Comparison

Sticktime FPV vs Drone Simulator

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

Head to head
About

Sticktime FPV

Experience realistic FPV drone flight with a detailed simulation of a hillside estate. Practice acrobatic maneuvers, race against the clock, and capture your flights for social media sharing. Connect your own radio controller for an authentic flying experience.

Highlights
  • Realistic FPV drone flight simulation
  • Detailed estate environment with interactive elements
  • Acrobatic flight training and practice
  • Race against the clock with ghost replays
  • Save and share flight videos
  • Support for touch controls and external radios
Features
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Sticktime is a pocket FPV drone simulator. Open it, fly for five minutes, get better, come back. A HILLSIDE ESTATE AT GOLDEN HOUR Thread the cypress drive up to the villa, skim the vine rows, and weave through the courtyard pergolas. Cloud shadows roll over the hills, and the estate gets on with its day without you: riders on the white roads, a sheepdog minding its flock, a tractor working the rows, a light plane droning over. Some of it doesn't want you there. Some of it you'll have to find. CHASE WHAT MOVES Pace the peloton up the climb. Drop low over the pasture and the dog will run you down. Land on the tractor and ride it down a corridor. Climb too high, and something may take an interest. SAVE THE FLIGHT Save Video turns your last three minutes into a smooth 60 fps video, vertical for Reels or widescreen, with your sticks on screen. Share it straight to Instagram or Photos. LEARN ACRO, THE WAY REAL DRONES FLY A short first lesson shows each stick with a live diagram that moves exactly like the drone: lift off, yaw, pitch, roll, and how to turn. Replay it any time from Learn. ONE REAL AIRCRAFT Every flight uses the same tiny-whoop flight model, with the same thrust, rates and air. Ground effect, prop wash and walls push back like the real thing. Put it in the pond, a tree or the long grass and you're stuck, just as you would be in real life. TOUCH OR YOUR OWN RADIO Floating touch sticks with haptics are a complete way to fly. Have an ExpressLRS radio? Connect it over Wi-Fi, set up your sticks, and pick which switches arm, flip over (Turtle) and reset. RACE THE CIRCUIT Run the gates against the clock. Split times show where you gained, and your personal ghost shows you your best line. FEELS LIKE THE GOGGLES Throttle and flight timer up top, nothing under your thumbs, and a DJI-style video link that breaks up before it drops. Fly too far and you'll know about it. No account, no ads, no tracking.

About

Drone Simulator

Features
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Drone Sim is a free FPV drone simulator and drone racing game with real physics: a 1 kHz flight model and a Betaflight-style flight controller with Angle and Acro modes and adjustable rates. Learn to fly a quadcopter on your iPhone or iPad, then race real people online. RACE ONLINE - Live multiplayer rooms: race friends with a room code or jump into a quick match; empty seats fill with ghosts and bots - Online leaderboards for every course and drone class, with the ghost of every best run to chase - Challenge a friend: send a link to your best ghost EIGHT COURSES Training Field, Night Loft, Toy Town, Hoi An by Night, Ha Long Bay, City, Alpine Valley and the endless Infinite World. SIX DRONES Strider the all-rounder, Bolt the racer, Dome the ducted cinewhoop that bounces off walls, Pip the 32 g palm-sized whoop, Needle the 3-inch toothpick and Condor the 7-inch long-range cruiser. Earn them through quests. PLAY WITH A CONTROLLER Any Bluetooth gamepad (Xbox, PlayStation, MFi, 8BitDo) with stick modes 1-4, deadzone and rates. A great FPV trainer for new pilots before the real quad. EASY TO LEARN, DEEP TO MASTER GPS mode holds altitude for your first flights, Angle for control, Acro for freestyle. Bots from Novice to Pro, checkpoint respawn after a crash. Three cameras: FPV with adjustable tilt, line of sight and chase. Free to play with ads between races; one purchase removes them. Also free in your browser at dronesim.coworkgamestudio.com.

Screenshots

Sticktime FPV4 screens
Drone Simulator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sticktime FPV at none against Drone Simulator's 1. Sticktime FPV also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs every 4 days). Drone Simulator's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price and iOS requirement 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. Drone Simulator sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sticktime FPV asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sticktime FPV ships an update daily, Drone Simulator every 4 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Sticktime FPV versus Drone Simulator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSticktime FPVDrone Simulator
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB74 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZernyu ChouGiao Trinh

In-app purchases

None

Sticktime FPV

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Drone Simulator

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is Sticktime FPV free?
Sticktime FPV is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Drone Simulator free?
Drone Simulator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sticktime FPV or Drone Simulator have ads?
Drone Simulator shows ads; Sticktime FPV does not.
Which is updated more often, Sticktime FPV or Drone Simulator?
Sticktime FPV ships an update daily, and Drone Simulator every 4 days. Most recently, Sticktime FPV was updated on November 6, 2026 and Drone Simulator on November 6, 2026.

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