Comparison

Drone360 vs 360PV

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Drone360

This app allows drone pilots to view, edit, and share 360-degree photos. It preserves essential metadata for interactive uploads to social media and offers a range of editing tools and filters specifically for aerial photography. The app works offline and supports various drone brands.

Highlights
  • Interactive 360 panorama viewer
  • Metadata preservation for social media uploads
  • Aerial photography filters and manual adjustments
  • Import from camera roll, Files, or SD card
  • Custom text watermarking
  • Full resolution export (JPEG/TIFF)
  • Optional GPS/EXIF data stripping
Features
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Drone360 is a drone photo editor and interactive 360 panorama viewer built for drone photographers. Sharing a 360 panorama through apps that remove its panorama metadata can leave it appearing as a flat image. Drone360 adds Facebook-compatible GPano metadata when sharing supported 360 JPEGs, helping Facebook recognise them as interactive panoramas. Import photos from your camera roll or the Files app, including images transferred from SD cards and DJI folders. Drone360 automatically identifies images with a compatible 2:1 panorama layout and lets you explore them using drag-to-look controls. Edit standard drone photos and 360 panoramas with aerial photography filters and manual adjustments. Fine-tune filter strength, hold to compare your edits with the original, and save your favourite settings as personal presets. WHAT’S INSIDE • Interactive 360 panorama viewer with drag-to-look controls • Editor for standard drone photos and compatible 360 panoramas • Facebook-compatible GPano metadata added when sharing supported 360 JPEGs • Import from your camera roll or Files app, including files on connected storage supported by your device • Free to import, view, edit and save edited copies inside Drone360 • One-time unlock to export and share your photos • 14 built-in filter options: Normal, Golden Hour, Haze Cut, Vivid Sky, Cinematic, Arctic, Dusk, Mono, Coastal, Soft Dawn, Overcast, Urban, Autumn and Clean Mono • Adjustable filter strength • Press-and-hold before-and-after comparison • Save, reuse and delete personal filter presets • Undo and redo filter and adjustment changes • Manual controls for brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, highlights, shadows, sharpness and fade • Vignette for standard photos only, excluded from 360 exports • Custom text watermarks with adjustable size and opacity, six positions, four font styles and six colours • Save edits as separate JPEG copies while keeping your originals • Share standard photos to Instagram, Facebook, Messages and other supported apps • Share compatible 360 panoramas to Facebook with GPano metadata for interactive viewing • Supports compatible photos and completed 2:1 spherical panoramas from DJI and other drone brands • On-device photo editing and viewing, available offline ABOUT 360 SHARING Interactive 360 viewing is available only in apps that support it. Instagram does not support interactive 360 photos: panoramas shared to Instagram appear as flat images and may require cropping. Facebook’s recognition and display of 360 photos depend on its current support and processing. Drone360 prepares supported panoramas with the required metadata but cannot control how another app displays them. Drone360 works with completed panoramas; it does not stitch separate images together. Internet access is required for purchases, purchase verification and online sharing. Drone360 is built by the team behind Drone Companion. We fly. We edit. We built the app we wished existed.

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360PV

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360PV turns the 360° panoramas already in your photo library into an immersive sphere you can look around — no exporting, no re-importing, no uploading. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THEIR PHOTO LIBRARY DJI's own app only reads panoramas straight off the camera. If your photos live in the Photos library — and especially if you use iCloud Photos so one library follows you across iPhone and iPad — those 360° photos were effectively unreachable. 360PV exists to fix exactly that. Point it at your library and every panorama you own opens like a normal photo, on every device you own. WHY IT FEELS NATIVE - Finds the panoramas already in your library from capture metadata (GPano, DJI, Insta360, RICOH THETA and known cameras) - Reads the original from Photos only when needed, so nothing is duplicated and iCloud Photos with "Optimise iPhone Storage" works normally - Opens from the same library as the rest of your photos, with the same pinch, drag and share habits - New panoramas show up automatically, and the app catches up in the background LOOK AROUND - Drag, pinch and double-tap to explore - The spatial window follows your phone's motion, so turning the device turns the view - Drag or turn the phone — whichever suits the moment SAVE WHAT YOU SEE - Frame and capture the current view at 16:9, 4:3, 3:2 or 1:1, in portrait or landscape - Captures keep the source EXIF, GPS and capture time PRIVATE BY DESIGN - Scanning, decoding and rendering all happen on this device - No account, no analytics, no network requests, no tracking - Only the photos you grant access to are read SUPPORTED - iPhone and iPad on iOS / iPadOS 18 or later - Best with equirectangular (2:1) panoramas exported from Insta360, DJI Osmo 360, RICOH THETA and similar cameras 360PV is a viewer, not an editor: trimming, colour grading, stitching and tripod removal are intentionally out of scope. IMAGE CREDITS The launch artwork and the demonstration and marketing screenshots use photographs from NSF NOIRLab, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source: NSF NOIRLab (https://noirlab.edu). The images are scaled and cropped from the originals; no other changes were made. - Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory at sunset — NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek - Night sky over the Cerro Pachón hotel, International Gemini Observatory — NOIRLab/AURA/NSF/P. Horálek - Tenant telescopes at CTIO with zodiacal light — CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Slovinský - The Belt of Venus behind Cerro Tololo — CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek - Kitt Peak National Observatory, stitched aerial panorama (also the in-app launch image) — KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Matsopoulos - Gemini North and CFHT under the Milky Way, Maunakea — International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA

Screenshots

Drone3604 screens
360PV4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 360PV at none against Drone360's 1. 360PV also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). Drone360's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Drone360 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 360PV asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drone360 ships an update monthly, 360PV every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 4 level
Drone360 versus 360PV: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrone360360PV
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDRONE COMPANION LTD北京猫猫可能科技有限公司

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Drone360

One-time1
  • Drone360 Full Unlock$4.99
None

360PV

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drone360 free?
Drone360 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 360PV free?
360PV is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Drone360 or 360PV have ads?
Neither Drone360 nor 360PV shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Drone360 or 360PV?
Drone360 ships an update monthly, and 360PV every 2 days. Most recently, Drone360 was updated on October 15, 2026 and 360PV on October 16, 2026.

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