Droneception vs AstroFinish
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Droneception
Easily capture inception-style photos with your DJI drone. The app automates the capture process, allowing you to focus on flying and previewing your mission. Stitch the acquired photos together using various methods.
- Automated photo capture
- Inception/flatland style photos
- DJI drone compatibility
- Mission preview
- In-app tutorial
- Facebook community support
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Droneception makes it easy to capture inception/flatland style photos with your DJI drone. The process is fully automated and your job is to fly to the location, preview the mission, and launch for a fully autonomous capture of photos using a basic algorithm. Droneception will acquire the photos and it's your job to stitch together using the numerous methods shown on YouTube. If you have any questions about using the app or photo stitching please join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/droneception Droneception has been tested on DJI Phantom 3, Phantom 4, Mavic Pro, Mavic Air Inspire, and Spark. The process for using Droneception is: 1. Launch the app 2. Make sure you see the camera preview and telemetry (satellites, battery, etc) 3. Fly to your desired first shot location 4. Adjust radius and number of photos as necessary 5. Preview your mission 6. Launch mission and let Droneception take care of the rest You can always refer to the in-app tutorial if you are uncertain how Droneception works. All proceeds from Droneception purchases will go towards improving this product as well as many of our other free drone apps: DronePan, DroneBlocks, and DroneRepeat. We hope you enjoy the app and look forward to seeing what awesome inception style photos you create! Please share them in our Facebook group.
AstroFinish
Edit astrophotography images directly on your iPhone. Enhance deep-sky objects, clean up skies, and sharpen moon shots with specialized tools. Supports various image formats and offers batch processing for efficient editing.
- Auto Astro Polish
- Deep Sky enhancement
- Moon sharpening
- Nebula and galaxy detail
- Denoise and star reduction
- Batch processing
- RAW and FITS support
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AstroFinish is a darkroom for astrophotography on iPhone. It is built for the shots that come off smart telescopes, backyard rigs, and late-night moon sessions: the ones that are almost there, but need a cleaner sky and a better finish. Start fast with Auto Astro Polish, Deep Sky, Moon Sharp, and other built-in looks. Or dial it in by hand with controls made for space photos, including black point, glow cleanup, nebula reveal, galaxy detail, denoise, star reduction, and moon sharpening. Import from Photos or Files, work with JPEG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF, RAW-style images, and FITS sessions, then export finished images or shareable before/after cards. Batch Finish helps run one look across a queue when you came home with more than one keeper. AstroFinish stays local. No account. No cloud upload. No tracking SDKs. Your captures stay on your iPhone unless you choose to share or save them. Built for: Smart telescope captures Deep-sky photos, nebulae, galaxies, star fields, and moon shots Quick fixes when the sky glow gets rude Manual finishing when you want the last word FITS reveal and stack workflows Local exports, share sheets, and before/after cards AstroFinish is for people who would rather be outside collecting photons than fighting a desktop editor at 1 a.m.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: AstroFinish at 4.9 against Droneception's 1.0. AstroFinish also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). Droneception's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.1 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, 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.
AstroFinish holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 8 respectively.
Droneception ships an update every 2 months, AstroFinish every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Droneception | AstroFinish |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (6 ratings) | 4.9 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 10.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DroneBlocks, LLC | Cody Adams |
Customer experience
Droneception
AstroFinish
In-app purchases
Droneception
No in-app purchases
AstroFinish
No in-app purchases









