Flightradar24 | Flight Tracker Reviews

by GevouxMedici

I am so disappointed in your decision to go down this road of turning this once great app into an advertising billboard. Not only did you add these terrible ads you added ads that specifically do not allow you to exit out them, and purposely make you have to click on the ad in order to close it. Also you have made these ads appear in a strategic way where a user will accidentally click on a ad when trying to open something completely different on Flightradar24FlightTracker . SHAME ON YOU FOR RUINING A ONCE GREAT APP. I’ve even in the past spent money on Flightradar24FlightTracker to unlock the features before you decided to turn a great app into a trashy one, because back then, I respected Flightradar24FlightTracker and enjoyed using in, but now I wouldn’t even spend a cent on it because of your decision to choose greed over providing a consumer friendly app. If you want to make money, then simply charge a one time download, instead of ruining the whole app.

by Fototico

Hey developer, how about if you let people that paid you use the new app ads free and with the same basic functions we had in the paid app we purchased? Even if all the other new features do not work. That is OK. Give me what I paid for and I’ll be happy. I don’t need the new features, whatever those are.

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I purchased the original Flight Radar. Me and others made it possible through our purchase of Flightradar24FlightTracker to get Flightradar24FlightTracker to where it is today. Now greed has taken over the developer and they want a month or yearly subscription. Hey refund the money you took for the original app and we’ll call it even. How about that? To add insult to injury, they are offering a “free” three month subscription to their service. Really? No sweetie, it is not “free,”it cost us what we paid for Flightradar24FlightTracker . I do have to give the greedy developer credit for at least giving us old timers at least three months of “free” service. Because unlike other developers that have become greedy, at least they gave us three months rather than just giving us the finger.

by Outsidrm

I was extremely happy with Flightradar24FlightTracker as I paid for it before the subscriptions were in effect to remove ads and unlock all the features. I had shared Flightradar24FlightTracker with many others touting how many amazing features it had. Now I feel I’ve been cheated because even though I paid for all those features to be unlocked, I’m back to a free version essentially and have to pay a subscription if I want ad free and all the features unlocked. It’s wrong to treat the consumers that put money into your app before it got as popular as it is now.

Update*** 4-2-18
I still feel cheated, the amount of users that are asking for cross platform compatibility is minimal. Anyone using iOS can re-download via previous purchases to use the original paid app on iPhone or iPad. Most users that use iOS are not asking for cross compatibility as they prefer the Apple echo system. The bare minimum you as developers could of done for your supporters that started your success by buying the original app is giving complimentary ad free option to those that purchased the original pro app. The subscription based model just spits in the face of those that brought you success. What about when iOS changes their file system again in the future and the original paid app is no longer supported. Those that paid are just out of luck?

by NuttyRaccoon

I’ll keep Flightradar24FlightTracker for a while & see if it gets better. It has huge potential if they loosen up the locked features that are free everywhere else. I’ll give you 3 stars based on Flightradar24FlightTracker itself ran relatively smooth. Pros: * The 3-D filter is really cool! * Love the label feature that shows which airline in flight. Cons: * Semi accurate on live military flights - didn’t even show a military plane that showed up on another “free” app. I found it to be significantly inaccurate when comparing it to other apps & web sites. * A bit cumbersome on the learning curve, could be made easier. * A LOT of the features you have locked are available free on other websites & apps that your hoping to gain money from people. You’ve taken the unlocking of features a bit far considering it’s free information out there. Revised after developers response: I just love responses back that totally miss the point & pass off responsibility. Thanks to you ‘re response - I’ve deleted Flightradar24FlightTracker & will continue to use my other app that by the way is free & does NOT charge for the same features YOU LOCK. You impress no one with your weasel response, so I don’t care to use your app anymore.

by Aquamisty

My previous version of FR24 was much better than the new version. In 3D view, pertinent flight data were displayed and constantly updated on screen especially track, altitude, speed and vertical speed. Track was especially helpful to know which runway was chosen. The new version shows none of the flight data on screen requiring having to leave the 3D view. These data should be displayed on screen like the old version. The new 3D view has a much slower response on my iPhone (6S) and terrible color display with the runway and highways appearing washed out while with terrible detail. The new version should be updated to provide the option to view the old version display along with the new 3D view. Flightradar24FlightTracker would be great if the 3D display could more accurately track a plane especially while landing. My experience is that the view shows the plane landing along the runway centerline about one in ten landings. Most landings are left and occasionally right of the runway and frequently too high. The creators of Flightradar24FlightTracker would get my highest praise if the landing accuracy could be improved. With the suggested changes and improvements, Flightradar24FlightTracker would be my favorite.

by OwlSeeing

AR has been broken (showing the windows with plane info popping up in top left corner barely showing just a sliver of the window cant quite click it) been like this ever since i first downloaded it for iphone 6splus n now on my iphone 11 pro max and both ipad 7(i think ) n ipad 12.9 newest. So more than a year most likely 2 or three years i noticed it. Been paying for Flightradar24FlightTracker yearly for awhile n just kept assuming itd be fixed but never did so i might look elsewhere to see if i can get full years worth of advertised features somewhere else....still no response on this more than 2 year long issue andi notice handful of others saying same thing.... this will be my final subscription, i have waited long enough. 3 plus years gold member user (on diff icloud accounts at one time i had two gold memberships year long on 2 diff iclouds.. but 3 plus years for me using..yes i am a sucker lol )

by NnnIIiiCCKKk

Flightradar24FlightTracker is by far the best at tracking planes, and being able to filter by airport, airline, equipment, etc. my favorite is the option for arrivals only as well as departures from specific airports.

Now to the bad: while I’m perfectly fine with the ads, got to get paid somehow. There is one major design flaw, when you use the search button to filter, when tracking your intended flight on the live view map. The banner on the top blocks the menu buttons on the top, meaning your only option is to force quit Flightradar24FlightTracker every time instead of using the back button behind the ad. Maybe that was the purpose but ads aren’t supposed to break Flightradar24FlightTracker which this doing. Upgrades are supposed to entice you gain more information with in Flightradar24FlightTracker ; not make it work how it was intended.

by Rpgustavson

Except for some oddities, such as planes of landed several miles off the runway, Flightradar24FlightTracker helps me understand what’s going on in my area as there are a lot of police flights and I’m near an airport. I understand and appreciate that the free version has to be supported in some manner, But please reign in some of your advertisers such as the hero wars and Township. Having to suffer through what seems to be five minutes of mostly misleading before being able to go on, you still have to be very careful about touching any place on the screen as it will take you to the download webpage. I have absolutely no problem with advertisements as I cannot afford a subscription, and I have even followed up on a few, but these advertisements in particular make me dread using the application.

by LAX20531

I love everything about Flightradar24FlightTracker. It definitely can consume a lot of time depending on your interests. I paid for the Gold option and feel Flightradar24FlightTracker differentiates itself more than its closest competitor.

Enhancement request: The ability to hold focus on a selected and temporarily slide or suppress the sidebar. I love the sidebar but it does consume a lot of space so having a toggle for this would be helpful.

Finally I’d remiss if neglected to see the negative reviews from those who previously purchased Flightradar24FlightTracker . It is not reasonable to expect an app purchase is tantamount to a lifetime license including all upgrades. There are real costs associated with development and operating costs for data, systems. and support. That’s capitalism at work. I’d much rather pay for Flightradar24FlightTracker than see it go away. The devs set their pricing based on its value and the competing marketplace.

by CChamberlain4444

Love Flightradar24FlightTracker but the recent update 8.10.2 has some glitches, the biggest is it lags on the location of the aircraft. For example it will show the aircraft several miles away from where it actually is then it will catch up to the correct location but then go back to lagging/delaying the location. The second major issue is the location jumps, this is not the same as the issue I just mentioned. For example if a helicopter is circling in a particular an area, it will show the helicopter’s line of history in one area as a bunch of circles but then a second later it will have the helicopter in a completely different town then a few seconds later it will completely shift back across the screen to the original location where the circular line of history is - which is technically the correct location. The third issue is it will show an aircraft traveling then all of the sudden the aircraft will completely disappear as though it was never in flight (in the air). For certain reasons in my area I know when an aircraft has or has not landed and when it is still actually in flight, so it didn’t disappear due to it landing, it disappeared due to an issue with Flightradar24FlightTracker .

by Carrington Woods

Hello Devs, This is a wonderful app. It has many great features and is truly the way to go for anyone. Whether you’re just an aviation enthusiast or a professional who knows all about the planes, routes, procedures, etc. But a couple things are preventing me from adding the fifth star. There are just two things I wish could be included in Flightradar24FlightTracker . The first one I’m sure is doable, the other, not so sure. 1: Dark mode. Simply put, sometimes I look at Flightradar24FlightTracker at night and wish the white parts of the screen were black or at least a dark grey color. 2: Taxi diagrams for airports. Often I use Flightradar24FlightTracker alongside LiveATC listening to ground frequencies. I’d like to see the airplanes on the flight radar move along the taxiways that I hear on the frequency. If these two things could be added to Flightradar24FlightTracker , I’m certain users would enjoy their experience 10x more! I hope to hear from you all! Best, Carrington :)

by Monkey8snow

I love Flightradar24FlightTracker. I use it to help track inbound flights of people I’m picking up to know when to start heading in to the terminal. No waiting allowed inside LAX so it’s real time flight info and the ability to watch planes taxi to their gate is perfect to keep lanes clear and then swoop in as they’re walking out. It’s such a wonderful tool to have.
BUT....
Whatever you did yesterday to fix what I didn’t know was broken, please undo it. I can no longer see helicopters, specifically police helicopters. There’s one buzzing around over my head and I’d prefer to know if it’s LAPD or Fire or Medical or whatever without having to go outside and look up. This was such a huge part of my love for Flightradar24FlightTracker. Please put it back and I’ll let it slide when a helicopter icon is used but a picture of a plane comes up when you select it. And vice versa. Love the loons and the occasional ground vehicles. But please put the cop choppers back up. Thanks

by Kalei75

I’m an aviation geek and loved Flight Aware but for the longest time, I always wished I could know the tail numbers and registration information of an aircraft I was viewing from my lanai. I would often go online, look up all of the registration numbers of a particular aircraft in a fleet and try to find which one I was looking at. I remarked to a friend of mine how I would look up these aircraft and that’s when he introduced me to Flightradar24FlightTracker. Now I can easily point my iPad or iPhone at an approaching or departing aircraft and find that information. I also love the feature of being able to see recent and past photos of that very same aircraft! Just a remarkable, easy to use app! I’d HIGHLY recommend Flightradar24FlightTracker to ANYONE that’s an aviation geek like me or for someone a lot more advanced such as pilots, ground crew and flight crew.

by RefuseKid15

Flightradar24 is an outstanding app for those who have a love for aviation or an average business traveler who wants to keep track of their flight’s departure and arrival times. And anyone in between. Personally, I’m a plane spotter, it’s one of my favorite hobbies, and having the power to track in bound flights and departure times at any airport on Earth in my own hands whenever I want is just incredible and super handy. And Flightradar24FlightTracker does more than simply track flights, it tells you their altitude, speed, heading, distance and time from destination, it tells you a specific aircrafts age, when it was built, and an aircraft’s history of recent flights, as well as give you alerts on specific flights that you can personally select with your finger tips.

by Mr_Movie

I was curious about all the noise I was hearing caused by low flying commercial aircraft overhead. I discovered Flightradar24FlightTracker in the process of researching airport flight information. The free version of Flightradar24FlightTracker is amazing. I can identify what is flying over, how high it’s flying, where it is coming from and where it is going. Hats off to the developers!
The “bummer” is that if you want to unlock some of the other cool features you have pay for a subscription. I would gladly pay a few dollars for Flightradar24FlightTracker, maybe more, but the subscription model is deal breaker for me (-1 star for that).
Others have commented that Flightradar24FlightTracker could be purchased outright in the past and the subscription service is relatively new. I know businesses need to make money, but a subscription is not cool with an “app” in my book.

by JoeyThePilot0919

Flightradar24FlightTracker is an essential for the AvGeek or Planespotter. I use it many times every day, monitoring flights around the Philadelphia area. I can filter in/outbounds, and know exactly where they are at all times. I know which direction they are coming from, how low they are, and the rate the they are ascending and descending. Flightradar24FlightTracker is amazing, and definitely the best in its group. By many nautical miles. If you want a new hobby, start here. You will gain much interest in planes and aviation with Flightradar24FlightTracker. That’s how I started. Just scrolling around the map looking for cool planes, until I figured out that there are hundreds that pass over my immediate area every day! Flightradar24FlightTracker is also great for planespotting at airports. Flightradar24FlightTracker helped me get into that. Now I am truly an AvGeek with much knowledge about aviation and so much more to learn. Please enjoy Flightradar24FlightTracker.

by _ricq_

this new Flightradar24 is a great improvement over the previous version, the “AR”-style feature is useful, especially with lots of traffic and low visibility for IDing aircraft, the 3D view is a strange waste of space imho. some suggestions: as a Ramp Agent at an airport, I track several flights at once. it would be useful to have a bookmarks-type folder or list where I can add several flights to track and switch between quicky, without having to re-search or go through search history. perhaps also having the featue of adding my own notes, such as parking locations, who is assigned to duty, etc. also useful would be the ability to sort said flights in this hypothetical folder by distance, STA, ETA, etc.

by Baseballboi4465

Heads up I’m an airplane enthusiast. I love Flightradar24FlightTracker so dam much and I use it just about every weekend. I go to my nearest plane spotting location and use Flightradar24FlightTracker to see the planes on final approach and the ones on that taxiway too. Flightradar24FlightTracker is basically what makes plane spotting enjoyable. I do have some complaints though. For some reason there is this glitch where when a plane lands on Flightradar24FlightTracker, occasionally it will keep going beyond the runway even though the plane is safe in real life. It’s not that big of a deal, but I do find it kinda annoying when you are trying to find realism in Flightradar24FlightTracker . I also think that the prices for the memberships are reasonable, but it would be really awesome if it were a bit lower. But overall this is a great app and I totally recommend it to just about anyone who has somewhat of an interest in planes. I use it to watch my relatives fly out over the radar and like to think about what they are doing on the flight. I would love to see at least one more perk added to the basic membership just to make things better. But yes I love just about everything about Flightradar24FlightTracker.

by Jhouseal

Non-avgeeks and avgeeks read - there’s stuff for both of you!
I’m an aviation enthusiast and i have been for too long to remember (3-4 ish years) I got Flightradar24FlightTracker when there was a lite and a pro version a long time ago. Having experimented with the lite version, i upgraded. The reason for me telling you this is that i have experience with Flightradar24FlightTracker -

Anyway Flightradar24FlightTracker is really great, especially his version. Easy to use, not slow or laggy (unless you zoom out to the whole Earth), and it is great overall. Click on a plane and it will give you route, type of plane, departure city and arrival city along with times, flight time, previous and future flights of the plane you clicked on, general line of the route, and a bunch of other great stuff. There is a subscription plan to get even more info about aircarft age, ATC data, and other avgeek stuff. You can check your flight times and see where your plane came from, search random flights and know info about them (if i searched PHL- JFK it would give me a list of different flight numbers from all the airlines that service the route).

Flightradar24FlightTracker is really great especially for aviation enthusiasts. In addition to everything above - it allows us to know what is arriving what day and when, what’s departing, wind info and runway info. Incredible for planespotting

Definitely get Flightradar24FlightTracker.

by Minntac Lady

I really like the idea of Flightradar24FlightTracker . We’re in a pretty rural area and when we see planes waaay up there now we can figure out what it is and other stuff. Updated this morning and all the smoothness is gone. Can’t see a plane flying or moving on the runways. They make a jerky move about every 15 seconds. It looks real strange to see a plane just staying in one place at 30,000 ft. Hope that gets put back to yesterday’s movements.
Update Mar 24, 2022
I put the some stars to 5 because I have found a work around and because I like the idea of watching planes. When the planes stop moving I just have to resize the window on my iPad

by Closetmonst3r

I fell in love with Flightradar24FlightTracker years ago and paid (don’t remember how much) for the ad free version, which was a one time payment. Fast forward a few years and Flightradar24 updates/upgrades their app to a subscription based model and plasters their app with advertisements. I realize they need to make money but what happened to my payment I made? Basically they tossed all of us loyal users (who paid) out the window. They didn’t even offer some sort of discounted upgrade for people who already paid for their original app.

I, in my opinion, feel they made a mistake in doing this. First, I’m sure the majority of Flightradar24 users are aviation enthusiasts, which means we enjoy using Flightradar24FlightTracker but by no means need to pay for increased functionality. I’m not even sure who WOULD need to pay monthly, for ever, to use Flightradar24FlightTracker. I certainly can’t justify paying even a couple dollars a month (it’s more than that for their lowest monthly subscription), to use their app maybe, on average, 2 times a month.

I decided to give a review and give one star, when I opened up Flightradar24FlightTracker this morning and was greeted with a full page ad, not just a rotating ad banner on top or bottom.

I hope this review makes it to Flightradar24 HQ and they rethink their revenue model.

by BaubR

Flightradar24FlightTracker was clearly written for the iPhone. When you use the iPad in portrait mode, the flight information takes up the whole left-hand side of the screen which gives you half of the screen for the map. If you get rid of the flight information box on the left-hand side of the screen, you stop tracking your flight.
Why the developers didn’t allow you the ability to slide up and down the aircraft information to show it or hide it and give you almost a full screen of the map, as they did on the iPhone, is a great question. If they did that, my reading for the iPad version would go to a 4 or even a 5.
Thus, my two star rating is for the iPad version and I would give it a four for the iPhone version. I guess the intent is not to have you be able to look at a large view on an iPad.

by Ricq.

this new Flightradar24 is a great improvement over the previous version, the “AR”-style feature is useful, especially with lots of traffic and low visibility for IDing aircraft, the 3D view is a strange waste of space imho. some suggestions: as a Ramp Agent at an airport, I track several flights at once. it would be useful to have a bookmarks-type folder or list where I can add several flights to track and switch between quicky, without having to re-search or go through search history. perhaps also having the featue of adding my own notes, such as parking locations, who is assigned to duty, etc. also useful would be the ability to sort said flights in this hypothetical folder by distance, STA, ETA, etc.

by KainhaCC

...then Flightradar24FlightTracker is for you! I downloaded Flightradar24FlightTracker when my children traveled abroad for their vacation. Being the over-concerned person/mom that I am, I thought I’d feel a *little* better knowing where they were while in flight. Did it help calm my nerves? You betcha! Was I less concerned that they were so far away from me and that there was nothing I could do about it? Not a chance!
I was really impressed with how accurate the information was. For instance, for one flight it said it would land 20 min early than the ETA from the airline so (naturally) I called them as soon as Flightradar24FlightTracker said the plane had landed and they called me back within 5 min!
Satisfied! 👍🏻

by Noah3739

I love Flightradar24FlightTracker! I live right next to the Grand Rapids airport, so I like to see what plane I’m looking at. It tells you all kinds of info like type, flight plan, tail number, and airline. Although sometimes the AR doesn’t work great, because I can see a plane, but it says it’s in a completely different direction. One thing I would like to see on Flightradar24FlightTracker would be plane crashes highlighted. Other than that, it’s a fantastic app. One more thing, I want have a filter for flight diversions.

Okay, so the AR is working much better now, and O figured out that emergencies are highlighted. But, one thing I want next would be to see reports of what’s going on if at all possible on the emergencies.

by Batman2287

What an amazing app! I followed my wife’s flight all the way to DIA and even watched her taxi to the gate. I knew she was at Concourse A. I knew when she stopped because her speed reached zero. Sure enough, she let me know she was there right at that moment. I also knew the flight was going to be early because it tells you when the plane will arrive as you follow it.

Flightradar24FlightTracker is awesome and it is very accurate and in real time!!! Great Job on Flightradar24FlightTracker! I wish it was one price to upgrade instead of subscriptions. I would pay for it but I won’t do subscriptions. I don’t know if you can have an alert set when the plane lands, but that would be an awesome feature.

Thanks!!!

by MOMS SUNSHINE GIRL

I’m sure happy I discovered this. I love aviation and it’s so nice to be able to see what planes are flying in my area. My niece is a flight attendant and it’s a lot of fun to see her land and take off at the various locations. Also, the other night my dad who lives outside of Las Vegas was watching plane after plane fly in to McCarran airport - or the string of diamonds as it is often called. I was able to look on Flightradar24FlightTracker and tell him the description and size of each plane that was flying overhead that he could see, as well as the ones coming. We both had a lot of fun and he called the next night and wanted to do it again. There are so many advantages to having Flightradar24FlightTracker and these are just a few.

I also appreciate being able to be alerted when a plane has in emergency situation. It would be nice to know what the emergency is but at least this is nice to have.

It seems to freeze occasionally when planes are landing or taking off but overall seems to be very accurate.

I’ve tried other aviation apps and this seems to meet my needs the best.

by SKA350

For someone who has more than a passing interest in aircraft, this is a must. I know the display “jumps” from time to time (install your own radar on the roof maybe), and it doesn’t tell you “everything” about “every” aircraft but if ya go out to the airport sometime (Dallas/Fort Worth) you can see the aircraft coming from Tulsa and Tulagi, from St. Louis (MO) and Saint Petersburg (Russia). I live 9 DME on the Ft. Worth (FTW) Localizer. It’s interesting to know who’s landing (and who doesn’t have the needle centered) when I’m outside working in the yard and just sitting on the patio having a beer I turn the iPad orienting to North and can see everybody in that portion of sky. OK, maybe I need to get a “life” but this is a fun Ap!