LiveATC Air Radio

LiveATC Air Radio

By Dave Pascoe

  • Category: Travel
  • Release Date: 2009-06-09
  • Current Version: 2.4.4
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 5.39 MB
  • Developer: Dave Pascoe
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
Score: 3.60125
3.60125
From 642 Ratings

Description

LiveATC Air Radio is brought to you by LiveATC.net LLC PLEASE READ IMPORTANT NOTICE BELOW **BEFORE PURCHASING** (this relates to countries not covered by the LiveATC.net system) Do you want to know why your flight might be delayed? Live near an airport or enjoy planespotting and want to tune in to the pilots? Have you always wondered what pilots talk to air traffic controllers about? Now you can stop wondering and tune in live! LiveATC Air Radio provides a quick and easy way to listen in on live conversations between pilots and air traffic controllers near many airports around the world. LiveATC Air Radio lets you easily browse by U.S. state, Canadian province, or by country to find an airport of interest. Once you find an interesting channel you just add it to your Favorites list for quick and easy access! You can also use the Nearby function to find airports near you. We also cover high-altitude (ARTCC/FIR) communications and oceanic (HF radio) traffic. The LiveATC network is the world's largest network of streaming audio feeds focused solely on aviation-related communications, currently covering over 1,200 airports around the world and over 3,300 different audio feeds and growing daily! *** IMPORTANT NOTICE *** Please check to see if your country, city and/or airports of interest are covered by LiveATC *BEFORE PURCHASING* - check at: https://liveatc.net . Note that we do not have coverage in the U.K., Belgium, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, New Zealand, Spain and other countries where streaming ATC communications may be prohibited by law. Available airports/channels are subject to change at any time - LiveATC owns and operates many of the receivers used in the network but many are provided by volunteers. Available airports can change due to reasons beyond our control. For this reason there is no guarantee that any particular channel will be up 24/7, or forever, though we make our best effort to do so and have an excellent overall track record of uptime. Follow LiveATC on X and Facebook: X: https://x.com/liveatc Facebook: https://facebook.com/liveatc

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Reviews

  • Suggestion

    4
    By Chippin16
    The app is great. The LiveATC.net website has links for “interesting recordings” and “ATC audio archives”. Can you guys add these two links to the app? Thanks
  • This app is goated!

    5
    By Agastya A
    This app is a one time payment for a lifetime of being able to listen to real ATC calls as they happens. I am studying for my PPL and this ha gone a long way prepping for ATC calls. Wish I could support the dev more.
  • Feed quantities

    3
    By Bearbullcruising
    Even though this is a free app, I feel we should have better audio quality from the major airports. I think JFK LaGuardia Newark have excellent audio and sees, but I live in the Bay Area in SFO. Tower quality is poor. Is there someway that can be improved as a major airport in LAX sounds better than SFO what’s going on here in the Bay Area.
  • Best App For ATC

    5
    By ATCRaudio
    I love the app however wondering if a feature can be added for multiple channel listening
  • Stopped working when locked

    1
    By Play On 04
    Used to be a great app. Now it has bugs. Doesn’t play when locked. So I downloaded a different one.
  • Not worth the pay for app

    1
    By Fayssal1997
    I’ve been using the app ATC which is phenomenal, but it didn’t have one small airport I was flying to (Cleveland Hopkins) and saw that liveatc provides coverage however the quality and speed is absolutely horrible compared to ATC app which provides a very user friendly interface with captions and live flight points on map. I’d highly not recommend buying this app for anyone
  • It’s OK when it works

    2
    By Snoopdc123
    Channels are down too often and stay down too long. Don’t waste your money on this app. There are better options out there.
  • SUPER Unreliable

    2
    By Q4242
    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.
  • Great App - Easier than Web

    4
    By DanTheMan39
    Much easier than trying to navigate the web interface on a phone. Well worth the $5. One request — add the actual frequency number to the channels list. When trying to follow your flight across handoffs, it would help to see the actual frequency be able to quickly find the next channel, since that’s how ATC refers to them.
  • Terrible

    1
    By EG1451
    It’s really sad that this app essentially has a monopoly on what it does because it’s really poorly designed. Awful UI. Audio frequently loops. Really annoying to find a channel based on the frequency.

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