Drone Map & UAV Forecast vs PulveCast
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Drone Map & UAV Forecast
This app helps drone pilots plan safer flights by providing airspace information and weather forecasts. It also allows users to log flights, organize drone spots, and connect with a community of pilots.
- Airspace information and no-fly zones
- UAV weather forecasts (wind, rain, visibility)
- Flight logging and history
- Drone spot discovery and sharing
- Community features and pilot profiles
- Preflight checklist creation
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Drone Map & UAV Forecast: The Essential App for Drone Pilots Discover, plan, fly, and organize your drone adventures with Drone Map & UAV Forecast—the all-in-one app built to help drone pilots check airspace, review UAV weather, log flights, find great places to fly, and connect with a worldwide community of pilots. Plan Safer Flights with Airspace Tools Check nearby airspace information, local airports, and no-fly zone data before you take off. Use dedicated flight-planning tools to view restrictions for your current location or search other areas, helping you make safer, more informed flight decisions wherever you plan to fly. Check UAV Weather Forecasts Review UAV weather conditions before launching, including wind, gusts, rain, visibility, humidity, cloud base, GPS signal, and more. Extended forecasts, hourly weather breakdowns, safe-to-fly insights, and detailed forecast data are available with a purchase or active subscription. Log Every Flight Build your personal flight history with an easy-to-use flight log. Record flight duration, altitude, drone, conditions, notes, and flight paths so you can keep track of where, when, and how you fly. Stay Organized Save your favorite drone spots, create custom lists, manage your drone fleet, and build preflight checklists to match your workflow. Keep your locations, drones, checklists, and flight history organized in one place. Find Your Next Perfect Spot Explore drone-friendly locations shared by pilots around the world. Browse the community map, search for and discover spots, filter by country, sort by nearest or highest-rated, view locations on the map, and get directions. Connect with the Drone Community Join conversations about drone spots through comments and replies, share tips, ask questions, and help other pilots discover better places to fly. Like and upvote useful locations and comments, create your pilot profile, and stay up to date through your activity feed. Whether you’re checking airspace information, reviewing UAV weather forecasts, logging flights, organizing favorite locations, or discovering new drone spots, Drone Map & UAV Forecast gives you powerful tools to fly smarter, safer, and with greater confidence. Drone Map & UAV Forecast requires a purchase or active subscription to access the app’s flight-planning tools, weather features, saved locations, flight logs, checklists, community features, and other app content. Download Drone Map & UAV Forecast today and, with a purchase or active subscription, unlock the tools you need to plan better flights, discover better places, and get more from every drone adventure. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
PulveCast
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Spray now or wait? PulveCast answers with one colour for every hour — green, yellow or red — checked against the limits of your own equipment, crop and nozzle. Built for agricultural spray drones, tractor boom sprayers and self-propelled sprayers. Before you fill the tank, see if the weather window is safe and efficient, and which parameter closes it. WHAT PULVECAST CHECKS, HOUR BY HOUR • Delta T — the best single indicator of droplet evaporation (ideal 2–8 °C by default) • Relative humidity and dew point • Spray drift risk — wind speed crossed with your nozzle's droplet class, Very Fine to Ultra Coarse • Thermal inversion — forecast temperature at 80 m against 10 m, the classic dawn hazard • Wind speed, gusts and direction against your equipment's ceiling • Temperature, rain probability, cloud cover and visibility • For drones: Kp index and visible GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou satellites for RTK accuracy FREE, NO ADS, NO ACCOUNT • Spray verdict for the day, with the reason for every yellow or red hour • Best spray windows of the day, and the forecast shared as an image on WhatsApp • Delta T, humidity, dew point, drift, inversion, wind and gusts • Equipment settings: spray drone, tractor or self-propelled sprayer • Presets for 18 agricultural drone models from DJI Agras, XAG, Hylio and TTA, with their wind and temperature limits • Pre-operation checklists • km/h, m/s, mph or knots · °C or °F · metres or feet • Last forecast kept offline for the far end of the farm • 16 languages PULVECAST PRO • Multi-day planning and the full hourly forecast table • Wind compass • Best spray windows for 7 days, with a phone alert before each one • Several drones, each with its own flight limits • Operation planner, application log with spreadsheet export, and sensitive sides of each saved field (homes, apiaries, water) marked on its map, with a warning and a phone notification when the drift heads there • Spray calculator: droplet class against wind • Crop presets for soybean, corn, sugarcane, cotton, wheat, coffee, beans, rice, sorghum, peanut, potato, tomato, citrus, grape, banana, eucalyptus and pasture, or your own thresholds for any crop • No-fly zone map with official zones and height limits (plus DJI zones), 24-hour Delta T and humidity history, favourite locations • Premium forecast sources: WeatherAPI and Apple WeatherKit Every threshold can be changed to match your own operating standard. PulveCast is decision support based on weather forecasts: the product label and local regulations always prevail. PulveCast Pro Monthly is an optional 1-month auto-renewable subscription. Eligible accounts get the store's free trial. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Guides on Delta T, drift, thermal inversion and drone spraying rules: https://pulvecast.com Questions or ideas: support@pulvecast.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Drone Map & UAV Forecast at every 3 days against PulveCast's every 3 weeks. PulveCast's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Drone Map & UAV Forecast sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and PulveCast sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Drone Map & UAV Forecast ships an update every 3 days, PulveCast every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Drone Map & UAV Forecast | PulveCast |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (15 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 53.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Christopher Hefferman | Renan Rafael Bertoldo |
In-app purchases
Drone Map & UAV Forecast
- Monthly$3.991 Month
- Monthly$5.991 Month
- Weekly$5.997 Days
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- Limited Time Offer$24.991 Year
- Yearly$29.991 Year
- Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year
- Yearly7 Days trial$69.991 Year
- Lifetime Access$44.99
PulveCast
- Premium Monthly1 Month trial$4.991 Month
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