# VIVITAR AEROVIEW — user reviews > 60 indexed App Store user reviews of VIVITAR AEROVIEW by 莉 崔, rated 2.49/5 from 185 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vivitar-aeroview/id1399958757/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vivitar-aeroview/id1399958757.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 42 · 4★ 21 · 3★ 18 · 2★ 9 · 1★ 94 ## Newest reviews (13 of 60) ### 2/5 — Not Good (Won’t Recommend) *2022-07-03, version 1.8* So at the beginning I got everything set up, and all was well. However, later I couldn’t connect with the controller. It was okay though since you can fly with the app. More time passes. Then it refused to takeoff. Another day I tried again and it failed again. Then, the next day I tried one last time, and it failed. Don’t buy although for some people it may be good. I’d recommend the DJI Mini SE or a Tello. ### 1/5 — Worthless frustration *2019-04-29, version 1.4* Obviously not intended for U.S. market. Scant instructions, never could get video after several hours of trying. Complete failure. ### 2/5 — Useless *2019-03-24, version 1.4* Camera does not sync to the phone at all and the app is not entirely in English. I sold Vivitar products 20 years ago and they were absolute garbage but I figured they might have fixed their quality issues over the last 20 years. Guess not. ### 1/5 — Stay Away *2019-03-23, version 1.4* Not friendly. You get what you pay for. Unresponsive, not a lot of options. Stay Away ### 1/5 — It just stoped. *2019-03-12, version 1.4* When I finished calibrating my drone the app game me a window that says “Your drone is ready to fly” and beneath it is a okay button that closes the window but the button was unresponsive FIX! ### 1/5 — How do I get this in the English language? *2019-02-09, version 1.4* Why does the app come up in Chinese language??? Can’t use the app because I can’t read it!!!!!! ### 1/5 — Spying *2019-01-20, version 1.4* This app was created by the China I deleted the app when I learn the app was spying on my phone do not use this app ### 1/5 — 🕺🏻 *2018-12-29, version 1.4* App works ok but I don’t understand the 165ft height when the drone says it’s 1000ft ??? Why ???? ### 1/5 — App won’t do anything. Support link is in Chinese *2018-12-28, version 1.4* App won’t do anything. Support link is in Chinese only ### 1/5 — Useless *2018-12-27, version 1.4* All this app does is freeze or scribble something in jappense then its stuck on that page I finally gave up a n deleted it, it was draining my battery. ### 1/5 — Trash *2018-12-26, version 1.4* It won’t even work for me at all!!Followed EVERY direction in the manual and still nothing will work.Another flaw is that the screen writing is far Eastern.And I only speak and understand English.The Drone is awesome though!! ### 3/5 — ??? *2018-12-25, version 1.4* I just want to know how to use the camera ### 1/5 — Horrible waste of money *2018-12-25, version 1.4* First of all, it a pain in the butt to put in the blade guards and also the screws are to big to screw in the legs. Now that the drones assembled is should be ready to fly, right? Actually, it gets worse. The instructions to calibrate the drone don’t work, and neither does the app, which apparently id the only way to fly the drone? Yeah, waste of money. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Straight trash *2022-04-15, version 1.8* This app is so bad it even messes with my drone it has the right idea but my drone freaks out when I use it ### 1/5 — No funciona *2021-07-07, version 1.8* Este dron son puros problemas una vez lo pude prender y despues intete varias veces y no se me dio no cirne mucho demanda y poca divercion no cirven mejor ponganse a aser sangas en la calle se van a divertir mas califico un o mas vien media estrella el cabezon ### 1/5 — Can’t get camera to work *2021-07-04, version 1.8* I have tried to get camera to work and connect but no luck ### 1/5 — Drone poopoo *2021-03-17, version 1.8* My drone got stuck in a tall tree because it started bugging and kept flying left into a tree ### 1/5 — No work *2021-01-06, version 1.8* Drone didn’t even work. ### 1/5 — Junk *2020-03-15, version 1.4* Save your money!! This is total cheap crap!! ### 1/5 — Camera *2019-12-28, version 1.4* How do I get the camera to work????? ### 1/5 — BOBBY EARLE98842 *2019-11-18, version 1.4* Same problem. Try to open camera folder and it opens and then instantly closes. Drone works great. Could have more flight time for 5 hours of charge. It will get better range than it says on manual. This one gets out farther than EYE CAN SEE. ### 1/5 — Unable to see *2019-07-05, version 1.4* Unable to see photos and video that were recorded . The tab for retrieving Files doesn’t work. ### 1/5 — Bad HD *2019-05-04, version 1.4* I Just got the drone and the camera quality was bad and there were words in China ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Works good *2018-12-30, version 1.4* Have to go to your WiFi setting on the phone first and Connect to the the WiFi then it works like it should video and all ### 5/5 — The review on the page *2018-12-25, version 1.4* There is a bag of screws that comes with to screw the landing legs on ### 4/5 — Pretty good *2019-12-26, version 1.4* This works for me. For those of you who can’t connect with the drone, you have to connect it to a different WiFi network. ### 4/5 — Mostly Operates as Described. *2019-12-05, version 1.4* EDITED* This is an edited review—upgraded to 4 stars. And I have never given 5 stars. There just has never been a perfect app in my experience. There is only one thing wrong with this app as far as I can tell—several relevant instructions are missing. The creator needs to ask for help writing an instruction manual. Being experienced in technical writing, I offer my services. There’s still a couple of important elements missing in my learning of how to operate the VIVITAR, but one main point was remedied by another user—connecting your smart phone’s WiFi to receive the drone’s video feed. In your smart phone’s WiFi settings, treat the drones video feed like any other WiFi connection. I haven’t seen that mentioned in the manufacturer’s included manual. Maybe there’s a page missing, I don’t know, but that’s a pretty significant miss. Two issues I have re occurring: 1) The GPS mode seems to fail intermittently. Can’t get the back lights to go blue when they are supposed to. This may be due to my home’s location. We have poor cell phone connection without our house’s WiFi connection which is via satellite. Not knowing how the GPS transmits or receives, I can’t triage the issue. Also, I have no antenna rating gear. *2) I often cannot get the camera to work. Seeing the live action through the monitor is the main reason I bought this unit. Have owned it for one year and have only flown it 4 times. I would enjoy inspecting the wood stove’s chimney regularly. ### 4/5 — Video *2019-02-09, version 1.4* If you open your WiFi settings Pick the AEROVIEW for your connection ### 4/5 — Works fine *2019-01-01, version 1.4* App works fine. Everything comes up. I used it on my iPhone SE. It crashed a few times when I switched to another app and came back. But came right back up. ### 4/5 — Works fine for me! *2018-11-23, version 1.4* I got the drone tonight. I’m on an iPhone X with iOS 12.1 and the app stays open each time I use it. I will say though that this drone is cheaply made. I went to land it and the legs came right off. If I decide to keep it I’m supergluing them on. Other than that, no issues! ### 4/5 — App failure *2018-11-11* The drone works great. Everytime I go into the app and hit start it’ll close and takes me back to my home screen. Other than not being able to use the camera the drone is great. ### 3/5 — Parameters can’t be adjusted *2019-01-27, version 1.4* This app is good for preflight calibration and viewing the video. Setting the parameters is a joke ### 3/5 — Video recording *2019-01-02, version 1.4* I cannot figure out how to retrieve the video after using the record button. Any suggestions? --- *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 2026-06-10.*