We analyzed 129 negative reviews from the top 5 Rc Planes Planner apps on the App Store. Here's what users hate most.
Ranked by frequency — how often each complaint appears in negative reviews.
47% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"I purchased a 'lifetime' subscription and I was just notified that they are no longer honoring it with this new version. The new version with a plus + is not part of the lifetime subscription."
"I bought a 'lifetime' subscription to this app on November 21, 2018, for $449.99. It was scheduled to expire on August 27, 2101. I was just notified that they would no longer honor this lifetime agreement"
23% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"DO NOT FLY WITH THIS APP IN ITS CURRENT STATE!!! I wanted to love this app. I really, really did. It crashed on me in flight and rebooted literally sixteen times."
"The first time I used the app in flight it crashed and stopped working 20 min before approaching the airport in instrument conditions."
19% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"Tech Support is terrible"
"I sent email to sales which bounced… Customer service leaves much to be desired"
18% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"I have used this app extensively over the past four years and I must say, it never fails to disappoint. No matter how many times they update it, it continues to have bugs and glitches"
"Every major update makes FlyQ more unstable. They bring out 9 or 10 minor updates and get it working ok again then another major update and it's back to junk."
12% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"Update for the 28 day cycle took 3.5 hrs."
"It takes much longer to download data than the competitors."
15% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"this app is expensive when I can get a completely free flight planner with the very same information provided in this app"
"App is extremely buggy, and a very poor value at $200 per year for ifr and vfr, available at half the cost from ForeFlight and for free from AvareX or FltPlan go"
Design and usability issues driving negative reviews.
Users report needing to watch multiple tutorials to understand basic functionality, indicating poor UX design and discoverability
"I watched a lot of tutorials, which helped a lot because the interface is not intuitive."
Users cannot find clear options to cancel subscriptions within the app, leading to unwanted charges
"In the my account section there is no way to indicate I no longer want to renew the subscription. I thought removing anything in the payment method would stop my subscription. It did not."
Core navigation feature has persistent bugs that developers acknowledge but refuse to fix
"Personal way points are a disaster and emails to support basically say they're never going to fix them"
Critical navigation aids like runway extension lines don't align properly with actual runways
"Runway extension lines don't line up with runways and will"
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