Plane Finder Ar App Reviews

I can’t believe this much data is available to the average person. The graphics have improved since I first bought it years ago and it’s amazing.

Sometimes works but not all airlines/planes/locations.

Never works any more. Waste of money

This app is a piece of crap. Doesn't work.

Please include aircraft type and a better organized aircraft destination.

Data not always reliable or accurate

Doesn’t show me anything. Can’t recommend this. I enabled all location settings, etc, and still won’t work. Feel like I just threw my money away.

It was so good and then bam - it got so much worse. There’s a huge circle full of useless dots with no value clogging up the screen. And the accuracy is worse so I can’t really find any fights in the sky unless I’m already looking at it. For the flights that it finds it shows miles away but that never changes as the flight moves. What a shame. Please bring back the old version that worked so well.

If you download the free version, called the Lite version, you can select each flight and will be presented with a screen telling you about all of the great features that you will get if you upgrade. It’s all really quite exciting and the AR finder works well. However, the bad news, if you buy the paid version the only feature you get from the giant list of claimed features is the removal of ads. Straight up fraud. Stick to the free version and avoid giving this company your money. Huge bummer as I really like the idea of the app, but without flight details it is just a novelty and the free version is more than sufficient for that.

The older version showed the make and model of the aircrafts, which was the reason I got it. Please put it back! :)

I really enjoy this great App! Keep the best App coming!! I love using it at a small airstrip near Cedar, MI! We get small planes, dual engine planes, and large and small Lear Jets! Tracking them back to Chicago Executive airports is GREAT! 40 minutes from up here! Wow!

Awesomeness. Tracked my wife on her flight to Chicago.

It always “WOWS” my friends!

Will not work with iPhone compass.

Disappointed with the very small circle flight finder screen. I can’t get mine to orient to my aim/ north, east etc. Wish still gave plane info. I lot less entertaining now.

Does not follow a planes motion. I must keep closing and opening the app in order to track a plane’s progress. I wish I could expand the information bubble so that I could read it.

Never calibrates to proper direction and doesn’t tell what type of aircraft I’m seeing, just its brand name, etc. I want to know if it’s a B777 or an A380, etc. Weak sauce and a silly use of AR.

Does not seem to be working, help is no help

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If I could get a refund I would. This app shows aircraft but it’s difficult at best to determine which flights are which.

Well, it worked from Wed. To Sat. That was it. Like others, I noted flights that shouldn't have been within a thousand miles of my location. Not ready for prime time yet, and they shouldn't charge me to be a beta- tester. But the support is prompt and polite.

I live this app it's very well done , however my eyes aren't what they used to be and even with my glasses I can't read the information about each flight because the font is so so tiny. Please enlarge the font in an update. Your truly NPE

The app is now locked in the 'camera' mode, and I can't go to the home screen. It was working fine until this happened! Sent a note to support about this, so let's see if they can help.

Information is completely inaccurate. Don't know what it's reading but it doesn't have ANY relation to what's over my head. Font is impossible to read. I've resorted to using a magnifying glass to read data only to realise it's totally inaccurate.

Needs some tweeking. The data blocks are large and obscure the viewfinder. If there are multiple aircraft, there's a stack of data blocks but you can't scroll through them all. Move very slowly, the refresh rate lags a little and it's easy to just slip right past an aircraft. I don't know if it was a bug or what but when I'm near LAX, I don't see any data. It's fun for single aircraft but takes some getting used to. I can see this technology 20 years in the future, being installed in the glass of air traffic control tower cabs and aircraft cockpits, as an aid to situational awareness.

The new version is no where as good as the earlier version. Bring back the version that identifies the type of plane. Who cares about the plane registration. Get rid of the map. Also why so many small boxes that have only 1or 2 lines. Chuck

This is such a fun app. I live on the east coast near the plane routes and across the bay from Logan airport so there are constantly planes to ID, going to and from all over the world. I hear a plane at night and wistfully whip out this app to find flights to Paris or Athens or more exotic places. The only reason I'm not giving it 5 stars is because, as mentioned below, it's hard to read the small writing.

With the latest update, the ability to tell what type of aircraft is above you has been lost. Prior to this update I would have given this app a 5 star review and worth the five dollar cost. I also have recommended to several friends With the new update, it's not worth the price. Also I will no longer recommend this app. Feedback from Pinkfroot on this loss of the plane type feature has been non caring to say the least. Do not waste the $4.99 on this app.

I was an enthusiastic user (5 stars) of the original version. The latest update is worthless and you can only identify about ten percent of the flights above than you used to. Do not waste money on this until it is fixed.

Scary good

Loved this app before the update. Was a 5+ star app. Consider a rollback until this new version is developed a little more. Seemed like I rarely had a plane I couldn't identify, now many that I see aren't on the screen. Also, the plane information that used to be available is very limited. Disappointed. Hope it gets better. Bring back the features that made this app my favorite before the update.

Feb. 2015 - Worked great when I first bought it, but now it crashes every time I try to start it. I'm on an iPhone 5 running IOS 8.1.2. I've tried the obvious stuff like a forced close and reboot, but it continues to crash. 5-3-2015. Traced issue to location services. Made sure app had location services on "always", and had camera on. Did a full power down & reboot, and it works again.

I love this app. I use it a lot when I'm out on the deck or out fishing. I it's fun to think about the people on the flight and fill in the details based on the origin and destination. Not to mention it's got a wow factor that all my friends love and they too have don on to become users as well. Fun little app!

The free version still works fine. This version was awesome for a long while but just crashes on opening now. I hope they fix it.

This app has large icons for the planes. This makes it easy to read on the iPhone 6 screen.

The font is too small to read even with glasses. Would be nice to tap on data and pop out to a full screen details and maybe even a flight path map, lime flight aware, etc.

I don't see any reason this app should need to know my location even when I'm not using the app. This makes me think the app is more than it seems. Could it be spying on users?

On iPhone 6+, have no problem reading text and no crashes. Incredibly cool app! Even shows military aircraft and private jets. If you live near flight paths and are curious, this is the app for you! Really Neat! Thanks for making such a cool app!

I'm not sure what happened, but this used to be a fun app. Unfortunately out of the blue it doesn't work and it just looks like I have my camera on.

Looks like the developer has moved on, and I would suggest you do too. Better stuff out there now.

I bought this app several years ago and loved it. It works fine but after an upgrade about a year ago I can no longer read it. The font it too small. When I first bought it I had no trouble reading it. I have complained more than once to no avail. My eyesight is fine. No one I know can read it without a magnifying glass. This could be an excellent app save for this problem.

I recommend this app.

...all of these types of apps are very inaccurate

Crashes on start-up. iPhone 5s. iOS 8.2

What fun I have showing off this app, great job.

The app continuously shows me information for flights that can't possibly be accurate. I live in Texas, and it will show me flight data for flights from New York to Florida or Kentucky to New Orleans, or even just flights from one part if Florida to another part of Florida. If I wanted that kind of info, I could have saved my money and made up flight info myself! I contacted the help desk via email and no reply. It would be a fun app if it were relaible...

This app fulfills my inquisitive appetite to know the why's and what's. I live in a medium market (Knoxville) and I am close to several hub cities. Certain times of the day it gets quite busy. Growing up, I would look up in the sky and wonder where a plane was going and where from. Now, I have those questions answered at my fingertips! Also, I have the app for marine traffic. I am on the road over 200 days/year. Going into major markets, this app can keep the inquisitive geek in you happy for hours!

I bought this app about a year ago as I typically rent a lake house in Western NY and am curious about the planes I see flying overhead, particularly at night. I have found that I point my phone right at a plane and get no data or it's obviously inaccurate, i.e. the app says the plane is at 33,000 feet when I can clearly tell it's not. I would recommend you save your money simply because it's data is unreliable.

Could you make the boxes showing the flight information larger? It's so small it is hard to see.

Just bought it. Doesn't work. Waiting on a reply from the maker.

I enjoy using this app, but I can't help but notice its many flaws. I would say about 15% of the flights shown have some kind of mistake in the information shown. For example, I've seen planes flying from Dallas to Amarillo and the app lists the flight as Libyan Airlines. After looking up the flight details on another app, it turns out it's actually a Southwest flight. Secondly, in crowded airspace, the flight details get overlapped and there is no way to focus on one. It would be great if you could click on the window and it would highlight it for you to see. I'll keep using this app when I'm bored but I'm hesitant to trust the information displayed.

It's one of the most terrible apps fop planes it's so confusing

What a waste of $2.99. You just get a blank screen with a bunch of blue boxes with writing in it, there is no way to tell which box belongs to which aircraft. If you try to use your iPhone, you will need superman vision to read the blue boxes. Save your money, use the free app.

Uses ADS-B Large percentage of aircraft are not ADS-B compliant yet nor will they be. Not required til 2020 and due to numerous issues that prob. will be extended. Font on ID tags is so small as to be unreadable

I liked the previous version more than this version (9) ... the little area map in the corner is actually confusing ... and type of equipment now is missing most of the time. I'd like the option to turn it off the area map. Like others have said, the data blocks overlap, and there's no way to highlight a particular one. Nice concept, but not a great implementation.

I use this app at EAA airshow and the results are so whack. For instance, several private jets showed they were indian airlines. I want my money back!!!! Do not waste your time and buy

The plane locations are not always accurate, but mostly they are. It also prompts to be calibrated each time you open it. It would be cool if it auto-calibrated.

Really cool app if you are happy to take their word for it. Flight number and tail numbers don't match the departure and arrival data of the actual flight. Don't waste your money, I'd did.

It use to work well, but now it doesn’t do much of anything but indicate there are some planes out there.