Thunder Drone Checklist vs Tailboard UAS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Thunder Drone Checklist
This app provides a comprehensive checklist for drone pilots to ensure responsible flight operations. It allows customization of checklist items, cloud data saving, and emailing of flight logs. It also records flight location, weather, and timestamps, maintaining a history of multiple drones and flights.
- Customizable flight checklists
- Cloud data saving
- Email flight checklists
- Record flight location, weather, date/time
- Flight history log
- Manage multiple drones
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Thunder Drone, It's the ultimate drone checklist for responsible drone pilots. With Thunder Drone's intuitive interface, you can customize the application to add or remove items from your checklist. You want to save your data to the cloud? Thunder Drone has you covered, with its ability to email the flight checklist to your email account. With the touch of a button, Thunder Drone will record the current flight location, weather conditions, and date time stamp your flight. Thunder Drone keeps a running history of your flights. The application even keeps track of multiple drones you may fly, and keeps all your drone checklists in one convenient database. You tried the rest, now fly with the best with Thunder Drone!!!
Tailboard UAS
This app provides drone pilots with a comprehensive toolkit for safe and efficient flight operations. It includes features for airspace and weather checks, document storage, risk assessments, and rule references.
- Airspace and weather checks
- Pilot document storage
- Risk assessment forms
- Part 107 rule reference
- Professional flight workflows
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Tailboard UAS is all-in-one tool to help pilots of all skill levels. Easily check airspace, weather, checklists, store pilot document, fill out risk assessments, reference Part 107 rules, and more. New Pilot - Learn an irreplaceable workflow to help you consistently flying in a safe way. Gain confidence knowing you have a professional workflow without building one. Experienced Pilot - Keeps you consistently building decision making skills, and instincts. You'll be a legend in no time. Professional Pilot - Prevent complacency and document actions to cya and make sure you stay at the top of your game. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ https://www.tailboarduas.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Thunder Drone Checklist at none against Tailboard UAS's 4. Thunder Drone Checklist also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Tailboard UAS's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (23 vs 6). On price, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Tailboard UAS sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Thunder Drone Checklist asks for nothing beyond the download.
Thunder Drone Checklist holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 23 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Thunder Drone Checklist ships an update every 2 days, Tailboard UAS fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Thunder Drone Checklist | Tailboard UAS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | 4.8 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Steven Martin | Kurtis Damerow |
Customer experience
Thunder Drone Checklist
Tailboard UAS
In-app purchases
Thunder Drone Checklist
No in-app purchases
Tailboard UAS
- Monthly14 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Monthly Professional$12.991 Month
- Yearly14 Days trial$76.901 Year
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- Yearly Professional14 Days trial$142.991 Year
Questions
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