Flightradar24 | Flight Tracker vs Skyscanner Flights & Travel

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R46] Flightradar24 | Flight Tracker 1/5 · US Perfect App for Aviators: this has been my go to app for planes for the past three years. whenever i hear a plane outside my reflex is to check this app, and it'll tell me all of what i need to know about that aircraft. with the gold plan, you can see live weather and cloud data, aircraft age, serial numbers, and playback up to the past year. search by route, flight number, registration, ICAO code
2. [R57] Flightradar24 | Flight Tracker 3/5 · GB Quite good: I really like this app and enjoy the he functionality, however I think the price they charge is excessive. I don’t like subscription apps when you add up how much you pay say over 2/3 years without it really getting substantial better in the range of services it offers does not represent value for money in my opinion. Better to have a low subscription or a one off payment.
3. [R62] Skyscanner Flights & Travel 5/5 · US Great App: I recently discovered Skyscanner while planning a trip to Europe. I love that it connects you to so many options for flights, accommodations, tours, etc. and all your confirmation info, pin #, receipts, correspondence, etc., is all in one spot.
4. [R64] Skyscanner Flights & Travel 2/5 · US Usually great, but some frustrating caveats: I’ve found great airfare with Skyscanner before, but a frustrating issue I run into is the fares shown in the search look very promising, but when I click on that flight, all of a sudden the price of fares doubles. It’s very annoying and feels like a bait and switch.
5. [R4] Flightradar24 | Flight Tracker 1/5 · US STILL NOT LOADING (UPDATED REVIEW JUNE 29): The app was perfect. And still, flights don’t load. The search bar isn’t responsive. And it happens at JFK Airport. This was never an issue. It can’t possibly a reception problem with my phone, because I’m able to use other apps without a problem, including Flight Aware. I prefer this app though.
6. [R9] Flightradar24 | Flight Tracker 3/5 · US Great App but ads have gotten crazy!: This is a great and accurate app, however the ads have gotten extremely crazy and make it hard for the app to work correctly in my opinion as a QA agent. The ads started out light but now they are so heavy thry bog down your phones processing speed.
7. [R82] Skyscanner Flights & Travel 1/5 · US Keeps freezing: I don’t typically take the time to leave a review, but I’ve honestly been so annoyed by this app that I feel it’s only justified. Every time I try to use this freaking app it freezes on me and then I have to delete it and reload it. the website may be good. The app is a giant piece of garbage.
8. [R108] Skyscanner Flights & Travel 3/5 · GB App freezes: Skyscanner provides a fantastic service, however the app itself keeps freezing when you are trying to use it. It’s very hard to search for more than a minute or two before the app freezes and everything stops. It is frustrating as it feels like everything takes twice as long to find because the app keeps stopping and freezing. If that can be fixed, this would be great.
9. [R31] Flightradar24 | Flight Tracker 2/5 · US Once great app is now disappointing: I first downloaded this app back in 2013. It was a one time purchase for the pro version and it was awesome. All features available and no bothersome ads. Ever since they switched to a subscription service, the app has been nothing but a disappointment. The ads are long and pop up too often. Sometimes it feels like the app is almost unusable. Typical corporate
10. [R70] Skyscanner Flights & Travel 1/5 · US DO NOT TRUST BUDGET AIR: I booked through SkyScanner and unfortunately, they include Budget Air which is a scam company. Look up their reviews. All one stars. I reached out to support and told them not to reach out to Budget Air, and they did the exact opposite. I hardly write reviews, but this is crazy. I booked through Budget Air, only to find out they canceled my flight without my consent the s
11. [R94] Skyscanner Flights & Travel 1/5 · US The last few months it’s bad: This app was once so good , the last few months you guys are just destroying it with every update it just gets worse & worse . What a shame
12. [R3] Flightradar24 | Flight Tracker 3/5 · US I dunno: Must pay to get most features. Basic (what you start with) is where you can only see flights. So annoying!
13. [R23] Flightradar24 | Flight Tracker 4/5 · US Pay for features: Yeah it’s a very good app but one thing, this app you need to pay monthly just for features. Why is it monthly or yearly? It’s kind of annoying like it’s never yours you just rent and rent. Solid app though but could be better.
14. [R73] Skyscanner Flights & Travel 2/5 · US Not Reliable: This app no longer collects the best deals in flights. There are other search apps that is now better than this. Deleted the app. Better flight deals show on other search apps that doesnt show on here. Used to be a very reliable app.
15. [R61] Skyscanner Flights & Travel 1/5 · US SCAM WEBSITE: Skyscanner lets scam third party websites onto the platform I just got scammed and when I tried to write sky scanner the skyscmner “help “ part of the website made it IMPOSSIBLE to send my complaint…Skyscanner platform wouldn’t let me send the 4 pieces of proof showing how the website Skyscanner sent me to, SKY TOURS, and this I was SCAMMED. Btw SKYTOURS, three phone numbers, all fa
16. [R112] Skyscanner Flights & Travel 1/5 · US Bad airline ticket sources - GO TO GATE: Skyscanner does not authenticate their airline ticket sources, for instances, we selected website GO TO GATE to purchase Azul Airline ticket and GO TO GATE website NEVER issues a confirmation number for an Azul flight. Ticket counter agent needed this information for check in, GO TO GATE issues an “Order” number not valid at airline check-in.