# ATC Voice Air Traffic Control — with Voice Recognition

> Realistic air traffic control simulation game with voice and touch controls. (iPhone/iPad app by Looking West.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/atc-voice-air-traffic-control/id605864202 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Looking West](https://appshunter.io/developer/385678170)
- Category: Games, Entertainment, Puzzle, Simulation
- Price: $9.99 with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.40/5 from 58 App Store ratings · 107 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 12.0 · 107 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2013-08-08
- Data updated: 2026-08-19
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/atc-voice-air-traffic-control/id605864202/reviews.md

## What is ATC Voice Air Traffic Control?

ATC Voice is a fast-paced, highly realistic, air traffic control game designed from the ground up for the iPad, and now compatible with Mac Silicon computers.
Use your wits, spatial reasoning, and planning skills, to safely guide planes over, under, and around each other towards their destinations.
Play any level using touch commands, or use voice recognition technology.

ATC Voice is the sequel to ATC – Air Traffic Control and takes everything to the next level -- retina optimized graphics, more levels and sectors, arrival and departure routing, holding patterns, Voice Control, and much more.

Your job is to command planes using voice commands or touch commands.  Clear arriving planes for approach at the correct airports. Climb departing planes safely, and quickly hand off to the next controller.

Features:
- More than 100 levels from easy to challenging.
- Climb and Descend planes, control altitude, and keep them at least 1000ft apart vertically, 3nm horizontally.
- Avoid collisions and terrain, respond to warnings within one minute before loss of separation.
- Speed up the simulation to 30x real-time speed.
- Deal with changing wind and runway conditions, emergencies, and surprises.
- Flexible Voice Recognition accepts alternate phrasing of commands and plane idents.
- Listen to aircraft read back instructions for verification, or turn off plane speech for faster game play.
- Assign a heading or command a plane to fly direct to a navigation fix.
- Stack planes in holding patterns.
- Choose the simulation environment and game victory conditions in Quick Play mode.
- Sign in to Game Center to earn Achievements and see your rank on Leaderboards.
- Use the Level Editor to create your own scenarios or edit your quick play generated levels.
- Realistic speed and altitude simulation.
- Pinch-zoom control of the radar display.
- Automatic save and load.
- Includes three sectors, Denver (KDEN, KAPA, KBJC, KBKF), Los Angeles (KLAX, KLGB, KSNA, KONT, KBUR), and New York (KJFK, KLGA, KTEB, KEWR) with many easy and challenging levels.

VOICE CONTROL:
With Voice Control ON, you can play the game like a real air traffic controller using your voice to guide planes, clear them for approach, and hand them off to the next controller.
Press the mic button and say the plane's identifier followed by one or more commands. Includes 'Practice Voice Commands' mini-game to help learn the voice commands.

ATC Voice understands a long list of voice commands used by air traffic controllers with flexible phrasing like,
•“Turn left Heading ONE THREE ZERO”, or “Turn Right TEN degrees.”
•“Climb Maintain ONE TWO Thousand”, or “Descend Maintain THIRTEEN Thousand.”
•“Fly direct TOMSN and Hold”, or “Cleared direct BLUE MESA VOR.”
•“Cleared Approach Runway THREE FIVE LEFT.”

In-App Purchases:
The game includes three full sectors with 100 levels. More sectors can be purchased in the app at an additional cost. Every sector includes the busiest airports in the airspace and 30 levels or more.

Notes:
Play offline, no internet connection required, even for voice control.
Runs on all iPad models with iOS 8.0 or higher.
Bluetooth mics do not work with voice control on Mac.

** Testimonials from players: **
“Your ATC game is the Best I played on the iPad for years ! It's fun, challenging and quite realistic.” - Professional Airline Pilot

“Amazing app!  Every bit worth the money. The voice control works surprisingly well, although it doesn't always respond on the first attempt, but nothing's perfect.” - Professional Air Traffic Controller

“I absolutely love your atcvoice game.  it is the only game on my ipad. I am not a gamer..This game is perfect, keeps my mind sharp.”

** A note from the developer: **
I am committed to developing the best games available and appreciate and encourage user feedback by sending me an e-mail at support@atcvoice.com.

If you find a bug please let me know at support@atcvoice.com.

Thank you for supporting independent video game developers.

## Key features

- Realistic voice command control
- Over 100 challenging levels
- Multiple airport sectors included
- Arrival and departure routing
- Holding patterns
- Level editor
- Speed and altitude simulation

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: $9.99.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dallas/Fort Worth Sector | $2.99 | one-time |
| Chicago Sector | $2.99 | one-time |
| Boston Sector | $2.99 | one-time |
| London Sector | $2.99 | one-time |
| Amsterdam Sector | $2.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of ATC Voice Air Traffic Control?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🎮 Highly realistic and immersive ATC simulation
- 🎤 Voice recognition feature works surprisingly well
- 🧠 Challenging and mentally engaging gameplay
- 📱 Intuitive touch controls and UI design
- 🎯 Multiple difficulty levels and scenarios
- 🔄 Frequent updates with new content
- 👨‍💼 Excellent developer support and responsiveness
- ⏱️ Game speed adjustment feature for pacing
- ✈️ Accurate aviation terminology and procedures
- 🎓 Good tutorials for beginners
- 🎨 Attractive graphics and presentation
- 🏆 High replay value and addictive gameplay
- 💰 Good value for features offered

**Cons**

- 🎤 Voice recognition unreliable in complex scenarios
- 🎤 Voice recognition degraded after recent updates
- 🐛 Aircraft sometimes respond to wrong callsigns
- 🐛 Planes oscillate on final approach
- ⚠️ Unrealistic traffic patterns and departures
- 🔊 Pilot voice audio quality issues (speed/pitch)
- 🎧 Poor AirPods/Bluetooth support
- 🔋 High battery drain during extended play
- 💰 High price point for a mobile game
- ⏸️ Limited airport/sector variety
- 🐛 Occasional crashes after updates
- 🎤 Voice commands require precise pronunciation
- ⏱️ Long wait times between aircraft actions

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Voice recognition fails to understand commands consistently
- Wrong aircraft responds to callsigns
- Aircraft oscillate across approach path instead of lining up properly
- App crashes within 90 seconds after updates
- Pilot voices sound distorted or sped up
- AirPods and Bluetooth headsets not recognized
- Voice commands lag in high-difficulty settings
- Aircraft not detected when flying over designated beacons
- Departures occur at inappropriate times causing accidents
- Recent patch broke voice command functionality
- Readback timing issues - pilots interrupt instructions
- Voice recognition works differently with different microphone setups

**Most requested features**

- More airport sectors (SFO, ATL, MCO, MIA, IAH, SEA, Chicago, Dallas, Boston, London, Australian airports)
- Push-to-talk (PTT) voice control instead of toggle button
- Ability to assign holding patterns for aircraft
- Control of departures to specific runways
- Ground control features for taxiing aircraft
- STAR (Standard Instrument Departure Routes) implementation
- Real-time aircraft data integration
- Tower control scenarios in addition to TRACON
- More weather conditions beyond wind
- iPhone version for mobile play
- Airport diagrams as reference
- Transparency slider for compass overlay
- Strip list to track flight order
- More general aviation aircraft types
- Additional airlines representation
- Ability to create custom scenarios more easily
- ATIS information display
- Traffic advisories feature
- Visual separation capability for VFR traffic

## Recent user reviews (10 of 107)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/atc-voice-air-traffic-control/id605864202/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Just pure awesomeness.

*2025-10-25, version 3.2.0*

I’ve had this app for years, but I just realized that I don’t think I ever wrote a review for it, and I feel awful! This simulator is awesome. Sometimes it gets my heart beating out of my chest. It can get really, really intense and you’ve gotta be very quick and on your toes at all times. If this is how being an air traffic controller really is, then I have to send a thank you to all REAL air traffic controllers to let you all know how much I truly appreciate your work in getting us there and back again safely everyday. You guys are the unsung heroes of the aviation industry. Also, the developer for this app is awfully friendly and I can’t thank him enough for this simulator. This is easily one of the best (if not THE best) sims of any type on the AppStore. If you’re looking for a good simulator to test your reflexes and brain, look no further. This is just a great app. Thanks to the developer for this awesome piece of software!!!!

### 5/5 — Most realistic game I’ve seen for ATC

*2025-01-03, version 3.2.0*

Been playing this game for probably around 10 years, maybe longer.  The game keeps me on my toes and keeps me sharp as a 20 year retired controller.  I do not usually do the voice, as it lags behind in the more difficult settings, which is what I play.  You cannot effectively control airplanes when wrong acft takes a clearance, or pilots don’t respond.  Yes, it does occasionally occur in real life, but does not happen routinely.  I’ve used various headphones and bluetooth earbuds, but voice control does not seem to work well in the highest most complex levels.  But overall game is still great and mostly challenging.  Would like to see some new sectors, and a change for a few minor issues I have recommended to the developer.

### 3/5 — Overall Good

*2024-11-18, version 3.2.0*

I think this game is pretty good but would be nice to have some additional features to manage traffic such as being able to assign a hold.  The departures also can occur at bad times and force an accident.  It would be nice to have the ability to force all departures to a specific runway.

### 1/5 — Was Fantastic

*2024-09-24, version 3.2.0*

This was brilliant - the voice recognition worked perfectly. With subsequent updates it barely recognises anything I say - with the exact same setup. I have messaged support on more than one occasion but sadly received no response.

### 5/5 — Fun Game

*2024-08-10, version 3.1.7*

I found this game very fun to play. I would like to see a bug fix that enables planes to line up on final approach better instead of oscillating back and fourth across the approach path.

### 5/5 — Work ATC, and scramble F-16s LOL!

*2024-07-09, version 3.1.7*

I enjoy this game very much.  Normally I don't use the voice features that much so I can spare the wife my rambling when were either on vacation or at home.  The interface was very well thought out on directing airspeed, altitude, course/fix instructions.  One impressive thing is when moving the sliders, the set values appear to the side/above in a way that a finger isn't covering them up.  That's how detail oriented this app was designed.  Support is fantastic, even though later it was obvious what I wasn't doing to add additional maps, support responded right away on how exactly I was supposed to click the right things to get additional fields.  Did I mention you can also scramble F-16s?  That kills me everytime and got to laugh but hey it works real well though, definitely a cool feature added to the game.  Well done and hope this app gets supported for a very long time.  Thanks to the support/dev also for any help I needed in the meantime.  Game is worth it, pick it up!

### 1/5 — Bereue es die App gekauft zu haben

*2024-06-12, version 3.1.7*

Also ganz ehrlich die App ist echt nicht gut!
Ich fliege selber als Pilot auf Vatsim, alles super prefessionell und ich dachte mir dann okay also schaue ich mir mal die App an. Aber nicht zu empfehlen. Ja man muss sagen sie ist akkurat und die Waypoints passen soweit, aber die Realität bzw. das was ich aus dem Simulatorfliegen als real ansehen, wird hier nicht vertreten. Echt schade. Auch die Spracherkennung ist für den Mülleimer… gibt besseres. Man versucht dem Flieger was mitzuteilen, aber immer kommt fragt dann ein anderer, ob ich es wiederholen kann. Also sehr enttäuscht!!! Außerdem werden in Europa meist sogenannte STAR‘s also standard instrumental departure routes vergeben - nicht vorhanden. Schade!!! Die App hat zwar Potenzial, aber da sollten mal Leute dran sitzen, die was davon verstehen… Und man braucht nicht unbedingt coolen Sound oder irgendwelche sprachlichen Rückrufe der Flieger… man kann auch einfach Texten… naja am Ende bin ich echt drauf reingefallen

### 2/5 — A childish sim

*2024-04-26, version 3.1.7*

It’s attractive - mostly over the top attractive. Simplistic control. Cheesy.  I’d recommend Atc4Real over this one. It has promise, but needs more realism and less fancy graphics.

### 5/5 — ATC VOICE

*2024-04-19, version 3.1.7*

Excellent Simulador, 99% REAL, Muy útil para pilotos estudiantes y pilotos en activo, para que podamos comprender el GRAN DESAFÍO DE LOS CONTROLADORES DE VUELO

### 5/5 — よくできています

*2024-02-23, version 3.1.6*

航空管制ゲームは単調になりがちですが、アクシデントやスクランブルなどもあり、よく工夫されています
音声認識はハードルが高く未利用ですが、タッチ操作だけでも価格に見合った価値は十分にあります

## Frequently asked questions about ATC Voice Air Traffic Control

### What is ATC Voice Air Traffic Control?

ATC Voice Air Traffic Control is a realistic simulation game where players manage air traffic. You use your wits and planning skills to guide planes safely to their destinations using either touch commands or advanced voice recognition technology.

### What are the key features of ATC Voice?

Key features include over 100 levels, realistic speed and altitude simulation, arrival and departure routing, holding patterns, and flexible voice recognition. The app also includes a level editor for creating custom scenarios and Game Center integration for achievements and leaderboards.

### How much does ATC Voice cost?

The base game includes three full sectors with 100 levels and is free to download. Additional sectors, each featuring busy airports and 30 levels, can be purchased within the app at an additional cost.

### What devices is ATC Voice compatible with?

ATC Voice is designed for the iPad and is also compatible with Mac Silicon computers. This allows for a high-fidelity gaming experience on both platforms.

### What are some common use cases for ATC Voice?

Players use ATC Voice to experience the challenges of air traffic control, test their strategic planning and spatial reasoning skills, and enjoy a realistic aviation simulation. It's ideal for those who want to practice managing complex air traffic scenarios in a game environment.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 3.2.0 — 2024-09-04

- You can now play on Mac computers with Mac Silicon chips!
- Fixed Voice Control getting stuck at 'Calibrating'
- Fixed window resizing on Mac.
- Added ability to zoom with mouse and trackpad.
iPad version:
- Bluetooth headphones should now work on iPad. If you have problems, try taking them out and putting them back in with the Voice Control turned on. On Mac OS Computers, bluetooth microphones are not working for Voice Control.

### 3.1.7 — 2024-02-25

- Fixed bug: Plane Speech Speed slider had no effect in iOS 17.3.

### 3.1.6 — 2023-12-22

- New Amsterdam sector available for purchase with 30 career levels!
- Changed EasyJet's pronouncer from 'Easy' to 'TopSwiss'. (It should respond to either)
- Expanded the grid on the scope in all sectors except Denver and LA.
- Fixed bug that wasn't allowing departures when a plane was landing on a parallel runway.
- Fixed: dark mode was making segmented controls unreadable.
- Fixed bug in Change Sector Menu where app/dep paths could be accidentally selected when scrolling the list.
- Added new setting: 'Choose Plane Voices', control which voices are used and add additional voices to the game. (Still under development)
- Arrivals are less likely to choose London City Airport as the destination.

### 3.1.5 — 2023-02-05

Removed a few aircraft voices that didn't sound very good.

### 3.1.4 — 2022-11-19

- Fixed aircraft speech in iOS 16, the game now correctly uses the newly added voices in iOS 16.

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