ACARS App Reviews

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Upgrade needed. Needs more features as pause, save and keep on memory what is already decoded.

Not good. Does not work on iOS 8.04 FAQ error with unable to read Avoid don't waste your money

Amateur. I have used top notch ham decoding apps and bad ones. I'm current iOS and this app works beautifully even unsquelched. This is my first time playing with this mode and this app let me confirm some very useful info. Even jumbled garbage tells you something. I had a minor career in comma and I am going to rate this a 5 because it works off the air( no cable), you have virtually unlimited number of folders. An improvement would be to have a bigger buffer per file but hey, it was worth it's weight In gold to ME, others not wanting specific data or range extrapolation might not rate it as high. All in all, if I wanted to follow say a friends aircraft using a minimal outside antenna for about 250 miles with just a used scanner and iOS device can have an easy relatively advanced system incorporating this quick down and cool app. I'm not into iOS, computers or apps and have no idea who or how this was written so take my 5 stars for what it's worth and who wrote it. A forever novice to iOS and apps!

Perfect.. Excellent App, using it on iPad 2 and works great with just a standard VHF handheld scanner positioned beside the microphone. To the developer just one suggestion, if you could please update it so that the decoder can run in the background while other apps are being used. Many Thanks.

Works better than most ACARS decoders. I’ve tried other ACARS decoding software and have been disappointed, but this app worked reasonably well. My only wish would be for it to work in the background. I’ve already had $3 worth of fun with it...

Works as advertised. The app does work, but requires some tweaking/experimenting with the microphone and speaker placement, signal/antenna. Pretty good app, would like to see an update though. I copied signals from two different radios, an Icom ICR6 Communications Receiver and an XHDATA D808 portable shortwave radio . Both performed reasonably well tuned to 130.551 mHz Air band (AM).

It's a nice start..... Having seen Black Cat Systems Multimode, I figured that I'd be getting similar quality in thus app....Well, it's a nice start, but it's pretty clumsy to exit this app when it's running (you press the button and bail out completely). Also wish there more options to save the received ACARS text as well as pause operation, too. The decodes are sometimes garbled even when there is no background noise present, but for the most part can decode ACARS reception decently. Here's to hoping the author adds some more features to this first effort to improve its operation.

It works.. VERY minimum application, it receives ACARS and that's it. You can put your earbud microphone next to radio speaker, but best bet would be a line-level microphone input. Even if packet doesn't fully decide properly, you get what does decode. Thats a plus. Wish it could run in the background. Only thing I understand is Tail number and type aircraft in packet. It would be nice if the rest of the jibberish is translated to what it actually means. However, it does work. I use in with SDR on the Airband.

Works perfectly. I have verified (iPhone 4/IOS 6) that this app works in both audio (scanner next to phone) and direct-connect (using home-made adapter) modes. If you are handy with electronics, build the adapter - it works better (there's a link to the plans in the description); if you're not, there are some commercial versions now available (google "iphone microphone adapter"). Obviously you need a scanner or other aircraft radio to receive signals in the first place. Nicely done app!

Neat, but needs work for the cost. Like the other reviews have alluded, this app operates like a proof-of-concept. Yes, it decodes, but that's it. There's no organization of data, no filtering, no background running of the app, screen colors are fixed at black on white. It's just simplistic.

Needs support for Apple Watch. Needs support for Apple Watch

Requires some audio tweaking. First make sure you can get the RF from the planes as high quality as you can (good antenna, receiver tweaks). Then it will require various experimenting placing the iPhone in good position so the phone mics can hear the transmission. And also experiment with the receiver’s volume. You will see the data scrolling on the phone screen if you get all of the above correct. Now look at your data for quality decodes. If the data looks garbled, play around with the settings and positions again. And....in the app’s configuration, make sure you have a file selected to store the data on the phone. Another thing I really dislike in the app is that if you open another app, all the data displayed in the ACARS screen goes blank and then if you want to view the data, you have to open the stored data files. It does this everytime you goto another app on your phone. I want to try this app after adding an external microphone to my iPhone 8+ via a splitter cable. I really hope this will help with the decoding of crap data to quality data. Good luck - when all is tweaked correctly, it is a great app. But honestly, use PDW on a PC.

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Acars review. Acars is just a very basic acars decoder. The GUI is just a blank screen with a level bar at the top. It decodes aircraft name, date and time. The program is well over priced considering it's simplicity. For that sort of money you would expect some maps and basic position information. I hope the author will update this software with position information plotted on a map and maybe decode some of the other bits of info transmitted. Ohh well at least it decodes well even when using the iPhone mic!

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Irig. Tested with Irig

Some issues with new ios9.0.2. Lots decoding errors displayed after upgrading to iOS 9.0.2. Hope you guys are working on fixing this.

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