Comparison

SurveyingMaster vs Dronelink Flight

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

Head to head
About

SurveyingMaster

This utility app provides a convenient surveying calculator for professionals and students. It offers features for traversing, leveling, coordinate calculation, and intersection, with powerful misclosure balancing for various route types. Users can customize coordinate systems and units.

Highlights
  • Traversing calculation
  • Leveling calculation
  • Coordinate calculation
  • Intersection calculation
  • Misclosure balancing
  • Coordinate system customization
  • Unit switching
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【Introdution】 Convenient surveying calculator, including traversing, leveling, coordinate calculation and intersection... It has a powerful function to balance the misclosure in open route, closed route and link route. If you are a surveyor on the construction site, this surveying tool can assit you to process surveying data. If you are a student in engineering, you can enjoy the lesson of engineering surveying with the help of this surveying calculator. You can change the X/Y Coordinate Invert Togge and swith between international and English unit in the initial interface of App. You can trust the calculation results because we have made a great effort to guarantee the high accuracy. If you have some doubts, feel free to send the email to structuremaster@163.com with your questions and suggestions. Our Facebook Name:StrucMaster

About

Dronelink Flight

Automate drone flights for mapping, inspections, and more with advanced mission planning and execution tools. Supports leading drone brands and offers manual flight control in the free version, with automated features available via paid plans.

Highlights
  • Automated mission planning
  • Waypoint and orbit flights
  • Vertical mapping and inspections
  • 3D mission preview
  • Real-time flight adjustments
  • Cross-device mission sync
Features
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Drone Flight Control - Fully Automated Missions, Semi-Automated Workflows and Manual Flight Tools Fly missions for maps, waypoints, orbits, panos, vertical mapping, or inspections. Use flight modes such as orbit, follow, or focus. Link missions together, automate everything, and preview in 3D. Supports leading drones from DJI and Autel, including Mini, Air, Mavic series drones. Mini 3 / Mini 3 Pro are not supported on iOS. The free app supports manual flight only. A paid plan is required for automated flight control. Select from different plan levels for Professionals, or Hobbyists. Use on web, mobile devices, and Remote Controllers. Trusted by pilots globally for automating flight and data capture for any use case and industry. Choose between multiple workflows: (1) Plan missions on any device and configure every detail. (2) Generate missions on-the-fly in the field, using the position of the drone. (3) Use flight modes and make real-time adjustments. Explore the flight path in 3D before flying, get mission estimates, and preview the mission by flying a virtual drone. Missions are synchronized across devices and ready to fly, open a mission to start it, pause and resume at any time. Customize the flight dashboard to show the details you need during flight. Use the management dashboard to organize missions, enable integrations, and track flights for one or multiple pilots. List of supported drones: https://www.dronelink.com/supported-drones Terms of Use (UELA) https://www.dronelink.com/customer-terms

Screenshots

SurveyingMaster4 screens
Dronelink Flight4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Dronelink Flight at 4.7 against SurveyingMaster's 3.5. Dronelink Flight also leads on ratings volume (565 vs 2) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 7 months). SurveyingMaster's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Both are free to download. SurveyingMaster sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Dronelink Flight sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $34.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dronelink Flight holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dronelink Flight has 565 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of SurveyingMaster's written reviews are positive against 60% of Dronelink Flight's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SurveyingMaster ships an update every 7 months, Dronelink Flight every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
SurveyingMaster versus Dronelink Flight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSurveyingMasterDronelink Flight
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (2 ratings)4.7 (565 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews60.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2565 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB288 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer颖达 陈Dronelink

Customer experience

SurveyingMaster

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Dronelink Flight

All ratings564 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral1.2%
Negative5.9%
Written reviews133 reviews
Positive60.2%
Neutral3.8%
Negative36.1%

Bugs and requests

SurveyingMaster

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Dronelink Flight

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Constant crashing
  • Made my DJI Mavic Mini crash
  • Not working
  • Unreliable and not safe or trustworthy
  • Unable to set up an account
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  • Barely works with the Mavic Mini. Flakey at best

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add Ruko F11gim compatibility
  • Will your app support the DJI Avata 2?
  • Why not supporter mini 3 pro and mini 4 pro

In-app purchases

2 purchases

SurveyingMaster

One-time2
  • Reward$2.99
  • Advanced Functions Forever$3.99
8 purchases

Dronelink Flight

Subscriptions2
  • Starter$34.991 Month
  • Growth$69.991 Month
One-time6
  • Premium (Basic Upgrade)$29.99
  • Basic$29.99
  • Premium$59.99
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  • Elite (Premium Upgrade)$59.99
  • Elite (Basic Upgrade)$89.99
  • Elite$119.99

Questions

Is SurveyingMaster free?
SurveyingMaster is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dronelink Flight free?
Dronelink Flight is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SurveyingMaster or Dronelink Flight?
Dronelink Flight is rated higher. SurveyingMaster averages 3.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Dronelink Flight averages 4.7 from 565 ratings.
Do SurveyingMaster or Dronelink Flight have ads?
Neither SurveyingMaster nor Dronelink Flight shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SurveyingMaster or Dronelink Flight?
SurveyingMaster ships an update every 7 months, and Dronelink Flight every 6 weeks. Most recently, SurveyingMaster was updated on October 1, 2026 and Dronelink Flight on October 26, 2026.

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