Hover Racer vs DE FPV
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hover Racer
Engage in high-flying drone races and battles with friends or solo. Customize courses, complete challenges, and upgrade your drone for competitive gameplay. Experience endless possibilities in this action-packed entertainment app.
- Competitive drone racing and battles
- Single player challenges, races, and time trials
- Multiplayer modes for head-to-head or team play
- Co-Op mode with VR missile battles
- Course customization with beacons and objects
- Weapon and defense upgrades
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Competitive Gameplay at its High-Flying Best! Connect to your Hover Racer drone, and you’re ready for action! Race or battle! Head-to-head or team up. Compete with other drones for endless possibilities! FEATURES - Speed over checkpoint beacons that track your position and progress. - Complete dozens of challenges, races and time trials in single player mode. - Race and battle against your friends in one of the multi-player modes. - Play Co-Op mode and team with a friend to battle VR missiles. - Customize your course using beacons and surrounding objects. - Challenge other pilots to head to head competition. - Unlock weapon and defense enhancements and upgrades.
DE FPV
Stream live video from your drone's camera directly to your device. Capture photos and videos in real-time and experience immersive first-person view with VR goggles.
- Live drone camera feed
- Record photos and videos
- Store media in app album
- VR mode for first-person view
- 2.4GHz Wi-Fi transmission
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This streaming drone gives you a birds-eye view of the world using its onboard video camera. Capture video and pictures in real time transmitted via 2.4GHz Wi-Fi. App functions: 1. Displays a live streaming feed taken by the drone's onboard camera. 2. Records and stores photos and videos directly to the app's album. 3.Use VR mode in conjunction with VR googles to experience a FPV(frist person view) experience.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Hover Racer at fortnightly against DE FPV's every 2 months. Hover Racer also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 37%) and iOS requirement (8.1 vs 11.0). DE FPV's advantage is ratings volume (188 vs 31). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.6 for Hover Racer against 3.6 for DE FPV. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DE FPV has 188 ratings behind it against 31, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Hover Racer's written reviews are positive against 37% of DE FPV's.
Hover Racer ships an update fortnightly, DE FPV every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hover Racer | DE FPV |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (31 ratings) | 3.6 (188 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 37.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 31 | 188 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.1 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 188 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Skyrocket, LLC | Xiamen Huoshiquan Import & Export CO., LTD |
Customer experience
Hover Racer
DE FPV
Bugs and requests
Hover Racer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
DE FPV
Reported bugs
19 issues- Wi-Fi connection fails
- Camera feed not showing
- App controls won't activate
- Tutorial videos won't load
- Cannot select drone model in tutorial
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- Drone crashes
- Motors cut out unexpectedly
- App shows 'no internet connection'
- App shows 'unsecured network'
- App shows 'not connected to drone wifi' when connected
- App crashes when using it
- Camera works only once
- Drone doesn't stay still
- Camera is glitchy
- App is slow
- App is hard to understand
- App kicks user out
- Cannot connect to camera
- Invert Y axis camera
Requested features
7 requests- Fix tutorial video loading/clicking
- Improve Wi-Fi connection stability
- Fix camera connectivity and glitches
- Make app compatible with more drone models
- Improve app performance and reduce crashes
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- Add Bluetooth connectivity option
- Provide troubleshooting support for connection issues
In-app purchases
Hover Racer
No in-app purchases
DE FPV
No in-app purchases
