Comparison

EVA vs VelociDrone

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

EVA

This app serves as an in-flight trade computer for a space simulation game. It helps players track their progress, plan trade routes, and access real-time market data. Features include a 3D galaxy map, speech synthesis for important events, and detailed ship information.

Highlights
  • Sync flight log and notes with EDSM
  • 3D interactive galaxy map
  • Sync market data with EDDN
  • Real-time market updates
  • Speech synthesis of events
  • View ship loadout and cargo
  • Trade route planning
Features
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Elite:Dangerous Virtual Assistant - EVA - is your in-flight trade computer. Keep track of where you've been, find out where you want to go, and work out the best single trades, or circular trade routes, all from your iPhone or iPad. EVA links to Elite:Dangerous to get your CMDR information and follows your progress across the galaxy, letting you know what's happening and ready for you when you need information. Main features: - Sync flight log and notes with EDSM - 3D interactive galaxy map for your flight logs - Sync market data with EDDN - Get realtime market updates from EDDN - Use EDProxy for much faster information updates from Elite - Speech synthesis of significant events, including your own notes on systems and trade route hints - List current ranks, allegiances and credits - See Galnet articles as they arrive - See full ship loadout and cargo for all ships* - Take notes on systems (and sync with EDSM) - Request cross-reference distances and send to EDSM - Bookmark systems, stations within systems or commodities within a station - Bookmark entire trade routes - View system visit history (and sync with EDSM) - Commodity search by station, or within a radius of any station - Trade search for finding the best n-stop trade routes - Trade search for finding the best single-hop trade from any given station - Commodity search for buying or selling a particular commodity Unfortunately this is NOT fully compatible with console accounts, because of the way that they are handled by Frontier. Their own "Companion App" has the same limitation. Console accounts will be able to use the trade computer, but not any of the CMDR data. Please report any problems in the support forum. If you only comment in a review, I have no way to contact you to ask for more information to help me fix the problem! Forum: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=245900

About

VelociDrone

Experience realistic drone racing on your mobile device. Compete against others on leaderboards with full flight playback. Supports various drone classes and cross-platform play with the desktop version.

Highlights
  • Multiple drone classes
  • Leaderboard racing
  • Full flight playback
  • Cross-platform play
  • Track downloads from desktop
Features
Currently charting
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Drone racing simulator for mobile devices. Includes 5" racing drones, 5" freestyle drones, Mega class drones, Toothpick drones and micro drones. Race against the leaderboards with full playback of other racers flights from the leaderboards. Race against desktop players as well as mobile. Integrated with the desktop version of velocidrone so that tracks can be downloaded from the desktop version of the simulator. The simulator has touch controls but for best results we recommend using your own real life racing drone controller, for example RadioMaster T16, Frsky Taranis, TBS Tango or Mambo. Controllers can be connected via ELRS wifi or by using an apple approve MFi bluetooth device.

Screenshots

EVA4 screens
VelociDrone4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: EVA at $2.99 against VelociDrone's $7.99. EVA also leads on rating (3.5 vs 3.2) and ratings volume (278 vs 34). VelociDrone's advantage is review sentiment (40% vs 25%) and chart position (#66 vs unranked). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

EVA costs $2.99 and VelociDrone $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

EVA holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EVA has 278 ratings behind it against 34, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 25% of EVA's written reviews are positive against 40% of VelociDrone's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
EVA versus VelociDrone: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEVAVelociDrone
Price$2.99 — better$7.99
Rating3.5 (278 ratings) — better3.2 (34 ratings)
Positive reviews24.7% of reviews40.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings278 — better34
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank—#66 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB914 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperLightroom PluginsBat Cave Games Limited

Customer experience

EVA

All ratings278 ratings
Positive62.2%
Neutral6.5%
Negative31.3%
Written reviews154 reviews
Positive24.7%
Neutral8.4%
Negative66.9%

VelociDrone

All ratings34 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral8.8%
Negative41.2%
Written reviews60 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral11.7%
Negative48.3%

Bugs and requests

EVA

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes on launch
  • Authentication failures
  • Syncing issues with Frontier account
  • Compatibility problems with newer OS versions

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add support for mining data
  • Integrate more advanced features like route planning
  • Expand compatibility to consoles
  • Improve overall stability and reliability

VelociDrone

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

EVA

No in-app purchases

None

VelociDrone

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is EVA free?
EVA costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is VelociDrone free?
VelociDrone costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, EVA or VelociDrone?
EVA is rated higher. EVA averages 3.5 out of 5 from 278 ratings, while VelociDrone averages 3.2 from 34 ratings.
Do EVA or VelociDrone have ads?
Neither EVA nor VelociDrone shows ads.
Which is updated more often, EVA or VelociDrone?
EVA ships an update every 6 weeks, and VelociDrone every 6 weeks. Most recently, EVA was updated on September 18, 2026 and VelociDrone on September 23, 2026.

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