LiveATC Air Radio

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• Price: $4.99

Last verified 28 Jul 2026

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3.6 636 ratings · App Store

1. 4/5Great app - a couple suggestions to improve

   Very useful to find out firsthand what’s happening in preparation for travel. And with more and more gate to gate satellite-based inflight Wi-Fi you can follow your flight throughout. That said - please consider the following: 1) Please list the frequencies a station is covering as per of the table cell when opening to select a feed (favorites, change channel, or directory). When listening to the feed there is a list. This doesn’t need the description- just a comma separated list of frequencies. 2) Would be great to have more than airport diagram linked, but also departure/arrival/approach plates. 3)This one is tougher and not sure it’s possible. But would love to be able to enter a flight number and find what channel the flight is on. 4) In the feed frequency page, it would be great to know if feeds are mixed, or if a stereo split then which feed is in which ear. This probably means a bigger change but it would be helpful. Thanks for a great app and thanks to everyone who provides feeds to the system.

   thereis · 28 Jul 2026

2. 2/5SUPER 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.

   Q4242 · 28 Jul 2026

3. 5/5Great for student pilots the aviation curious and old professionals

   When I was learning to fly a struggle a bit with communications and talking on the radio, and my instructor point to me into this app which let you listen into pilots and controllers talking to each other at airports both small and big. I got to practice listening to read backs and then see whether I could catch all the information. It's amazing to be able to pull up radio calls from airports all around the country and be able to listen to what radio comes sound like when the weathers good when the weathers bad on a busy day, during a major air show, and it's all as close as my phone.

   sean b sean b · 28 Jul 2026

4. 5/5Great app with caveats

   First, I actually came in to complain about Version 2.3.0. Then I read some reviews and .. ya .. I have an ACTUAL issue with the app, NOT things this app has zero to do with - like static, feeds going down and airport feeds being ended. Those are issues with the feeds. THIS APP is basically an aggregator, folks. The app DOES NOT have anything to do with those complaints. That is a feed issue and is in the purview of VOLUNTEERS (READ: not paid, just doing something nice for total strangers) who provide the feeds this app makes available to you. Again, these volunteers do this for free and under ZERO obligation to anyone. Google LiveATC and learn more about this and set your expectations accordingly, please. Okay, on to a REAL issue I have with 2.3.0. I am mobility impaired and the loss of volume in the app and even functionality on the Lock Screen where I, in the bright sunny days of .. oh .. two days ago, could turn down or off a feed, is a big problem. That loss for me .. one that the actual app developers were responsible for .. and is complaint worthy. Doesn’t mean I don’t still love the app, but does mean its user friendliness had been degraded in an area that I find crucial. As I am not an audiophile, and hope other veteran LiveATC lovers are with me on this, and so the L/R channel “equalizer” deal for me is not as important as being able to control the app while it is on the Lock Screen (feel free to read that as on a solid surface that is not shaking, unlike me.) I, here in shake central, miss the ability to reduce or increase the volume in the app itself, as well. Picking up my phone, more often that not, lends itself to me losing grip on it and off it goes. So, still love the app. These days I would be lost without it, because I can at least travel with my ears. But if the devs might want consider a “lite” version with the old functionality, this reviewer would be eternally grateful and my phone would probably last longer.

   Lil' Ole Wil · 28 Jul 2026

5. 5/5Love the app, why the criticism?

   It’s strange how many 1-star reviews criticize either the availability of a particular field or the quality of the reception. Do they realize the feeds are crowd sourced? One guy complained about paying $4 for the app. Well, this app is worth every penny of $4 for those interested in aviation like me. If you want a field added, then go buy a scanner and hook it up. If you’re dependent on this app for a critical operational function that is broken when the feed goes down, then you’re insane, buy a VHF radio. In the meantime, try to accomplish 5% of what this app does for $4 and I’ll applaud you cheapskates with both hands.

   FloridaFatBoy · 28 Jul 2026

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