NAV Drone vs TrooTrax
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NAV Drone
This app helps drone pilots in Canada fly safely and legally. It provides airspace information, allows flight planning, and automates authorization requests for controlled airspace.
- Airspace information
- Flight planning
- Flight authorization
- Controlled airspace guidance
- Automatic authorization responses
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Fly your drone safely and legally in Canada’s controlled airspace using NAV Drone, a mobile app from NAV CANADA. Review important guidelines, discover where you can fly, schedule flights, and receive automatic authorization responses from NAV CANADA when you’re approved to fly — all from your mobile device. KEY FEATURES • Airspace information – Provides drone pilots with information on classification, restrictions, and NOTAMs. • Flight planning – Provides capabilities to schedule and plan flights in controlled airspace. • Flight authorization – Automates authorization responses to fly in controlled airspace.
TrooTrax
Stay informed about aircraft movements and critical events with real-time notifications and messaging. Sort aircraft by various statuses like moving, overdue, or flight plan deviations.
- Real-time aircraft notifications
- Mobile messaging for critical events
- Sort aircraft by status
- Weather warning alerts
- Flight plan deviation tracking
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Receive all notifications on your mobile devices. Take action on critical events with a full app to aircraft messaging. Sort aircraft by Status: Moving, Stationary, Overdue, Weather Warning or Alert, Flight Plan Deviation, Missing Flight Plan
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TrooTrax at 5.0 against NAV Drone's 4.5. NAV Drone's advantage is ratings volume (24 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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.
TrooTrax holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NAV Drone has 24 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
NAV Drone ships an update every 4 months, TrooTrax every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NAV Drone | TrooTrax |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (24 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 356 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | NAV Canada | SKYTRAC Systems Ltd. |
Customer experience
NAV Drone
TrooTrax
Bugs and requests
NAV Drone
Reported bugs
21 issues- App logs out constantly, sometimes mid-session
- Pilot license documents not saving/persisting
- Login credentials not retained between sessions
- App crashes during launch and landing functions
- Cannot save new flight areas
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- Map defaults to wrong location despite location permissions
- Flight area scaling incorrectly after adjustment
- Validation errors preventing flight submission
- Unable to load login information
- Cannot select operation category
- Fails to pull user preferences and drone data
- Bad gateway errors after updates
- Inconsistent airspace restriction status for same location
- Map display too small on larger phones
- Difficulty zooming and expanding map areas
- Drone selection dropdown extremely slow to load
- Unable to register standard profile
- Cannot adjust map while setting flight limits
- Cumbersome altitude adjustment interface
- Dangerous goods field not defaulting to 'no'
- Withdraw flight button too close to accept button
Requested features
17 requests- Biometric login (Face ID/fingerprint authentication)
- Remember email address on login screen
- Save default drone and flight operation preferences
- Numeric keypad for altitude and distance input instead of sliders
- Built-in NOTAM advisory information
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- Automatic notifications for approaching aircraft
- Notification when requested flight time expires
- Support for uploading KML files for flight planning
- Ability to enter flight location coordinates directly
- Add provincial parks and local restrictions to map
- Auto-fill support for 2FA authentication codes
- Save favorite locations with custom names
- Edit existing flight permits after submission
- Multi-drone selection for single operation
- Longer approval windows for regular flying locations
- Conflict detection visible without account login
- Update drone model database (DJI Air 3S, Mini 4K, etc.)
TrooTrax
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
NAV Drone
No in-app purchases
TrooTrax
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is NAV Drone free?
Is TrooTrax free?
Which has better reviews, NAV Drone or TrooTrax?
Do NAV Drone or TrooTrax have ads?
Which is updated more often, NAV Drone or TrooTrax?
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