DroneScout pro vs Wrisper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DroneScout pro
Transform your phone into a drone radar to detect nearby drones using RemoteID/DRI technology. View drone details, save flight paths, and get enhanced airspace awareness. Premium features offer notifications, historical data, and advanced map options.
- Drone detection via Bluetooth/WLAN
- Map display of drone locations
- View drone details and flight paths
- Save flight paths to GPX
- Notifications for detected drones (premium)
- Historical detection data (premium)
- Multiple map providers and layers (premium)
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See which drones are flying around you. DroneScout detects drones that broadcast Remote ID — also known as OpenDroneID or DRI — over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, and shows them live on a map. For each detected drone you get its position and flight path, altitude and height, speed and direction, serial number, operator ID, UAS type and operation description, plus the pilot's location whenever the drone broadcasts it. REMOTE ID, IN SHORT Remote ID is a digital licence plate for drones: the aircraft broadcasts who and where it is, directly over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. It is mandatory for most new drones above 250 g in the United States (FAA) and the European Union (EASA), with comparable rules in Japan, Singapore and China. DroneScout implements the open OpenDroneID standards ASTM F3411 and ASD-STAN EN 4709-002 over Bluetooth Legacy, Bluetooth Long Range S8, Wi-Fi Beacon and Wi-Fi NaN. It also receives China's national Remote ID standard GB 46750-2025. FREE • Live detection and tracking of nearby drones • Live map with drone and pilot position • Full broadcast detail: serial number, operator, altitude, speed, direction • Brand identification • Export a flight track to GPX SILVER • Notification when a new drone is detected nearby • Flight history, stored on your phone and searchable later • Model identification: over 300 brands and over 400 drone models recognised • Detailed drone info tab, no banner GOLD — everything in Silver, plus • Extra map providers and layers: normal, satellite, terrain • Offline maps (MBTiles) • Label drones with your own names • Group drones and write notes per drone PLATINUM — everything in Gold, plus • Push detections to your own server, to CalTopo, or to the Drone Radar network • ADS-B: nearby manned aircraft alongside drones, via a local GDL 90 receiver, with network ADS-B as fallback PLEASE READ BEFORE BUYING Remote ID was designed on the assumption that an ordinary smartphone could receive it. On Apple hardware, that assumption fails outright: no iPhone or iPad, on any model, can receive Bluetooth Long Range S8, and iOS does not let any app — ours or anyone else's — scan for Wi-Fi Beacon frames at all. This is a platform restriction, not a defect in the app: without an accessory, an iPhone's realistic ceiling is Bluetooth Legacy, a small minority of real-world Remote ID broadcasts. China's GB 46750-2025 standard mandates exactly the two transports Apple blocks — Bluetooth Long Range S8 and Wi-Fi Beacon — while leaving Bluetooth Legacy optional. Many GB 46750 drones transmit Bluetooth Legacy anyway, so an iPhone or iPad without Bridge can often still see a good share of them — just not a guaranteed one. Our affordable optional DroneScout Bridge receiver sidesteps all of that: it listens on Bluetooth Legacy, Bluetooth Long Range S8, Wi-Fi Beacon and Wi-Fi NaN on 2.4 GHz, and on 5 GHz too on the higher Bridge models — including drones that broadcast Remote ID only on 5 GHz, such as Skydio — then rebroadcasts everything as plain Bluetooth Legacy, which your iPhone and iPad receive normally, no Wi-Fi radio required on the phone's side. Range up to 2 km. PRIVACY Detections stay on your device. Nothing is uploaded unless you enable a server integration yourself. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Privacy policy: https://dronescout.pro/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://dronescout.pro/eula/ Website: https://dronescout.co/app
Wrisper
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Wrisper is a small assistant for your Apple Watch. Raise your wrist, tap Ask, say your question, and read the answer a few seconds later. There is no account to create and nothing to pay. The answers come from the Apple Intelligence model that is already on your iPhone, so your questions are not sent to us or to anyone else. ON YOUR APPLE WATCH • One big Ask button. Dictate, scribble or type your question. • Short answers written for a watch screen: one or two sentences. • Have answers read aloud, through the watch speaker or your headphones. • Your last five questions and answers are kept in a history list. • Clear messages when something is in the way: iPhone out of reach, model not ready, or a request that took too long. ON YOUR IPHONE • A status screen that says, in plain words, whether Apple Intelligence is ready, and what to do if it is not. • A field to try a question directly on the phone. • Your watch wakes the app in the background when you ask, so you don't have to keep it open. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Questions are answered on your iPhone, by Apple's on-device model. • No account, no ads, no trackers, no analytics. • Wrisper has no server. We never see your questions or the answers. GOOD TO KNOW • Wrisper answers from what the model already knows. It cannot browse the web, so it does not know today's news, weather or scores. • Like any AI model, it can be wrong. Check anything that matters. • It replies in the language you ask in, for the languages Apple Intelligence supports. REQUIREMENTS • An iPhone that supports Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro or later), with Apple Intelligence turned on, running iOS 26 or later. • An Apple Watch running watchOS 26 or later, with your iPhone nearby.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wrisper at none against DroneScout pro's 3. DroneScout pro's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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. DroneScout pro sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Wrisper asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | DroneScout pro | Wrisper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (12 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BlueMark Innovations BV | Louis Thouvenin |
In-app purchases
DroneScout pro
- Silver package monthly$2.991 Month
- Gold package$5.991 Month
- Platinum package$9.991 Month
Wrisper
No in-app purchases
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