Skycards By Flightradar24 Customer Service

Update: Devs removed the seasons. Thank you devs for listening to our feedback! Still a little annoyed of the point penalties for framing and clouds (would prefer if we got bonus points instead of point deductions…I know it’s essentially the same thing but it feels better when points are added than subtracted) but that’s a more minor issue compared to the seasons implementation. Back to my hyperfixation lol This was a game I really enjoyed — it was kind of like Pokémon go but for airplanes. I was learning a lot about the different planes in my area too (there’s an Air Force base near my area so it was fun to see where/when military aircraft were flying). I also liked to travel to other airports to see where their flights went. It brought a new appreciation to aircraft I hadn’t had before. However, with the new update it’s ruined the fun for me. Now with seasons, your collection resets at the beginning of the season. I’ve lost the motivation to open the app knowing my prior collection has gone to waste and why would I try to collect them all again only for it to reset? Also, prior to the update you can earn coins with the whole plane and 0% sky in the photo — now you receive a penalty score even if you get 1% cloud, and you only get coins with a perfect picture. Clearly the devs just wanted to milk more money out of their users. Just another example of a company that prioritizes profit over user experience.

Disregard previous review!! Developers listen to feedback and have restored the best parts of the game due to criticism. It is back to being a fun collection building challenge rather than a never ending drudge. This game was perfect because it was simple. Collect. Pop in and pop out casually, build collections and see some cool things. The season model doesn’t work when you feel like it erased all your progress you made and you have to start over. It’s harder to find new things now when you’re starting everything from scratch. Coins are harder to get and more needed because traveling to try to complete challenges is expensive. You had a great app that was simple and prioritized completing collections and was generous with its benefits. (You could do a lot with 5 photos every 15 minutes) but pretending that none of the previous catches counted made it feel like I’d lost all progress I had made. Feeling significantly less motivated to continue playing, which is a bummer because I made a bunch of people download the app.

I was recommended this game about 2 months ago from a friend and I have been absolutely hooked, the game is very fun and addicting. It’s very easy to get the hang of it and understand it, all of the UI is simple. The discord and reddit are very good places to go if your interested in leveling up and getting rarer planes quicker. The way the game works is amazing. The game is still pretty new, barely any bugs, and only room to improve and I’m sure they will. My only complaints is the battle section of the game is somewhat unbalanced in favor of older players with more experience, since there isn’t any different ranks or anything like that. Other then that small thing it is a wonderful game and I’ll be playing it for a while to come, another thing worth noting is that it’s not a pay to win type game. You need real time on there and you don’t need to spend a dime on anything if you don’t want to, there are rewards as you level up and a chance to get them on every plane picture you get

This game is AWESOME! Best game for avgeeks out there. To any developer who sees this I just have this tiny suggestion: Battles should have a rank based system. Unfortunately I do not like spending money on mobile apps so battles are my main source of coin revenue on the app and there what make the game fun for me. HOWEVER all the SWEATS who have literally every card in existence in cyber ruin it for me. It’s really annoying when I can’t get passed 10 coins because it makes me play with someone who has enough extra money to pour into the game or have absolutely no life. This is why a ranked based system should be made. How i think this should work is maybe it should be “beginner” “pro” or “master” level or whatever so that all the noobs can play together, people in the middle can be matched together and the absolute freaks with a cyber stratolaunch, X-59, A380 ect. can be matched together. I think this should be based on ammount of coins won or battles won

This app is really fun, I don’t actually know a lot about planes but I enjoy learning about and collecting the cards from this app. The only downside for me is that it drains my phone battery like crazy. I don’t have a super old phone or anything, but when I’m using the app for more than a few minutes at a time my phone will start to get really hot and the battery will drain. This doesn’t happen with any other app I have so I know it’s an issue specific to this app, but aside from that I love it. I’d also love someplace to be able to set notifications for when you have your camera refilled. When I first downloaded the app, it asked me if I wanted to turn that notification on, but I wasn’t sure if I’d like the app so I didn’t allow it. Now that I know how the app works, it would be nice to be able to customize the notifications to let you turn that off or on.

This game is awesome and really brings me back to the days when you aren’t violently inundated with ads and things just work. Like it was made by someone who loves planes as much as I do. This is a great game but has the potential to be incredible. Specifically: The ability to take real photos of airplanes that fly over head and then have them graded amongst your friends/AI for additional XP would make it more fun. This keeps people who could farm/collect planes from way too far away from tipping the scales and reward the people who actually do plane spotting. With regard to grading each photo, your friends/public could review and come to consensus score for the photo, once a statistically significant number of people have reviewed it, i.e. greater than 10, the score becomes validated. Furthermore, for the avid plane-spotter, some airplanes may not be showing on flight radar, so having some kind of add airplane feature would be good, but it would need to be carefully made and should only accept photos captured via the in-app camera, photo uploads could jeopardize the honesty/validity of someone having actually seen the aircraft. Perhaps validated users or those with some “credit” or “reputation” or even maybe “level”have the option to upload photos from outside the phones camera. Lastly, people could upload details of their own aircraft potentially and there could even be more rare “liveries” for people to collect. For instance American Airlines’ TWA livery would be cool or maybe even a private GA owner with a cool paint job, or maybe even just a cool aerobatic performer (Skip Stewart, Thunderbirds, Blue Angels, etc).

I’ve been using flightradar and adsb for awhile now. Saw this pop up on a ad and been playing it for about 3 weeks now. Only need 1 more common aircraft to complete that achievement and waiting till a mission pops up around the area it’s common at. I have 8 US states left to get. Except I can only count 6 I’m missing off the map. Anyway we can get a drop list of the United States we have captured. We have it for countries. Why not the states. And it’s really hard to distinguish between the states with no boundaries and airports only certain ones highlight at different zoom levels. And it would be nice to see price drop on countries far away. It’s taking me all 3 weeks to gain over 300 coins after understanding how the game works fully. Love it but 4 stars till get a little easier negotiating through state and country boundaries

For anyone just now finding this game, it’s awesome. The bad reviews are all from people conflating “change” to “murder.” There was an update that was a big change to the way the game felt, but did not actually change too much about the spirit of the game. A large portion of the community had VERY many complaints that were almost entirely unfounded. One complaint I can get behind is that now you can only get coins when you catch 100% of a plane AND 0% clouds. I did prefer getting a coin for either one without the other being a prerequisite to getting coins. I do see how that could devalue the coins and probably be taking money out of the devs pockets, which is understandable. TLDR: bad reviews are from cry babies who couldn’t handle change. The game is incredible

I like the game and seeing just how much movement is in the sky, even if I can’t see it. I’ll rate it 5 stars because it’s a fairly new app so has some time to grow. With that, I have some things I think need improving. 1. The camera refilling to five: maybe add it as camera rolls in an inventory because I’ll spend coins or watch a video and not realize that I was near leveling up and my coins/level up refill end up wasted. It would be better if it added a roll to my inventory so I did waste coins since they’re so hard to attain. 2. The coins accumulate so slowly. There are times where no clouds are in the photo but it’ll mark it 1% so I don’t make any coins on the photo. Only a max of 2 coins per photo and ten coins per camera refill, but if you want to travel to airports across the globe is can be 150+ coins to go for only 30 minutes. 3. The map could use some filters. Show me only airports I haven’t unlocked, planes I have no cards for, planes I do have cards for, etc etc because it can get so cluttered and it’s a flat detail map so it can be hard to find anything new, especially when you’ll generally be based in the same location the majority of your play time. Less important to me improvements: 1. I know the plane cards level up but I’m only on silver for a couple. Do they ever become a full color photo of the plane? I think it would be nice to have photos of the actual planes in the gallery like who it is when you select a plane to catch. 2. A few more customizations on the character. There are no standard beard options. Currently, it’s Mustache or ZZ Top. I’ve unlocked almost all of the customization options already after a day of play. I’d like more country flags as backgrounds.

I honestly don’t think I’ve ever taken the time to write an AppStore review but this game is worth it. I’m so impressed in many ways, I’ll just list a few Things I LOVE -Haven’t had any bug issues -Traffic updates are accurate and pretty fast -VERY easy to get free photos and keep playing! This is one of my huge points! Most games give you a limit on how many videos you can watch for free items until you have to pay REAL money for it. Skycards seems to actually care if we play the game or not! -As an aviation nerd, how much information it gives about each aircraft caught -Fairly easy to make coins -“Airpedia” and how there’s so many different categories to complete! I could genuinely go on and on! What I would love to see in the future is potentially more trophies and even rewards for completing them (unless I’m missing the reward somehow)! Something else I would like to see is an option to refresh daily missions or even an option to have more than 3 missions for coins or something. Overall, I couldn’t recommend this game more to someone who loves aviation or flight tracking! I genuinely hope it stays the way it is now; not pushing in app purchases and being an app for the people to love!

I love skycards, i have always been so fascinated with planes & plane watching. i can get lost catching planes moving all over the map finding planes ive never seen in my state/country. i have learned SOOOO much just from playing this game. My ONLY 2 complaint is, i wish it kept track of how many planes you have caught since starting the game, it only shows you how many plane models you have caught for ex: i have caught 502 models it doesn't count repeat models ( i wish it did so i knew how many i have caught in total) My 2nd complaint is, each aircraft you catch you earn 2 coins... i think it should be Uncommon= 1coin, Common= 2coins, Scarce= 3coins Rare=4coins Ultra rare= 5 coins Even if all aircrafts earn 2coins i still think rare/ultra rare should be 3-5 coins. otherwise i love it!!

Was recommended this by a buddy of mine that had been playing. Turned out to be really fun. We were sharing planes we had collected, enjoying the experience of that. And then… season 1 update happened. What a travesty this turned out to be. Lost all my planes in the collection. Coin costs are outrageous now. It made a fun, low stress game turn into a competition and struggle. I had been playing multiple times during the day before the update. Since the update - I’ve only opened it twice. Really disappointed. I know it falls of deaf ears because it will never get fixed. But sad that this enjoyable collection aspect was destroyed. I give 2 stars only because the pre-season 1 version was awesome. Update - I’ve been playing more and it’s not as bad. Still want my old collection back.

EDIT: back to 5 stars. The devs didn’t fully understand all the reasons people played their game, but once they messed it up they at least listened to the feedback and they fixed it. I’m 100% back to addicted! Thank you! This was the single most addictive app I have found in years. I LOVED everything about it and actually spent money on it which I generally refuse to do. It wasn’t necessary but I wanted things. Think of it as Pokémon Go with 737’s instead of Pikachu’s. But alas, “Season 1” dropped in an update this week and wiped out every single bit of progress you made before. Oh it’s still there in an archive format of sorts, but it’s really like it never happened. Having to completely start over every 6 months (which seems to be developers strategy) makes it completely frustrating and robbed every bit of joy I had playing this game. They also increased the “price” of pretty much everything as if they felt the uncontrollable desire to rub salt in the open wound. All in all it’s such a cool idea that’s been burnt down in self inflicted wounds by whoever is driving this thing. Really sad but I guess we really can’t have nice things.

I’ve had this for only a few weeks, but it’s easily my favorite game. The daily challenges and overall profile badges are so fun to work towards. I enjoy learning a lot too playing this both about different aircraft’s and geography. I use this in addition to flightradar24 and flight aware to help unlock airports, achievements, and finding rare aircraft’s. The battles are also super fun too. On social media I’ve found and joined several groups and the community surrounding aviation enthusiasts has been amazing. Everyone is so kind, welcoming, and helpful. This app has really made me happy and has easily become like a new hobby to me. I just wish I could download it on my iPad. I have the a16 so I’m not sure how it isn’t compatible.

I had previously described this game as “Pokémon with planes,” and I loved trying to collect a specific category or destination. I really enjoyed how relaxing it was to learn about the aircraft and work on completing my collections. The new seasons mechanic blocks off your old collections and makes you re-start everything. They’re apparently planning to do this at least twice a year, so don’t download if you don’t want to start over again and again. Edit 24Sep: I am very happy with the change to only have one set of cards (not seasons) and am really enjoying the other new features, like blue sky and airport tasks. Review is 4 stars due to the overall experience with the changes in the last few weeks.

I’m an AvGeek that uses FlightRadar24 pretty much all the time. Skycards basically takes all the FR24 data and makes it into a Pokémon Go style game and it’s so much fun! Love looking for new aircraft types and aiming for the most rare ones I can find. I know it’s in beta and the lead developer has confirmed more features are coming, especially with battle mode, but a feature I’d love is the ability to add friends. This would be awesome to see what cards your friends have collected and a nice way to easily compare decks. With this, I’d also think it would be cool to have a private battle option so you can battle friends instead of only having battles with randoms. So far though, the app is a great start and really loving it!

So happy this concept was manifested; I would love regional trivia based on the flights destination or departure (maybe for increasing the planes stats in battles which I have yet to do), I love the card design and the 3D models, i think it’s cool that you have a mini game to catch the cards but maybe yall could add an authentic tier where the card is like a shiny or higher tier when you actually take a picture of the plane. The circle is also huge but that makes sense for rural folk. The missions should also be slightly more catered to location, like maybe beaucar I live in Chicago the missions are only things that will def happen in Chicago at some point. an algorithm with exchangeable inputs would work ig. I am so enthusiastic about this game!!

This game is addictive! Super fun and works pretty well. The only issue is that the gameplay is slightly limited and gets a little repetitive after a while. Something that would mitigate this more of is more power-ups in the shop. For example, it would be cool if you could buy an item that highlights all of the planes you don’t have on the map for a certain period of time. I would also love more incentives as you level up, like maybe once you reach a certain level your photo limit increases to 10. I think more things like that would help the game from getting too monotonous. But other than that this is a great game :) I have been learning a lot about planes through it as well which is cool!

Love the night mode update! itd be cool to have a toggle in the options for a more greyscaled nightmode cloud. id also really like to see a toggle to change shadows of aircraft from the main map screen to signify if the ID of a plane has been caught before or not, making searches much faster. maybe even crosshatch pattern the models that dont have ©️photos. ive read that partial perfect payouts used to be a thing, but i think its very well balanced the way it is currently. consumables are cheap, plentiful as rewards, and can be easily obtained with the infinite capture booster + bluesky + coin purchase teleport (not ticket, save them bad boys for international) to your countries busiest airport to farm. ive been playing for a month and the resource meta gameplay is pretty easy to figure out and is rewarding to grind for, for those times when you have extended play time available to min/max consumable usage:reward. would also be neat to see a personal, customizable album that could be behind a button on your profile, similar to ptcgp. anyway, one of my top three minute-waster apps, thanks for maintaining it. :)

The game is great! Everything is well thought out, very few, and optional advertisements, but I do have a few big issues. The lag, if I view all of Southern California at the same time, it is ridiculously laggy and slow. This is significant because I have a good phone, and it’s still really slow, I would love to see similar optimisation that is used in FR24. Another issue related to the lag, the heat and battery life, my phone gets really hot when playing this game, and also the battery drains a percentage every other minute. This is surprising because it has been the only app so far to do this to me, and it’s not even that graphics intensive. Thank you guys! Wonderful game.

I never had any interest in aircraft/planes before (just would fly on them!) & abt 8ish months ago my brother told me about this. He explained it was sort of like pokemon-go but with airplanes, you catch/collect different airplanes. I DL the game and instantly became hooked! You can see all of the different planes/aircraft that are flying around in real time all over the world (the game is made by flightradar24, so they use their real time radar). You ‘catch’ different aircraft that are colored based on their rarity. When you catch a plane, you will collect a ‘card’ for that specific type of plane. Next time you catch another of the same type of plane, that card will level up. Each card shows information about that specific type of plane (and it will show even more info about which planes of that type you caught, you can see pictures of them, etc). You can also ‘battle’ other players 1 on 1 using your cards. What I think is REALLY awesome & what has really made me 🩷 the game is when you click on an aircraft, you get to see information/details about it (a short paragraph explaining what the plane is, the year it first flew, how fast it is, how heavy, etc) and usually a picture of that specific plane (some of the pictures are really REALLY awesome!). It’s been so much fun seeing all the different pictures of the planes that I find & catch. There’s a lot of other cool things about the game, I won’t list them all or my review will be way longer than it already is! If you liked pokemon-go or just like airplanes (I wasn’t even into airplanes when I first started playing and I love the game!) you probably will like this game! I can really tell the devs have put a lot of time & effort into making this game, and I really really appreciate that. Thanks for making such an awesome game! (Also there’s a /r/skycards sub on Reddit that’s pretty cool!)

This is a fascinating game that introduced me to airplane models and makers I had never heard of with collectible cards. The fascinating part is how it uses live data from flightradar to let you collect the planes in a fun and whimsical way. No pressure, look at the planes around you in real time and capture them with the in-game “camera”. There are other interesting things to do like battles with your collected plane/cards if you are into that kind of thing. Try it out and have fun! 5 stars for devs who listen to user feedback! 5 stars for devs willing to try different things with the game. This game is still new and young so they do make the occasional change.

Update: Thank you to the devs for hearing feedback and fixing the collection reset! I’m very happy to be updating this review as I have been enjoying the game a lot! - I downloaded this game yesterday and was really enjoying it. Very fun to collect the planes and unlock new airports. I was excited to keep playing and expand my collection. I open it this morning and there’s an update which reset my whole collection, saying it’s a new season. I don’t understand why this happened - maybe it’s some kind of glitch? I’m really bummed out, won’t be continuing to play. Left 2 stars because it was very fun for the few hours I had it yesterday.

I love this game. It’s super addictive, especially as a plane nerd. The are some things I would change tho. It might just be me bc I’m chronically on FR24, or just where I live, but some of the planes are rarer than they need to be. On the other side of the same coin, many military aircraft near me are considered common or scarce. Again, might just be me. One last thing I would like to see is an airline section, so you can not only see how many of an aircraft type you have, but also how many airplanes you have from a single airliner. It is still a great game, and I understand it’s still in Beta, but there are some things that could be added or changed.

I absolutely love this game. It single-handedly got me into plane spotting in real life. I was seriously concerned and disappointed when seasons were introduced. All my progress from months of playing was reset, and the indication was that this would happen every six months. This completely destroyed my desire to play the game. Recently, the Devs have agreed to remove seasons and merge progress from S0 and S1. This is a great decision, and will get me back into the game. Hopefully the game progresses down the right path in the future. There are many good things in the new update, such as additional card levels and updated card rarity.

Thankfully the developers have reverted many of the aggressive changes to the app which has brought this back to a relaxing fun game again. It’s not perfect and they still occasionally introduce “features” that are a clear cash grab but the community clearly voices its opinions and the developers are listening. Edit: leaving the previous review This used to be a super relaxing game of collecting airplane cards but the devs radically changed the game and the way it worked to exploit their user base. Despite the majority of users disliking the update and voicing their dissatisfaction, the developers don’t seem to care. Until this comes back to the game it was, I won’t be using it

After playing on the season 1 update for a bit I think it’s wildly mixed. The new airport mechanics are great and more than justify the increase in coin costs. However, the experience of seasonal collection wiping is atrocious given that the pull of the game is a collecting game at its core. Personally, I think having a seasonal xp for battles and a lifetime xp for collecting on one card is the way to go. Let the longtime players flex on new players with card aesthetic while keeping battles on a more level playing field. Also, I like the xp penalty for not getting a perfect catch, but the all or nothing on catch coins is awful.

I started playing in season 0 and it was super fun then. After the major update, they increased the amount of ads substantially, refilling photos every 20 min instead of every 15. They made the ads vary in length from 2 min to 10 sec; please just make it consistent, like 30 sec. The game overheats my iPhone 15 pro max, and drains it extremely fast. It also substantially lags and heats up on my M4 iPad Pro… how is that even possible? It was much better before the update. Also, 90% of non major flights do not have destinations set, making it harder to capture airports, especially in Antarctic bases. Please either find a way to get their data or allow it to automatically count as a captured destination after the flight lands if that data is inaccessible during flight. The daily missions are never worth completing. I am near one of the largest international airports in the US and have probably completed 2 daily missions because they all pretty much require you to use a catch anywhere and/ or a ticket. Using one or more cards to complete the daily mission means you spend more to complete it than you get back. You only get 1 item as a reward, and there is only a small chance that that one item you get is a catch anywhere or a free ticket. It is COMPLETELY unbalanced. Also wish there was more trophies to get. It should also go back to being 1 coin for perfect framing, and 1 coin for perfect clarity, not 2 for both. And most of all, make a setting to turn of or dim the camera flash after taking a photo, its embarrassing to play in public and i have to preemptively squint my eyes to not be blinded. Some of the plane models needed for the trophies are impossible to get, and only have 1 flying plane in existence. Some of the ones for heavy weight champion haven’t flown in 5+ years. Also you can only be signed in on one device at a time. if i switch between my iphone and ipad, I have to re sign in every time. (i used sign in with apple if that helps)

I don’t really write reviews, but I had to review this game. I absolutely love staring at the radar and collecting neat planes across the world. The game is still in beta phase, so it has some room to grow. I wish the PVP had a little more to it, and perhaps had some other competitive battles or competitions to it. The battles can get a little imbalanced, as certain aircraft guarantee a win for players who have them such as the 351 Stratolaunch Scaler. Only having 5 grabs every 30 or so minutes feels restrictive too, but is probably just so people don’t rapidly obtain planes. Overall a very fun concept and can’t wait to see how it grows.

I was disconcerted by the “season” change, that caused me to lose all collected aircraft, but was making fair headway with re-collecting. A waste of time, it now appears! I can deal with that. However, the very drastically decreased accessibility of the Missions is discouraging. In ONE DAY, catch flights above the Arctic Circle, above Oceania, and between Singapore & Johannesburg? Really?? It is now much harder to get “Catch Anywhere” items, without shoving money at the app. It needs to be POSSIBLE to gain coins in some way other than purchasing and catching aircraft, or the chance of reaching goals is just too slim to make the game worthwhile.

Need a way to collect and track all known planes from a specific airline. Also make it easier to see how many total and how many you’ve caught of a certain plane without going into airpedia.

God I’m a 25 year old girl, I’ve never looked at a plane and found it interesting, I hate flying, but this game is all I can think about. I am pulling out my phone every three mins at work to see if there are any new types of planes in my area and which rare ones are around. I’m trying to live my life but I’ll I want is to be king of my airport

Fun to catch planes in your area, and it’s an amazing game. But it would make it a little more fun if you could buy cards that you’ve caught in a gold, silver or paper variant.

Please add the Canadian flag background

The devs have been doing a great job with the updates and quality of life changes. It does seem like they’re starting to listen to the player base a lot more and it shows. Are there improvements still to be made? Sure, but they’ve corrected the problem that caused the spate of low ratings and the changes since then have largely been neutral or positive, and that’s huge.

It would be great if we could see friends on the map and where they are hunting for new cards. It would be a very nice feature in the game if there was the possibility to join friends where they are? And perhaps share the boosters with them!

I’ve been addicted for a month now, it’s basically Pokémon go for adult dudes.

Really big fan of this game — it’s simple, straightforward, and surprisingly fun. If you like airplanes or collector-style games, this is a super cool concept. However, one of the game’s best features is also its biggest drawback. If you don’t live near a major hub airport, a busy international route, or anywhere with lots of overflights, the types of aircraft (and even the number of unique tail numbers) you can collect in your local “zone” are extremely limited. The game does let you temporarily relocate, but the cost scales with distance, so moving to a major airport zone becomes very expensive. Since the only ways to earn the required currency are through “Perfect Catches” or spending real money — and when you might only get 10–15 total flights per day in your area — you can see how progression slows to a crawl. Overall, I really enjoy the game and think it’s a great idea. I just wish there were better options for players who don’t live near busy flight paths.

They listed to the users and fixed the update and got rid of seasons. This app is back to its glory. I’ve got several friends and family members hooked on it and I love that people of all ages can enjoy it and bond over it.

Luckily I joined a bit late so I don’t know anything about the update. So yeah. Good game in my opinion

Resetting the collection and getting experience point penalties for clouds ruined this game :( Edit: you fixed it thank you!!

This game would be great if the devs actually took the time to make it great. There’s tons of bugs, such as most airports not counting towards your airpedia 90% of the time when you catch new airports. The game freezes a lot when you go to highly populated airports such as LAX. The battling is extremely unfair, the matchmaking is broken.. It just pairs you with anyone with the same bet, doesn’t matter about XP or levels… So the high level players constantly farm lower XP players by only betting 5-10 coins to gurantee they match up with a low XP player.

Man this game is pretty addicting… however there is room for improvement. Such as…. I’m not quite sure how long this games been going on for but I don’t know how some people have caught ultra rare aircraft in game at exorbitant XP levels in battles. Like it doesn’t make any sense and seems more like that they are abusing the game system. Don’t get me wrong I can totally believe someone with A380 card at 3 million XP. But a Stratolaunch at 2 mil XP that makes zero sense to me especially for an aircraft that is a one of its kind in the world and doesn’t really fly as often as an airliner. Again new game and areas for improvement. Getting rid of fuel cards has definitely changed how active people are now in the game especially when there’s no cool down so it’s interesting to see how this has all played out.

Pokémon go for planes! Love the real time and collecting aspects. Ignore the low ratings 🙄 all the issues from a past update they’re complaining about have been reverted or improved.

They fixed the seasons update which is good cause that was not fun. Camera shake should be turned off if the plane you are trying to catch is within your radar area. Just let us catch planes. Also coins are crazy expensive. .99 cents for 10 coins is crazy. .99 cents for 100 coins would make more people buy coins. Cost of things in the item shop should be lowered as well. 200 coins to unlock an airport seems high to me. App its self is super fun. I know its still new and theyre working things out.

I’ve gone from loving it, to hating everything about the changes made a couple of updates ago, to loving the game again. Thank you for listening to your community 🫶✈️🛩️🛫🛬

I honestly have a bunch of games that work like this. But this is the best one by far. They listen to their community and are very active in it. I was a little annoyed when they did the seasons thing but it’s a great game that I have invested hours into and I’ll invest more time into in the future

After Season 1, they’ve rolled back the biggest change which was resetting progress each season. I’m happy the devs actually listened to the community and I hope they continue to improve.

Great concept, still some rough edges. Recent update was a major misstep but the devs accepted the feedback from the community and got us all back on the right track. Excited to see where it goes from here.

Season 0 was for the users to have fun collecting planes, season 1 is for the investors to have fun collecting money Edit: they got rid of seasons, much better

Devs got rid of the new season stuff and have made the game more true to how it was on release, still a little harder to get coins which imo is a good thing but cards you got will not reset anymore!

Thanks for listening to the community feedback and rolling back the season changes. I will enjoy playing again!

Happy to have both og and new version merge better!

It’s better now

Edit: THANK YOU PLEASE. I spent HOURS every single day playing. I opened the game twice after the update. Please just listen to your supporters!!!

Thank you for bringing it back to what we all loved, appreciate the developers actually listening to the community

I found out about this game about two weeks ago and I’ve been obsessed. I joined the discord and was tracking rare planes and collecting as many new planes as I could. I was really proud of catching 25/76 of a specific Embraer passenger plane. Just the other day I had a Goodyear blimp pop up in my area! All of that joy is gone now. This update has quite explicitly punished its user base in limiting coin collection, docking xp, negating new plane collecting by labeling every plane as new, increasing cost of travel, making daily missions almost impossible for new or casual players, cash grabbing in the form of more expensive items that last a very short time, and battlers have to pay to refuel their cards, to name a few things. They don’t seem to understand that most of us just wanna catch planes like Pokémon. There are ways to structure the battles so it is fair to all kinds of players but what the devs have done has alienated a large portion of the people who play this game. It’s not all bad and I have hope that this can be saved which is why I’m giving two stars. The new ui is a little clunkier and changing the airport logo was needless. I enjoy the new graphic of the aircraft flying in the airpedia. I appreciate adding more levels to card leveling and the idea behind some of these items aren’t bad. But 5 minutes of blue sky? When every other aspect of this game extends in 30 minute increments? Getting penalized and earning no coins for 100% framing and 1% clouds? Unacceptable. I’ll be back when the devs listen to the feedback they’re getting.

When someone showed me this game, I was almost instantly hooked! It scratched my itch of collecting things and combined it with my love of aviation. For the first 2 weeks, I was glued to it! When the update was announced, I was so excited for new missions and features. But after seeing it, I’m afraid the developers are flying this plane into a mountain. Instead of rewarding you for taking a perfectly framed and cloudless picture (which is already difficult enough when you’re flying through endless clouds), you are instead penalized for NOT getting a perfect shot by losing XP. And while you used to be able to get at least one coin for either perfect framing OR a cloudless photo, now you get 2 coins for both or nothing at all. The only reason I can imagine this is happening is to incentivize people to buy coin packages and spend them on perks like camera stabilizers and blue skies. But this is going to really alienate those users, like myself, who want to just enjoy the game. I may still play off and on, but I will not be as fervent as I was before. I hope that the dev’s change their direction before the wings fall off altogether and this flight crashes into the ocean, disappearing like Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Please do better guys.

This is principally a plane catching/collecting game (à la Pokémon Go). God knows why, but the devs in their infinite wisdom thought it’d be a good idea to start periodically wiping out people’s collections every “season”, and making you restart from scratch. There was absolutely no reason for this change. I don’t want to spend months working to complete my collection, only for a new “season” to start where every plane I caught is now treated like a new plane again. The season concept doesn’t necessarily need to go, but it needs to be implemented in a very different way so as to not ruin the game. Most importantly, you should at least have the option to choose (in settings) whether a plane on the map shows as a “new card” when it (A) hasn’t been collected ever, or (B) just hasn’t been collected during that particular season. I want to know whether the plane is in my deck, not whether I re-collected it this season, and a large chunk of the community seems to agree. Before Season 1 came out, I would’ve given this game 4-5 stars (and I was super excited for the prospect of S1 when it was announced). And some aspects of S1 are steps forward for sure. But the small choice to fundamentally undermine the whole point of the app by resetting your collection every “season” has ruined the game.

I’m a relatively new user within the last month or so and I was having a really fun time collecting cards for the achievements and hoping to finish them. I got really close too! I hadn’t joined in the discord until this week and so didn’t really see any of the plans for an update. Wondered what number of rare cards I was at for the achievement and when I opened the game today everything was completely new and the old achievements were locked meaning I could no longer collect for them and they were never finished and all that work I put in to it was for nothing. Now you have to re-catch everything for the new season and it’s really disappointing to me. Because why did I put in any effort at all? I didn’t know everything was going to reset. Not to mention near perfect catches you don’t even get one coin anymore. You used to get one coin for 100% framing and one coin for 0% clouds. So even if you missed and had 99% frame but 0% cloud you got one coin. But now even if you have no clouds and 99% framing you get zero coins and MINUS experience points. Makes it way harder to collect coins at all. Heavily makes you rely on the items that don’t drop very often for camera stabilization or no clouds item just to get perfect catches if you’re really not good at timing. That or micro transactions to just buy coins which wouldn’t surprise me if that’s what they want to drive people to. I spent coins on the unlimited photos for a half hour to try and re-catch cards now and couldn’t even make back the 75 coins needed to purchase that option. When it was absolutely more doable before. Sure yes they added some cool things into the game but the things I mentioned were really unsatisfactory to me as a new user. Really disappointing to feel like everything I did over the last month was for nothing.

ETA: it’s better. The seasons are gone. It’s still expensive to travel to airports, purchase helper items, and coin payout is low. If you’re new to the game, and didn’t know what it was like in the before times, you’ll probably enjoy the app. OP: -100% Framing/0% Clouds to get 2 coins on catch. No coins paid out for having one of those. Lose XP if not a perfect catch. -Must recatch plane in Season 1. Season 0 only counts in Battlefield. -Battlefield scoring is not balanced, or there is not an explanation for scoring. If I have the same value as my opponent in a category, my opponent wins? How? Why? -Battlefield is silly. I downloaded the game to catch and learn about aircraft. Everything seems to be centered around the Battlefield. -Everything is more expensive. Additional photos, traveling to airports, helper items. With coins earned slower, even if a person stayed on the app all day, there are some aspects of the game that are impossible to reach without paying real dollars for additional coins. -Everything casual and light about this game has been stripped, and in its place, a sense of frenzy and chaos is left. Please change it back, devs. Please?

I’m sad that I only got about a week’s worth of fun playtime on this game before the season 1 update completely ruined the experience for me. They changed the whole game to be more battle-focused when I hardly even bothered battling and was focused on the collection aspect. It felt like my progress was totally reset after I had gotten lots of cool planes during season 0. Radar expansions now cost 2.5x more than before, which is just ridiculous and makes the game so much less fun and way more frustrating. Don’t even get me started on how they made it so you HAVE to get a perfect photo of the plane to get ANY coins, so not only are things more expensive, but it’s way harder to even get enough coins to do anything. I’m so disappointed, as I was having a blast for the week I got to play before the update happened, and now my latest interest has been completely ruined to the point that I no longer want to play. I’m going to delete the app, as I have no desire to play anymore after the changes were made. Doesn’t help that this all happened after the company went 35% private equity owners 5 days before this update, which leads me to believe this entire fiasco was all just a money grab.

I’ve literally never written a review for an app before. the original season is skycards was truly my comfort space every single night or during down time in the afternoon. i loved it. i raved about the app to countless people. it was FUN, relaxing, exciting, and i felt like i was learning a lot about flight paths, airport hubs, plane sizes, etc. i took a genuine interest anytime i saw a plane in the sky and excitedly ran to the app to collect the plane. its simplicity is truly what drew me in the new updates leave me feeling frustrated and overstimulated. i tested out some of the new features and i felt aggravated and confused i’m not playing this as a “game” and i truly don’t care about a lot of the new features. i’ve lost any/all motivation to be on the app because there’s truly too much going on. it’s nearly impossible to earn points unless you take a “perfect picture” with no clouds, camera stabilizer perks are now rarer and this is making it more challenging to earn coins so you can even play in the first place and make it worthwhile. i truthfully feel sad and disappointed that im losing the enjoyment of this app and im pleading for a major reset back to how it was!!!

I enjoyed this game. Really, genuinely enjoyed it! Coins weren’t hard to come by, radar expansions were cheap, and it overall didn’t feel like there was so much pressure. Now, though, with this “Season 1” update, they’ve completely changed it. You can only get coins if you get a perfect capture – 100% framing and 0% clouds – whereas before, you could get at LEAST one coin from 100% framing OR 0% clouds. Now, if you’re even slightly off, you’re actively losing coins. Not to mention, why do we have to recollect the cards we already have for the new season? This is just going to burn through my photos, and I’m not likely to even make much money from doing it to begin with. Traveling to different airports is also incredibly expensive now, and for what? You make earning coins harder and everything more expensive, and expect people to continue to enjoy the game? Sorry, developers, but you sorely missed the mark on this update. This update effectively reversed the main parts of the game that make it enjoyable.

I’m very glad the game creators listened to everyone and got rid of the seasons update, and there are many things I do like about the current version… but there’s a few things I wish they’d switch back to the original for, all relating to how you get coins. 1. Why is the only way to get coins through completely perfect aircraft catches and fully completing the usually difficult daily missions? Before the update, you used to get 1 coin for an aircraft catches being 100% in the frame, and 1 coin for 0% clouds. Now the only option is 2 coins for a completely perfect catch of 0% clouds AND 100% framed. 2. Why are you only rewarded for the daily missions when you complete all 3? You used to be able to get 8-12 coins for completing 1 mission, but now you have to complete all 3 for a total of 50 coins. Which for some people it’s no big deal completing missions, but if you’re someone like me who can’t ever get the “catch a flight above the arctic circle” mission then you’re never gonna get the rewards. 3. Why did item shop prices go up? On top of it being more difficult to get coins, item shop prices went up by 50 coins for certain items. For example, I always get the “catch anywhere” feature which used to be 400 coins for 3, but now it’s 450 coins for 3. It’s already 10x more difficult for me to get coins and now I have to use 50 extra to get a simple item from the item shop?? These are the only complaints I have with the new update and if they’re able to remove/ fix these features the game will definitely be back to 5 stars.

I was a huge fan of this casual game to pass the time. It didn’t need to become more competitive. A season that lasts 30 days? I have to catch all the aircraft I meticulously caught in season 0? All of my achievements and catches are reset every THIRTY DAYS?! Are you kidding me?! This has gone the way that all private equity held ventures go. They’re clearly targeting a small number of “whale” users who spend gobs of money on in game currency and that’s all they care about. This update was to capitalize on them. The communities online and initial users who have helped propel this fun little game to what it is now are not cared about. Sure, there are more things to do in this update, but this should have just been bug fixes, maybe some minor adjustments and enhancements like what they did with daily missions, but by and large it was a solid game to start. This update is pure, unadulterated garbage that feels more like punishment for being an early adopter than increasing or even just continuing fun. The people calling the shots have made their motivations known. It’s not about fun.

Update: while the devs have listened and since rolled this back, I’m still struggling with enjoyment compared to when I first started. Only getting coin for perfect catches while adding more to the game you have to purchase is stupid. It’s 250 coins for a catch anywhere item and I’m less likely to play or spend any of the coin I currently do have “just in case”. As much as I want to increase the rating, I still in good consciousness can’t. Honestly, I adored this game as soon as I found it. Have been playing it constantly and even got my partner into it. The new seasons thing? I don’t like. What do you mean all the effort I made to catch and gold everything I had so far doesn’t matter? I have to do it all over again? “It’ll keep things fun!” I’m going to delete the game cuz it feels like I was forced to start over again. You can’t even opt out if you just want to catch planes/finish the deck. At least let us decide if we want to do the seasons or not.

Redownloaded and revised to acknowledge reversal updates that improve play. Still disappointed by the cash grab. Will also add that the UI overhaul made the cards much less legible—they used to be high-contrast, now they are harder to read for those of us with vision impairments. —— This is the only mobile game I’d ever spent my own money to play (for in-game currency). I was watching a stupid amount of ads. The amount of time I was playing was bordering on compulsion. I am certain this game was printing money for someone, and could have done so for a long time to come. I tried to play it once after the most recent update, and many of the incentives of gameplay that kept me coming back were removed. Others may enjoy it, but I’m finding it needlessly tedious. At least I’m spending less time looking at my phone. I appreciate that they are ditching the “season” model after feedback, but I think it’s probably too late for me to renew my interest.

This was my favorite game of recent months until this Season One update. It was just so much fun! I told all my friends this game was Pokémon Go with airplanes - except the airplanes were real and actually in the sky at the time. We even saw an accuracy fly overhead and then saw it in game - such a clever idea for a game, and so much fun. This style of collector game is a long play game. You collect and increase value over a longer period. You search for the ones you don’t have, and you increase the value of those you do have. Unfortunately, this Season One update not only made players feel like they lost all of their hard-earned progress, it made them feel starting over will be futile as well, since the beginning of the next season will bring that same sense of loss and restart. It’s incredibly difficult to get excited knowing what is coming - another feeling of total loss of your progress. I completely understand wanting to introduce new aircraft, new possible levels of XP for aircraft, new challenges, but saying, “well, you did all this work but now I’m taking that progress and putting it in a box… oh you missed some of the things you could have gotten? Well that doesn’t matter because all of your work starts over…” really takes the excitement and joy out of the anticipation of finding something new and building a collection. This game went from 5 stars to one with this update. Hopefully the developers will find a way to save it. It really was a tremendously fun game before the changes.

I loved this game, but they just made an update with a whole bunch of new stuff you have to “purchase” (with in game coins or real money to purchase more game coins). used to be that you would get a coin for “taking a photo” that had *either* the plane fully in the frame, or there are no clouds in frame, so depending on the picture you’d earn 0-2 coins. now, you get ZERO coins if you don’t get Both, and you cannot control the cloud level. instead, they have INTRODUCED another thing to purchase so that “the clouds are clear around an airport” for a short amount of time. you are also *penalized* (through reduced XP for the picture) if you don’t get 100% plane framing and 0% clouds (again. you have NO control over cloud cover). this especially irks me, because i thought the way it was set up was a great system: half of the coins you’d earn rely on your ability to snap it on time, which you’d be rewarded more with if you’re good at it. if you aren’t, then there’s randomly times where you Can catch something without clouds, and earn a coin. there is no other way to earn coins, aside from paying Real money and this looks like a major cash grab. i’m truly disappointed. on top of everything, if there IS cloud cover when you capture a new plane (or even a new plane “tHiS sEaSoN”) the card you end up with literally shows clouds covering the model. i just want to see the model, i don’t want it obscured because of something out of my control in a Video Game. i was playing so consistently and now i really don’t care anymore

I tried to have an open mind about the latest update (“Season 1”) but the update truly killed the game. They took a game where your goal is to collect planes and decided to have it reset every “season” which wipes out your progress. Every plane shows as “new card this season.” The most frustrating part is the huge increase in the amount of coins it takes to do anything. It used to be 12 coins for me to “travel” to the next closest airport, now it’s 22 coins. Another huge frustration— you have to travel to an airport to complete their tasks, even if they are within your radar, you still have to pay 20+ coins to travel there. That’s absurd. The only thing I like about the update is that they didn’t reset airport progress. If every airport showed as new, this game would be completely unplayable. I really loved SkyCards. I hope they listen to their users and rollback some of these changes.

They took everything fun about this game and turned it into a complete money grab with the season 1 update. Not only is it significantly more difficult to get coins by capturing aircraft, there is now also an exp penalty if there are any clouds in the shot. Traveling to airports within your gps circle is more expensive, but you have to pay to travel to them if you want to unlock their tasks. And most disappointing of all, they reset the progress of all aircraft and airports that I had already spent countless hours working towards. Unless significant changes are made back towards the casual collecting model of ‘season 0’, I will be deleting this app and not looking back. I have absolutely nothing good to say about this season 1 update—hopefully the devs realize that they have completely ruined what made this game fun and go back towards it before they lose the entire original player base.

The devs have completely changed the game from its original inventive structure with their latest update. It was a completionist collection game. Now it is a spammy battle game that is pushing for your cash with a broken rewards system and a “seasons” format that erases your progress periodically. It is impossible to enjoy the game as I had before. I feel a bit guilty for getting friends into this game before the update too, but how could I have known? I’ve never seen a game’s design so abruptly and severely damaged. I hope they take the community’s feedback but it seems unlikely. And there was such a good community! I loved FlightRadar24 before the game too but I don’t see things headed in a good direction after they sold a significant stake to private equity. Hopefully someone else will make something like the original game. I’m done with what was once my favorite game.

I enjoyed playing the app until the season 1 change went live. It erased all my progress on cards so all my cards with 50k plus experience were reset to zero which is so infuriating. This is like handing someone your pokemon card collection and watching them burn it in front of you and smiling because they’re gonna do it again next month. I’m not enjoying the new coin earning method and the negative experience points for getting photos of planes. 0 coins for 1% of the photo containing clouds? Insane. This app had it right before season 1 went live with the collection aspect, now it’s a shot in the foot if you don’t live near an airport. The new UI is nice and I like the mission rewards so that is a small saving grace. For those of you considering downloading this app, it’s a chop.

I was excited to play this fun game and collect lots of planes but the new update has made the game worse. It makes no sense to make people have to re-catch planes and have their progress reset each season. There are already so many different planes and airports and etc to collect that it would take a really long time to get them all. To reset all that progress each season can only result in lots of players being frustrated and potentially just ditching the game all together. The increased costs are also ridiculous. The most coins you can get from a single plane is 2, so upping the costs of things that already require a decent amount of effort to save up for is just annoying.

This quickly became my favorite mobile game ever. Being an aviation professional and hobbyist, I thought it was an awesome concept and love the element of catching all these different aircraft/airlines/airports/etc. However, like so many have pointed out, this latest “season 1” update has destroyed the game. One of the biggest breaths of fresh air about this game was that this company appeared to be one of the very few who were just focused on a cash grab to reel in dollars from its users. However, now with this update, it is clear that the greed has turned on in full force. The significant increase in coins to travel to nearby airports and to expand your radar, among other things, is a complete joke. I’m not optimistic at this point, but hopefully something is done to revert such a poor, distasteful decision.

Season 0 of skycards was masterfully crafted to make my brain happy. two main goals of collecting all the planes and collecting all the airports. season 1 resetting collection progress instead of adding more planes/just adding card variants was a really big mistake.

I signed up a few days and was hooked by the simple game play. Catch as many planes as you can. Now with this new season 1 update everything is more expensive, and you have to start over. Not cool

To those that played when the game first launched in season “0”, remember those times. The devs and business completely ruined this game for its user base with the new season 1 update. All progress made has been wiped, it takes WAY more effort to generate coins, the main UI is more busy and you see less of the map on top and bottom. I spent weeks worth of time playing this game because I love to collect things, and now it’s all gone and been reset. Literally no reason to play this game anymore. And if you’re starting fresh now in season 1, well guess what happens when season 2 comes out? Your progress will be wiped again. So what’s the point of even playing? Absolutely nonsensical business decision by the game developer. Classic 2025 gaming industry move.

Was really enjoying this game and then the update released and it feels like everything I did was for nothing. Don’t reset each season

They’ve ruined everything that was fun about the game and made it purely monetization now.

Some things are pretty good. I enjoy travelling and collecting coins to add the strategic element of where to travel to. However, only having five photos at a time and the time it takes for photos and the fact that real weather doesn’t impact clouds (you always start in clouds) is a pain. I’d get it more if clouds were about real weather in the area. Also, the time spent on photo screens and after taking a photo is wasteful and frustrating. If I have a limited time somewhere or with unlimited photos I don’t want to spend so much of that time watching photo quality load or plane info load. Should be able to skip through all this.

I’m sorry to say that the new update destroyed my interest in this game completely. It’s not worth installing and going through new “seasons” in its current state. Such a shame as I really enjoyed the game before the update.

It was a pretty fun casual game, and I could see how it was a bit too easy to play too long for no cost. But the changes made basically threw out all the gameplay progress to date. Would have been better to shut down this game fully and start over.

So sad to see a great app fall so far for the reasons it has. Deleted it and will miss playing

Before the most recent update, this game was SO much fun, and engaging! The new update makes the game almost pointless to play for those interested in catching planes, and seems like a way to justify forcing players to spend real world money in app

The most recent update to the game totally ruined the collecting aspect for me. I enjoyed collecting for the sake of collecting, and had very little interest in the battling aspect. The new changes have totally turned me off of the game

I loved playing Skycards until this new season 1 update. I worked so hard to build my deck and now it’s gone. It’s so much harder to progress in the game now. It’s completely taken all the fun out of it for me and where before it was a fun, soothing game, now it’s boring and frustrating. So disappointing.

Developers took a collection game for aviation enthusiasts and turned it into a money grab. Seasons is a terrible idea and I along with everyone else who enjoyed this game is totally upset. Catching planes you already caught last season is ridiculous.

I don’t mind the idea of seasons - but the fact that I have to catch all of my planes over again is insane

Season 1 update is beyond disappointing with a clear goal of pushing monetizing to the max. Can no longer recommend, extremely sad to lose such a fun game and community.

Cool little game but drains phone battery way too quickly. Also kinda wish this used Apple Maps instead of Google

Even after reverting to 2.0.19 the app is extremely glitchy and unstable - keeps crashing every 30 seconds. Previous update made the phone extremely hot and laggy.

Not compatible

I’m gonna delete until they update the app and include the fin numbers of Aircraft’s.

Dear PM who decided that seasons was what we needed, stop trying to be fortnight, it’s not the point of your app. I’ve not played since I updated and am only logging in to see if you’ve come to your senses after all your players are telling you the same.

Ive been playing since late 2024 and removing seasons was a step in the right direction, but still only getting coins for perfect photos is annoying. Still some progress to be made but a step in the right direction. Also the new UI looks… not the best, but the new card tiers are awesome.

Thanks for getting rid of seasons might start playing again now

Sometimes Coins or power ups don't work/dissapear. Occasionally the App freezes when trying to catch a plane. It's a fun app when it works.

I very much appreciate that they listened to players about the update and have removed the seasons and reset of progress on cards. I am still waiting for them to change the catch penalty (though it doesn’t seem like we’ll be getting the coins back to what it was previously…) as this was my original main issue. but i like when devs listen to players Review before 24 Sept 2025: The new update sucks. i hate that i lost all my progress on cards, no longer get coins for either clear sky or full framing but ONLY with both, and there’s a penalty for imperfect shots too?? what’s the point of penalizing players?? also sucks that i have to “travel” to airports in my radius to see the tasks. plus i miss getting coins for each daily task completed rather than having to complete them all. this was a fun simple cozy game and it’s been gutted completely despite there being technically more to do in-game now