DE FPV vs Robotics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DE FPV
Stream live video from your drone's camera directly to your device. Capture photos and videos in real-time and experience immersive first-person view with VR goggles.
- Live drone camera feed
- Record photos and videos
- Store media in app album
- VR mode for first-person view
- 2.4GHz Wi-Fi transmission
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This streaming drone gives you a birds-eye view of the world using its onboard video camera. Capture video and pictures in real time transmitted via 2.4GHz Wi-Fi. App functions: 1. Displays a live streaming feed taken by the drone's onboard camera. 2. Records and stores photos and videos directly to the app's album. 3.Use VR mode in conjunction with VR googles to experience a FPV(frist person view) experience.
Robotics
Control and program a 5-in-1 buildable drone kit with an HD camera. Capture photos and videos from various camera angles, or write visual programs for your robots. Learn about drone flight and robotic camera applications.
- Control drone and robots
- Visual programming language
- HD camera for photos/videos
- Multiple camera angles
- Learn about drone flight
- Hands-free photo capture
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This app is used to control and program the drone and other robots built using the Robotics: Smart Machines – 5-in-1 Buildable Drone with HD Camera kit from Thames & Kosmos. Build a high-tech, flying camera drone and four other camera-enabled robotic models. Control your robots using the remote-control interface in this app, which you can install on your tablet or smartphone, or write programs for your drone using an easy, visual programming language in this app. The onboard HD camera lets you capture photos and video from the moving robots. The robotic camera car allows you to get zooming and panning shots, depending on how you angle the camera. A 360-degree camera allows you to see all around you and a turntable camera lets you take a rotating shot. The hands-free camera mounting lets you take photos by simply saying “photo.” Four electric motors, a central controller unit, and an included lithium battery, as well as over one hundred building pieces, make it all possible. Learn about how drones fly and how robotic devices can be used to get the perfect shot every time with this innovative engineering kit! ***** Questions or suggestions for improvements: https://thamesandkosmos.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new *****
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Robotics at 4.3 against DE FPV's 3.6. Robotics also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 11.0). DE FPV's advantage is review sentiment (37% vs 0%) and ratings volume (188 vs 8). 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.
Robotics holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DE FPV has 188 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 37% of DE FPV's written reviews are positive against 0% of Robotics's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | DE FPV | Robotics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (188 ratings) | 4.3 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 188 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 115 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Xiamen Huoshiquan Import & Export CO., LTD | Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co. KG |
Customer experience
DE FPV
Robotics
Bugs and requests
DE FPV
Reported bugs
19 issues- Wi-Fi connection fails
- Camera feed not showing
- App controls won't activate
- Tutorial videos won't load
- Cannot select drone model in tutorial
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- Drone crashes
- Motors cut out unexpectedly
- App shows 'no internet connection'
- App shows 'unsecured network'
- App shows 'not connected to drone wifi' when connected
- App crashes when using it
- Camera works only once
- Drone doesn't stay still
- Camera is glitchy
- App is slow
- App is hard to understand
- App kicks user out
- Cannot connect to camera
- Invert Y axis camera
Requested features
7 requests- Fix tutorial video loading/clicking
- Improve Wi-Fi connection stability
- Fix camera connectivity and glitches
- Make app compatible with more drone models
- Improve app performance and reduce crashes
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- Add Bluetooth connectivity option
- Provide troubleshooting support for connection issues
Robotics
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
DE FPV
No in-app purchases
Robotics
No in-app purchases








