Is there a good app for track flight status and delays?
Prime Gap: 92 apps already serve this, and 84 data points mined from real user reviews across 2 sources show where they fall short. Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap.
Data refreshed September 28, 2026 · scores recompute weekly as new reviews are mined, so re-check before you build.
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to track flight status and delays, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| delayed flight status updates | reliability | 1 | Flight updates are delayed on the app and your flight could be cancelled and you would not know it |
| real-time flight status accuracy | reliability | 1 | Never trust the app alone to tell you the true status of your flight in real time |
| in-flight flight status visibility | missing-feature | 1 | Can't even check my flight status in flight. Have to go to external website |
| no flight delay stats on Android | missing-feature | 1 | Can't even find flight delay stats |
| flight time and delay updates lag | reliability | 1 | The app also has issues with keeping up with the latest flight times / delays |
| flight status info updated infrequently | reliability | 1 | Info updated infrequently... Hard to track status info |
| flight status not updating | bug | 1 | It doesn't update flights |
| cannot check flight status | bug | 1 | Can’t check flight status |
| flight status lookup broken | bug | 1 | Can no longer look up flight status. Just takes me to “book flight” page |
| text message flight updates | reliability | 1 | hit and miss text message updates |
| slow flight updates | performance | 1 | incredibly slow to load flight updates |
| inaccurate flight status | reliability | 1 | says the flight is on time when I’m sitting here an hour past scheduled departure |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hopper: Flights, Hotels & Cars | 4.8 | 1,226,649 | Free |
| byAir: Flight Tracker & Status | 4.8 | 189 | Free |
| Flight Tracker + | 4.7 | 290,491 | Free |
| Track My Flight Now | 4.2 | 606 | Free |
| FlightAware Flight Tracker | 3.7 | 45,297 | Free |
| Flight Tracker Pro Plane Radar | 4.8 | 1,365 | $5.99 |
| Flightview - Flight Tracker | 3.7 | 6,363 | Free |
| FlightAware Flight Tracker | 4.9 | 386,967 | Free |
Should you build it?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap. Opportunity here scores 87 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
Who has tried building this
| Project | Status | Stars | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| BrachettaMatteo/flight_tracker_app | stale | 6 | Dart |
Open-source projects that attempted this task — active ones show today's bar; abandoned ones are a signal to validate why earlier attempts died.
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