Last updated on January 17th, 2026 at 02:07 pm
Skycards by Flightradar24 – Travel Game Review
Skycards by Flightradar24 is a Travel/Casual/Card game from Flightradar24 AB, first launched in 14th November 2024.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,686+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Skycards by Flightradar24 Stand Out
Capture real aircraft and build your card deck using live data from Flightradar24.
• REAL-TIME AIRCRAFT — Spot aircraft in the game as they fly overhead in real life. Use the in-game camera to capture planes and add them to your collection!
• BUILD A DECK — Collect aircraft models to assemble an impressive fleet. Catch the same model many times to upgrade your cards.
• BATTLE — Challenge other players in thrilling card-based battles using your aircraft cards.
• UPGRADE — Level up your character to earn coins, unlock new features, and get more apparel for your avatar.
Whether you’re a casual gamer or an aviation enthusiast, Skycards offers an exciting, real-world experience that brings aviation to your fingertips. Start collecting today!
This Travel game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Skycards by Flightradar24 is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 12th January 2026
Recent improvements include:
Minor bugfixes and improvements
Download & Availability
Skycards by Flightradar24 is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Skycards by Flightradar24 on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 (Cellular) / iPhone 6s / iPhone 6s Plus / iPad Mini 4 (Cellular) or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
After playing on the season 1 update for a bit we think its 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, we 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, we like the xp penalty for not getting a perfect catch, but the all or nothing on catch coins is awful.
Ive learned so much about airplanes and geography, and its helps make the loud planes going overhead daily into a fun game. Wasnt a fan of some of the season 1 updates but theyve fixed a lot of the problems, and the rest Ive gotten used to. Grateful the developers listen to their users & you can tell they put a lot of work and care into this app.
So happy to have the new resolution on fixing the seasons. Waited on the patch to leave our first review as it was already catching enough flak from everyone else. Back to a 5 star game again. Ask the owner and pilot of an ultra rare its pretty fun to hear everyone trying to collect our plane when we go fly.
We were disconcerted by the season change, that caused us to lose all collected aircraft, but was making fair headway with re-collecting. A waste of time, it now appears! We 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.
Enjoy playing it and learning about planes. Can you please add Twin-Oaks Airport-T94.
Im so happy you reverted season one.
Revising our negative review to acknowledge the fact that the devs listened to feedback and reversed the introduction of seasons. The game is back to what it was originally. All too rare an occurrence these days.
EDIT: back to 5 stars. The devs didnt 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. Im 100% back to addicted! Thank you! This was the single most addictive app we have found in years. We LOVED everything about it and actually spent money on it which we generally refuse to do. It wasnt necessary but we wanted things. Think of it as Pokmon Go with 737s instead of Pikachus. But alas, Season 1 dropped in an update this week and wiped out every single bit of progress you made before. Oh its still there in an archive format of sorts, but its 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 we 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 its such a cool idea thats been burnt down in self inflicted wounds by whoever is driving this thing. Really sad but we guess we really cant have nice things.
With the seasons update it had ruined the main reason for why we like to play the game which is casually collecting all the cards and leveling them up. Restarting that every season was not enjoyable and quite frustrating. Rolling that back had showed they listened to our feedback and the game is now enjoyable again.
The season update was a big miss but the Devs listened and its now gone. Having to get 100% on both clouds and frame for any coins is our biggest gripe. We hope the game keeps heading in a good direction.
We loved this game and stopped playing after the season 1 update and having to recatch everything. Thank you for changing that back.
Since the devs retraced the seasons update, we wanted to update the review to reflect the new experience. This game is addicting, and we do like the parts of the updates they kept! We can go back to collecting our planes and theres nice new items that make the QOL a lot nicer. The only reason it isnt five stars is because it is so much harder to earn coins, and things are much costlier than they used to be in game. Our chief request would be to be able to earn one coin when you get either no clouds or perfect framing, and maybe if you get both, you get a 3rd coin.
Game is back to its semi original self and is now the version we all know and love.
Update: thank you for fixing the problems with Season 1! Im excited to keep working towards our achievements again! Previous Review: we were enjoying collecting all of the planes but then everyones progress was reset yesterday with no warning when they launched Season 1. They also locked many achievements that we were working towards, meaning that we can never finish them. If they had announced this launch in advance we would have hustled to try and finish the achievements we were working towards.
They reverted the game back to the simple plane collecting. No seasons. Im tired of so many games having seasons.
Update – changing back to 5 stars after the devs listened (something more games should do) and removed the seasons. Back to normal, great game. This game WAS incredible but come to find this morning they updated it with seasons that wipes your cards. Devs – you had a great game, get rid of this season stuff you absolutely ruined a great thing. This isnt COD theres no reason a game like this should have a season.
A recent update made it so that Skycards had seasons and for each new season that started, users had to recatch all the planes theyd caught before and essentially lose any progress they made. However, the developers have listened to the outpouring of complaints and removed the seasons concept. We left the app after the update, but now that seasons are gone Im happily coming back. We really enjoy this app and appreciate the devs listening and doing something about the problem. Thank you devs.
After downloading this game we went from a casual plane enjoyer to a downright plane nerd. It always makes us so happy to open the app and see an aircraft that we love is flying somewhere nearby. Thanks Skycards :).
We really enjoy Skycards, especially being able to use real flight data to collect planes. Ive learned a ton about aircraft since we started playing, and its really cool to see whats in the sky above AND elsewhere.
The game itself is super fun – collecting planes in real world data is awesome. The dev team has done a great job of listening to player feedback – even rolling back a massive update that missed the mark. Its a rarity to find a team nowadays who will listen and admit they went the wrong direction. 10/10.
It was really annoying having to redo catching all the planes again, plus getting them to silver and then gold all over again. Thats why we originally deleted it after playing for a week or 2. However, once the devs listened to their players, we saw a post on Reddit & downloaded the game again. Thanks for listening and being better game devs than others.
Ive always enjoyed the flight radar so when this app came about and allowed us to start capturing planes, we loved it! Ive been a user for about a year and we think its worth mentioning what just went down. The creators had this idea to introduce seasons where your cards would reset and your deck started from scratch. It was a terrible move, maybe a good idea for another type of app, but it ruined the gamification of the collection. Youll see, the comments around 9/18/2025 are pretty rough and heartily agree with us but within 10 days, the creators listened to their users and fixed the game by eliminating seasons and making the library permanent. All this to say, we LOVE DEVELOPERS THAT LISTEN TO THEIR USERS!!! 5/5 app.
This is a great game!!! Im obsessed we play every single day. Yes the update made things different but it honestly wasnt that bad. They have since rolled back the update so everyone can calm down Either way this game is amazing.
The developers had a misstep with the Season 1 update and acknowledged user complaints and returned the game to normal. Its the perfect game to play again.
Updating our review after removing seasons. The core of the game, collecting, has a great gameplay loop that encouraged playing as a community to find rare planes and destinations. We dislike the XP penalty for less than perfect shots and making coins harder to get. But our key complaints with the seasons update are being removed.
We just wish we could still get 1 of the coins we dont like 2 or nothing.
We mean the game is fun but when we updated it it logged of our account How do we get it back.
What a lovely game! We can pick it up during random times of the day to catch planes in our area or travel to romantic destinations across the world to catch Rare airplanes. We can visit airports in remote locations and catch helicopters and hot air balloons. Different achievements, battles for coins, collecting different types of aircraft; there are so many different ways to play! The devs listened when that first major update came and changed some things back, its so appreciated!! You can see there are passionate community members! Keep flying.
Found this app right after a surgery with a long recovery and Ive been playing it everyday since. Bonus fun if you have a pilot friend and catch their flight!! The game is still so new Im excited to see the directions its taken in.
Sky cards is so much fun and so far has done a incredible job makeing changes the community has wanted to see great game 100% recommend.
They added an update with seasons which was bad, long story short it basically reset your progress at the end of each season. Most people hated it, so they removed it, but kept other improvements. This app is back to 5 stars and is a great game for aviation enthusiasts.
Its back to being a great, addictive collecting game.
After not playing for weeks because of the update where seasons were introduced, they finally got rid of them and the cards were combined from s0 and s1. Im back to playing daily.
They really messed the game up with the season 1 update but they listened to fan feedback and pulled back the changes. Any developer that actually takes feedback from the player base is a good one in our book.
Happily, devs listened to issues and worked to correct whole making app fun and challenging again. Much appreciated.
Unlike other games, these devs listen to feedback and implement changes or rollback if needed. They implemented a major change that while is understandable, wasnt what most people were using the game for. (Seasons) They rolled back seasons for those of us that are interested in collecting planes and tail numbers. A lot of people gave bad reviews and uninstalled before the devs had a chance to respond and fix – so take those reviews with a grain of salt.
Updated our review because they fixed the issues and listened to everyones complaints! Its fun again.
Thank you Devs for listening to your customer base. It truly is a stand up act to have listened to your users feedback regarding the season 1 update, and it shows your character to roll back and merge season 0 with season 1 and removing seasons all together. It is much appreciated in the community. This game is back to being the masterpiece, one of a kind game that we all fell in love with during season 0. Thank you.
So happy the devs actually listen to their players! Love this game so much.
Why is it so hard to find the list of airports youve collected? And why are some of them so expensive to unlock.
The 9/9/25 update destroyed everything good about this game. But fortunately after some time the devs fixed the egregious things and its back to being fun.
Thank you for listening to our feedback! Now that the deck is universal its become a lot more fun again :) our last gripe with the update is how punishing its gotten for casual players – no single-coin rewards for half-perfect photos, XP cuts on imperfect photos (really just a UI thing, it feels very negative, but if better photos got XP bonuses it would feel fine), and all-or-nothing mission rewards when missions are very difficult to complete. Overall fantastic game, would just love those pre-update features to come back.
Thank yall for listening and getting rid of season cards!! Still lowkey sad about the xp penalties and changes to the mission system but hey well cross that bridge when we get there.
Update: Theyve reverted the update which is great. Re-rating for the time being. Used to be a great game until the developers got money hungry and ruined all that it was with the new season 1 update. Saddening.
This game used to be so much fun trying to collect cards but the update ruined it…no one wants to keep catching the same cards every new season. Unless they revert back we're going to just delete it. Way to yuck everyone's yum just to try and make a quick buck update: they have made great improvements since the horrible upgrade but there are still a few issues that need be addressed…still freezes and crashes.
Changed from 1 star to 4 and hoping to change back to 5 in the future! The developers listened to feedback on recent changes that were, well, not great. The game is fun and a great way for us to pass some time with a hobby we enjoy.
This little game is so addictive. Ill spend hours on end catching different planes. The only thing we wish is that there was a list in game that would have all the free travel airports Ive unlocked for the week. Only bc itd be easier than having to remember everywhere.
The developers listen to the community. It's a fun game.
Im very glad the game creators listened to everyone and got rid of the seasons update, and there are many things we do like about the current version but theres a few things we wish theyd 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 its no big deal completing missions, but if youre someone like us who cant ever get the catch a flight above the arctic circle mission then youre 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, we always get the catch anywhere feature which used to be 400 coins for 3, but now its 450 coins for 3. Its already 10x more difficult for us to get coins and now we have to use 50 extra to get a simple item from the item shop?? These are the only complaints we have with the new update and if theyre able to remove/ fix these features the game will definitely be back to 5 stars.
This game is super fun. However, we spent a long time working on getting to level 30. We finally got it and the rewards were not given. Ive had no response in the discord server that is suggested to use.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.0.22
- Size: 138.82 MB
- iOS: 16.6 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Flightradar24 AB
Last updated: 12th January 2026 | Genre: Travel, Casual | Developer: Flightradar24 AB