Comparison

i vs The Flying App

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

Head to head
About

i

Transform your smartphone into a powerful magnification tool. Observe and record microscopic details with your phone's camera and a macro lens. Measure objects with a scale bar and add notes to your digital micrographs.

Highlights
  • Professional magnification tool
  • Record digital micrographs
  • Optical magnification
  • Up to 10x digital zoom
  • Scale bar for measurement
  • Add notes and remarks
  • Direct photo sharing
Features
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Use this app to work with smartphone microscopes or any phone macro-lens as an professional magnification tool to observe tiny objects and record digital micrographs with your Phone. Features: Capture of photos with tiny objects as you do with sophisticated optical microscope Optical magnification ratio depending on your smartphone microscope Up to 10x digital magnification in App Scale bar for objects measurement which can be toggled on/off Automatic recording of shooting date and time Allow you to add notes and remarks to your picture Direct sharing of photos with email, message. Attach smartphone microscope to your Phone and convert it into a convenient portable microscope. Capture and save micrographs. Zoom in on photos and tag pictures with comments. Access your photos from your i-Seeing app, email them to your computer and colleagues. More detail at: www.mobile-scope.com

About

The Flying App

Control bionicbird drones with intuitive gesture commands or an optional joystick. Experience the sensation of flight with flapping-wing ornithopters that can fly over 100 meters and even attract real birds.

Highlights
  • Intuitive gesture controls
  • Optional physical joystick attachment
  • Long-range flight (100+ meters)
  • Flapping wing ornithopter technology
  • Piloting assistance with gyro sensors
  • Attracts real birds
Features
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The Flying App only supports iPhones with Bluetooth 5 and over. Tablets are not adapted to use it. Throughout history man has dreamed of flying. Today, Bionic Bird offers the opportunity to experience that extraordinary sensorial adventure: to fly like a bird, or an insect, with flapping wings. Our ornithopters takes on the heavens with a range of more than100 meters. Even apartment interiors don’t scare them! The Flying App is ultra-sensitive and intuitive: a wave of the hand, the bird obeys. With our newest relase, the X-Fly, you'll get many additional features: a piloting assistance brought by our custom dedicated gyro sensors, and the ability to stick the X-Play, a dedicated physical joystick, on your smartphone and transform it into a real remote controller! In the sky, all our models are the only flying object in the world that does not frighten birds away. On the contrary, it attracts them all! Friends and enemies alike... Have a great flight!

Screenshots

i3 screens
The Flying App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: The Flying App at 4.3 against i's 2.7. The Flying App also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). i's advantage is ratings volume (35 vs 7). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

The Flying App holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: i has 35 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of i's written reviews are positive against 22% of The Flying App's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

i ships an update every 14 months, The Flying App every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
i versus The Flying App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriThe Flying App
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.7 (35 ratings)4.3 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews22.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings35 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 14 monthsEvery 7 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShanghai Qingying Electronic Technology LLCXTIM sari

Customer experience

i

All ratings34 ratings
Positive38.2%
Neutral8.8%
Negative52.9%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral8.0%
Negative72.0%

The Flying App

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive22.2%
Neutral11.1%
Negative66.7%

In-app purchases

None

i

No in-app purchases

None

The Flying App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is i free?
i is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Flying App free?
The Flying App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, i or The Flying App?
The Flying App is rated higher. i averages 2.7 out of 5 from 35 ratings, while The Flying App averages 4.3 from 7 ratings.
Do i or The Flying App have ads?
Neither i nor The Flying App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, i or The Flying App?
i ships an update every 14 months, and The Flying App every 7 months. Most recently, i was updated on September 18, 2026 and The Flying App on September 19, 2026.

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