Hover Racer vs DJI Virtual Flight
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.
DJI Virtual Flight
Practice FPV drone flying techniques from home with this simulator. Learn freestyle tricks and navigate realistic environments using your goggles and controller. Designed for aspiring FPV pilots to hone their skills safely and conveniently.
- FPV flying practice
- Realistic flight controls
- FPV freestyle trick learning
- Designed flight tutorials
- Multiple lifelike locations
- Goggle immersion
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Take off and feel the blood pumping through your veins. Introducing DJI Virtual Flight, a mobile app designed by the DJI flight simulator team for practising FPV flying techniques. With DJI Virtual Flight, you can double the fun by learning through practice. Put on the goggles, grab your remote controller, and launch DJI Virtual Flight to learn flashy FPV freestyle tricks. Experience flying in the comfort of your own home. Product Highlights - Put on the goggles and immerse yourself in DJI Virtual Flight - Try out the realistic feel of the flight controls - Become an expert FPV drone pilot through well-designed tutorials - Practice flying along carefully designed flight tracks - Multiple lifelike locations with vivid details Compatible DJI Devices: DJI FPV Goggles V2, DJI FPV Remote Controller 2, DJI FPV Motion Controller Recommended Systems: iOS 12.0 or later versions Recommanded Devices: iPhone: iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone SE 2, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max iPad: iPad 7th Generation, iPad 8th Generation, iPad Air 3, iPad Air 4, iPad pro 2ed, iPad pro 3rd, iPad pro 4th, iPad pro 1st 10.5'', iPad pro 1st 11'', iPad Pro 2ed 11''
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: DJI Virtual Flight at 1.7K against Hover Racer's 31. DJI Virtual Flight also leads on rating (3.9 vs 3.6). Hover Racer's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (50% vs 34%). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
DJI Virtual Flight holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DJI Virtual Flight has 1.7K ratings behind it against 31, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Hover Racer's written reviews are positive against 34% of DJI Virtual Flight's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Hover Racer ships an update fortnightly, DJI Virtual Flight every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hover Racer | DJI Virtual Flight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (31 ratings) | 3.9 (1.7K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 33.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 31 | 1.7K — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.1 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 188 MB | 3.2 GB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Skyrocket, LLC | DJI |
Customer experience
Hover Racer
DJI Virtual Flight
Bugs and requests
Hover Racer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
DJI Virtual Flight
Reported bugs
4 issues- Progression system issues (unable to unlock new levels)
- Controller input not registering properly
- Frequent crashes and freezes
- Incompatibility with latest iOS versions
Requested features
4 requests- Add more drone models and maps
- Implement customizable control settings
- Add PID tuning and track building features
- Support for using controller without goggles
In-app purchases
Hover Racer
No in-app purchases
DJI Virtual Flight
No in-app purchases
