The Flying App vs Unitree Go
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Intuitive gesture controls
- Optional physical joystick attachment
- Long-range flight (100+ meters)
- Flapping wing ornithopter technology
- Piloting assistance with gyro sensors
- Attracts real birds
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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!
Unitree Go
Control your robot dog with an intuitive app featuring AI interaction, HD video, and intelligent obstacle avoidance. Enjoy precise control, graphical programming, and seamless OTA upgrades for an enhanced user experience.
- AI large language model
- OTA upgrades
- HD image quality
- Intelligent avoidance
- Precise control
- Graphical programming
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Unitree Go is an exclusive App for consumer-level robot dog Unitree Go, an App for robot control with a simple interface, wide vision and convenient touch control, brings excellent user experience. The App features AI large language model, OTA upgrades, HD image quality, intelligent avoidance, precise control and graphic programming to help users get started quickly with Unitree robot dog. key spotlight of the App 1. AI large language model Embodied AI: AI+robot; large language model empowerment makes human-robot interaction more interesting 2. OTA upgrades After being authorized by user, the robot will connect to Unitree Cloud to upgrade its programme via OTA, thus enhancing user experience. 3. HD image quality High-quality image transmission enables users to enjoy smooth video and distinct image 4. Intelligent Avoidance Agile 4D LiDAR L1 detects forward obstacles, realizes intelligent avoidance and maps and plots the real 3D world. 5. Precise control Dual stickers for precise control, real-time monitoring of the shooting screen and point cloud map; push button for easy mode switching. 6. Graphical Programming Optimized and easy-understanding graphical programming makes program design available within simple operations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: The Flying App at 4.3 against Unitree Go's 3.4. Unitree Go's advantage is review sentiment (58% vs 22%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 7 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
The Flying App holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 28 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 22% of The Flying App's written reviews are positive against 58% of Unitree Go's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
The Flying App ships an update every 7 months, Unitree Go fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Flying App | Unitree Go |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (7 ratings) — better | 3.4 (28 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 22.2% of reviews | 58.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 28 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 219 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | XTIM sari | HangZhou YuShu TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD. |
Customer experience
The Flying App
Unitree Go
In-app purchases
The Flying App
No in-app purchases
Unitree Go
No in-app purchases
