Rochester Jazz vs PlaneTrack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rochester Jazz
Your pocket guide to a major jazz festival, featuring a full schedule of performances, jam sessions, and workshops across multiple venues. Plan your custom itinerary with alerts, maps, and travel times. Discover artists, buy tickets, and stay updated with the latest news and essential festival information.
- Full festival schedule
- Customizable personal itinerary
- Venue maps and travel times
- Artist information and music
- Ticket and Club Pass purchasing
- Festival news and alerts
- Photo and video gallery
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Updated App for 2026. Put the 23rd Edition of the Rochester International Jazz Festival in your pocket with the official RIJF Jazz Fest App. This is your easy-to-navigate guide to the entire lineup for the nine-day festival, featuring the full schedule of 285+ shows across 18 venues, jam sessions, and workshops. Create and plan your personal custom schedule and itinerary, complete with alerts, maps, and travel times. See what’s playing now and starting soon. Search by types of shows such as headliners, free shows, Club Pass Series, Jam Sessions and Jazz Workshops. Wonder what's most popular? See What's Hot! Browse all the shows by artist and get to know their stories, hear their music and visit their websites. Stay in touch with the latest news, alerts, and other important information on getting around the festival and how to maximize your festival experience. Get essential details on venues, photos, and news releases. Connect with the Festival’s Spotify, Facebook, X, and Instagram accounts to keep up with the latest posts. Buy tickets and Club Passes. Check out the Gallery for daily photos and videos. See where to eat and shop for official merchandise. Sign up for official festival alerts to get important, timely messages. Never miss a show. Set alerts for upcoming events, including how long it will take to get there. Easy search functions allow you to browse by date, venue, artist, and time. Love a show? Share your favorites with others.
PlaneTrack
Track live flights in real-time on a detailed map, identify aircraft overhead with your phone's camera, and explore a community feed of flight photos and stories. Rewind the sky to replay past flights and receive alerts for specific aircraft or events.
- Live flight tracking map
- Sky Pointer for real-time identification
- Shareable Sky Shots with flight details
- Community feed of flight photos and stories
- Time Machine for flight replays
- Customizable flight alerts
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PlaneTrack turns the sky above you into something you can read, watch and share. Tens of thousands of flights move in real time on a beautiful dark map, powered by our own global ADS-B receiver network and enriched with official FAA data. POINT AT THE SKY See a plane overhead? Open Sky Pointer, aim your phone at it, and PlaneTrack tells you the flight, type, altitude, speed and destination. Then press the shutter: your Sky Shot comes out with the flight details, compass and mini map burned in, ready to share. THE FEED A community feed of Sky Shots from spotters everywhere, aircraft stories, and replay videos of the day's most interesting flights. React, comment, share, follow other spotters, and filter to exactly what you care about: emergencies, diversions, rare aircraft. THE TIME MACHINE Rewind the whole sky. Replay any moment, or watch curated replays of emergencies, diversions and rare visitors with a cinematic follow camera locked on the aircraft. Free covers 30 days; Premium rewinds 400. LIVE MAP Real-time positions with altitude, speed or type coloring. Helicopters, ground vehicles, even high-altitude balloons drawn with their own icons. Oceanic flights estimated beyond radar coverage. KNOW EVERY FLIGHT Tap any aircraft for its route, live progress, full flown track, aircraft photo, schedule with delays, and complete history. Search flight numbers the way you know them (AS2240 finds the flight, not just the radio callsign). DISCOVER A live watchlist of emergencies, diversions and rare aircraft, plus aircraft stories, the US Delay Radar and rankings. ALERTS THAT FIND YOU Follow any aircraft, flight, airline, airport or type and get a push notification when it flies, diverts, or squawks an emergency. Privacy Policy: https://planetrack.ai/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PlaneTrack at 5.0 against Rochester Jazz's 3.8. PlaneTrack also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 weeks). Rochester Jazz's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (23 vs 2). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. PlaneTrack sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Rochester Jazz asks for nothing beyond the download.
PlaneTrack holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Rochester Jazz has 23 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Rochester Jazz ships an update every 6 weeks, PlaneTrack every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rochester Jazz | PlaneTrack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rochester International Jazz Festival LLC | Tristan Munday |
Customer experience
Rochester Jazz
PlaneTrack
In-app purchases
Rochester Jazz
No in-app purchases
PlaneTrack
- Premium Monthly$9.991 Month
- Premium Annual$99.991 Year
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