FreeFlight Jumping vs Sphero Play
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FreeFlight Jumping
Pilot your Parrot Jumping Minidrone with intuitive touch controls and motion sensing. Perform impressive flips, capture immersive video, and choreograph custom routes with stunts. Connect with other pilots and share your adventures.
- Smartphone/tablet piloting
- Intuitive touch and motion controls
- Perform flips and jumps
- Live video streaming
- Record photos and videos
- Choreograph custom routes
- Connect with other pilots
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The official app for Parrot Jumping Minidrones. PILOT YOUR DRONE VIA SMARTPHONE OR TABLET Get FreeFlight Jumping, the free app to pilot Parrot Jumping Night, Race, and Sumo. INTUITIVE DRIVING With FreeFlight Jumping, piloting your Jumping Minidrone is ultra-simple. The app connects to your Minidrone via Wi-Fi. The accelerometer and touch controls on the piloting interface help navigate your drone based on the movements of your smartphone or tablet. IMPRESSIVE FLIPS Make instant 90° or 180° turns, or jump up to 2.5 ft in the air with the simple touch of a button on the screen. THE WORLD IN IMMERSIVE VIEW Your Parrot Jumping Minidrone is equipped with a wide angle camera that streams a live video feed of your journey to your smartphone. This allows you to discover the world around you and explore inaccessible places. Jumping Night and Race Minidrones take pictures and record videos onto their internal memory. Jumping Sumo records on an external micro-USB drive (not supplied). CHOREOGRAPH YOUR JUMPING MOVES RoadPlan function allows you to pre-program a custom route with stunts. Upon start, the pre-defined route appears on the screen. PARROT ACADEMY By becoming a member of the Parrot Academy, you can keep track of all your adventures and connect with other drone pilots. Share your photos, videos and data sessions with other members of the Parrot Academy and instantly upload to YouTube or Facebook. In addition, you get a free backup of all the data shared on Parrot Academy.
Sphero Play
Control and play with various Sphero robots using a single application. Explore multiple drive modes, engage in robot-controlled games, and learn basic programming through a block-based interface.
- Multiple drive modes (joystick, tilt, voice)
- Robot-controlled games
- Block Drive programming
- Sports-themed drive modes
- Voice control
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Drive and play games from ONE app with your Sphero Mini, Sphero 2.0, SPRK, SPRK+, BOLT, and BOLT+. Connect and control your robots with several exciting drive modes, use your robot as a controller to play games, or try out Block Drive for an intro to programming with colorful blocks. Features include: DRIVE MODES Drive your robots several ways with the Sphero Play app. Use the joystick and slingshot controls, tilt your device, or use your voice. Our sports-themed drive modes keep things fun with the ability to swing your device to "golf"*, or flick to "kick" your robot. BLOCK DRIVE PROGRAMMING Learn programming basics by controlling your robot with colorful movement and light blocks. GAMES Use your robot as a controller to shoot your way through space, race your vehicle through a tunnel avoiding obstacles and scoring points, or rotate your ball to destroy a polygon of bricks. Need robots? We know a guy. Visit sphero.com and order today. *This mode is not available on iPads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sphero Play at 69% against FreeFlight Jumping's 21%. Sphero Play also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.2) and ratings volume (37K vs 311). FreeFlight Jumping's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 15.0). 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.
Sphero Play holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sphero Play has 37K ratings behind it against 311, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 21% of FreeFlight Jumping's written reviews are positive against 69% of Sphero Play's.
FreeFlight Jumping ships an update every 3 weeks, Sphero Play every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FreeFlight Jumping | Sphero Play |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (311 ratings) | 4.8 (37K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.3% of reviews | 69.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 311 | 37K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 193 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Parrot SA | Sphero, Inc. |
Customer experience
FreeFlight Jumping
Sphero Play
User reviews
FreeFlight Jumping
From 311 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Awesome drone
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🎮 Great controls
- 📽️ Awesome camera
- 🕹️ Fun to play with
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent disconnections
- 🔋 Poor battery life
- 🔒 Difficult to update firmware
- 🤯 Confusing app interface
- 🤖 App crashes often
Sphero Play
From 37K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fun and engaging app
- 👍 Great controls and customization
- 🎮 Enjoyable games and activities
- 💡 Compatibility with multiple Sphero products
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional connectivity issues
- 🔧 Limited features compared to older apps
- 🔋 Concerns about battery life and durability
Bugs and requests
FreeFlight Jumping
Reported bugs
5 issues- Unable to connect to drone
- Firmware update server failure
- Constant disconnections during use
- App crashes on launch
- No option to change app language
Requested features
5 requests- Add joystick controls
- Improve app stability
- Provide better instructions
- Optimize app for iOS 11+
- Allow offline firmware updates
Sphero Play
Reported bugs
2 issues- Joystick controls not working as expected
- Alignment issues causing unexpected movement
Requested features
4 requests- More games and activities
- Support for additional Sphero products (e.g. Ollie, BB-8)
- Improved aiming and control precision
- Camera integration to see the Sphero's view
In-app purchases
FreeFlight Jumping
No in-app purchases
Sphero Play
No in-app purchases









