Hover Racer vs HolyStone
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.
HolyStone
Control your drone with your mobile device. Experience real-time FPV video, multiple control methods including gravity sensing and voice commands, and capture photos and videos directly from the app.
- WiFi real-time image transmission
- Gravity sensing control
- Trajectory control
- Voice command control
- Hand photography and video recording
- Manual photography and video recording
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A drone controls the app. The main features are as follows: 1. WiFi real-time image transmission 2. Real time manual control, gravity sensing control, trajectory control, voice command control 3. Hand photography and video recording, manual photography and video recording
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Hover Racer at fortnightly against HolyStone's every 3 months. Hover Racer also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 30%) and iOS requirement (8.1 vs 13.0). HolyStone's advantage is ratings volume (111 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 3.5 for HolyStone. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 31 and 111 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Hover Racer's written reviews are positive against 30% of HolyStone's.
Hover Racer ships an update fortnightly, HolyStone every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hover Racer | HolyStone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (31 ratings) — better | 3.5 (111 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 29.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 31 | 111 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.1 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 188 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Skyrocket, LLC | HOLY STONE TECHNOLOGY Co.,Ltd. |
Customer experience
Hover Racer
HolyStone
Bugs and requests
Hover Racer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
HolyStone
Reported bugs
16 issues- App freezes
- Drone won't pair with controller
- Home button causes drone to fly erratically
- Cannot log back into account
- Videos turn screen white
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- Cannot connect to Wi-Fi (security warning)
- Videos and pictures are excessively large files
- App steals information
- Drone flies away on its own
- App disconnects from drone
- App doesn't show recorded videos
- App requires location permission
- App claims to be for email
- Drone blades not spinning
- Drone flies in random direction
- App crashes iPhone when viewing media
Requested features
5 requests- Update app to fix bugs
- Provide better customer support
- Fix video file size issue
- Improve drone control responsiveness
- Fix account creation issues
In-app purchases
Hover Racer
No in-app purchases
HolyStone
No in-app purchases
