MachXDrone vs DEERC Fly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MachXDrone
Control a toy drone with your smartphone. View real-time camera feeds in normal or VR mode, and capture photos and videos directly within the app's album.
- Remote drone operation
- Real-time camera streaming
- Normal and VR viewing modes
- Photo and video capture
- In-app media album
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The TOY DRONE is operated by a remote control. The app window displays the pictures returned by the camera picture on the toy DRONE. The real-time streaming pictures are divided into normal mode and VR mode.Users can take photos and videos and view them in the app's built-in album.
DEERC Fly
Control your DEERC drone with real-time video streaming, virtual joysticks, and gravity sensing. Explore personalized flight modes like surround and trajectory flight, and utilize voice or gesture commands. Offers programming modules for enhanced playability.
- Real-time video preview
- Virtual joystick and gravity control
- Personalized flight functions (surround, rotation, trajectory)
- Speech and gesture instruction recognition
- Speed changes and VR experience
- Programming modules
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DEERC Fly is an application used in conjunction with the DEERC series of drones, with the main functions of: 1. Real time preview video streaming interface. 2. Easy to control virtual joystick and gravity sensing control. 3. Various personalized functions, such as surround, high-speed rotation, trajectory flight, and support for rolling in four directions. 4. High accuracy speech and gesture instruction recognition. 5. Three level Speed changes and VR experience. 6. Provide programming modules to increase playability.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: DEERC Fly at weekly against MachXDrone's every 5 months. MachXDrone's advantage is rating (2.9 vs 2.5). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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.
MachXDrone holds the better App Store score, 2.9 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 36 and 21 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 15% of MachXDrone's written reviews are positive against 18% of DEERC Fly's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
MachXDrone ships an update every 5 months, DEERC Fly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MachXDrone | DEERC Fly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (36 ratings) — better | 2.5 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 15.4% of reviews | 18.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 36 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen Yilushi Technology Co.,ltd | Xiamen Huoshiquan Import & Export CO., LTD |
Customer experience
MachXDrone
DEERC Fly
In-app purchases
MachXDrone
No in-app purchases
DEERC Fly
No in-app purchases
