# Historic Aerials — user reviews > 38 indexed App Store user reviews of Historic Aerials by Nationwide Environmental Title Research, LLC, rated 2.16/5 from 37 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/historic-aerials/id6760678130/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/historic-aerials/id6760678130.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 2 ## Newest reviews (12 of 38) ### 1/5 — Buggy ads, pop up ads, garbage app *2026-05-17, version 1.1.0* App is genuinely unusable in its current state, I’ve updated to the latest version and l just keep running into more issues, it’s so frustrating ### 1/5 — Ads are terrible and can't zoom much *2026-05-14, version 1.1.0* Just use the website this app needs more refinement and maybe some sponsors so they don't force ads that say my phone is infected. I also can't zoom in close enough. And screen shots are disabled to zoom in that way. Basically can't use this app for now . Can't wait for the bugs to get worked out though! ### 1/5 — Copyright material? *2026-05-11, version 1.1.0* Why can I not take a screen shot without the screen going black? Nothing here is copy righted as you can find all maps at your local courthouse…. ### 1/5 — Watermarks make it near useless *2026-05-10, version 1.1.0* I get not being able to screenshot, if it’s copyrighted material that’s understandable. But the watermarks are laid on so densely you can hardly see anything. What’s even the point. ### 1/5 — Holy watermark hell Batman *2026-04-21, version 1.1.0* I understand copyright issues, but making the app completely useless due to watermarks covering every inch the map. Couldn’t even see my house under the watermarks. ### 1/5 — Buffering *2026-04-21, version 1.1.0* Nice idea but the maps load too slowly. If you move out zoom, it appears to reload the same data ### 1/5 — Poor infrastructure *2026-04-21, version 1.1.0* Every time I try to use this app, there is a message overlay on the map saying “sorry! the image server has to restart.” I have never seen any image produced by the app. I give up. ### 1/5 — Not so good *2026-04-21, version 1.1.0* Spent 10 minutes looking at “we’re sorry” black boxes before getting partial blurry photos of…something. I did get to watch a couple of ads that loaded very quickly, though! ### 1/5 — Nah *2026-04-17, version 1.1.0* Wouldn’t install this again ### 1/5 — Watermarks are horrid! *2026-04-17, version 1.1.0* I’ve already gone through and read your remarks to other people on this topic but if screenshots can’t be taken then what is the point of watermark overkill? I can’t screen record Disney+, for example, but they don’t have their watermark plastered all over the screen. So your logic here is rather flawed. Anyways….you’ve gone so overboard with the watermarks that it makes the map basically unusable. ### 1/5 — Basically unusable *2026-04-14, version 1.1.0* Your watermarks cover nearly the entire view. Also unable to screenshot. Why must it be both? Why can’t I screenshot when it’s clearly plastered with your watermark? Greed is shameful. ### 2/5 — Amazing website buggy app *2026-04-09, version 1.1.0* I’ve been using the website for years and love it but find the app to be buggy over half the screen is covered in a advertisements ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Would be amazing.. *2026-08-18, version 1.2.0* But their decision to litter it with self adjusting watermarks makes the loading time unbearable and the view unreadable due to all the lines of watermarks. I’d happily pay a fee to remove for the app to work smoothly. ### 1/5 — Blurry! *2026-08-15, version 1.2.0* How are you supposed to see and be interested in subscribing? Do better ### 1/5 — Ads and watermarks. Don't bother. *2026-08-12, version 1.2.0* Just use actually free government sites. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2026-08-08, version 1.2.0* Copy-write stamps are in the way and if you try to zoom in -which is barely enough to see what you’re looking at - the stamp is still in the way. To make it worse the pop up Ads make it nearly impossible to use the app. ### 1/5 — Truly, TRULY Awful Company and App *2026-08-06, version 1.2.0* After setting the bar as low as humanly possible with the antiquated, glitchy, almost totally useless web experience, they’ve perfectly migrated that frustration and buginess into this awful app as well. And they want to charge a premium for it! In every facet of this company’s design, interface, and business decisions, it’s obvious that this is one of those companies that views their own customers as hostile enemies. Fine. There are much better alternatives out there. I sincerely hope for Historical Aerials eventual failure and cessation to exist. Adios! ### 1/5 — Absolutely ruined by malicious ads *2026-06-15, version 1.2.0* This app is absolutely ruined by malicious ads. I got pop ups covering my screen telling me I have a virus on my phone! I would not mind regular ads for product but this malicious stuff is too much. Just put regular ads and they can be twice as long. I would not even share this app with my wife, even though she is into history and genealogy. ### 1/5 — Not worth it *2026-06-08, version 1.2.0* The hundreds of copyright watermarks on the photos obscure them so much they are worthless. ### 1/5 — App doesn’t work *2026-05-28, version 1.1.0* Downloaded and all I get is an error message that it can’t verify its version. Adding for posterity, based on their dated website UI with ads littered all over like it’s 2006, and an attitude of “how are we supposed to function without ads,” I have zero faith they can improve. You can have ads and make it a good experience for the user. ### 1/5 — What a piece of junk! *2026-05-27, version 1.1.0* Useless app…web version works. This is hot garbage. ### 1/5 — Seems not ready for release *2026-05-18, version 1.1.0* Watermarks block a-lot of the imagery. App blocks screenshots. Invasive ads. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — I can finally see the past! *2026-04-04, version 1.1.0* It has some past imagery that Google Earth doesn’t have, which makes this have much more benefits over Earth itself ### 5/5 — Awesome App! *2026-03-26, version 1.0.1* Awesome! I can see different places across different years, even my own location. Super useful and fun, I can even compare two different years. ### 4/5 — Better than the website! *2026-04-23, version 1.1.0* Yes there are watermarks and adds, but so much better than the website! ### 4/5 — Watermark *2026-04-09, version 1.1.0* Historic Aerials is a really cool app but I find it annoying everytime I use it the name for the app has watermarks everywhere & I can’t really see what is on the screen. ### 3/5 — Too Many Ads *2026-03-28, version 1.0.1* Renders an otherwise very decent app almost unusable. ### 2/5 — Not that great *2026-08-05, version 1.2.0* Watermarks are horrendous. Can hardly see what you’re trying to look at. Don’t mind the ads since it’s free but everything loads so slow that by the time it’s starts doing something another ad pops up. ### 2/5 — Could be better *2026-06-29, version 1.2.0* The adds make the app very hard to use with the banner at the top and the pop ups every few minutes. Plus there is no option for a paid version ### 2/5 — Could be great *2026-06-05, version 1.1.0* I understand watermarks are necessary, but this is a crazy amount. I can't see anything. Everything is blurry and what's recognizable has a watermark over it. So basically I can't see anything. Too bad- this has awesome potential. Just not there yet. ### 2/5 — Ads make it broken *2026-05-03, version 1.1.0* Great website, app still a work in progress. Features like Split View are awesome, and I wouldn’t mind the ads, except that it is currently broken completely. The ad says it is loading but then gets stuck at 0s remaining, forcing you to hit the “back” button and then you lose your place and layer settings. App is unusable currently! If this bug is fixed, I’ll gladly update my review. iPad Pro 11” 3rd gen, v26.3.1 ### 2/5 — Don’t Waste Your Time *2026-04-27, version 1.1.0* The browser version of historic aerials is really helpful. This app could be great but the developers’ monetization decisions make it complerely useless. The “parcels” lines (property lines layer) don’t display. I’m trying to use it without that necessary information (I’m metal detecting and need to ensure that I don’t go outside the boundaries of my landowner permissions). The top and bottom of the already-small phone screen are covered by banner ads for other apps, further reducing the available display area, and bumping them as I scroll makes the ads open. There are also constant video ads for that stupid animated king game, which seem to run for thirty seconds either every two or three minutes. Those ads include sound, when I need to be able to hear the detector’s signals. If the boundary layers was fixed and the ads were removed with a paid version, I’d give it a trial run. Otherwise, I’m sticking with my other property app and the browser version of this. --- *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 2026-08-25.*