Great app
It’s a great app if you are an active spotter
Not worth the pay for app
I’ve been using the app ATC which is phenomenal, but it didn’t have one small airport I was flying to (Cleveland Hopkins) and saw that liveatc provides coverage however the quality and speed is absolutely horrible compared to ATC app which provides a very user friendly interface with captions and live flight points on map. I’d highly not recommend buying this app for anyone
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It’s OK when it works
Channels are down too often and stay down too long. Don’t waste your money on this app. There are better options out there.
DEN
hey, what’s going on? What happened De? The main airports in the United States and I can’t find it on live ATC they had an incident at DIA/DEN just the other night what’s going on?
Melissa Rosenberg Attny At Law
Cant cancel. Where is the cancel switch???????????????
SUPER Unreliable
2026 Update:
Besides the expected inconsistent quality of volunteer-provided streams (mostly bad), the LiveATC servers themselves can’t seem to provide a consistent connection. Constant drops and buffering delays and disconnections. Funny enough the app seems to work slightly better than the website now, but overall I wouldn’t recommend anyone spending actual money on this service.
Original review (2022):
I much prefer the website to the app.
First, on the website it clearly lists the frequency alongside the description. On the app it will just provide the name (i.e. KSEA Ground) without a frequency. To find the freq you have to select the channel and then select “view frequency.” There is ample room on all pages to show freqs, requiring extra click-throughs is just bad UI.
Second, there is SIGNIFICANT delay on the app vs. the website. The website is typically within a few seconds of real-time, whereas the app takes a very long time to load a channel and consistently has delays of 30 seconds or more. If you’re listening to ATC in conjunction with plane spotting, such a delay makes the app practically unusable. I’m still a huge LiveATC supporter and the website is still an excellent resource, unfortunately this app is poorly built with too much lag to be useful.
Besides the expected inconsistent quality of volunteer-provided streams (mostly bad), the LiveATC servers themselves can’t seem to provide a consistent connection. Constant drops and buffering delays and disconnections. Funny enough the app seems to work slightly better than the website now, but overall I wouldn’t recommend anyone spending actual money on this service.
Original review (2022):
I much prefer the website to the app.
First, on the website it clearly lists the frequency alongside the description. On the app it will just provide the name (i.e. KSEA Ground) without a frequency. To find the freq you have to select the channel and then select “view frequency.” There is ample room on all pages to show freqs, requiring extra click-throughs is just bad UI.
Second, there is SIGNIFICANT delay on the app vs. the website. The website is typically within a few seconds of real-time, whereas the app takes a very long time to load a channel and consistently has delays of 30 seconds or more. If you’re listening to ATC in conjunction with plane spotting, such a delay makes the app practically unusable. I’m still a huge LiveATC supporter and the website is still an excellent resource, unfortunately this app is poorly built with too much lag to be useful.
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LIVE ATC AIR RADIO
This ATC AIR RADIO is a absolute must for anyone who loves aviation you can listen to all of your favourite channels here in Canada and from other countries around the globe This is a perfect radio for pilots as well and for aviation buffs The chitter chatter is simply amazing Anyone with into airplanes as I am will absolutely enjoy this wonderful radio as I do I highly recommend this Five Stars and then some Sincerely Captain Richard
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Great App - Easier than Web
Much easier than trying to navigate the web interface on a phone. Well worth the $5. One request — add the actual frequency number to the channels list. When trying to follow your flight across handoffs, it would help to see the actual frequency be able to quickly find the next channel, since that’s how ATC refers to them.
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Response from developer
Thanks for the feedback. You can search for frequency in the search function. Due to some channels having multiple frequencies and limited space in the channel title, it is problematic to have the frequency in the title. So just tap tap search and then frequency and enter the exact frequency. The app will find the channel closest to you with that frequency. Hope this helps.
Terrible
It’s really sad that this app essentially has a monopoly on what it does because it’s really poorly designed. Awful UI. Audio frequently loops. Really annoying to find a channel based on the frequency.
It’s a good app
Been using this app for years now
It’s a good app sometimes it does have a little problems connecting to the local tower, but other than that can’t really complain
It’s a good app sometimes it does have a little problems connecting to the local tower, but other than that can’t really complain
Fun & Educational
Excellent Airport choices and really good Audio ☝️😎
Not working at CYYZ
CYYZ has not been working for almost week, so wondering when it comes back to live.
awesome
great with little delay. pairs perfectly with flight radar24
Ktmb Is down
Love the app. Please let me listen to KTMB again.
Local ATC down
KTMB has been down for weeks
Love the app. But…
I love the app. But, every so often, the live audio stream play’s back even when there is no clear indication that the app is running. My app os running on an iPhone 12+ and running iOS 26.1. Has anyone else reported such an issue?
Redone station for developers
Love the app but can you please add the frequency next to the description? Example: “Tower RWY 13L 121.9”
Not up to standard
As this app seems to be a major player and live audio from ATC and other aeronautical sources. It seems that this app should be a better quality looking at the ratings at a 3.6. It is obvious to me that more effort could be put into this app to make it a number one top notch, but it just seems like it’s just getting by it constantly crashes you claim that you’re automatically monitoring each time it crashes, so why can’t we have fixes to these crashes and better streaming solid streaming better volunteers to monitor airports, clearer, and louder audio from airports sometimes they’re real scratchy When they’re not crashing the app is pretty good. Please try to improve the app and have a catch up to 2025 standards.
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Thumbs down
I paid the $4.99 plus tax and have changed from one channel to another at Major airports that I know stay busy and surely have plenty of radio traffic in the towers. So far after 20 minutes I cannot hear one word. The app buffers over and over with no transmissions. Thumbs down.
KMIA
Fix your Miami Tower feed. Horrible!
