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FlightDeck - Flight Tracker
Attracts · 82 ratings · ★ 4.5
4.5
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82 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 26 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.
1
"free"
10 negative reviews mention this · 38% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Why pay. Why do you need to pay like if you said it’s free for three days don’t make us pay" - Acuario1988
2
"paywall"
8 negative reviews mention this · 31% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Worlds longest onboarding. You go through 15 minutes of onboarding just for the app to be fully blocked by a paywall. I previously left this review and returned to see the developer reset all reviews. The app needs a lot of work" - thomasj095
3
"tutorial"
8 negative reviews mention this · 31% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not free. Complete waste of time, made me do a 15 minute tutorial just to be greeted with a paywall. You cannot use the app at all without paying." - EditSnake
4
"flight"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Wrong flight info. Trying the 3 day trial and every flight I click on on the map shows wrong flight info. Plane obviously just left ORD and the info shows it inbound to ORD from Savannah. I checked several flights that are obviously inbound to Chicago and the…" - Justabill6
5
"other"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Wrong flight info. Trying the 3 day trial and every flight I click on on the map shows wrong flight info. Plane obviously just left ORD and the info shows it inbound to ORD from Savannah. I checked several flights that are obviously inbound to Chicago and the…" - Justabill6
6
"through"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Worlds longest onboarding. You go through 15 minutes of onboarding just for the app to be fully blocked by a paywall. I previously left this review and returned to see the developer reset all reviews. The app needs a lot of work" - thomasj095
7
"long"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Worlds longest onboarding. You go through 15 minutes of onboarding just for the app to be fully blocked by a paywall. I previously left this review and returned to see the developer reset all reviews. The app needs a lot of work" - thomasj095
8
"trial"
3 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Wrong flight info. Trying the 3 day trial and every flight I click on on the map shows wrong flight info. Plane obviously just left ORD and the info shows it inbound to ORD from Savannah. I checked several flights that are obviously inbound to Chicago and the…" - Justabill6
9
"acars"
3 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not ready for prime time yet. I thought this would be a companion or replacement to Flight Radar 24 but it’s not ready yet. Funny seeing ACARS message so easily available. The map is laggy on scrolling, selecting airplanes, and viewing information on the flight. Even on…" - Invertedblue
10
"subscription"
3 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Should still be in beta. Do not buy the annual subscription. This app has tons of potential, but should still be in the TestFlight beta stage. If you want to try it, only do a month and cancel. It’s buggy, turning off ACARS notifications doesn’t turn off notificati…" - KH3W1TT
11
"money"
3 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Should still be in beta. Do not buy the annual subscription. This app has tons of potential, but should still be in the TestFlight beta stage. If you want to try it, only do a month and cancel. It’s buggy, turning off ACARS notifications doesn’t turn off notificati…" - KH3W1TT
12
"cool"
3 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Should still be in beta. Do not buy the annual subscription. This app has tons of potential, but should still be in the TestFlight beta stage. If you want to try it, only do a month and cancel. It’s buggy, turning off ACARS notifications doesn’t turn off notificati…" - KH3W1TT
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Wrong flight info
Trying the 3 day trial and every flight I click on on the map shows wrong flight info. Plane obviously just left ORD and the info shows it inbound to ORD from Savannah. I checked several flights that are obviously inbound to Chicago and the flight info shows going from Chicago to other airports.
Why pay
Why do you need to pay like if you said it’s free for three days don’t make us pay
Worlds longest onboarding
You go through 15 minutes of onboarding just for the app to be fully blocked by a paywall. I previously left this review and returned to see the developer reset all reviews. The app needs a lot of work
Should still be in beta
Do not buy the annual subscription. This app has tons of potential, but should still be in the TestFlight beta stage. If you want to try it, only do a month and cancel. It’s buggy, turning off ACARS notifications doesn’t turn off notification. I’m not normally one to trash an app, but it’s unfair to be charging money for an incomplete product. The UI, while pretty, is not polished. There’s no basic flight times / gates for tracking a flight. ACARS is cool, but sometimes includes messages from an earlier flight. Right now, this is a cool experimental app, not actually useful.
This app does have lots of potential though. I cancelled my subscription for now, and don’t recommend anyone get one at least until the end of 2026 when they hopefully iron everything out.
I’ll be back in a couple months to try it again. I’d really like this to replace FlightAware/FlightRadar in the future.
This app does have lots of potential though. I cancelled my subscription for now, and don’t recommend anyone get one at least until the end of 2026 when they hopefully iron everything out.
I’ll be back in a couple months to try it again. I’d really like this to replace FlightAware/FlightRadar in the future.
Not free
Complete waste of time, made me do a 15 minute tutorial just to be greeted with a paywall. You cannot use the app at all without paying.
Endless intro to app
Just let me use the app instead it’s some endless unskippable intro
Allow tutorial to be skippable
The tutorial is a waste of time and should be skippable
Do not download
The app forces you to go through a 10 minute long tutorial where they repeat the same thing 5 times only to ask that you pay $50 to use it at all. Also AI is bad
Useless
Acars data showing messages from different flights, completely useless app
Absurd Pricing
Went through 50 steps and questions to finally get the app going to only be met with a paywall. Like the other “Ai” ATC app on the AppStore. Would give this one a 0/5 stars if I could. Mind boggling these “developers” are scavenging money with insane pricing plans to make a quick buck. Sad to see aviation come to this with greedy people.
You’re paying for free information
So you downloaded the app, great. Here’s a 10 minute, unskippable tutorial, in case you’ve never used a touch screen in your life. At the end, there’s no free trial just a mandatory pay wall to see if you like it, all for giving you information that’s readily available from the FAS website. Apple Maps for your underlying satellite imagery? It’s 2026.
Better Pricing Transparency
The long tutorial followed by the necessary to subscribe is pretty tacky. A little transparency goes a long way.
Misleading
Why would I pay 50 dollars a year for something I get for free on other apps?
Paywalled and Annoying Tutorial
Another one of these paywall apps that you can’t even really try just an annoying tutorial might pay for something that I don’t know will be good.
Annoying
I’ve never encountered an app with such an annoying, unavoidable intro/tutorial only to get to a paywall. Immediately uninstalled.
bad
5 min unskippable intro video only for the whole app to be locked behind a paywall
don’t download
made me sit thru a long “tutorial” just to hit me with a paywall they hide the entire app behind…
Looks like a cool app but requires subscription.
This app looks neat in theory but you can’t even explore it unless you spend over twenty dollars a month on the subscription!
AI Slop. Laggy
This app doesn’t provide anything you can’t find for free anywhere else.
Flight tracking
It costs either $5 a week to use or $50 a year and with all the other free options out there this would need to be way cheaper to make it worth it. Better then others just cost is way too much plus the flight map I think is worse compared to Plane Finder.
No free options
You can’t use the app unless you pay for a subscription there’s no point of getting it unless you care that much about spotting planes.
Not ready for prime time yet
I thought this would be a companion or replacement to Flight Radar 24 but it’s not ready yet. Funny seeing ACARS message so easily available. The map is laggy on scrolling, selecting airplanes, and viewing information on the flight. Even on the lowest setting there is an insane amount of notifications.
Long on boarding with immediate paywall
Spend 10 minutes onboarding just to learn you can’t even use the app because it’s fully paywalled. I understand you need to charge for this but there’s no free trial whatsoever.
No Flightdeck free
Went through the demo and wanted the app but the only option is FlightDeck Pro. There is no free version that I can find to try out. Some there’s a flightdeck Pro I thought there would be a regular flightdeck but I can’t find it.
Can’t access the app without paying
You aren’t able to access any functions or the main page of the app without subscribing…
Not worth.
I trust that there’s potential here, but there’s no way it’s worth the money. If there were a limited free option I might consider it. Idk it seems cool but I can’t justify that.
Sentiment summary
89%
Positive (4-5★)
1%
Neutral (3★)
10%
Negative (1-2★)