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pinkfroot limited · Travel · Free · v2026.6.4

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Review-rating drop
0.49

2026-Q2 4.33 → last 90 days 3.84, text reviews

Peak quarter
4.33

2026-Q2, text reviews

Last 90 days
3.84

text reviews

Store rating
4.74

all 61095 ratings, incl. star-only

Store gap
0.90

store minus reviews

Est. MRR
$281k

#30 top-grossing, Travel

store 4.74 · reviews 4.33 → 3.84 · gap 0.90 store 4.74 reviews 3.84

Store ratings include star-only taps from in-app prompts, which skew high. The peak and recent figures come only from people who wrote a review, which skews low. Compare each against itself: the drop is the signal, and a big gap between the two usually means heavy rating prompting is masking unhappy users.

Average rating by quarter from 500 text reviews

2★3★4★5★ 1★ 2022-Q2: 3.32★ from 22 reviews 3.32 2022-Q2 2022-Q3: 2.85★ from 53 reviews 2022-Q4: 3.03★ from 38 reviews 2023-Q1: 3.62★ from 29 reviews 2023-Q2: 3.36★ from 28 reviews 2023-Q3: 3.69★ from 16 reviews 2023-Q4: 3.78★ from 23 reviews 2024-Q1: 3.67★ from 24 reviews 2024-Q2: 3.86★ from 29 reviews 2024-Q3: 4.10★ from 20 reviews 2024-Q4: 3.47★ from 19 reviews 2025-Q1: 3.12★ from 34 reviews 2025-Q2: 3.52★ from 27 reviews 2025-Q3: 3.72★ from 18 reviews 2025-Q4: 3.75★ from 20 reviews 2026-Q1: 4.26★ from 34 reviews 2026-Q2: 4.33★ from 24 reviews 4.33 2026-Q2 2026-Q3: 3.92★ from 40 reviews 2026-Q4: 4.50★ from 2 reviews (small sample) 4.50 2026-Q4
Faint bars have fewer than 8 reviews. Text reviews skew negative versus star-only ratings; read the direction, not the level.
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QuarterAvg stars Reviews
2022-Q23.32 22
2022-Q32.85 53
2022-Q43.03 38
2023-Q13.62 29
2023-Q23.36 28
2023-Q33.69 16
2023-Q43.78 23
2024-Q13.67 24
2024-Q23.86 29
2024-Q34.10 20
2024-Q43.47 19
2025-Q13.12 34
2025-Q23.52 27
2025-Q33.72 18
2025-Q43.75 20
2026-Q14.26 34
2026-Q24.33 24
2026-Q33.92 40
2026-Q44.50 2

Recent 1–2 star reviews

Color by number

★ · v2026.5.2 · Aug 31, 2026

Love it perfect for color by number planes🛫✈️🛬

Update mess

★ · v2026.5.2 · Aug 20, 2026

The icon on the top right of the screen to identify an aircraft with its origin and destination disappeared. I presume from an update. I’d like to update the updaters home and move all their toilet paper in their house to the garage. Just because.

What happened to this app?

★ · v2026.5.1 · Aug 18, 2026

Took away ability to look up and see specific flights on map.

Ads are so bad. Not usable

★ · v2026.5.1 · Aug 18, 2026

In a hurry to look something up? Better wait for all the ads.

Unstable

★ · v2026.4.3 · Aug 3, 2026

This app has gotten worse over the years always crashing.

Just the minimum

★ · v2026.4.3 · Aug 2, 2026

When I compared to my other app this one falls very short. 80% of the time no photos for the plane you want to track. If you want the bare minimum then this would be the app for you but for me feels an app in the earlier stage. I personally hate, it’s a waste of my money and time. This could had been voided if I was allowed to try the app in full before buying it. They made me feel that when you paid for the premium subscription that I would get everything but that is not the case and they know that customers would not subscribe because of the limited content compared to other apps.

Stop sending me review requests

★ · v2026.4.2 · Aug 1, 2026

The title says it all.

Not useful anymore

★ · v2026.4.1 · Jul 21, 2026

This app use to be very useful at tracking flights but now every single little thing is locked behind the premium subscription. This app serves no purpose anymore unless I pay for it. That makes me want to pay for it less.

Dreadful!

★ · v2026.2.4 · May 16, 2026

The past two flights have told me the tracking option is not available despite the fact i paid for it a month ago. Very very disappointed!

Use gps

★★ · v2026.2.4 · Apr 10, 2026

The app needs to open to your location rather than the whole country.

???

★★ · v2026.2.3 · Apr 2, 2026

Would like instructions on how to use this app., so to be able to find out how the flight ended and if everything was ok…

Poor tracking

★★ · v2026.2.0 · Mar 18, 2026

The plane flights don’t update. I have been tracking a plane and still in same spot for the past 1 hr

Not useful

★ · v2026.1.4 · Feb 24, 2026

I am sitting at Van Nuys Airport as I type this review. Every single jet taxing by me to get to the runway is not show on your app but they all are on your two main competitors Apps (also free versions). Something is seriously wrong with your coverage.

LOUD scam video ads

★ · v2026.1.2 · Jan 26, 2026

Blasting video ads for scams. Deleted.

Not worth it

★ · v2025.5.6 · Jan 4, 2026

I have been a customer of yours since this app came out. However, since the developers made almost everything pay to use I’m really disappointed in that they chose money over loyalty. Don’t get me wrong I’m I know that they need to recoup money spent on the upgrades and time spend on the development. Looks like it’s the end of the road for us. Thanks for good years while using this app almost daily.

My experience was ruined

★ · v2025.5.6 · Dec 14, 2025

An add popped up and my little brother looked and it said Santa doesn’t exist and he asked me and I said he does but he went to our mom and dad and they ended up telling him. Can’t believe that type of ad is on this app. 😡

??

★ · v2025.5.5 · Dec 3, 2025

Everything is harder to read and understand! Go back to the way it was before…

Great app, fatal flaw

★ · v2025.5.5 · Nov 28, 2025

Edited: the ads ate intolerable. Deleted. Use the website with adblock. Old review: What moron decided that I can't use the app if a new version is available on the app store? If I'm trying to identify the plane above my head right this second, I DO NOT HAVE TIME TO UPDATE YOUR STUPID APP. Let me use the old version, you stupid morons. I'll update it after I identify the plane that is above my head RIGHT THIS SECOND.

Puzzling

★ · v2025.5.1 · Oct 12, 2025

I don’t think I know how to use this app!!

Addq ridden crp

★ · v2025.4.1 · Sep 9, 2025

Ad adds every anadq nothing to see here until you pay

😭

★★ · v2025.4.1 · Aug 10, 2025

NO DOUBT BAD

Horrible

★ · v2025.4.1 · Aug 2, 2025

Zionist supporters, put Palestine on the map you filthy Zionist, Canada, Uk, and France recognize Palestine its time you do too

Second lieutenant

★★ · v2025.4.1 · Jul 25, 2025

Incomplete map of ADS-B information!!!

No low altitude data

★★ · v2025.4.1 · Jul 14, 2025

Low helicopters go over my house. FAA told me to document their altitude. Not sure if they’re under the radar but they don’t show up on this app. Wasn’t worth the download time.

I’ve finally found my (almost) perfect flight tracking app!

★★ · v2025.4.1 · Jun 27, 2025

This app is fantastic, and in my opinion blows all the other big flight tracker players out of the water in terms of features and the user interface experience. The coolest feature for me is the filtering system. I’m a casual aviation enthusiast who mostly likes to see what’s happening over cities with police helicopter traffic, and with this app I can finally do that with ease! HOWEVER - if you operate your device primarily in dark mode (which some stats indicate that an almost 40% of iOS users do), the helicopter icons are so faint and small that they’re essentially useless, which is a huge, huge bummer. The issue is that the black outlines of aircraft icons don’t invert on dark mode, which makes them blend into the already-dark background. What you’re effectively left with then is just the fill-color of the icons as your primary visual aircraft indicators on the map. For helicopters in particular, these icons barely have any fill color as is, making them incredibly difficult to spot on a map in dark mode, and it’s super frustrating if you no longer have the eyes of a 22 year old. Devs! Please update aircraft icon border colors for better accessibility in dark mode! I bet a slightly darker shade of the icon’s yellow would look pretty sharp, like a goldish orange. If you guys do that, I’ll be a customer for life! EDIT: Dropping a few stars. After months of use I’ve noticed that this app has really poor helicopter tracking. A medivac just now flew over my house, clearly visible on the Flight Aware app, but was nowhere to be found here in the Plane Finder app. This happens SO often, especially with police helicopters. I think it’s finally time to say good bye to this app and cancel my subscription. It’s a shame too, because this app does everything else really well - just not the plane finding part.

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