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Flight Radar, Plane Tracker 24
Flight Tracker Apps Studio · 10,312 ratings · ★ 4.6
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Top complaints - extracted from 28 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"
7 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Terrible. I recently downloaded this app to look at the planes in the sky. The app was lacking important information on the free plan, like the flight numbers. I was really excited when I successfully downloaded this app and I was hoping to bond with…" - ExtraStuffin
2
"flight"
7 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Terrible. I recently downloaded this app to look at the planes in the sky. The app was lacking important information on the free plan, like the flight numbers. I was really excited when I successfully downloaded this app and I was hoping to bond with…" - ExtraStuffin
3
"every"
6 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ads. Annoying video ads every few seconds. Deleted. Zero stars" - Andy_883
4
"shows"
6 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Forced data collection and awful app. Downloaded the app and within 30 seconds I’m confronted with prompts that ask for camera, location, and microphone permissions. Deny and continue. Then it shows me a screen where I have to agree to ad tracking. Fine it’s a free app I have t…" - P. diddy69
5
"upgrade"
6 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "This is a piece of junk. Can’t get it to do anything, keeps wanting me to upgrade. I already bought the thing. Want my money back..also i can’t send this because it keeps wanting an name" - flight review
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"version"
6 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Almost not worth it. Pop up ads every 30 seconds. So disruptive that you can’t even evaluate the app to see if it’s worth buying the pro version. In between commercial disruptions, the app has potentials, but too aggravating to operate." - Laughing dude
7
"flights"
5 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "All functions you need to purchase flight radar is much better. No flight search no tracking , only you can view Apple Maps with all flights in air" - Akhtar Mohammad
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"planes"
4 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Terrible. I recently downloaded this app to look at the planes in the sky. The app was lacking important information on the free plan, like the flight numbers. I was really excited when I successfully downloaded this app and I was hoping to bond with…" - ExtraStuffin
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"seconds"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ads. Annoying video ads every few seconds. Deleted. Zero stars" - Andy_883
10
"money"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Asking for money. Don’t install fake app" - Ahmed.BMW
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"commercial"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Missing aircraft. I'm in the flight path of a commercial and military airport. I have physically watched multiple commercial airlines fly directly over my house and they are not on the app." - KW_Busy_Momma
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"radar"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "All functions you need to purchase flight radar is much better. No flight search no tracking , only you can view Apple Maps with all flights in air" - Akhtar Mohammad
📋 All 28 negative reviews
Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").
Ads
Annoying video ads every few seconds. Deleted. Zero stars
Asking for money
Don’t install fake app
Terrible
I recently downloaded this app to look at the planes in the sky. The app was lacking important information on the free plan, like the flight numbers. I was really excited when I successfully downloaded this app and I was hoping to bond with my dad about it, I wanted to let the fellow users that are trying to get somethin for nothin know that you sometimes you get what you pay for.
All functions you need to purchase flight radar is much better
No flight search no tracking , only you can view Apple Maps with all flights in air
No info
So I’m giving this a 1 star because it can’t even track/show a commercial jet that I’m watching fly over my house let alone the hundreds of private planes that are flying over and no I’m going to pay for an app that doesn’t even work on free mode ..
Forced data collection and awful app
Downloaded the app and within 30 seconds I’m confronted with prompts that ask for camera, location, and microphone permissions. Deny and continue. Then it shows me a screen where I have to agree to ad tracking. Fine it’s a free app I have to pay somehow. Then in the app 90% of features are paywalled, the UI is slow, and there are ads everywhere. Awful app definitely skip this one.
This is a piece of junk
Can’t get it to do anything, keeps wanting me to upgrade. I already bought the thing. Want my money back..also i can’t send this because it keeps wanting an name
Very bad
It does not shows all flights and no information.
Useless unless you upgrade to pro
I can’t figure out the purpose of this app. It does nothing but tells me to upgrade to pro. It has no other functionality.
Almost not worth it
Pop up ads every 30 seconds. So disruptive that you can’t even evaluate the app to see if it’s worth buying the pro version.
In between commercial disruptions, the app has potentials, but too aggravating to operate.
In between commercial disruptions, the app has potentials, but too aggravating to operate.
Bait & switch and for sure in app purchases
Version unusable without paying. Right now I am seeing two (2) aircrafts at and around ORD a busy Saturday morning. Flightradar24 shows no less than 42 aircrafts in their free version.
Why buy
I would not ever buy one of apps when I use once every other year.
Demo only
Should be called DEMO.
Useless for identifying the noisy jet overhead, since it only gives you access to a small random sample of planes.
With the filter set to "show all size planes" it only showed 2 of the 20 planes in the area identified by Flightradar24.
Only useful to see how the paid version might work, and should be immediately deleted afterwards.
There is no reason to keep this app on your phone, since the random sample limitation makes it useless for anything you might want to look up.
Useless for identifying the noisy jet overhead, since it only gives you access to a small random sample of planes.
With the filter set to "show all size planes" it only showed 2 of the 20 planes in the area identified by Flightradar24.
Only useful to see how the paid version might work, and should be immediately deleted afterwards.
There is no reason to keep this app on your phone, since the random sample limitation makes it useless for anything you might want to look up.
Wow! What an App
Any time I resize the screen, the app gave me a 15-second wait and a message says Resetting ATC radar or something like that... Plus, any setting/option I choose, this app shows a pop-up window telling me to upgrade... HMM, want me to pay for an app, it better first proof it's worth rather that all the hassles and made felt being a trap. Bad App and bad marketing philosophy.
Not good
Airport Zoom...by Flightstats...was great! They dropped the app. I've been looking for something comparable since...this is not it!
Misleading
Not free at all
Flight radar
Awful
timer wasn't a good idea
timer wasn't a good idea
Bad app
This app has to many glitches it even has a long timer to upgrade and it even tells you to buy the pro version to remove timer. This app is really bad. Wouldn't recommend it.
Horrible terrible and stupid
This app is so dumb it only shows like 7 planes and every time you zoom in it automatically zooms WAY out so don't waste your time with this app. :(
Useless
Unless you upgrade to the "Pro" version for $4.00 this app is USELESS
This app is not useful
I recommend FlightAware since it actually works and it's free. This app requires payment to upgrade for tracking flights. FlightAware shows actual flight tracking FREE!!!!!
Save your time and money and don't bother with this POS app!
Save your time and money and don't bother with this POS app!
Not what they advertise
Do not download. Waste of time. Doesn't let you track any flights without upgrading. Shame on Apple for letting them claim this is a free app
Missing aircraft
I'm in the flight path of a commercial and military airport. I have physically watched multiple commercial airlines fly directly over my house and they are not on the app.
Disappointed, just a adds platform
Installed the app and it worked for a very short time, then every 3 or 4 minutes a add would pop up full screen. Once the add completed could never browse the map anymore. Once you selected a flight to monitor I could never go to another flight, would only display that one flight. Very disappointed, will probably completely remove the app.
No altimeter just speed and time to distance
So I don’t know how old or new this app is but it can use a lot of work, observed an airplane on departure, but didn’t see it via Flightradar 24 didn’t track the flight so your getting 2 star for effort sorry guys.
Cant view continent wide
It’s good for viewing a fee flights at a time but I’d like to be able to see both if not all continental landmasses simultaneously. When I try to zoom out the map keeps zooming back in every time it refreshes which is annoying.
All it is is an add
All it is is an add for the pro version
Needs alot of improvements
Very lagging, and it crashes alot on my iPhone 5s
Sentiment summary
91%
Positive (4-5★)
5%
Neutral (3★)
4%
Negative (1-2★)