# Comms: AI Pilot Training — user reviews > 67 indexed App Store user reviews of Comms by KHV Digital LLC, rated 4.20/5 from 207 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/comms-ai-pilot-training/id6749831538/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/comms-ai-pilot-training/id6749831538.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 151 · 4★ 10 · 3★ 13 · 2★ 12 · 1★ 21 ## What do users think of Comms? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Great practice app for student pilots - 👍 Helpful for improving communication with ATC/Tower - 💡 Active developers responsive to feedback **Cons** - 🐛 App is broken and unusable for many users - 🤖 Not accurate or realistic enough - 👎 Voice recognition/speech-to-text is poor - 💰 Paid app with limited value compared to free resources **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes and becomes unusable after account setup - Incompatible with latest iOS versions - Provides incorrect information that goes against FAA guidelines **Most requested features** - More detailed and comprehensive pilot scenarios - Improved voice recognition and speech-to-text accuracy - Better alignment with FAA instructions and procedures ## Newest reviews (13 of 67) ### 4/5 — My thoughts *2026-08-18, version 1.4.2* I like the app. It has been helpful but I don’t like how you can really learn much if you don’t pay for the premium ### 2/5 — Good in theory *2026-07-26, version 1.4.2* The speech recognition is barely functional, requiring you to type to have a fighting chance of having your answer correctly logged. There’s also no guidance to help you learn. ### 3/5 — Check the review *2026-07-16, version 1.4.2* Utilizing the talk to text aspect for the app, it does not provide you ample amount of time to fulfill the verbal request. It will often stop midway of your request or statement, and then give you a bad score for not completing it correctly. ### 2/5 — No me convence *2026-07-10, version 1.4.2* No escucha claro y cambia las palabras que digo y parece q lo dije mal! ### 2/5 — I really wish this worked *2026-06-24, version 1.4.1* When the app started, I absolutely was in love with it although it didn’t give you any prompts to know the answer so I initially just got the answer wrong and then hit the hint button and they tell you what they say so it prepared me for the next go round, but it eventually got to a point where it wasn’t understanding my responses. It was saying that the answer was wrong and I will literally verbatim. Lee say what they want me to say or even copy and paste the exact wordage that they wanted me to say in the box and it still was saying that it was wrong and it was the answer that they gave me so this was a little discouraging because I really didn’t like the app. I like the interaction of it all but it just wasn’t allowing me to go any further on it so I had to cancel my membership, but it was fun it just doesn’t work. ### 3/5 — Great app to learn however… *2026-06-15, version 1.4.0* Maybe it’s an “AI”-ism, but it seems as though the harder the scenarios get the more confusing they get with very little guidance or “why” as to why certain calls need to be made. Maybe if the scenarios were more tailored to the actual airport diagrams it would make more sense. For an app where a premium price is paid for services, at the very least it could be engineered to consider this. Otherwise, 5 stars for the most basic tasks; they all started coming back after some time out of the cockpit. Overall I give this app 3 out 5 stars. ### 3/5 — Great but needs improvements *2026-03-17, version 1.3.7* The taxiway and runway numbers are incorrect for my base airport, ai features are great but needs more attention to detail! ### 1/5 — This is an angry app *2026-03-17, version 1.3.7* It was honestly quite terrible. I was saying the right things, but it couldn’t understand me. And the little character in the corner would turn red and start yelling at me. Even if it just thought I said “2” instead of “to”. Honestly, kind of crazy. It’s made my confidence with communicating with ATC worse and definitely not better. ### 2/5 — App needs work *2026-02-26, version 1.3.5* I get the concept they are going for, but the AI needs some work. I fly out of a towered airport regularly, but after even repeating exactly what it said it wouldn’t accept it. I hope it gets better so I can recommend it to my students. ### 2/5 — Not smart *2026-02-26, version 1.3.5* I am glad there is a trial. I say a message perfectly and it tells me how to say it. Not how or why my message is considered wrong. BTW if a controller ever uses explicit language like in this simulation they would be reprimanded ### 1/5 — Not useful *2026-02-20, version 1.3.2* Great concept, poorly executed. Incorrect responses and prompts. Most corrections to comm calls done in plain English “looking to pick up IFR.” “I’m at the east ramp”Recommend more testing before teaching new pilots bad habit patterns. ### 1/5 — Bad speech recognition *2026-02-18, version 1.3.2* Mid level ppl here, app does not understand you let of the time and some of the senecios make no sense. Speech recognition is truly awful. ### 1/5 — Better Speak Perfect English *2026-02-18, version 1.3.2* Maybe I’m alone on this but if you don’t speak perfect English the AI won’t recognize what you are saying. I’ve spoke English all my life. Guess I have to talk clearer? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Impossible To Use *2026-08-31, version 1.4.2* You can only practice a tiny bit in this app with communication. Everything else cost money. At this point… just make the app cost money to download instead only being able to use one feature. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2026-08-12, version 1.4.2* They give you zero context for there scenarios ### 1/5 — Doesn’t know the phonetic alphabet *2026-06-16, version 1.4.1* What’s the point in having this if it doesn’t understand the phonetic alphabet ### 1/5 — Limited *2026-06-15, version 1.4.0* Not much practice in limited scenarios - even with premium ### 1/5 — Actually so bad *2026-05-25, version 1.4.0* The app insists on using November when making a call at a towered airport when nobody irl does that. The use of the company name or model of airplane is perfectly fine and way more common. Combine this with the fact that the app has a not so good ai that is unable to understand slight changes in the order of speaking and being constantly pressured to buy the apps premium version. All these combine to make the app one giant, unhelpful, mostly detrimental to student pilot’s experience. DO NOT USE IF YOU ARE A STUDENT PILOT IT WILL MESS YOU UP. ### 1/5 — Don’t bother *2026-05-09, version 1.4.0* There are far better options out there if you’re looking for comms practice. ARSim blew Comms out of the water in my comparisons. ### 1/5 — Horrible and buggy *2026-05-09, version 1.4.0* This is gotta be one of the worst communication simulators that I’ve used. It’s buggy and often wrong.. Save your money and find a better app. ### 1/5 — BE VERY CAREFUL WITH THIS APP! *2026-04-15, version 1.3.9* Don’t be fooled by the “good reviews” you see—many of them are not only fake, they’re also in direct violation of Apple’s policies. In the app’s Discord server, the developer literally wrote: “I’m giving out free premium for 2 months if you leave a review for the app… send a screenshot and email and I’ll activate your free 2-month premium.” This is a clear breach of Apple’s App Store Review Guideline 3.2.2 – Unacceptable Business Practices, which explicitly prohibits incentivizing reviews. I’ve already reported this to Apple, and knowing they’ll likely delete the post, I made sure to take screenshots as evidence. THIS IS A CHEAP IMITATION OF ANOTHER APP: I’ve spent months testing different apps to practice ATC communications, including this one. It quickly became obvious that in its original state, this app was completely useless—poorly built, lacking quality, and offering zero real educational value. But what’s worse is what came next. As I continued testing apps that actually work, I noticed this one gradually started copying features—blatantly—from another app called ATC One (and doing a poor job at it). Recently, they went even further and copied ATC One’s website section by section, element by element—including the header, the blog section, and even one of their actual blog entries. It honestly feels like a lazy “copy this page, just change the text” AI prompt. I’ve already reported this to the original developers. Then I noticed they copied core in-app concepts like scenario info, hints, the 5-star feedback storage system with intelligent feedback handling, and more. And just this week, they even replicated the video-based sign-in wall approach. It’s both embarrassing and concerning. This isn’t just a bad app—it’s a shameless copycat with no integrity. I sincerely hope Apple takes action, removes it from the App Store, and bans the developer from the Apple Developer Program, as has happened in similar cases before. Don’t waste your time, colleagues. In aviation, we rely on each other—and that includes choosing tools that are legitimate, trustworthy, and actually add value. ### 1/5 — Stay away from this app if you really want to learn. *2026-04-03, version 1.3.9* As a CFI, I recommend that you don’t even waste your time downloading this app—especially if you’re a real pilot looking to learn. This app does the exact opposite of teaching. Even though it tries to be “funny” with its Angry ATC mode, in real life that kind of behavior would get you a pilot deviation, or as a controller, you’d probably end up in jail. That’s exactly what this app promotes. This app is a game, not a practice tool. Flight training is NOT a game, and you shouldn’t advertise it as an app to master comms or put it in the education category. This app is the perfect example of the new wave of no-code / vibe-coded trashy apps made in 5 minutes. The quality is ridiculously poor, and it’s clear that it wasn’t made by aviation professionals. ### 1/5 — Needs a massive amount of work *2026-03-28, version 1.3.7* As a pilot with multiple ratings, I do not recommend this app to anyone, especially student pilots. The app gives no instruction on how to say something, rather it expects you to already know it. If you are to correctly transmit, there is a likely chance that the AI can’t correctly interpret it, because the app does not have an effective speech recognition software, resulting in an “invalid response.” The AI does not provide the correct response if a mistake is made, rather it gets frustrated at you instead, then proceeds to tell you to “start with ___” on your next transmission even if you already have on the previous transmission, providing no feedback (so much for an app labeled “AI Pilot Training.” The app does not recognize that there are multiple ways to transmit information, like the fact that callsigns can be said in different ways. The app does not provide the correct airport name for some airports when selecting a local airport which can be detrimental for some student pilots unfamiliar with their local airport names. These are only some of the mass amount of defective features I have encountered during my use of this app. I am encouraging all pilots to look up ATC communication tutorials elsewhere and to practice with your CFI and to STAY AWAY from this app, it is not worth your time and money. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-09-05, version 1.4.2* For a student pilot this helped me a lot. ### 5/5 — Free *2026-08-15, version 1.4.2* Make more scenarios free ### 5/5 — Helped me through flight school *2026-06-26, version 1.4.1* Wouldn’t be a pilot now without this ### 5/5 — Student pilot *2026-06-15, version 1.4.1* Practicing radio talk on here is very helpful 10/10 do recommend for practicing just wish it was free because flight classes are expensive enough lol ### 5/5 — J Smith *2026-04-26, version 1.4.0* Great App and getting better! Always adding to and updating to improve the app. Perfect for practicing communication with ATC. ### 5/5 — Great for practicing comms *2026-03-20, version 1.3.7* This app has really good transcription and a lot of real world scenarios to practice. ### 5/5 — Awesome *2026-03-20, version 1.3.7* Love the app ### 5/5 — Hi *2026-01-27* This game really helps with like planes in real life if ur a pilot or if ur a gamer in Microsoft flight sim and other games in general and yeah 5 stars ### 5/5 — High quality app *2026-01-02* High quality app. I was thoroughly amazed by all the features it has. I would highly recommend to any other pilot. **Developer response:** Thank you for the review! ### 5/5 — Great study tool *2025-12-29, version 1.2.6* Great training tool and can really get you proficient on the radios and boost your confidence. Great for getting comms down good to focus on other things in flight training. --- *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 2026-09-11.*