showing attitude, 92 knots indicated, 5,606 feet, 1,360 feet per minute climb and heading 264

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    Live PFD

    Turn the phone sideways for airspeed, altitude, attitude and vertical speed from the simulator.

  • NOD’s moving map showing the aircraft, its route trail and OR Tambo International Airport

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    Moving map

    Airports and runways read from X-Plane’s own data, with pan, zoom and a track-up view.

  • NOD showing wind 317 true at 6 knots, QNH 1025 and plus 15 degrees Celsius over FAOR

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    Simulator weather

    Wind, pressure and temperature exactly as the simulator reports them — not a forecast.

Upcoming features

These features are in development and are not yet in the public release of NOD. The screenshots are from a development build.

See the latest NOD build in action

A quick look at the features currently being developed for NOD.

    Coming soon

    Coming with NOD Pro

    NOD Pro is coming soon — adding automatic flight recording, post-flight review, Pilot Rating and progress tracking. NOD Core remains a one-time purchase and does not require NOD Pro.

    • Automatic flight recording while NOD is connected to X-Plane.
    • Flight Review after you land: altitude profile, touchdown, Replay Approach and a written debrief.
    • Pilot Rating: a practice rating out of 100 from your recent landings and approaches, worked out on your iPhone.
    • Progress over time, with your rating, Landings and Flight History.
    • NOD Pro Flight Review from the development build: an SF50 flight from FALA to FAOR, 22 minutes and 57 nautical miles, with its altitude profile, Replay Approach, and a touchdown at minus 581 feet per minute

      Flight Review, straight after landing

    • NOD Pro Pilot Rating from the development build: 52 out of 100, made of Landing 33, Approach 70 and Consistency 55, above the five flights the rating uses

      Pilot Rating and the flights it uses

    Built for X‑Plane

    Your head moves. Your view follows.

    Use your iPhone to look around your X‑Plane cockpit naturally.

    • Look into the turn

      Follow the runway through the circuit by turning your head to adjust your cockpit view.

    • Take a closer look

      Lean towards the instruments or shift your viewpoint with six degrees of freedom.

    • Keep your hands on the controls

      Look around the cockpit without reaching for the mouse to move your view.

    Fly first.
    Decide after.

    NOD gives you 10 minutes of successful simulator tracking, so you can be sure it works on your own setup before you buy.

    Only successful simulator tracking uses the allowance. Nothing else does.

    After that, NOD Core unlocks unlimited tracking. One purchase. Yours for good. No subscription.

    Flying in three steps.

    iPhone and Mac on the same local network

    1. 1

      Download NOD for Mac.

      One file. Open NOD for X-Plane.dmg

    2. 2

      Open “Install NOD” and follow the prompts.

      The installer does the rest. Then start X-Plane 12.

    3. 3

      Open NOD on your iPhone.

      Connect → CENTER → fly.

    The Mac companion

    Download NOD for Mac

    Includes Install NOD — the installer puts the X-Plane companion in place for you.

    Download NOD for Mac Download on the App Store

    You also need NOD for iPhone — available on the App Store.

    NOD for X-Plane.dmg · Requires Mac + X-Plane 12

    Not connecting?

    • X-Plane 12 is running
    • NOD for Mac is installed
    • iPhone and Mac are on the same local network
    • Local Network permission is enabled for NOD
    • Still nothing? Tap SEARCH AGAIN in the app

    Still stuck?

    Tell us your Mac, iPhone and X-Plane version and we’ll get you flying.

    Contact support

    What NOD supports today

    iPhoneMacX-Plane 12Same local network

    We list only what we have verified end to end on real hardware.