# Architecture of Radio — user reviews > 232 indexed App Store user reviews of Architecture of Radio by Richard Vijgen, rated 3.50/5 from 78 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/architecture-of-radio/id1035160239/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/architecture-of-radio/id1035160239.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 40 · 4★ 7 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 20 ## What do users think of Architecture of Radio? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🚀 No app like this exists - 🚀 Incredible visualization of the infosphere - 👍 Awesome visuals - 👍 Fantastic for music making - 👍 See the radio signals - 👍 Works great - 👍 Amazing, I see the matrix! - 👍 Beautiful science **Cons** - 🐛 Not as advertised - 🐛 Not an active reader, pointless - 🐛 Needs and update - 🔋 High battery consumption - 🐛 Doesn't work like advertised - 🐛 Doesn't detect everything - 🐛 Doesn't work as advertised - 🐛 Fails to load - 🐛 Doesn't work **Commonly reported bugs** - Stuck in portrait mode - Loading issues on various devices - Inaccurate data/visualization **Most requested features** - Ability to filter by type of signal - Show more details about detected devices - Add support for 5G signals - Add support for WiFi networks - Add ability to turn off sound ## Newest reviews (11 of 232) ### 4/5 — Awesome Visuals *2025-08-30* Architecture of Radio is a brilliant use of technology to view the electronic signals that surround us. It is amazing that it can detect nearby devices and devices in Earth’s orbit! I would give this a 5-Star rating if basic device info was available by tapping on the device’s icon. For example displaying Wi-Fi Network name, wi-fi channel, signal strength, etc. Or, seeing satellite’s altitude and velocity, etc. ### 2/5 — Needs and update *2024-09-28* It’s been a long time since this app received an update. ### 3/5 — Good, but not able to see other cel carrier *2021-05-01* It is good for me, I just wanted to see the invisible signal around the machines I work on. I did not buy this to complain whether there is radiation around power and water meters in my house which I think is plain stupid. This is an app to see the radio frequency around you and this has nothing to do with electro magnetic fields. I simply do not understand why would someone buy this to find radiation and dangerous frequencies so they could distance themselves around it. Everywhere you go, there is radio frequency, the celphone you use, the wifi around you and the satellites on top of your head. This is not like microwaves that are very harmful, if you want to live without it, then the best place for you to live is in Mars. ### 3/5 — Stuck in Portrait Land *2020-10-03* UPDATE (2020-10-03): “Stuck in Portrait Land” Version 0.11 has got the iPad stuck in portrait orientation. iPad users work in LANDSCAPE orientation. iPads are not large, phoneless iPhones, nor are they jumbo iPods. iPads are at their very best when apps let users works in an iPad’s natural orientation: LANDSCAPE. ORIGINAL REVIEW (2020-09-23): “Some Difficulties with Latest Update” This is a fun app! And, thank you for the latest update. There are, however, a few problems with the update. First, it will not get past “loading” on my iPad Pro 9.7”. Second, on both my iPad and my iPhone 8, it says “localhost” wants to access motion and orientation, and it asks this on every startup. Otherwise, the app does seem to work on my iPhone. Thanks! ### 2/5 — 3 carriers and they do not show *2020-07-25* So I bought this thinking I can see my Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile phones display. They did not. But instead, the app seems to focus on signals further away. It’s not that accurate from what I can tell. I tried line of sight my mother’s phone but it did not display. My guess is that there must me some open signal. Then again, I had my Verizon phone stream a video. It didn’t show. I’m wondering if I didn’t read enough that it only shows specific signal. Like a call. I will still test. It’s nice visually though. I can at least imagine. But really, I’d like near field goal data gathering. ### 4/5 — Needs an update *2020-06-05* Enjoyed to see satellites ### 2/5 — Could be better *2020-05-02, version 0.09* Reduce the disparities within the information and provide a more utilitarian visualization and you will have yourself an unprecedented success. ### 3/5 — More AR please? *2020-04-20* CiD? Looks like a dozen ear drums. You can do better. ### 4/5 — Pretty cool *2020-04-09* Pretty cool but have to agree with the most recent reviewer about needing it to update with 5G signal. That would make it a 5 star app. Other than that pretty nifty ### 2/5 — WLAN Netzwerkstrahlung nicht zu sehen *2020-01-17* Leider sieht man keine WLAN Router, obwohl nur 2 Meter davon entfernt stand.... ### 5/5 — Please update *2019-11-12, version 0.09* Love this app. I showed all of my friends and family the dangerous frequencies we are exposed to. Would love to see a 5G map. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Nok sur ios26 *2026-05-26* L’appli ne fonctionne plus comme avant depuis la Maj de l’iOS 26. On voit une position mais il n’y a plus de mobilité à 360°. J’ai envoyé un émail, mais pas de réponse. À quand la correction ? ### 1/5 — Not as advertised *2025-10-20* Asking for my money back. ### 1/5 — Not an active reader...pointless *2024-12-27* This is a app to visualize public knowledge and open to public coordinates... Better use Google to see most of this info and a visual of the location. This app is useless for if you are looking for active signals and is misleading in description. ### 1/5 — Ladebildschirm *2024-06-27* IPhone 12 Diese App taucht nicht unter den installierten Apps auf und kann so mit nicht konfiguriert werden. Diese App so schön sie auch sein mag, bleibt im Ladebildschirm hängen und ich habe noch kein eigenen Eindruck gewinnen können. Sollte sich das ändern, ändert sich selbstverständlich meine Wertung. ### 1/5 — Buy 1/2 of a gallon of gas with the $2.99 *2022-04-04* You’d be better off buying a half gallon of gas than buy this. You could also buy some X-ray specs from a comic book. Just as useful. ### 1/5 — Hängt sich auf *2021-02-04* Eine tolle Sache wenn die Funktion nicht ständig einfrieren würde. Starten gelingt nur zufällig. So ist das Murks. Bitte dringend nachbessern. ### 1/5 — Worthless *2020-07-22, version 0.09* Unidentified waves come and go. My area looks mostly empty despite excellent WiFi and cellular. “About” and “help” both bring up same useless nonsense. TOTAL WASTE OF MONEY! ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work! *2020-07-06* The app is a completely frustrating experience. It doesn’t deliver what was announced. ### 1/5 — カードボード対応！ *2020-05-18* これズレてない？ コロナストレスでつい買ってしまったけど... お金が勿体なかったよ... ### 1/5 — Misleading and possibly fake... *2019-04-15* I live in a suburb, and I know exactly where my neighbors Wifi routers are located. Not only does this app not show them, but throws up a bunch of spikes that are not located anywhere nearby or correspond any no location or cell tower, Even though several Wi-Fi routers are located within 100 feet of my location. My suspicion is the developer just threw up a bunch of data so that it looks cool. And it does look cool and it’s very nicely designed. But the data is suspect. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — No app like this exists. Needs more notoriety *2025-12-20* Are you kidding me, this is the type of stuff the future is made up of. Love this app. So unique. Wish development continued, god only knows where it’ll take them ### 5/5 — Incredible *2025-07-28* One of the best visualizations of the infosphere I’ve ever seen. Love this app! ### 5/5 — Je pense que cette app est belle *2025-01-16* Quickly jumping here 10 years later to give a 5 star to this app, congrats to the dev for such a nice experimentation! I might have paid 4,99€ back in 2015 but the ROI is here, the graphic design is well done and it’s still usable in 2025, I remember myself downloading its visual beauty, I think I was right! Cheers ### 5/5 — Great app, love the features *2024-12-05* You ever seen that star map app with AR? This is like that, except it uses geolocation data AND intercepts radio waves, getting unique addresses and distances to signals, etc. my guess is interception of id headers in the radio waves, instead of just ignoring the waves like normal and not knowing about them, it’s gathering the data into a visualization. Awesome stuff. Definitely worth my $3 lol. I found Sirius XM in geolock! Lmaoo Edit: I don’t read, it’s obtained from osint. Still dope :) ### 5/5 — Fantastic for music making. *2024-07-02* Wonderful and out of date. Hopefully the database will be updated with all the new satellites and cel towers. Even in it's current state it is a fantastic noise making app. IDM, EDM, Glitch, Noise, whatever your genre this can inspire. ### 5/5 — Seit 8 Jahren *2024-04-09* Faziniert mich diese App immer und immer wieder ### 5/5 — Обалденно! *2024-03-04* Идеальное приложение. ### 5/5 — Great app! Please update!!! *2023-05-12* This app is outstanding. I love the information I get about the area around me and just learning where things are in relation to radio waves. It’s so interesting. So to the developer, PLEASE update this app so it stays current and doesn’t get wiped from our devices in further iOS updates!!! ### 5/5 — See the Radio signals *2023-04-15* If you were a radio bat, this would be the world you inhabit. It's a metaphysical app that tries, successfully I might add, to show you another world in a dimension just outside or visual range. Well worth the cost and makes you think in other terms about the traffic that travels ask around us, unseen but there, missed if we didn't have it. ### 5/5 — Tolle Idee, super visualisiert. *2021-03-12* Wer ein Messtool sucht, ist hier falsch, wie der Entwickler auch schreibt. Es ist eher ein Kunstwerk, dass im Internet verfügbare Standortdaten auswertet und auf eine neue Art darstellt. Ich finde es großartig. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-12.*