# Aviator—Radar on your Phone! — user reviews > 24 indexed App Store user reviews of Aviator by Jacob Bartlett, rated 4.50/5 from 51 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/aviatorradar-on-your-phone/id6469189335/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/aviatorradar-on-your-phone/id6469189335.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 44 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 5 ## Newest reviews (4 of 24) ### 1/5 — Doesn’t seem to work in US *2023-11-29, version 1.0.0* I loved your development story. However, it doesn’t work for me, even with VPN shut off. I get different messages: “Server overloaded” “Request timed out” “Error parsing data” But I’ll keep trying ### 4/5 — Realtime Tracking is not working. *2023-11-28, version 1.0.0* Very nice idea! But the planes don’t move. Once the radar shows planes they stay like this. Best ### 5/5 — Great *2023-11-27, version 1.0.0* I loved the blog post you wrote about this and the history behind this app. Looking up to spot airplanes is one of those things I always did when I was a kid and as an adult I find myself still doing it quite often. I enjoy your app as simple as it is. Thank you so much. Your daughter will definitely remember this toy her entire life. ### 5/5 — Great app *2023-11-27, version 1.0.0* Great little app, does exactly as described. I think my young kids will love tracking the planes. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — I love the idea, but the app is not working *2024-01-13, version 1.0.0* No planes - only parsing errors, retries and info that the api is overloaded. ### 1/5 — Dead app *2024-01-04* Not sure why Jacob dropped the ball on this, but it hasn’t worked in months. Sad, because it’s a super cute app **Developer response:** Hey KnowWonder, really sorry about this. I have good news - the app is now back up and running, and improved in several ways! Please give it another try and see if your experience is better this time around :) ### 1/5 — Gut gemeint *2023-12-20, version 1.0.0* Server überlastet… Nicht zu gebrauchen. ### 1/5 — Egal wann und wo *2023-12-17, version 1.0.0* der Server ist immer overloaded und man soll es später versuchen. Ein App die nicht funktioniert, das betrifft auch das Backend, ist flüssiger als Wasser, nämlich ÜBERFLÜSSIG. Wird gelöscht. ### 1/5 — Data error makes this unusable *2023-12-11, version 1.0.0* I’ve been trying over the course of the past week, at different times of the day. I always get a data error and it won’t show planes. I loved the blog post and app design, but unfortunately it doesn’t work. I’ll happily change to 5 stars if it’s fixed. ### 1/5 — Keine Funktion *2023-12-11, version 1.0.0* Nun, da die App nicht funktioniert, habe ich sie wieder gelöscht. Man sollte vielleicht keine App releasen, wenn das Backbone nicht dafür ausgelegt ist. ### 1/5 — Server overloaded *2023-12-09, version 1.0.0* App daher nicht nutzbar, wird gelöscht. ### 1/5 — Always get data error *2023-12-06* Seems like a cool app that my toddler would love. I have never got passed a data parsing /server busy error however. **Developer response:** Hey wertrose, The open-source API I depended on is working again now, so to celebrate I released v2.0! I'd love if you tried it out again :) ### 1/5 — Broken *2023-12-06* Seems the app is never able to pull down any data. Would gladly revise this remark if fixed! **Developer response:** Hey nerdy-guy, The open-source API I depended on is working again now, so to celebrate I released v2.0! I'd love if you tried it out again :) ### 1/5 — Server immer busy *2023-12-06, version 1.0.0* Mind. 5 an verschiedene. Tagen die App gestartet. Immer Fehlermeldung oder Server busy Meldungen. Macht kein Spaß. Hoffe da kommt bald mal ne Verbesserung. Ansonsten wird die App wieder gelöscht !!! Deswegen bisher nur 1 Stern. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Even better than v1 *2024-01-25, version 2.0.0* Not much to say other that it is even better than the original. I love it. Now you can even use your own login. Perfect! ### 5/5 — My granddaughter loves it *2024-01-22, version 2.0.0* My son was the developer ### 5/5 — Wonderful *2023-12-04* Really simple, really elegant, really cool ### 5/5 — Own data sources *2023-12-04, version 1.0.0* Hey Jacob, very nice App. Threema your server is busy today ;-) It it possible to add a feature were we can setup our own ADSB/VirtualRadarServers as Source for the planes shown on the radar? All the best and thank you for the nice app Steffan ### 5/5 — Cool but not working *2023-12-01, version 1.0.0* First I wanted to say that I admire what you did here - whole project is very cool. Unfortunately something might have gone wrong over the years as I'm not able to see any planes in it ### 5/5 — Great app, fantastic blog post *2023-11-29* I really loved the blog post about how you built this. A fantastic example of iterative refinement of a design, and the result is excellent! ### 5/5 — Fun app for kids and adults *2023-11-28, version 1.0.0* Read the article the author wrote about building this app. Fun idea. The boys love planes and we are always wondering what is a plane in the sky vs something else like stars or planets when the planes are very high over our home at night. This app is so much simpler to view than most plane tracking apps as it removes the noise. It keeps it local to the phone and follows the phone’s orientation. Fun app. Thanks! ### 5/5 — Such a great idea! *2023-11-28, version 1.0.0* Thank you this is wonderful. We get a lot of planes by our house too. ### 5/5 — Simple, yet highly entertaining! *2023-11-28* I usually love opening up FlightRadar24 but this is far more simple and enjoyable to see what planes are flying overhead. Great customisation, easy to use. Nice one! **Developer response:** FlightRadar24 was actually the original inspiration for this app! Thanks for the review! ### 5/5 — Perfect for fun plane spotting *2023-11-28, version 1.0.0* This app is wonderful for sitting in your backyard and spotting planes as they fly around. The altitude scale of the airplane icons is super helpful too; the bigger the plane is on screen, the bigger it’ll appear to us on the ground! Thanks!! --- *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 2026-08-10.*