DRS vs VelociDrone
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DRS
Master FPV drone piloting with realistic physics in a sandbox environment. Explore diverse locations, customize controls, and choose from various flight modes. Ideal for beginners and experienced pilots alike.
- Realistic physics-based flying
- Race and sandbox modes
- Multiple flight locations
- Adjustable controls
- Throttle stabilizer for beginners
- Customizable drone characteristics
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Practice to fly FPV drones, quadrocopters in this sanbox simulator Realistic physics based flying drone. Race and sandbox mods! Over 5 different locations to fly. Super adjustable controls. You can connect your controller or fly with screen joysticks. If you are a beginner, you can fly with throttle stabilizer and throttle mapping (keeps the height and centers the throttle stick), it makes flying much easier in this FPV drone racing quadcopter league simulator offline sandbox game aka DRS. This quadcopter simulator has everything you need for realistic flying: - Acro mode - Stable mode - Few camera modes - Adjustable throttle, pitch, and yaw - Camera angle - Drone weight - Angular drag Adjust the settings to match your favorite drone characteristics. Practice your freestyle at different locations. From open football stadium to tight pine forest. Fly your drone in the industrial hangar, forest, town, over the ocean and few other locations in this drone simulator games.
VelociDrone
Experience realistic drone racing on your mobile device. Compete against others on leaderboards with full flight playback. Supports various drone classes and cross-platform play with the desktop version.
- Multiple drone classes
- Leaderboard racing
- Full flight playback
- Cross-platform play
- Track downloads from desktop
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Drone racing simulator for mobile devices. Includes 5" racing drones, 5" freestyle drones, Mega class drones, Toothpick drones and micro drones. Race against the leaderboards with full playback of other racers flights from the leaderboards. Race against desktop players as well as mobile. Integrated with the desktop version of velocidrone so that tracks can be downloaded from the desktop version of the simulator. The simulator has touch controls but for best results we recommend using your own real life racing drone controller, for example RadioMaster T16, Frsky Taranis, TBS Tango or Mambo. Controllers can be connected via ELRS wifi or by using an apple approve MFi bluetooth device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: DRS at Free against VelociDrone's $7.99. DRS also leads on rating (4.2 vs 3.2) and ratings volume (1.9K vs 37). VelociDrone's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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
DRS is free to download; VelociDrone costs $7.99 up front. DRS sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. VelociDrone asks for nothing beyond the download.
DRS holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DRS has 1.9K ratings behind it against 37, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 28% of DRS's written reviews are positive against 42% of VelociDrone's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DRS | VelociDrone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $7.99 |
| Rating | 4.2 (1.9K ratings) — better | 3.2 (37 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 28.2% of reviews | 41.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.9K — better | 37 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #47 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 223 MB | 915 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PSV Studio | Bat Cave Games Limited |
Customer experience
DRS
VelociDrone
User reviews
DRS
From 1.9K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great simulator
- 🎮 Supports controllers
- 👍 Helps practice flying
Room to improve
- 🐛 Broken controls and features after updates
- 💸 Too many ads, even after paying to remove them
- 🛑 Not realistic compared to real drones
VelociDrone
From 37 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great physics simulation
- 🚀 Good performance on mobile
- 📱 Works on iPhone and iPad
- 💻 Similar to PC version
- ✨ Best mobile simulator
Room to improve
- 🐛 Controller connection issues
- 🤔 Difficult controller setup
- 📉 Dated graphics
- 🤷♂️ Lack of clear instructions
- 💸 Not worth the price for some
Bugs and requests
DRS
Reported bugs
3 issues- Vertical thrust is broken in latest version
- Can't get past ads prompt even after paying
- Frequent crashes and glitches
Requested features
3 requests- Add more maps and environments
- Improve physics and realism
- Add crash physics and effects
VelociDrone
Reported bugs
17 issues- ELRS WiFi controllers not connecting reliably
- Camera FOV resets to default
- Controller connection takes multiple restarts
- No stick movement shown in visualization
- Drone resets to start
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- Throttle and yaw stop working inexplicably
- Controller not recognized in input page
- App gets stuck at loading after connecting WiFi controllers
- Sporadic WiFi controller connection
- Settings for quality, resolution, and FPS don't work
- Controller link breaks, input screen no longer shows controller
- Cannot connect to DJI FPV Controller 3
- Cannot connect to Tango 2
- Cannot connect to TX16S
- TBS Tango 2 not found by game
- Sign in issues every time app is opened
- Digital controllers are buggy
Requested features
10 requests- Add more levels/maps
- Implement a level editor
- Add battery mode
- Improve controller setup instructions/tutorials
- Add Russian language support
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- Add Chinese subtitles/localization
- Allow direct Bluetooth controller connection
- Add tutorial for beginners
- Allow offline play without login
- Improve sound design
In-app purchases
DRS
- Remove all ads$2.99
VelociDrone
No in-app purchases
Questions
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