Historic Aerials

After setting the bar as low as humanly possible with the antiquated, glitchy, almost totally useless web experience, they’ve perfectly migrated that frustration and buginess into this awful app as well. And they want to charge a premium for it! In every facet of this company’s design, interface, and business decisions, it’s obvious that this is one of those companies that views their own customers as hostile enemies. Fine. There are much better alternatives out there. I sincerely hope for Historical Aerials eventual failure and cessation to exist. Adios!

Great website, app still a work in progress. Features like Split View are awesome, and I wouldn’t mind the ads, except that it is currently broken completely. The ad says it is loading but then gets stuck at 0s remaining, forcing you to hit the “back” button and then you lose your place and layer settings. App is unusable currently! If this bug is fixed, I’ll gladly update my review. iPad Pro 11” 3rd gen, v26.3.1

The browser version of historic aerials is really helpful. This app could be great but the developers’ monetization decisions make it complerely useless. The “parcels” lines (property lines layer) don’t display. I’m trying to use it without that necessary information (I’m metal detecting and need to ensure that I don’t go outside the boundaries of my landowner permissions). The top and bottom of the already-small phone screen are covered by banner ads for other apps, further reducing the available display area, and bumping them as I scroll makes the ads open. There are also constant video ads for that stupid animated king game, which seem to run for thirty seconds either every two or three minutes. Those ads include sound, when I need to be able to hear the detector’s signals. If the boundary layers was fixed and the ads were removed with a paid version, I’d give it a trial run. Otherwise, I’m sticking with my other property app and the browser version of this.