Plane Finder App Reviews

Going to delete it. Not possible to find flight LH from MCO to FRA.

I am guessing nobody flies to Boston From Orlando

I don’t know what happened but the search is completely worthless. I can see JetBlue but can’t search for JetBlue. I can’t search for any flight now. This is a complete joke. Even plane finder 3D’s search is useless. What a waste of money.

FUN FUN FUN..!!

I like it. Very informative

Just Plane Fun!!!! 😎

Everyone I show this app to ends up buying it.

Not accurate

If you love flying like I do, then you might enjoy this app. Follow your favorite flight from conception to final approach. It might be time-consuming, but fun following different flights. Highly recommend this app. Excellent customer service. I had purchased the upgraded version on my iPhone because I like this app so much, but it wouldn’t download on my iPad. After several email exchanges with Mark, I was able to get the upgrade on my iPad. I want to thank him for his quick response.

Most of the tracking airplane data like speed, location and altitude are wrong!

I’m near MHT and can watch planes (big commercial and small hoppers) landing from the office window. But most do not show up in the AR view. Very disappointing.

This program on Apple TV keeps wanting to take you through the tutorial and then freezes up and will not allow you to proceed past it. It tells you to push play on your remote but will not do anything just locks up.

Pretty graphics but there is very little actual information. I found it to be a waste of money

My kids and I love learning about geography. PlaneFinder provides an opportunity to learn about other places in the world.

Excellent app......just as good as FlightRadar24 and way cheaper

Worst app I have ever installed in my life.. VEEERRRYYY slow and not at all worth a single penny. Don’t waist your money!!!! It won’t show you any flight tracking if your “out of range” Just go on flight aware.. can’t believe I waisted money on this. Not at all what it advertises You type in a flight number and it won’t show you where it is. WORST app available

A must have if your an Aviation Geek! I love be able to find flights over my area and spotting the Queen if the Skies..747’s.

Me and all my pilot colleagues I work with purchased the app because it once allowed us to filter the traffic between two specific airports. Being a private jet pilot it was very helpful to see what routes all the airlines are flying considering winds and weather. Especially for routes like New York - Los Angeles. Unfortunately the developer changed the filter setting a few updates ago and now this functionality is not available anymore. Now, when you set the filter to departing traffic New York and landing traffic Los Angeles, it won’t show you the traffic between those specific airport. Instead, it will show you all traffic departing New York to anywhere and all traffic landing Los Angeles from anywhere which makes the app useless for me and my colleagues who purchased it extra for that purpose. Unfortunately the support team was not interested in my request providing the previous filter functionality and wouldn’t change it back. I guess I’ll look for alternative apps and try to get a refund from AppStore since the functionalities that were there when the app was purchased were taken away later..... What a shame....

I’d like to give it a review, on my time, when I’m ready. Based on my use so far, it might even have gotten a four star rating. Unfortunately, the persistent badgering for a review makes me give it a two star rating for now.

Uncomplicated, easy to use, always current.

This app has a lot of useful information. I love how you can playback historical flights dating back a long time ago, which is really convenient. I love how you can find the information just about anywhere. You can also playback flights from a long time ago, which is really convenient for trying to find out tail numbers of old flights. However, there's only one thing I have to say: aircraft that were retired back prior to June 2015 or so we're deleted from the database and won't show up anymore on playback. Specifically, I am looking for some FedEx MD-10s retired prior to June 2015. Is there any way to be able to see them on playback again? I had wanted to see them, but if not, I understand.

If you love aviation you will love this app. After years of wondering about where a plane was coming from or going to, or what type of aircraft it was, now I know.

Paid to be able to track my family’s flight & it can’t even locate their aircraft?

It’s bad

A really amazing app! It gives so much information about the planes in the air. Allows the user to get all different types of information about the players I can see in the sky above me.

This was once a good app with info on nearby flights. The app has changed and nearby flights are not found or available. Not worth it anymore.

See above

Please update Islamabad International Airport as they have built a new one.

Interesting to see what you hear in the sky - many inefficient and outdated jets cruising around the skies. Great way to test your sonic skills. How many cargo jets? How many private jets? Listen closely - for what you can’t hear - say check out this App.

I downloaded this app to track off light my daughter was on, and I am extremely impressed how accurate it is with real time updates!

I’ve used this at an airport and elsewhere multiple times and consistently the information displayed is incorrect. Planes are shown where non exist, and planes that are taking off, landing, or just flying nearby are rarely identified. Another app I tried had much more accurate (though definitely still flawed sometimes) information. Not really acceptable for an app that costs this much.

I live on flight path to and from Logan airport in Boston. This app mails it every time. Airline, city of origin/arrival, air speed and altitude. I tracked my wife’s flight from racing down the runway, across country and then land, tax and stop at her destination gate ! Does what it promises

Fascinating to discover the plane’s overhead at any given time.

Could be great if it were tapped into a real time database like ADS-B Exchange. There are certain aircraft I track that have incomplete or not history shown in plane finder but can be found easily in ADS-B Exchange. I need complete data for my purposes.

Absolutely fantastic Very accurate, interesting & often very helpful Thanks

Hoped after years of using this app it would get better. Great concept, very user unfriendly.

It’s a scam 😡😡

I enjoy using this application Well I am searching for flights I want to keep track of. Nice to the aircraft that you’re following landing at their destination. Also finding aircraft you’re not looking for and find like SF50.

Very accurate and allowed me to watch as the love of my life came home to me.

Might be silly, but I love knowing what’s going over my head. Plane Finder is the best. Not only can I tell where it’s from and where it’s going, I also can tell what make and model the plane is. Did you know Fed Ex is really busy getting our order delivered after 10PM?

As a retired USAF B-52, FB-111 navigator tracking airplanes rocks. I should have downloaded this app years ago.

This is a great fun app but not at all user friendly. Way too hard to use unless u have lots of time on your hands.

Various family members, including myself, fly frequently. I bought the app because it's nice to know when to be at the airport for pickup or to ensure people arrive safely at their destination. HOWEVER, it finds the plane less than 25% of the time and I'll get alerts from the app sometimes days after the flight has landed. Simply put, go elsewhere.

I enjoyed a good 1/2 a year of GREAT plane tracking when it all just stopped working. The app completely loads, but the aircraft do not display.

When I bought the app, initially it didn’t show me any airplanes, but the next morning everything worked perfectly. I’m not sure why that happened but now that it works, I love this app!

I think it would be great if we are eventually able to get the view from the cockpit. It freezes quite often. Apart from that, it is a great for aviation enthusiast like myself.

Wow, a great flight APP! I like everything about this Flight APP! Very handicap and a Must Have APP! Bravo!

Then ask for a alert to let me know where it is . But the drop down list of planes will not disappear so what am I supposed to do help me please

I purchased this app to monitor the local flights near my airport. Mostly flights without a flight plan filed. Unfortunately this app only seems to track flights with a filed flight plan, so looks like the money was wasted.

Waste of money. I regularly have family that flies and got this app to see the progress of flights etc and it has only ever been correct once. I just checked a flight route and it showed me the other end of the country not even near the flight route.

Great app with incredible details

Its very slow app and needs wifi only to open doesn’t open on the mobile internet

👍🏼

I’ve never liked this app. It should be as simple as entering an airline, flight number, departure or arrival and search. Rarely works. Most times just shows 0 aircraft.

LOVE THE APP! I think that it gives lots of info and lots of fun to use

Sometimes I question the accuracy. When a plane goes over, I can be pretty sure that it is the plane I was tracking but I have my doubts when it is headed in exactly the opposite direction of the stated route.

This is the only app I have ever paid money for I don’t regret buying it. It works almost all of the time and is fun and now I know the flight paths to the major airports that go over my house

My wife flies from our home in Beaumont, Texas to Tampa, Florida (vla DFW) twice in a year. I find interesting and reassuring to be able to track her flights in real time. I find the best tracker with plane details is ”Plane Finder”. Even as I'm writing this, I’m tracing her flight over the Gulf of Mexico. ”Plane Finder” has the best tracking maps and details of any other tracker I’ve found.

Worth the money only problem the grid should move when click on a plane

Frequently led up

I really like this app. The only major thing it is missing is a weather overlay. It does have a couple of minor quirks that really don't detract from the overall experience. For example on filters, if you filter on DFW late in the evening you will see DL 84 enroute from ATL to CDG. Turns out DL 84 originates in DFW as a Boeing 717 to ATL, where a change of equipment happens and the flight number then continues on to CDG. Also, if you click on a plane icon sometimes it will show an aircraft type that is incorrect. For example, the other night I clicked on AA 945 enroute DFW>SCL and the photo on the plane was an A321, not the 777 the plane data said it was supposed to be. Lastly, if you click on history, frequently there are gaps and it will show you that a given aircraft flew from A to B and then from C to D but not how it got from B to C. Nonetheless, it is a great app and I have spent quite a few hours enjoying it. Highly recommended.

Only used a few times but it is quick on an iPhone X and shows international flights. With an idea of where a flight should be, you can actually find it in the map with the carrier flag and an airplane icon that approximates the real thing (size and number of engines).

I am a frequent flyer and every time I try to track my flight it says not currently tracked or out of range. Switched over to flight radar 24 and it works every time.

This app is addicting!

Would be really great to add atc audio!

This app has a lot of useful information but during playback, the app crashes everytime I click on a plane.

I had plane in the air which’s is ADSB compliant This app found first leg but did not display track correctly It continued to give me altitude, speed, and heading but no track The heading was showing 256 when I knew plane was flying north

1. Make it where you can see the planed flight path. 2. Have a final review of the flight according to schedule. LOVE THE APP!!

If your industry revolves around timely positional awareness of civil and general aviation—this App is a “must have!”

Every time I open this up I’m blocked by a full page ad that I can’t close until it completely loads the website. I paid for this and bought the one you advertise.

So nice to sit on my porch and check out where planes are going! Fun

I use this app all the time and love it! And it's a great conversation piece sitting around the campfire or while at the office. Always interesting to see where the plane overhead is going!

I used to like this app, but it now fails to show any planes at all more often than not. And if for some reason a plane might show up the app lacks any detail on it.

This gives no specific info about a flight totally worthless

Asked for a review 5 times in 2 minutes. Fine. 1 Star it is.

As a retired air traffic controller, I find this the best app available. Other than not depicting the altitudes of all the aircraft in a screen shot, or depicting the jet airways, you can’t beat it. Absolutely fantastic with all of the information this app provides, it‘s just as if I were behind the scope again.

The app is great. It's nice to know what those planes overhead are. I wish there something similar for trains since I am a train watcher too.

For years I’ve seen planes cross over my land and now I finally know where they’re going.

Garbage get flite aware its free

Does not track my ADS-B.

I gave a low rating because it keeps asking me to rate the app. I paid for the app to not get any interruptions.

It's about five minutes behind It would be nice if it was totally live

I LOVE this app. Absolutely amazing, so fun, easy to use, and totally addictive! The first time I used it today I was standing near a family in a park and I showed it to them. They downloaded it immediately. I highly recommend this app and it’s s great value at $4.99!

Awesome

Three times since I’ve downloaded app it failed to track flights I wanted. Not happy with that, especially since I paid for it.🤨

It is easy and fun and useful and im 75 Dan

The information on this app is typically either missing, or grossly inaccurate!!! Don’t waste your time with this app! I gave it 1 star only because it won’t allow you to give it 0 stars!!!

This is a Good APP for now, however it used to be a Great APP until one of the most prominent features was disabled by the developer and that was the tilt to horizontal view on both the Map & the AR. That took my last review from 5 Stars to down to 3 Stars. I emailed the developer about 6 Months ago complaining about that feature being removed after the last update and the developer told me it was removed without any reason as to why or when it would return, so that feature needs to be returned to the APP & then I can bump it back up again to 5 Stars and call it Great APP again.

Best app

This is good app to track flights and everything, but some flights i click on, they say destination and origin is N/A and you can’t track it. Please fix

I work for the airline industry and we rely on this app to obtain the accurate info regarding our flights.

Great app excerpt every time I open it, I get this huge pop-over that says, “BUY 3D PLANE TRACKER!!!!!” which I already own. Please just remove this out of respect for people. If you insist on badgering people to buy more of your apps, let them hide this forever or detect if they have purchased other apps.

Nothing to compare it, but it works as advertised.

I downloaded this to my Apple TV. The controls were not user friendly then & now, more then a month later, I’ve forgotten how the controls work. there’s no splash screen or other reminder on how the controls work... and because I cant remember how the controls work, I can’t use them to fine the “need help” screen! I hate this app!

This app is great. Our family is big on watching airplanes when traveling and the questions I wonder where that plane is going comes up, I just pull up the app and I can tell them!!!

Departure Arrival, alerts?

Also very interesting at times...

I have literally learned the schedules for a majority of the planes that fly over my house by heart. Especially the Fedex 737 that flies over my house low and loud like clockwork everyday at 5:30 AM. It’s like my alarm clock.

Would love Apple TV to have more map options as the supplied map is busy enough to distract from the planes. Really good alternative pay-for app while another favorite has decided to go to a subscription model...

Love this app. I use it all the time to see which aircraft are flying over my home. It’s really fascinating to see. I just wish they’d change the icon back to the last one! This new one is not attractive! ☹️

When I first purchased this app, the "wow" factor was impressive. Plane Finder showed details on planes that were flying overhead, nearly real time. You could grab a snapshot of tracked raffia worldwide at any moment. It seemed amazingly accurate! After a bit of playing around with it, I really liked the app. Later, when I tried to actually use it to track flights I realized that it's shaky at best at that. Retrieving a flight's history is truly hit and miss. These comments apply to both Part 121 (commercial airliners) and Part 91 (general aviation, I.e., private aircraft). I've corresponded with customer support. Emails are returned and shortcomings acknowledged, but no commitments (yet) for fixes. I'd recommend waiting a bit to see if future releases improve the coverage and utility before paying for this app. It certainly has potential but falls short as of Oct, 2016. Update - December, 2017. No changes or improvements for the shortcomings noted above. An example of the poor architecture is that there’s no way to delete an aircraft you’ve searched for. Ever. Customer Support says that this is a recognized issue. No commitment to fix it.

I think that this app is super awesome. Keep on keeping on Plane Finder! Gavin William Wieland 12-2-18

This is an amazing app! We have a lot of air traffic and it’s so interesting to see where everyone is headed etc This App has never crashed once in the 6 months I’ve used it. The camera feature is amazing! I never buy APPs but made an exception for this one. So glad I did! Download this app you will be glad you did!

This app consistently does not find flights. Free apps do much better. The app searches, does not find flights, asks you to set an alert and then sometimes finds the flight an hour later. Very annoying.

This is a such a great app. Ive always loved to look up at the sky and guess where the plane was headed. Now I can use this app to find out. The details about the ✈️ is incredible. So many stats. Well done! 👍👍

Great app

I highly suggest this app because, it has live flight tracking, and I will be honest it was a debate between a few flight apps but, I narrowed it down to this one and found that it provided the most information on the route as well as the aircraft and for functional purposes has no ads, is very easy to find flights, easy to find airports and is easy filter. It’s also very good because you can use the camera to see what flights are around you. I would highly suggest this app to anyone who wanted an easy well working and full of information app. It may cost five dollars but I think it’s worth it.

Use this app when I'm at work. Accurate most of the time. Annoyed that I’m asked to rate it every time I open it.

I use it to track flights I take on a regular basis....great for that.

Accurate and easy to use!

You asked for a review every time I opened the app. Even when I returned to it from a background process. Here it is: “I haven’t used it enough”

Cost a little money, but enjoy being able to see what’s flying over head.

Thumbs Up!

Granted it’s an add for their app... but I’ve already bought the 3D version when it launches. This would be cute and acceptable if the ad splashed one time but this has been two or three times now.

Love it for looking at planes

Text does not rotate with screen. Planes fly horizontally not vertically.

Crashes all the time! Bad!

Information previously provided in Plane Finder has deteriorated significantly. Destination / departure info is frequently missing and sometimes non-sensical. Example: a plane departing Cleveland bound for Indianapolis should not be airborne over Middlebury, Vermont. A plane reported at 8,000 feet with an airspeed of zero? Currently more than 80% of the data for all single engine aircraft (as reported by the icon) will load no data at all. I used to refer to Plane Finder frequently, but rarely use it now. FlightAware tracks fewer aircraft but has more flight data that usually makes sense. What happened to Plane Finder to make it so unreliable / not believable?

This app does not show every airplane

Filters are pretty good. Wish you could have more ways to filter. Like: Tail numbers ending in QS or FX. This would make the app 5 stars in my opinion.

I love this app! I bought while staying on Long Island near JFK. I was wondering what planes were flying overhead and where they came from. Oh- that was an Air Emirates Airbus coming from Doha, Qatar to JFK. I look at flights I’ve taken, track routes, etc. JFK to Bejing? Now over the Arctic Ocean in a Boeing 737 built 4 years ago, arriving in 8 hrs. Well worth it IMO.

After this most recent update, I haven’t been able to track the planes I had saved before and rarely come up. Can’t actually search for certain airplanes as the search can’t find any type of plane. Save the money and just use the web page

Wonderful app

I have been asking for months to make Miami International Airport REAL TIME. Excessive delays. Four months ago was perfect. Now excessively delayed.

I hear the plane overhead and hit my app and see it. I live in rural area and this is my hobby. :) 😂

Wife has always seen high flying planes leaving white streaks in the blue sky above, she thought they where all military planes, now with this app there is no more guessing! Love it!

It seems that this APP does not recognize glint numbers of the American Airlines

Love it, if you’re the least bit curious about “what is that plane in the sky and I wonder where it’s going?” You’ll find it fascinating.

👌👍

Love this app 👍👍😂

Not accurate or not appearing at all Bug: a flight number with 2 figures e.g. 90 Will appear in many instances starting with 90. Filter unclear how to identify with airlines code and flight number.

Great program. As a former AF pilot I enjoyed following the planes around. Never realized there was SOO much activitity around some cities and so little in other parts of the world.

Best flight tracking app I use. Great as a pilot to calm my aviation fetish where ever I am.

I never knew there were SO MANY mystery planes over Phoenix. The planes departed ?, and are expected to arrive at ? Oh, what type of plane? It doesn't tell us. Very frustrating, and that is no mystery.

The 3D version is a downgrade from the orig Plane Finder

I use this purley for enjoyment and a way to k*** time. Sometime I wonder what aircraft are above me and this is a great way to just relax and dream. I only wish it showed military as well but I understand why not.

The coverage is still quite weak compared to the leading flight tracker. If you like tracking business jets this app is good as it shows registrations.

Haven’t had a chance to use it much, but so far so good!

1 star it asked me to reviews 10 Times in under 5 minutes. STOP!!!

I used to use PF AR years ago as a standalone app and was so pleased to find it integrated into a vastly more detailed platform. Thumbs up.

For folks who like to identify where that speck cruising 35k feet above is heading, this is a great app. Ton do cool features, Pro version worth it!

Not a fan of the new cartoon icon. Are you trying to lure 10 year olds to the app, or adults that look for flight information? Keep it classier.

Great time killer

Me gusta de la app que se ve limpia y es de fácil uso pero para su costo de aproximadamente USD/4.99 Sinceramente no justifica que no se actualice en tiempo real y que a la hora de poner en el cielo la realidad aumentada no me diga que avión es el que esta volando o de donde viene y esas cosas. Tengo otra app que es gratis (Aviones en Vivo) con prácticamente las mismas funciones y en tiempo real puedo ver los aviones que van aterrizando y de donde vienen con con todo su historial y demás mientras que Plane Finder no no hace.

Very disappointed. Should have bought flightradar24. I like to see where I am while in flight. The app is lite and difficult to find your flight and track it.

I’d like to see a few things: Weather overlays... Distance from your location to aircraft... Links to Wikipedia for different aircraft types... Military aircraft (probably a non starter) Check In for commercial flights for sharing flights with friends... Maybe a section for verified pilots to comment on planes or routes... Really amazing app for fans of aviation. Keep up the amazing work!

This is a great plane finder app!

I work at the airport and this app is really useful to me. I would like for it to keep track of AVIANCA Airlines and so many others. I have the flight set to show me the airlines of which I choose but it does not show me AVIANCA even though I have it set to show me the flights.

My grandkids look forward to opening up the app and watching all the airplanes lineup over their home so they can go outside and watch them fly above!

Accuracy and right on the spot.

Excellent and a great program to keep track of friends and family trips, as well as knowledge of airlines and airports in the world to know, thank you .

Easy to use, and lots of fun!

If a filter was used the prior release used to indicate the # of planes which matched the filter, the latest release dropped this feature.

Can’t get out of augmented reality view. Have to shut down app. Flights don’t always update with flight info.

When im just in bed or something its a good app to look at and see how many planes are honestly in our skyies.

Great app; wondering why Lufthansa flights do not appear in the ‘arrivals’ or ‘departures’ lists at a given airport.

DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS APP AS THEY WILL USE UR CARD WITHOUT UR AUTHORISATION AND WILL CHARGE $4.99 on card

So buggy! Half the time I just get the ever famous “loading” circle and zero info comes up. It’s never done this to me until recently. So annoyed.

This is the coolest app I have ever seen. I can be sitting in my home or in my backyard and simply identify planes Flying overhead

Would be a perfect app if it wasn’t for not being able to see the majority of flights from KMIA. For some reason they do not show up in that area while they do show up in other apps like FlightRadar24.

Why does planefinder never find my flights anymore? They are in the air and other apps find and track them well with flight number, but not planefinder.

The last few times I’ve used this app, it either doesn’t respond to input or fails to show any planes.

Use this app every day to monitor Civil Air Patrol flights and it works great. I do have one wish. Allow user KML overlays then it would be useful our search and rescue activities across the country.

Let people decide on their own if they want to rate the app.

Just awesome!

I've only just begun to use this but right away it's addictive. I hear GA planes passing over my house and sometimes it shows up on this app.

Aside from fun of knowing which flight is flying overhead, with filter I can track individual flight I want to follow

Worked great a while ago, now seems to be missing lots of planes hat I’m SURE are transmitting data. Boo.

Awesome app too see what plane is flying over!

I cannot open the app anymore! Instead I get an invite to buy the “improved” version. No way!

This app works well generally and I can happily recommend it. However, they use the same symbols for arrival and departure - easier to track airline flights because you know where they’re going, but tracking by registration works without giving the direction.