SocialFlight User Reviews
Customer Experience
~ Based on 99 written reviews from the US App Store.
What users say
Summarized from real user reviews of SocialFlight. Based on 139 reviews and a 3.1/5 average, it highlights the 8 positives and 12 negatives reviewers mention most about this Navigation app.
Positive things
- ✈️Comprehensive aviation event discovery
- 🗺️Useful map-based airport information
- 🍔Great burger flights/restaurant finder
- 📧Helpful weekly email notifications
- 🎓WINGS training credits and educational content
- 👥Strong community for aviation enthusiasts
- 📺Quality live shows and archived content
- 🎯Customizable event filtering options
Negative things
- 🐢Extremely slow loading times
- 💥Frequent crashes and freezes
- ⏳Persistent 'please wait' spinning circle
- 🔔Aggressive notification permission requests
- 📍Forced location and settings requirements
- 🎬Intrusive ads that can't be closed
- 📱Poor UI/UX design and outdated interface
- 🔋Excessive battery drain from background refresh
- 🔗Broken event links and non-functional features
- 📊Poor data caching causing repeated loading
- ⚠️Inconsistent performance across devices
- 🛠️Lack of developer responsiveness
Is SocialFlight Safe?
SocialFlight has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for SocialFlight is 62/100.
This assessment is based on 139 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.1/5.
Safety Analysis
~ Based on 127 App Store ratings for SocialFlight.
Is SocialFlight Legit?
SocialFlight appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for SocialFlight is 78/100.
Based on 78 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.
Top reviews
The app was taking forever to load and when it did, it was almost always frozen. I deleted it and reinstalled it and it seems to work better now. Fingers crossed.
This app is terrible, it’s outdated, the controls are clunky and some are broken. When going to/from full screen the video rewinds and you lose progress. You can’t skip forward at this point because it is monitored for FAAST credit.
Never works on my ipad, crashes relentlessly.
Every time you go back the map page it takes a long time to load. I do have fast internet. That is the only page on the app going that.
Slow loading and CRASHES
Keeps crashing when opening
App crashes on startup. Reinstalling might allow it to run for a minute. However, forcing Safari to use desktop mode in settings will allow you to use the web page, which still works. This used to be a popular favorite for finding fly-ins. Not sure how much longer people will continue posting here with the unusable App implementation getting in the way. I’m legitimately sad.
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Great info on where to go, hang out, and eat on personal and small plane flights!! Super impressed!
The last several versions of the app have been unuseable on my Ipad. I'm told to "please wait" indefinitely.
The app is extremely slow and full of bugs. I love the idea and would love to use it but you’re always waiting for things to load. It’s painfully slow. What’s worse? Patiently waiting, thinking that what you clicked on is worth the wait only to have the app crash so you have to start over.
This app is about ten years behind standards. The slow loading is the worst. It takes far too long to get into the app. I can’t use it. It’s too slow and it’s not the internet speeds. It’s the app.
This is an example of great idea executed so poorly. You can ignore the bad UI but not knowing how to cache data makes this totally unusable if you work on the map.
I just hate this app. As ,e ti ones in other reviews, please wait is a regular occurrence. After the wait, the app freezes EVERY TIME. Just terrible.
I love the content of this app, what it aims to provide, there’s so much variety and good information. But dear lord the UI is absolutely terrible and the app is so buggy. Even though there is so much I wanted to make use of in this app, the interface is repulsive and overall broken. Spinning circles, constant crashes… years go by and nothing improves.
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SocialFlight is a fantastic concept and I’m really pulling for long-term success as it will be a great asset to all aviators. The app is painful though. “Please wait” takes a long time. After that clears, there is an ad for an airplane that can’t be closed (with the ‘x’). Re-open the app…gets to the end of “Please wait”…crashes.
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I want to LOVE this app. The problem is that, for me, the “please wait” issue is the same for me as it is countless others. WHEN I can actually download the advertised events, I LOVE it. But that rarely happens. Yesterday, the “please wait” was going on for nearly 30 minutes before I force-closed the app. I’ve tried to use the app on multiple devices: same result. If they don’t fix this, I’ll be deleting it because I can’t use it. The only reason for the 2-star rating is that I really WANT to love this…otherwise, I would’ve just given the 1-star.
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I use it (try) on my iPad. It will sit there trying to download the calendar data for endless minutes before crashing. Love the idea but I have no time to wait for a program that doesn’t work.
This app makes me long for the sweet release of death. I deleted it hoping the website version might work better, but the app is the only option. The problem? It’s the “please wait” spinning circle. It happens every time you try to do anything. What is this app doing all the time that requires being froze up with that spinning circle? I’m on a fast modern iPad, and have an iPhone 16. What is the deal with this thing??
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This app used to work pretty well but all it does now is say please wait, and wait, and wait. Then it crashes. Going to delete it.
I’ve had the app for years. Biggest issue is it’s ALWAYS been slow to open or change pages. The “please wait” window is all I see sometimes and then the app crashes. When it works it’s helpful and you can filter the events you are interested in.
