Pocket Rocket Reviews

by AppleFan236

Don’t buy PocketRocket! While PocketRocket itself may be useful, it won’t even work until you sign up for a free trial of Plus and then agree to pay $0.99 per month forever. This is not disclosed until after you have paid $3.99 for PocketRocket ! False advertising and certainly not how Apple operates!

by Alecoco1

I paid to download PocketRocket expecting to receive updates about launches. I got that. But you also want a second purchase through an in-app subscription.
I literally received a push notification today saying, "we hope you enjoyed our complementary notifications." It wasn't complementary, PocketRocket was $2.99! Pick a pricing strategy and stick to it—either in-app or up-front, but not both.
Also, don't use push notifications to advertise the subscription, pretty sure that is against App Store guidelines.

by TobyP

It looks beautiful. The AR is brilliant. Access to a lot of great information.

But…

For me, the notifications are unreliable, at best. I generally get the T-24h, and T-1h, but notifications about schedule changes are usually too late to be useful. I do realize that last-minute changes can’t be pushed out instantly, but it’s usually long enough that it’s not helpful. Not sure if it’s an App Store developer issue…

The timeline feature, while it looks beautiful, doesn’t provide up-to-date information. It’s currently telling me that the next Falcon 9 launch is on January 31st, which is a week ago. Maybe we don’t know when it’s been rescheduled for? But update the timeline to reflect that.

I’d rather have sent this and screenshots in an email, but the developer support site seems to be down and the website just redirects to PocketRocket Store…

by Alex Post

PocketRocket became unreliable with Upcoming launch updates. They simply stopped coming. Just missed another launch this morning.

VR function is cool for about 30 minutes but the real value was knowing when the next launch is. Looking for a better app now.

by OkbranchO

I love PocketRocket. It’s beautiful, very Apple-esq and fun to play with. However, I’m giving it three stars because the humans in charge of schedules & alerts have driven me to rate PocketRocket.

There’s a saying “garbage in / garbage out” and it applies here. The person in charge of inputting calendar data is constantly sending alerts apologizing for inaccurate schedules. I’d say 1/3 of the alerts are “correction” alerts.

Let’s retrain this employee and have them input / update rocket schedules correctly the first time. I’ll gladly give PocketRocket a solid five star rating if I can go a year w/o receiving and “oops” alert.

by Thisismemakinganickname

This runs slowly on my iPhone 7 Plus. I understand this is likely due to processing such high quality models, but it doesn’t feel polished from that angle. Might be nice to have a low quality mode, for slower devices. (My phone never acts slow in other apps—maybe this just needs better optimization?)

Some UI stuff: hard to know when you can view certain rockets: e.g. can only see crew dragon on crew dragon launches, but can switch to other vehicles, like Starship, at any point.

by JKBuss

Nice simple app. Images show the starship model and it doesn’t appear to be available yet. Maybe once they confirm a hop test it will go in there, but if you advertise it as a feature, it should be there. Also, maybe a brightness setting? My rockets are very muted depending on lighting in AR.

by Ucjcfghrtu

PocketRocket is overall good but cant get the main reason I downloaded to work on either iPhone 8 or 10. It just crashes upon opening AR mode for any rocket. Maybe due to recent update. Any help would be appreciated, but overall great job on app!

by Yashevde

This is a very well-crafted app and I commend the developers for their attention to detail. However, I see in some of the other reviews that y’all say that there’s only so much a team of people can do as launch details change. I think some of the other apps are using the same API because those update faster. Please consider using the best API so that the information is current. Your attractive widget isn’t that useful if the launch date is wrong!

by Lvapple2020

While I was kind of upset at the monthly subscription cost, I can totally see where they are coming from. I had an issue that needed to be resolved, and the developer responds very fast to my emails. He helped me with an issue that even Apple was not helping with. While the monthly subscription isn’t for me, it is a great app that I would recommend if you are willing to pay an extra subscription fee for. Even if you don’t pay for a subscription, PocketRocket is still pretty good.

by JacksonK7

As someone who wants to learn more about SpaceX, I feel that this is a great place to start! PocketRocket is very well designed and the information included about each launch is great. I don’t see the big fuss about notifications either. $0.99/month seems to be a reasonable price to get up-to-the-minute updates on each launch. However, it would be nice to see that rolled into the application since it is a paid app.

Questions for the developer: Is an iPad (universal) app coming/planned? Do the rockets “take off” when the countdown is complete?

Keep iterating on the design and rolling out new features to everyone not just those who subscribe to your tiers. Those of us who paid for PocketRocket , thereby supporting you, will be very grateful.

Thanks!

by Slippery Tickles

A really well executed app that has almost everything you would want on it if you want to follow Spacex in its endeavors. There are still a bit of functionality and interface aspects that could be improved a little, but from what I hear, they’re already working on it. Can easily be a five star app in its later updates.

by Aquarii832

A beautiful, sleek design. Beautiful renders and a fun AR feature. While it currently only has 1 widget, it’s pretty spot on perfect and even if more get added can’t see myself changing from it. Testing against others for SN8, pocket rocket was the only app to give updates up until scrub, and starship is not even fully supported yet (I do have basic subscription for these notifications). Team is super responsive to questions/problems and you can see the amount of time and work that goes in. I do wish subscriptions were more cohesive, all features for $30-40 a year would draw more in than the current price tag. Bottom line, is pocket rocket worth what you can spend? 100%

by Karkisuni

Polished app. Exactly what I wanted and the AR stuff is fun. Wish it was easier to make it 1:1 for outside or something! Also please make an iPad version!

by Bridgeviewmac

PocketRocket looks good and runs very well. I have had PocketRocket for a couple months now. They update launches in real time. Even in the event of a scuttled launch as soon as it’s posted I get the update. I appreciate the effort and work associated with the team for PocketRocket. I have recommended to everyone I know is interested. Even my grandma enjoys PocketRocket. It’s simple and unique and well built.

by Oregon John

This is everything I’ve ever wanted in a SpaceX app. Everything at your fingertips with some astounding UI work. Worth the fee, for sure. The developers are responsive and genuinely care about putting out quality content.

by Malamusky

I just downloaded PocketRocket and it seems great but...the very first upcoming launch for a SpaceX Starlink is showing April 22 but the launch is April 23 so...how accurate is the calendar?

UPDATE: Pocket Rocket was correct and on top of it! PocketRocket was showing the new date even before it made the news...I’m impressed!

by The Flying Dutch Man

But it will take a bite from your battery. 5 min of playing around = 10% of my battery. Could say a lot about my battery but I do not see that issue with you tube And let’s hope they can improve the power consumption in future releases

by Dcasale

I love PocketRocket. The AR is really well done and looks amazing. I love how it gives a countdown so i know exactly when it starts. The only thing I would like to see in the future would be more missions like rocket lab or starship events. other tgan that its an amazing app.

by Dan O'Leary

I used PocketRocket during its beta period and I’ve never had so much fun knowing about and watching the rocket launches. The AR aspect is also a lot of fun to see just how big these rockets are, or small enough to fit on your table. I would never have called myself a rocket enthusiast but PocketRocket has made me a fan. Download it.