FlightDeck - Flight Tracker for iPhone

Why do you need to pay like if you said it’s free for three days don’t make us pay

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.

I am enjoying the ACARS alerts and the customization aspect of receiving the level of alert you desire. I know this app is just starting out, so I’m excited to give it a chance and see what they continue to implement. You get a 3 day free trial to try it out and I am going to pay for the year to see what they do to make it even better

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

When you receive a notification about an ACARS message and you click on it, it opens the app but doesn’t take you to the message. Searching for the message is difficult and often won’t yield the result you’re looking for. I did not end up subscribing.

This app had potential, but needs work. I subscribed for the 3 day free trial. As a fellow flight crew the trial was not enough to keep me on board. Each alert I pressed from the push notification would result in a frozen screen and eventually the app would crash. The app is rather laggy with so much information presented at once. Even with medium notifications I felt it was way too many notifications. Perhaps one should be able to select specific regions for notifications? Certain airports or airlines customization? Some flights showed no ACARS whatsoever. Others had a limit of 2 messages. It was fun to read what was happening, but the app is rather slow to present the information. With performance improvements I would consider resubscribing.

This is for the geekiest of the Avgeeks out there. ACARS & flight logs features are unique to this app, and the pushed ACARS moments feature is such a gem. Definitely worth the price.

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.

just amazing in every single aspect. 10x better than flight radar 24

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.