# GoISSWatch ISS Tracking — user reviews > 105 indexed App Store user reviews of GoISSWatch ISS Tracking by GoSoftWorks, rated 4.20/5 from 60 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/goisswatch-iss-tracking/id672216880/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/goisswatch-iss-tracking/id672216880.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 38 · 4★ 9 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 6 ## Newest reviews (15 of 105) ### 3/5 — Little disappointed *2024-07-28, version 5.3.0* Liked the app until I realized that the alarm only worked once. Never worked again to alert me that the ISS was pass over me. ### 3/5 — Paths not populate anymore *2023-08-07, version 5.3.0* Paths not populate anymore ### 4/5 — ISS Tracker *2022-05-17, version 5.3.0* This is one of, if not the best ISS tracker I’ve ever downloaded! ### 3/5 — NON FUNZIONA CON IOS12 *2020-12-02, version 5.0.0* Dopo l’ultimo aggiornamento non funziona più!!! ### 5/5 — Excellente application *2020-05-04* Je l'utilise depuis pas mal de temps, et elle m'a permis de voir l'ISS de très nombreuses fois. Je recommande vivement cette appli. ### 3/5 — It’s ok *2020-04-01, version 5.0.0* Can you add it move so I can give extra star ### 5/5 — AN EXCELLENT APP *2020-03-08, version 5.0.0* This is a very good app when you want to know where the ISS is, at any moment of time. It’s educational, and is certainly better than all the other similar apps in the App Store. And you don’t need to pay a subscription. A big thank you to the developers.... ✅✅✅ ### 2/5 — OLD PROBLEMS RETURN—WRONG days & no longer updates passes! *2019-08-24, version 5.0.0* GOOD APP, BUT TWO BIG PROBLEMS HAVE RETURNED Posted: Saturday, August 24, 2019 The app, again, shows the wrong date and day of the week & no longer automatically updates ISS passes! 1) For example, it says that today is Friday, August 23! It claims that the next pass is Sunday, August 25, but that’s actually happening on Monday, August 26! This is an incredibly bad error — and such a basic issue — for a satellite app! 2) The passes NO longer update automatically. One is forced to MANUALLY tap World (or Sky) view, then Passes to get a SINGLE DAY’S worth of passes! Then, to get another day, one has to that again! And, so on, and so forth. Irritating! Pull down to refresh the list of passes no longer works, either! OLD REVIEW — October 7, 2018 Note: Appreciate the developers' reply but, in fact, there is a refresh control! (Surprised you don't know that about your OWN app!) If you pull down the pass list, it used to calculate and show the passes for the next several days. If you wanted to see more days, just drag up. That no longer works, however, on the iPod Touch 6G under iOS 11. See later on. GOOD FEATURES This is one of the best ISS apps. It lists upcoming ISS passes, locates the ISS on a globe view, provides a night sky view, etc. It's a very good app, but there are problems as noted. Read on for the highlights, a description of the problems, and suggestions. IMPROVEMENTS THEY MADE! The developers have been listening to feedback! ISS passes are now shown on a single screen. This is a major improvement in usability. (You used to have to manually step through, a day at a time, which was slow, went to a new screen, and the displayed flashed!) I do wish, though, that it would calculate many passes at once; instead, one has to scroll down and still wait a bit for the next pass to show up in the list! In the good news department, the developers provide a button for the previous day, if you want to check on yesterday's passes! The accuracy problems (days, times of passes) seem to have been finally fixed, too! THE PROBLEM IS BACK! They also fixed a problem (one version earlier) with alerts where they used to be ON by default and you had to *manually* turn each one of them OFF. Now, they are OFF by default and that makes a HUGE difference (no longer any worries about being unexpectedly awakened in the middle of the night!). GREAT FEATURE: SKY VIEW It's great to tap on an upcoming pass and see a pop-up sky map showing the ISS pass through the stars. MAJOR PROBLEMS AND SUGGESTIONS PASSES NO LONGER UPDATE! A major problem as of September 22, 2018! When one pulls down the pass list on an iPod Touch 6G, the app no longer updates the ISS passes! You have to switch to another view first, e.g. World, and then return to passes to get GoISSWatch do its calculations and show the next day's passes. Even worse, it only updates one day or night at a time, so you have to keep switching views and returning to Passes. Before you could just pull down the pass list and it would update several days at a time! That fortunately still work on the iPad. PLEASE FIX THIS ASAP! SKY VIEW ISSUE In addition, the Sky Views need major improvements. The cardinal directions E and W are reversed from how they are in virtually every other sky charting and satellite app out there! East is on the right and West on the left. Now, this works if the ISS is crossing the sky from West to North and you are facing North. But today, we had an ISS pass going from West to South. Alas, the result was that the ISS is shown moving in the *opposite* direction from what actually happens in the sky! There is no setting to switch the orientation. I tried moving the sky view display through the nadir and also the zenith--no change, no luck. I checked my location--it's correct, so it's not a hemisphere problem. TIP: if you rotate the iPad, holding it with the home button at the top, you can have the southern (West to East) passes display correctly! Another issue: At low brightness, the cardinal point designations-- N, E, S, and W--are not legible! Their blue coloring faded into the background. Furthermore, on the iPad, tapping on a pass opens up a small chart in the upper left corner that's hard to read. I think they simply brought over the one from the iPhone version. It should be larger or even full screen. (On the iPhone, we should be able to tap on the sky view and zoom in.) The Sky View also could use constellation lines to help observers figure out where the ISS is going to be traveling! Each pass has an alarm clock symbol--that makes it look like they are on! The icon needs changing-- perhaps an alarm clock with a slash through it?! The alerts could use another option--e.g., an hour before time of the ISS pass. Sometimes 30 minutes is NOT enough time to get one's household and family organized--delay dinner, put on coats and boots, get oriented to the sky, etc. RECOMMENDATION FOR OTHER USERS Explore your current astro apps as many have little known or buried satellite features! For example, Sky Safari Plus can show you the ISS (and other satellites) with their path among the constellations --and you can zoom in, too. In looking at my other apps, I also discovered that Starmap 3D+ (not to be confused with Starmap2 or Starmap Pro by a different developer) provides a full list of passes on one page -- great-- and mini sky charts, to boot! CONCLUSION Bottom line: GOISSWATCH is a good app for catching ISS passes! Definitely download this and give it a whirl. ### 5/5 — C’est encroyable! *2019-07-21, version 5.0.0* tant de spécifications, incluant toutes les spécifications actuelles et à jour de la station spatiale, ne pourraient être meilleures! A des prédictions à la seconde, et précis! ### 5/5 — There are amazing details hidden in this app *2019-07-20, version 5.0.0* -about our planet and rotation. If you use the completely hidden feature to look into the future- several days- or months, this app has the tilt shadow 100% accurate at any location and the poles. Oh - I’ve never missed the ISS. App is 100% dead on. ### 5/5 — Superb! *2019-05-13, version 5.0.0* This is simply the best; better than all the rest including, it must be said, the NASA app. The presentation is wondrous and beautiful; all information is clearly yet pleasingly displayed and the controls fall easily to hand. Thank you so much - mind blowing! ### 5/5 — Otherwise Awesome *2018-10-29, version 5.0.0* I refuse to give five stars to an app, no matter how nice, that insists on ads that have to be removed every time it's opened, nor will I keep it on my phone. I even considered paying for the $10 upgrade but could find no mention that the ads would be removed. Since one of the ads is for another of your apps that I already have, I’m wondering if upgrading would even get rid of the ad for upgrading! I’ll likely delete the other app as well. I almost hate to do it, but I’m limiting myself to ad-free apps, even if I have to pay for them. Update: I’ve changed my rating to five stars. The App Store description of GoSatWatch (the upgrade) didn’t mention anything about the ads being gone in it. But in the App Store description of GoISSWatch, where it mentions the upgrade, it DOES mention that the upgrade would have no ads. For your own sake, I’d mention that selling point in BOTH places. Thanks. ### 5/5 — Avis *2018-07-30* Excellente application, simple, efficace et précise. Donne toutes les informations. 5/5 ### 5/5 — Excellent *2018-02-09, version 5.0.0* Not so much a review as an idea for improvement. Make the pass track rotate like a compass so that the direction you are facing is at the top of the screen. Still a great app. ### 4/5 — Looks good so far....but missing a piece. *2017-12-13, version 5.0.0* Only 4 stars because it has potential. As a former ISS Flight Controller, I used a product called BEV (Birds Eye View) that looked very similar to this. One thing this needs to be added is the approximate area of the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA). Please consider adding that in a future build. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Crashes constantly *2022-11-04, version 5.3.0* Latest iOS update it crashes while starting ### 1/5 — Won’t work *2022-03-05, version 5.3.0* Both this app, and its related app “GoSatWatch”, have the same problem as noted by others - when opening the app it goes blank for a second then crashes and closes. Removing data and reinstalling, as suggested by the developer, does not work. These apps where brilliant a year or so ago but are frustratingly useless now. ### 1/5 — NO LONGER WORKING *2021-01-08, version 5.0.0* I’m so upset!!!! This app used to work so well and it was one I used so often but now it won’t even load. I press the icon, the main screen flashes up and then it goes back to my apps. I’ve tried everything. I’m going to uninstall it and try again. If that doesn’t work, I’ll have to find another app. ### 1/5 — App is dead *2020-12-28, version 5.0.0* This used to be my favorite app for tracking the ISS. The app just crashes now as soon as it’s opened. It’s been years since there was an update, and I’m hoping this doesn’t mean the app has been abandoned by the developers. Holding out hope it will be fixed! ### 1/5 — Quit sending updates *2020-07-27, version 5.0.0* I loved this app. It told me every time the ISS was going over my city. It’s exciting to see that bright light in the sky, moving so rapidly. Suddenly I stopped getting the notices. I deleted the app, now I have reinstalled it. I hope it give me my views of the Space Station back. ### 1/5 — Broken *2017-05-27, version 4.1.0* Latest update has broken the app Keeps flashing up calibrate every second. Can not use the app now. It worked before update but does not work now. Nothing to do with case or magnetic field. ### 1/5 — Rubbish *2016-07-01, version 3.2.0* If there's a rating lower than one, then I'd give this app that score. It maybe some nerds wet dream, it certainly isn't mine. ### 1/5 — GPS Always On or Never *2016-04-07, version 3.2.0* This may be a cool app, I don't know. In order to use it, it requires you to leave Location Services "always on," even when the app is not running, which will drain the battery. How do apps like that get approval by Apple? No thanks. ### 1/5 — Lixo *2015-08-13* Não cumpre o que promete , mais uma enganação lotada de propagandas , perda de tempo. ### 1/5 — Not accuate *2014-03-16, version 3.2.0* It doesn't show exactly where the ISS is it's delayed by about 5mins ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Foray *2025-12-24, version 5.3.0* Very simply to use had it installed on all my phones for about 10 years now. ### 5/5 — EXCELLENT ! *2024-07-27* BRILLIANT! ### 5/5 — Amazing quality *2023-03-23* This app should be awarded for the quality of its user interface. Well thought, elegant, efficient, easy to understand while still being feature-rich. Attention to detail is really noticeable the more you use it. ### 5/5 — Super *2021-05-30* Très sympa et facile à utiliser. Le passage de l’iss au dessus de nos têtes est impressionnant tant elle va vite ! Bravos aux développeurs ! ### 5/5 — Wow *2021-03-31, version 5.3.0* This is such an amazing app I’ve seen the iss so many times now thanks to the there still could be a few changes with calibration but otherwise it’s amazing there is a problem though one of my friends got the app and it was only a black screen but it’s still a good app ### 5/5 — Ottima e funzionale *2021-02-07, version 5.0.0* La miglior applicazione che abbia trovato nello store per sapere quando transita la ISS nelle mie vicinanze. Inoltre consente di vedere dove si trova la ISS e dove passerà nell’orbita successiva ### 5/5 — Works perfectly *2020-11-26* Review ### 5/5 — Good app with great support *2020-11-13, version 5.0.0* I’ve been using GoISSWatch for some time now. Support is much better than expected. Recently the app failed to start properly, only to show for a few seconds before disappearing. The developer got back to me immediately with very specific instructions on how to fully delete and reinstall. It turns out that IOS 14.2 has an offload app option that may prevent a full delete before reinstall. Thanks Richard ### 5/5 — Excellent *2020-05-31, version 5.0.0* One of the best apps for tracking the ISS! ### 5/5 — Fab *2020-05-27, version 5.0.0* Fantastic, never really been interested downloaded the app a few weeks ago use it all the time and find myself outside looking for the space station. Great for kids too --- *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 2026-08-13.*