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ATC - Live Air Traffic Radio
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Top complaints - extracted from 41 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"free"
14 negative reviews mention this · 34% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Obnoxious temu style intro will waste your time. No free try before you buy (without agreeing to pay. Fire the the noko intern, you’re losing customers" - yevgenius9
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"subscription"
11 negative reviews mention this · 27% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Terrible. Only optimized for phone screen, forces subscription. Priced too high for value." - WinterSouth
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"trial"
8 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Forced to pay wall. During initial start up after all the annoying questions you are forced into a paywall and the only option is to start seven day free trial." - JustAnotherAPPreviewr
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"paywall"
7 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "$90 a year?. Paywall for public access radios??? not paying for something I can find elsewhere for free" - ExtraWishes
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"paying"
7 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "$90 a year?. Paywall for public access radios??? not paying for something I can find elsewhere for free" - ExtraWishes
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"price"
7 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Terrible. Only optimized for phone screen, forces subscription. Priced too high for value." - WinterSouth
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"without"
6 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Obnoxious temu style intro will waste your time. No free try before you buy (without agreeing to pay. Fire the the noko intern, you’re losing customers" - yevgenius9
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"annoying"
6 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Annoying spammy intro. I want to like this but the intro cinematic just put me off. I want an app not a bunch of click cinema things" - Woofalot
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"year"
5 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Why the spam on install?. Seems like a really great solution for ATC monitoring and I’ll even say probably worth the $100 bucks a year or whatever. But why so spammy from the first open? Let the user skip this unnecessarily long demo and come back to it later if the…" - wx-junkie
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"something"
5 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "$90 a year?. Paywall for public access radios??? not paying for something I can find elsewhere for free" - ExtraWishes
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"free trial"
5 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Forced to pay wall. During initial start up after all the annoying questions you are forced into a paywall and the only option is to start seven day free trial." - JustAnotherAPPreviewr
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Obnoxious onboarding
Re downloaded this. What on earth was that initial onboarding process. Absolute garbage
What a frustrating process
You install the app and it’s like a full interview of questions and a process just to get loaded into it. “How much do you like aviation” “how well do you understand atc” “how may notifications do you want” Bruh, just make it to where you load in and can click a tower. Having 20 questions about whether you like aviation, and then having to click continue 24 times is so frustrating. Then, they want $24/mo for the app. As if the terrible startup process wasn’t bad enough, you uninstall as soon as they ask for money.
Terrible
Only optimized for phone screen, forces subscription. Priced too high for value.
Obnoxious temu style intro will waste your time. No free try before you buy (without agreeing to pay
Fire the the noko intern, you’re losing customers
$90 a year?
Paywall for public access radios??? not paying for something I can find elsewhere for free
Hot garbage
Don’t waste your time. Forced subscription, limited number of airports absolutely not worth it.
Not accessible for blind, visually impaired
I use voiceover, which is designed by Apple for blind and visually impaired users, is it possible that you could make this app accessible for those of us who do rely upon voiceover as an accessibility tool. Thank you very much.
Annoying spammy intro
I want to like this but the intro cinematic just put me off. I want an app not a bunch of click cinema things
Forced to pay wall
During initial start up after all the annoying questions you are forced into a paywall and the only option is to start seven day free trial.
Has only six lives ATC channels available
Charge me the very first day, even though I was on a seven day free trial. If you want the app cheaper request to cancel your subscription during your seven day free trial and they will give it to you at 50% off.
Don’t download
I attempted to do a trial and was charged $89 as a result. Don’t waste your time with this app.
Don’t bother downloading if you don’t want to pay $90 to use it
The paywall is ridiculous. ATC stations are public access. Weekly or yearly is all you get. 5.99 a week or $90 for a year. And they do not even have a lot of airports available. There’s no point in making this app free to download you might as well put it at a price to install since you literally cannot use it without paying.
STUPID SUBSCRIPTION
PLEASE REMOVE THE SUBSCRIPTION I WANT TO USE THE APP FOR FREE
I think it’s good but
It’s a good app but you shouldn’t have to pay to use it,it’s the most amount of bs I’ve ever seen. For the people who really want to use this app they shouldn’t have to pay.
SUBSCRIPTION BEWARE
Very annoying can’t try the app with out a subscription
Should enable a 3 day trial first without paying tied to registration.
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Should enable a 3 day trial first without paying tied to registration.
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App never opens, just a black screen
I really want to use this ap, but whenever I try to open it the screen in black and it doesn’t load at all. I have tried contacting support but they never reached back after my first email
App Sucks
Can’t even open app without paying 👎🏼
Annoying intro, just let me tune in FFS
Annoying intro that is in-mutable and more importantly unskippable. Second, quit asking me survey questions at the beginning. I’m not here to give you my demographic info I just want ATC freqs. “Built by pilots” yeah it’s pretty clear it’s built by a pilot with zero UI/UX knowledge or experience because this app is garbage.
Just stick with live ATC it’s much easier.
Just stick with live ATC it’s much easier.
too few airports for cost
missing major airports such as IAD
Awful intro
Forces you to go through a long annoying intro, gave up and deleted it before I could even get through it.
It sucks
They forced me to get free trial
subscription to do anything
i was happy that i had the free 7 day trial until the day it canceled. i tried using the app and it would not let me usr it without a subscription. make your app better as i wanna atleast listen to my local airport to see whats going on. do better yall😒
So many steps just to get paywalled
Make it clear that you need to subscribe to even use the app. Don’t make users go through so many steps just to paywall them in the end.
Scam
They make you take multiple steps just to let you know you have to pay, waste of time.
Paywall
Insane pricing, WAY too much, why make the app free if you have to pay money after downloading it?? This app has so much potential, it just cannot be this expensive, 89$ for a yearly subscription..
Way too many pop-ups
Downloaded the app I was willing to pay the fee, but there was like 27 clicks before you got to the point of using the app way too many for me had to delete it. If there’s that many just getting started, I’m sure there’s that many every time you use it.
Paywall
$80 a year paywall is crazy. Limit to a time allocation for free use or something. You can buy an aviation radio for that price.
Not free $90
I hate apps that don’t just tell you they’re paywalled. Make the app cost $90 to download if that’s the price. A 7day trial doesn’t mean it’s free. You can’t even look at the app without paying.
Does the app look amazing and smooth? Yes! UI looks incredible. From the loading screen preview it looks amazing. I would love an app like this. But a $90 yearly subscription is a lot, and the fact that 0% is free to use is a bummer. And again, don’t say free to download with in-app purchase when the app is 100% paywalled and can’t be used at all. Free trials don’t count , but upfront and make it cost $90 to download.
Does the app look amazing and smooth? Yes! UI looks incredible. From the loading screen preview it looks amazing. I would love an app like this. But a $90 yearly subscription is a lot, and the fact that 0% is free to use is a bummer. And again, don’t say free to download with in-app purchase when the app is 100% paywalled and can’t be used at all. Free trials don’t count , but upfront and make it cost $90 to download.
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Can’t track individual planes
PAYWALL
yet another app just for it to be a paywall.
Why the spam on install?
Seems like a really great solution for ATC monitoring and I’ll even say probably worth the $100 bucks a year or whatever. But why so spammy from the first open? Let the user skip this unnecessarily long demo and come back to it later if they want. Let users just play around with the actual app for a little while. I don’t know why so many developers are so insistent on not letting people actually use an app on first install for a few minutes.
Pricey
It’s a nice app, I get it everyone needs to get paid and make a living, but the price is something I can’t justify and know that’s the same for 90% of the people out there. People would rather pay a one time fee
Make it free to listened i lost my attention
Bruh
Unnecessarily Greedy
This is a great app but rather than selling it at a fixed price you’ve hopped on the greedy subscription wagon to squeeze as much out of the lemon as possible. Your subscription greed earned you these two stars.
Way to expensive for something unproven
The free trial should be for at a minimum one month, not a week. It’s brand new and if you are going to learn an app’s capabilities you need a month before paying almost $90 or $3.99 a week.
Way too many apps do this for quick money to recover start up costs but don’t deliver a solid product. This may be amazing but it’s new. So I assume it’s got holes and problems.
Very premium price. $4,99 a month to start but not per week. That’s a lot.
Way too many apps do this for quick money to recover start up costs but don’t deliver a solid product. This may be amazing but it’s new. So I assume it’s got holes and problems.
Very premium price. $4,99 a month to start but not per week. That’s a lot.
Its weekly payments
Beware it is weekly payments not monthly. About $23 a month
Way too expensive
This app is a cool idea and definitely what's desired right now for aviation enthusiasts but far too expensive considering everyone else offering ADS-B or ATC audio feeds does so for free with ads, doubly so because this app feels like it was vibe-coded.
Would love to use this app, but no way in hell i can justify it for $80/yr.
Would love to use this app, but no way in hell i can justify it for $80/yr.
Decent
Cool but why would you not make it clear you need a subscription to use it at all
atc
awww man i have to pay for it
Really awesome, Absurd Pricing
The app is extremely clean and simple to use. They don’t have every airport but they have most of the major ones. Just how clean the app is and how good it could be is the reason it is getting more than one star.
The price is absurd. Not everything needs to be a subscription service. Other apps like this cost $3 one single time. This one is much cleaner and has better features so I would be ok with paying $20 or even up to $50 one time payment if they continue to grow the available airports. But $60/yr is absurdity. Hell I would even be ok with paying $20-50 and still having banner ads (not like the annoying pop ups in flight radar).
Note to the developers: you made something that is really good and it could be really awesome but $60/year is an insane price. NOT EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE A SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE!
The price is absurd. Not everything needs to be a subscription service. Other apps like this cost $3 one single time. This one is much cleaner and has better features so I would be ok with paying $20 or even up to $50 one time payment if they continue to grow the available airports. But $60/yr is absurdity. Hell I would even be ok with paying $20-50 and still having banner ads (not like the annoying pop ups in flight radar).
Note to the developers: you made something that is really good and it could be really awesome but $60/year is an insane price. NOT EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE A SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE!
Let me know when regionals are included
ATL was the nearest airport to Chattanooga. I want to listen to the ATC traffic for flights I see from my back porch.
Sentiment summary
98%
Positive (4-5★)
-4%
Neutral (3★)
7%
Negative (1-2★)