Comparison

FPV Guidebook vs FoldVision

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

Head to head
About

FPV Guidebook

Features
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FPV Guidebook is your go-to reference app for FPV drone pilots. From beginners building their first quad to experienced racers tuning for performance, everything you need is in one place. COMPONENT LIBRARY Browse a curated catalog of motors, flight controllers, ESCs, cameras, VTX, and more. Each component includes specs, compatibility notes, and expert guidance to help you choose the right parts for your build. COMMUNITY Q&A Ask questions and get answers from real FPV pilots. Post a question on any component page and get insights from the community. Because sometimes the best advice comes from someone who's already flown it. FPV AI ASSISTANT Ask any FPV question and get an instant answer powered by AI. Troubleshoot a build, compare components, or learn new techniques. All without leaving the app. FLYING SPOTS MAP Discover legal and community-approved flying locations near you. Find spots suited for freestyle, racing, or cinematic flights. GUIDES & TECHNIQUES Step-by-step soldering guides, firmware setup walkthroughs, and build tutorials. All illustrated and written for FPV pilots. WORKS OFFLINE Your bookmarks and recent searches are available without an internet connection. PRO SUBSCRIPTION Access the component catalog, FPV AI assistant, and all premium features with FPV Guidebook Pro, €12.99 + local taxes per year. Built by pilots, for pilots. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

FoldVision

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FoldVision turns the world's protein structures into something you can hold, turn, and understand. Search more than 200,000 experimentally determined structures from the Protein Data Bank, load AlphaFold and ESMFold predictions, or build a DNA or RNA helix from a typed sequence. Everything renders in interactive 3D — rotate it with a finger, zoom into an active site, and switch between ribbon, surface, ball-and-stick and space-filling views. EXPLAIN ANY PROTEIN Tap Explain and the app writes a plain-language account of what the protein does, grounded in curated UniProt data and generated privately on your device with Apple Intelligence. A guided tour walks you through the key regions, lighting up each one on the structure as it's described. Available in 11 languages. COMPARE TWO STRUCTURES Load two structures and see exactly what changed. Structural-change coloring shades every residue from blue (superposes) to red (diverges). Sequence-change coloring separates conserved residues from substitutions. Watch a smooth morph between two conformations, or set them side by side. EXPLORE THE DETAIL • Annotations — domains, active and binding sites, modifications, variants and mutagenesis, drawn from UniProt. Tap any one to spotlight it on the structure. • Sequence view — the full amino-acid sequence with secondary structure, hydrophobicity, charge and B-factor tracks. Tap a residue to find it in 3D. • Color by secondary structure, chain, hydrophobicity, charge, domain or confidence (pLDDT), with color-blind-safe palettes throughout. • Measure distances, pin points of interest, and see the ligands and ions bound in the structure. NUCLEIC ACIDS Fold an RNA sequence into its predicted secondary structure with ViennaRNA, or build an idealized DNA or RNA double helix from any sequence. SHARE YOUR WORK Export a still image, a spinning video, or a 3D USDZ model you can drop into a presentation or an AR scene. BUILT FOR EVERY DEVICE Designed for iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision Pro, with layouts tuned to each. Structure and annotation data come from the RCSB Protein Data Bank, UniProt, AlphaFold DB, ESM Atlas, InterPro and Reactome. Full credits are in the app.

Screenshots

FPV Guidebook4 screens
FoldVision4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FoldVision at none against FPV Guidebook's 1. FoldVision also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks). FPV Guidebook's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. FPV Guidebook sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $11.99 per year. FoldVision asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FPV Guidebook ships an update every 3 weeks, FoldVision daily. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
FPV Guidebook versus FoldVision: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFPV GuidebookFoldVision
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Vision Pro
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCurtis NolandScot Federman

In-app purchases

1 purchases

FPV Guidebook

Subscriptions1
  • FPV Guidebook Pro$11.991 Year
None

FoldVision

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FPV Guidebook free?
FPV Guidebook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FoldVision free?
FoldVision is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FPV Guidebook or FoldVision have ads?
Neither FPV Guidebook nor FoldVision shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FPV Guidebook or FoldVision?
FPV Guidebook ships an update every 3 weeks, and FoldVision daily. Most recently, FPV Guidebook was updated on October 11, 2026 and FoldVision on October 19, 2026.

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