# DroneDeploy Flight App — user reviews > 140 indexed App Store user reviews of DroneDeploy Flight App by DroneDeploy, rated 4.66/5 from 5,288 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dronedeploy-flight-app/id971358101/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dronedeploy-flight-app/id971358101.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4,395 · 4★ 396 · 3★ 129 · 2★ 92 · 1★ 215 ## What do users think of DroneDeploy Flight App? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Fantastic user experience - 🚀 Very streamlined - 🚀 Automated missions are great - 🚀 Excellent program - 🚀 Easy to understand and operate - 🚀 Great flight planning, mapping and analysis software **Cons** - 🐛 BUG RIDDEN, COST ME TIME AND MONEY, WASTED ON SITE DISASTER 4YRS NOW - 🐛 Many bugs - 🐛 Crashes mid flight - 🐛 Freezes, glitches, and crashes - 🐛 Unreliable, loses drone position, cuts video feed - 🐛 Aggressive and imprecise landings - 🐛 Overheats newer iPads - 🐛 Glitchy, inconsistent, and not reliable - 🐛 Keeps crashing, freezing, and glitching - 🐛 Fails to resume missions, override landing, and capture required images **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes on iOS 12.5.1 and 12.5.2 - Doesn't work with iOS 14 update - Login issues, can't create account - Doesn't work on iPad mini - Fails to upload and process flight data - Loses GPS signal mid-flight - Camera view doesn't work with Mavic 2 Pro **Most requested features** - Dark mode option - Exposure control within the app - Ability to change start position - Support for more drone models like DJI Mini 2, Mavic Air 2, and Inspire 1 ## Newest reviews (13 of 140) ### 3/5 — Needs work *2024-12-11, version 5.59.0* So you don’t see the full resolution of a map on your iPhone or IPad unless you go to the website and view from there directly. Uploading files from a flight directly from SD card to an iPad or iPhone is glitchy along with unreliable. If you doing it from scratch like wanting to drop files directly on to the app you can’t. Basically anything besides export and sharing data that already exist your gonna need a computer. ### 1/5 — One start just because there aren’t a lot of other options *2024-02-03, version 5.14.0* I’ve been using a Mavic 2 and GSPro for a while, but with the recent firmware update with Remote ID, it was no longer supported, so I had to use DroneDeploy. This app fails on numerous fronts…It FAILS to resume a mission if more than one battery is required. When I try to exit automatic landing, it still persists, even if I close the application and disconnect my iPad - PILOTS BE WARNED OF IMPRECISE AND AGGRESSIVE LANDINGS!! Be ready to manually catch a fast descending drone. I attempted to set the camera settings in DJI GO4, but drone deploy overrode the parameters anyway and used a shutter speed WAY too low for mapping that resulted in my imagery having motion blur. It also fails to capture the required images at the preprogrammed overlap, which makes basic mapping unbelievably challenging. I used an iPad Gen6 running the latest iOS, but the app is extremely slow if I’m lucky enough for it not to crash at all. I’m not sure how anybody is having any success with this application. Unfortunately Pix4D capture just doesn’t have a lot of settings to control… ### 1/5 — Not opening *2024-01-24, version 5.12.0* Used this app on my smart phone and my Samsung tablet with no issue. Now installed on my iPad and it only goes blue screen and close it self. ### 1/5 — Automated flights and offline flights aren’t too great *2023-10-25, version 5.1.0* The app says I have 15/10 offline flight plans when there aren’t even any saved ### 1/5 — Air 2S issues *2023-10-16, version 4.161.0* No matter what I do, my Air 2S keeps freezing during a mission - saying “Calibrating Camera Focus”. I’ve been in contact with DJI support for over a week going through all kinds of tests and even calibrated with DJI Assist to no avail. They his app is now useless to our needs. Really disappointing. ### 2/5 — Almost lost drone *2023-09-12, version 4.157.0* Software stopped showing the path of the drone with the little blue triangular figure. That was a bit scary. ### 1/5 — Over Heats Newer IPad *2023-06-30, version 4.146.0* I have been a user for 5 years and every so often, I have to fully delete the app and reinstall to alleviate the overheating. Today I reinstalled 3 times but just keeps getting hot. Have to fly with iPad on an ice pack ### 1/5 — Phantom 3 Pro *2023-06-01, version 4.142.0* No deja iniciar el vuelo con un phantom 3 pro, siempre da un error en el check list y el drone funciona perfectamente ya que con Pix4D se pueden hacer vuelos autónomos de manera normal. ### 1/5 — Very Glitchy App. Led to Drone Crash *2023-05-15, version 4.139.0* This app has been very glitchy and inconsistent for me. It constantly loses the drones position, cuts the video feed and often closes the app during flight. Last week while using the app my drone randomly fell from the sky and crashed. Dronedeploy needs to resolve these issues before I can recommend it. ### 1/5 — App simply crashes *2023-05-02, version 4.136.0* Tried to contact tech support, all that is there is an AI chat bot, so no help there. Combined with the RIDICULOUSLY high per month price, I won’t be using this anytime soon. Too bad, as it looked promising. App is unuseable on my IPad ### 1/5 — Inconsistent - not reliable *2023-03-29, version 4.133.0* Camera view frequently does not work. Randomly freezes or glitches. Missions will glitch halfway through creating mismatched maps. ### 1/5 — Still no access with iPad 2 mini *2023-03-26, version 4.131.0* Still no access with iPad 2 mini (iOS 12, no availability for iOS 13) ### 1/5 — Drone photo *2023-01-27, version 4.123.0* No camera view when flying ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Slow *2026-08-18, version 5.137.0* This app is painfully slow, unresponsive, and buggy. Surprising because the desktop version works great. ### 1/5 — Requires too much personal info to fly drone *2026-01-06, version 5.111.0* Requires phone number ### 1/5 — BUG RIDDEN COST ME TIME AND MONEY WASTED ON SITE DISASTER 4YRS NOW *2025-10-31, version 5.99.0* Disaster. Each update breaks more flights and wastes my days time money out on site. Zero support. No one to talk to. Rubbish experience. Unbelievable! ### 1/5 — Many bugs *2025-07-24, version 5.79.3* I’m still mid mission, hours later. ### 1/5 — :’( *2025-07-07, version 5.79.3* It looks great but It’s kicking me out please fix that issue :’( ### 1/5 — No for Drones *2025-06-02, version 5.79.3* This doesn’t control drones …not sure what this is but it doesn’t work. ### 1/5 — ? *2025-05-06, version 5.79.0* Why do I have to create business account to use this app? It’s just a toy… ### 1/5 — Misleading Air2S Support *2024-11-19, version 5.56.0* Unusable with Air2s due to frequency of errors. ### 1/5 — This app crashed our Mavic Air 2 *2024-11-12, version 5.55.0* Mission was flown, didn’t take one picture during flight, it wouldn’t let me take manual control of the drone , wouldn’t stay at height set , after mission flown instead of staying in one spot or landing it descended to half the height and took off full speed into trees, I do not recommend this faulty app if you value your drone ### 1/5 — 👎🏻 *2024-08-11, version 5.40.0* Se tilda enseguida no es posible ni arrancar …. No pierdan tiwmpo ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great and super intuitive *2024-11-02, version 5.53.0* Fantastic user experience. Very streamlined ### 5/5 — Project stopped mid project *2024-07-24, version 5.39.0* While app displayed “change battery and continue” message, the app finalised flight half way into a 80 minute flight ### 5/5 — Team awareness issues *2024-07-20, version 5.38.0* Not working again, iOS 13P max ### 5/5 — Can’t without DroneDeploy! *2024-04-21, version 5.25.0* The best thing to happen to UAVs since UAVs! ### 5/5 — Cool *2024-02-18, version 5.16.0* I know mission planner really well. It’s what I work off but this is fun and easy. You can get a mission up and going to five minutes. ### 5/5 — Flight *2023-08-03, version 4.151.1* The best flight planning, mapping and analysis software I’ve used. Very easy to program flights and export data to AutoCAD. Easily create profiles, Point clouds and it even can auto tag GCPs. Have not regretted the move from previous software. ### 5/5 — 2D mapping *2023-06-16, version 4.144.0* Excellent program. Easy to understand and operate. ### 5/5 — Awesome *2022-10-12, version 4.109.0* Took me an hour to do this manually with the Air 2 without DD. 10 minutes with the Pro2 using DD. Awesome. Totally awesome. ### 5/5 — Problem with terrain awareness *2022-10-04, version 4.107.0* When terrain awareness is enabled loads the half route ### 5/5 — Works *2022-08-13, version 4.100.0* Works Great --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-29.*